KeyedIn

Vorteile

- Real-time dashboards
- Feature-rich
- Resource management functionality is good
- Single source of the truth
- Highly customizable

Nachteile

- The reporting functionality is currently not very intuitive but is being improved in forthcoming release

Vorteile

KeyedIn Projects is very intuitive / easy to utilise and is extremely feature rich; with an excellent user interface and bags of potential for the future (given regular "releases" that introduce an array of major / minor enhancements).

Navigation around KeyedIn is relatively straight-forward to get to grips with, and bottom up / top down views all seem to work seamlessly together.

On screen dashboards and data "widgets" (out of the box) are very useful / neat and can be easily configured / tailored for different users / executives / role types across any organisation.

Powerful data mining / search / filter features allow us to very easily understand how our portfolio is progressing (in real time) and gives you instant ability to drill down to the heart of any risks / issues and the user interface is such that anyone within our organisation is able to be presented with their own customised dashboard and focus on what matters to them.

Nachteile

A little more work is required to improve reporting outputs and ability to construct and run custom reports. However, major KeyedIn Project enhancement releases (scheduled in coming months appear to be addressing this), together with addressing customer feedback on the product and modifying where customer suggestions add real value across their customer base.

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Jira

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Although the alternative products reviewed were all capable of providing E2E PPM functionality / outputs, KeyedIn Projects stood out as the best; in terms of ease of use, great visual / user experience, rich functionality, great customer service and the product most likely to provide us with exactly what we needed (both now and in the future).

Vorteile

I can only speak for the timesheets functionality within keyed in. There are options to fine tune quite a bit if you need to be very specific/detailed about your human resource budgeting.

Nachteile

It is not the smoothest user experience, things that can be done in 1 click, take 5. It’s often glitchy and things I have saved seem to disappear.

Vorteile

Tracey ability on jobs. Ease of use on the shop floor.

Nachteile

To edit jobs you have to go to many fields just to change quantities on orders. Some functions dead end and you have to go backwards to move forward. IE Create a job from a SO you have to then go back to the SO to get to the work order. No communications from the shop floor back to the office. IE a message that could be submit for review on why there might have been issues with a certain operation. Ease of use for a small shop is difficult as there are many components to go through to use the software in full.

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JobBOSS²

Warum KeyedIn gewählt wurde

E2 was not browser based and is very clunky.

Zuvor genutzte Software

M1 ERP

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Seemed like the most complete software out there for the price point.

Vorteile

Feature rich, graphically rich, intuitive user interface, with strong portfolio and programme capabilities.

Nachteile

Inability to easily manage task-based dependencies across multiple projects and surface this at programme or portfolio level, thereby making it harder to effectively prioritise resources across multiple projects

Vorteile

accessibility to the data
cloud based
Shop floor accessibility

Nachteile

reporting is dismal.
implementation significantly lacking.
been a customer for nearly 5 years, and still cannot get accounting, scheduling, or job costing to function properly.

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M1 ERP und JobBOSS²

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Thought that Keyed IN was more mature than it was, we liked that the reporting was customizable.

Vorteile

One of things I liked most about this engagement was the honesty and transparency the team showed throughout the selection process. They were upfront with limitations, but showed us other ways to solve the problems.

KeyedIn is simple but powerful and met all our requirements around integrated resource management, PPM accounting and delivery. In a global organisation, it was important to have a tool that supported multiple languages and currencies too.

The portfolio planning capability is a brilliant tool for annual planning and evaluating multiple scenarios.

Finally, KeyedIn offer a very sensible cost model.

Nachteile

The tooling does support a range of reporting but for the needs of our organisation for rich reporting and the existing governance expectations it fell short initially. This is now being address by KeyedIn

The tool plans on months and days but captures in hours and weeks which presents challenges at month end.

Vorteile

I like that we can track project plans based on tasks. It really works well for our company and helps keep our projects on point. I also like that we can set objectives (deliverables) and dates for those deliverables. This allows us to see when tasks are starting to "creep up" on the due date and either add more resources or push the deliverable date out. I also like that if we do push the deliverable out, we have to give a reason and the SW keeps track each time we push the date. This allows me to go back when the project is done, determine which dates we missed and see the reaons for the delay. I think this will help us find holes in our processes and fix them going forward.

I really like the resource management tool, but are still pretty new to using it, so my knowledge is somewhat limited. Thus far, I am seeing some promise and anticipate it will become a very valuable tool.

We are also just getting started in learning the reporting functions, but so far they are able to give us the exact information we need. It has made my weekly reporting to our Senior Team much more manageable and accurate.

Nachteile

I don't like that there isn't a customer portal available. We also manage customer installs with this software and it would be nice to give the customer a link or temporary sign on they can use to view the progress of their project. We can setup a user, but believe it take a license and we have around 50 - 100 customer installs going at any given time. Managing those users would be a nightmare, so we are opting to just email them reports from the system.

Vorteile

KeyedIn has robust functionality that is flexible and customizable. Functionality can be tailored to the business processes that are unique to our business.

Nachteile

Though there are a lot of reports and it is relatively easy to modify them or build your own, you cannot create your own SQL queries against the database.

Also, adding custom fields, lists and reports is easy to do. It would be nice if there was more flexibility for different types of fields and layouts.

Vorteile

Very easy to use tool for time tracking and projects; it's also an OK tool for project budgeting and projections

Nachteile

The UI of this tool needs to improve it's a bit complex to switch from one tab to another; I believe that's the only thing I have

Vorteile

Organization of Widgets. Customizable. Easy to use. Feature-rich. Great user interface (organization of widgets).

Nachteile

User interface is dated. Reporting features.

Vorteile

We selected KeyedIn do to is ease of integration with other cloud based solutions (i.e. SageIntacct, SalesForce) to create a complete seamless ERP with "one source of truth" in regard to data entry.

Nachteile

Though the Support Staff is very versed, at times their seems to be limited staff that can address integration/syncing issues with other systems we have linked.

Vorteile

We’ve used KeyedIn since the Atlantic Global days. The improvements we’ve seen especially in v6.x have been significant. Much easier to use and extract valuable management information than before

Nachteile

There are still some limitations around number of fields that could be addressed

Vorteile

- We were able to test drive the system before signing up.
- KIP provides one source for all out Projects and documents.
- The software can be customized by an admin user without the need for KeyedIn to
get involved. Ex. we have full autonomy over the criteria of our workflow and fields made available in our intake form.

Nachteile

Training material is /was a rather daunting affair.
We could could have benefited greatly from access to basic Quick Reference Guides for the different types of users we had to train as part of the implementation.

Status updates are a bit lacklustre and can only be sent out as attachments.
Many key stakeholders never read attachments. To encourage reading it would be great if status reports could be exported directly to the body of an email and become a bit more 'colourful'.

Vorteile

I love the insights feature - being able to monitor the performance of my portfolio is vital.

Nachteile

The visual aspect of reporting needs some work i think - i'd like to see a Power BI type output

Vorteile

It's very configurable and KeyedIn respond really well to any requests or needs that we have.

Nachteile

It isn't as 'pretty' as some other PPM offerings and that can put off some of my senior stakeholders who don't want to view the information live. I think some of the recent work that has been done on reporting building/portfolios will help this.

Vorteile

Its really easy tool as compared to my previous quite essay to use and user friendly.

Nachteile

I am not in management side so cant comment on that

Vorteile

Very easy to use. Growing company that continues to invest in upgrades. Excellent Customer Support.

Nachteile

KeyedIn currently has limited options for charts and dashboards. KeyedIn has placed a focus on reporting on their product road map.

Vorteile

it spans its use to the entire organization. Assigning tasks and having visibility for everyone

Nachteile

uploading .mpp and compatibility with that

Vorteile

1. Has view on time expected per week and that accommodates for expected public holidays
2. There is a view on what part of the process your expense returns are in (submitted vs approved vs paid)

Nachteile

1. Very frustrating user interface:
- finding projects or areas to enter time can take more time than time entry
- Interface times out if you don't move around regularly, but will continue to let you enter time or pages, but once you save it will all disappear at a re-login request. Lots of lost work due to this
2. The process for entering time in a category the first time in a day is very different than when you need to go back and add more time
3. Once saved (the only way to ensure your entry isn't lost when moving between pages), there is no ability to subtract time at the user level.
4. Constant reminder emails are sent even if you have submitted your time.
5. Expense page is confusing to add multiple pages of expense items to a single report and it is very easy to submit a report without realizing it, which a user has no ability to modify.

Vorteile

KeyedIn is interactive with few good options.

Nachteile

User Feedback for slow speed from different part of world

Vorteile

I can track my time with ease and no hassle is involved in that. The user friendly UI saves time of all of my team members .

Nachteile

The only drawback of this application is that milestone in Timesheet entry should not be a mandatory as project varies and so does the milestones.

Vorteile

It is very easy to use.
Different projects and non-projects items can be easily tracked.

Nachteile

Nothing that I do not like from a User perspective.

Vorteile

- Complete overall solution
- Covers the broad spectrum of touching points within a PS firm
- Competitive pricing

Nachteile

- Outdated GUI and graphs/analytics
- Not a complete billing cycle solution
- Low quality invoice templates

Vorteile

The vast functionality and ease of use makes this product stand out.

Nachteile

Sometimes confusing! But this depends obviously upon your requirements

Vorteile

As a new KeyedIn User, I found the product easy to use with all they key aspects of a good PPM solution encompassed in this product.

Nachteile

There are some key functionality missing which would really help take this from a good product to a great product - in particular the extend of the reporting functionality internal to the product.

Vorteile

It is web based. the limited reports meets the needs of the finance team.

Nachteile

as previous. poor user experience.
1. No staging area capacity for timesheets. (once you save it's for manager to edit).
2. Emails that come whether you submit or not.
3. Report on who has or hasn't entered time.
4. Filters on expenses appear to have some sort of timeframe not included in the name
5. "feature" to approve individual expenses doesn't work/isn't enough.
6. Limited poorly designed API.

Vorteile

The support, being able to track financials in one place

Nachteile

Difficult to use for new users and it is not always clear the quickest or best approach to doing something in the system

Vorteile

I like the dashboards and the ability for us to visibly see what is going on anywhere within a project or portfolio. The custom reports are great and the onscreen widgets provide great insights into what is going on.

Nachteile

Still getting to know the tool - but so far no con's.

Vorteile

Resourse planning
Forecasting
The api for accessing data

Nachteile

Upper level roadmap planning
Live dashboard like in powerbi

Vorteile

Features

Nachteile

Interface
User-friendliness
Lack of conduits to our Accounting software QuickBooks.

Vorteile

The comprehensive functionality compared with competitor solutions.
The ability to collaborate outside of the organisation.
A true aggregated PPM solution.

Nachteile

Some areas of the system are not the most intuitive. This may be a challenge for occasional users.
There are areas of disconnect within the system - for example between 'deliverables' (or milestones) and milestones captured within the task plan. This results in double keying of data in some areas.

Vorteile

When juggling multiple companies under one umbrella house it can be extremely difficult to follow up on projects and see them through to completion. If you've had similar issues, KeyedIn is an excellent solution!

Nachteile

We did not see a Salesforce integration but believe that it should be coming in soon. That is an excellent way to integrate vertically within an organization!

Vorteile

Intuitive, requiring minimal or no training
Easy to Access, Trial & Adopt
Easy to Configure
Flexible
Low Cost
Peace of Mind (Secure, Robust, Scalable)

Vorteile

It's a single source of the truth. It's brilliant.

Nachteile

User interface. It is very techy and requires quite a lot of training time.

Vorteile

Keyedin is loaded with more than enough features to be a great enterprise project management solution yet the customer support will more than exceed your expectations. They do a great job over there.

Vorteile

The support is terrific. Also the ease of setting up new users.

Nachteile

Confusion around forecasting and poor reporting abilities. Also poor process guides/documentation.

Vorteile

Visibility of project risk and issues at the forefront of the project. Roll up of projects in the hierarchy.

Nachteile

The project hierarchy can be confusing initially.

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Planview AdaptiveWork

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Good functional fit. Simpler to implement. Good dashboards.

Vorteile

I love the flexibility and customization that is available with this system. We have just started our implementation but the feedback from our users thus far has been positive.

Nachteile

The system is configured for each customer which makes it difficult for them to demo certain features during the sales process.

Vorteile

The forecasting and resource management
The ease of use

Nachteile

The reporting function is currently hard to use

Vorteile

Keyedin is similar to other project management software with some "what If" feature where you can predict if some changes made to the project.

Nachteile

Thought is has many benefits the new feature needs more improvement as it needs more data populating capacity is required.

Vorteile

Functionality, ease of use, time to implement

Nachteile

Lots to learn so need good training and manuals

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Planview AdaptiveWork

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Functionality, time to implement, sales team and consultants. Gartner recommendation

Vorteile

All projects in one place and easy to view progress and work on other projects as well

Nachteile

It is difficult to use without training.