# SAP PPM Reviews **Vendor:** SAP **Category:** [Project and Portfolio Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/project-and-portfolio-management) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 33 ## About SAP PPM Control and innovate projects, processes, products, and services with tools to standardize project execution processes and reduce administrative burden. ## SAP PPM Reviews ### 1. SAP PPM **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amar J. | Finance Controller, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2022 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** It's interface is easy and fast for reporting **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** There are multiple features which are used rarely and can be avoided **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** It help in creating detailed analysis for you to compare your execution progress and planing ### 2. SAP PPM Application review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajiv M. | Business Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2022 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** SAP PPM application is a very well organized and well structured application. The application has lot of features and options to choose from. The project related assignments are very easy to manage via this application **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** As other SAP application this tool also has a very static and legacy view. The look and feel seems outdated. But whatever the application lacks in this it makes up with its performance **Recommendations to others considering SAP PPM:** Good application **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this application to manage our project allocations. The reporting in this application is flexible and can be used as per user or projects need. The time management is also a wonderful feature in this application ### 3. Make life easier to manage GIGA projects at one location **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yogesh Kumar P. | Principal Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2021 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** SAP PPM module provides manage multiple projects and portfolios at one location. Integration with other application is easier which require to transfer WBS and project to other application Access is easily controlled, so it maintains the confidentiality of project **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** Risk management and cost sheet hierarchy is a little difficult to manage as per ou requirement **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project and Portfolio management Cost Management Scope Management Easily accessible and user interface is good ### 4. Handy tool for automating PM processes **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2022 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** Ability to handle multiple projects at same time **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** Complexity and the initial learning curve **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Handling multiple projects at the same time, managing multiple personnel working on all projects ### 5. Good product for project management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akhil G. | Senior Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** The interface of the software and ease of use **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** I dislike the workflow provided in the software **Recommendations to others considering SAP PPM:** Its good platform and integrates well with existing SAP modules **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I maintain budget of my projects and other details with SAP PPM. Its easier for me to roll up projects to the respective portfolios ### 6. User experience of sap ppm **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohsin S. | Graduate Engineering Trainee, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2022 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** User interface is better than other softwares. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** T-codes are harder to remember and costly. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** To track materials, monitor movements of assets and stocks. Budgeting and easy PO generations. ### 7. Great for Analytics! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2021 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** I've mainly used SAP Business Objects and that was very useful in developing queries. Much easier to use than other BI tools. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** I think the platform could be more aesthetically modern! A new and improved design would make it even easier for the user. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used SAP Business Objects to extract data and create reports. This really helps with data analytics. ### 8. This tool is profitable in making portfolio and wanders organization. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amelia L. | Senior Specialist Candidate Consultant (CertRP) , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2020 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** SAP PPM could be an awesome wander organization instrument to supervise the portfolios and wander utilization on a formative database. So, this gadget is beneficial in making the precise portfolios with the correct and superb plan. The company can arrange, and organize the programs with solid orchestrating since it’s an idealized application to lock in the exchange courses of action. Nothing can be denied interior this application while making the plans to advance the exchange in a notice. This application makes a contrast to require after the foremost later designs inside the promotion for making the exact commerce arrangements. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** It was the downside of this application can be an off-base evaluation in taking after the separating costs. So, utilize caution though progressing the thing inside the showcase and watch over the unpretentious components with a single profile unit. The net is especially compulsory for working this application since this gadget will be steady with strong organizing. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** SAP PPM oversees the budget and other unobtrusive components with its solid execution. It compares the deals with idealizing favorable circumstances. So, prepared to assess our standard information with strong checking aptitudes. Nothing is troublesome to operate the application for making your system strong and competent in overseeing any disaster. The organization programs are especially tried and true to utilize without any burden. The employee’s execution is being checked as often as possible and their payrolls are conveyed without any botches. That’s why our company is working with competent people in conjunction with this bewildering application. ### 9. This apparatus is valuable in making portfolio and venture administration. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James L. | Career Transition | Resume Specialist | Job Search Coach, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2020 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** SAP PPM is a great venture administration instrument to oversee the portfolios and venture usage on a formative information base. So, this device is advantageous in making the exact portfolios with exact and wonderful design. The company can plan and organize the programs with strong arranging since it’s a perfect application to engage the trade arrangements. Nothing can be denied inside this application whereas making the plans to advance the trade in an advertisement. This application makes a difference to take after the most recent patterns within the advertisement for making precise commerce solutions. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** The as it were the downside of this application could be an off-base assessment in taking after the differentiating costs. So, use caution whereas advancing the item within the showcase and observe over the subtle elements with a single profile unit. The web is exceptionally obligatory for working this application since this device will be supported with solid organizing. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** SAP PPM oversees the budget and other subtle elements with its strong execution. It compares the bargains with perfect favorable circumstances. So, ready to evaluate our baseline data with solid checking aptitudes. Nothing is troublesome to function the application for making your framework solid and competent in managing with any fiasco. The administration programs are exceptionally dependable to utilize without any inconvenience. The employee’s execution is being checked frequently and their payrolls are delivered without any blunders. That’s why our company is working with competent individuals in conjunction with this astonishing application. ### 10. This tool is useful in making portfolio and project management. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harriet N. | PR Manager, Trains & Cruises , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2020 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** SAP PPM is an awesome project management tool to manage the portfolios and project implementation on a developmental database. So, this tool is beneficial in making the precise portfolios with accurate and beautiful graphics. The company can schedule, and organize the programs with solid planning because it’s an ideal application to empower the business solutions. Nothing can be denied within this application while making the plans to promote the business in a market. This application helps to follow the latest trends in the market for making the accurate business solutions. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** The only drawback of this application is the wrong assessment in following the contrasting prices. So, be careful while promoting the product in the market and watch over the details with a single profile unit. The internet is very compulsory for operating this application because this tool will be helpful with strong networking. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** SAP PPM overviews the budget and other details with its solid performance. It compares the deals with ideal favorable situations. So, we can assess our baseline data with strong monitoring skills. Nothing is difficult to operate the application for making your system strong and capable of dealing with any disaster. The management programs are very trustworthy to employ without any trouble. The employee’s performance is being checked regularly and their payrolls are delivered without any errors. That’s why our company is working with capable people along with this amazing application. ### 11. SAP PPM is a cloud based business software that helps expanding small and medium sized businesses. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hadleigh A. | Senior Recuiter, Product & Digital Revenue, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2020 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** SAP project and portfolio management is an innovative platform to analyse and compute the projects and their results. It makes process more standardized and reduce the administrative burden. SAP PPM is a go to app to let the user initiate with analytic based strategic goals. It helps you for finding the causes in case of any error occurring during a project and fixing it eventually. SAP PPM is great multi-functional agent that helps team to collaborate and coordinate with multiple projects at the same time. The web screen provided by this software allows the user to access from anywhere. You can share emails, manage projects and keep record of everything under a single roof. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** SAP PPM is at first difficult to understand because of its complex systems thus changing the central rules can be a bit cumbersome. Also there are limited project resources. The interface is also a little non reliable. The pricing is much high when comparing to other contenders. Its limited functionality is seen as negative aspect. SAP PPM also provides with poor speed quality and non flexibility of the software. The scheduling processes offered by SAP PPM force clients to use some outside sources. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** In a nutshell SAP PPM is a highly recommended and super secured software that ensures customers’ privacy rights are protected. Also it provides comprehensive quality work on schedule and within budget. It is a powerful financial system to manage financial programs more professionally. ### 12. Frustrated at first then happy at the end **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos M. | Membership Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2020 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** I like that once you understand SAP that it's easy to use. It became more user friendly once you dice into SAP, I helped work out the bugs as we were a test pilot location and once we went live it was awesome, a few issues would come up here and there but they got fixed efficiently **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** I hated the learning curve and how hard it was to use coming from the program I used before it. **Recommendations to others considering SAP PPM:** Learn it before you give up, it's frustrating at first then once you get into it you'll enjoy it. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving inventory related issues, who, what and where basically. Was it a human error? Was it a technical error or was it done on purpose? ### 13. Super Project Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Timothy M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** I find SAP PPM very user-friendly, it is easy to set up let alone using it. Multi-tasking agent, we use it with our team to co-ordinate on an ongoing multiple projects. keeps track of every project and states every progress made and predicts time taken to get done. Does reports and sends to emails. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** Currently I have nothing this product as it works as intended. **Recommendations to others considering SAP PPM:** It is a reliable tool for project management, allows team collaboration, synchronizes every new change and quite secure. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy for portfolio and project management, it has capability to multi-manage different project and keep track of their progress also allows a team to work on them together. ### 14. Good Portfolio Management tool, cofigurable for different type of business **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2020 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** PPM is a good portfolio management tool to decide which project/programs/ideas have to be executed in the company. You have a clear overview of all of them, and the stage in which the item is, costs, and all the information. This allow you to take strategic decisions and also operative decisions. You can use PPM for CapEx Projects, Stretegic Projects, R&D Projects, IT Projects.... having different portfolios. PPM is also a project management tool, of course don't expect a project management tool to manage a big construction project with a lot of subcontractors, but this can be used for medium size projects, specially is very good in resource management. PPM is also integrated with ERP ( and S/4 HANA) . **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** I would improve : Workflow solution for approval decision points Screens ( tabs) **Recommendations to others considering SAP PPM:** Flexible Product to Manage portfolio, initiatives and projects, independent of the type of portfolio ( capex. startegic, R&D...) It is a good tool to centralize the data and have a clear overview of all ideas, and executions. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Single point of information. Give you the information to have clear information what is requesting, what is on going and then you can take better decision. ### 15. SAP in Coordination for bus production **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nazlı S. | Offer and Order Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2019 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** The transactions I use in SAP are really easy to use , really easy to convert in excel and really overseeable . In a company, which produces high amounts of products , you need to have easy overseeable transactions . I do coordinate which product should be produced when. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** I do dislike its speed sometimes . But I think this is because we connect via another country into SAP ( citrix ) and because we all word on the same time at home office , so sometimes it always disconnect and freezes . **Recommendations to others considering SAP PPM:** A Software which most of succesfull companies use and also universities teach cant be bad . There is a whole banch of transactions for every departement in a producing company . All of the transactions are of course connected . **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do coordinate the production time of different products . And also I can delete products and create products . I also work on different products content . I can change the content , how the customer wants their product to have . I also like that everything is connected , so you can see different transactions from diiferent departements . I do plan the products delivery day , but I also can see if there are missing parts or any problem in production . I also do coordinate our departements budget and here I can see again different work from different departements , like controlling. ### 16. SAP PPM is most reliable and best for multi-tasks management. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Trace F. | Customer Success Manager, Internet **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2019 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** The biggest advantage of this software is that it is a great software because it allow us to manage multiple projects and multiple teams. It's very easy to upload files. This software is very useful software to communicate with friends and colleagues. The another benefit in this software, we can easily send our important data, information and documents by using this efficient software. We can easily use this software because it is very user friendly and also reliable software for everyone. Most of the people use this efficient software for communication and sharing purpose. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** The one main disadvantage of this software is that its some features are very limited and we can't use this software because it's features are very difficult. Sometimes it gets very difficult for it's outstanding features because it takes too much time to manage the projects and schedule. The other issue is that, this software is not expensive but sometime it has very bad quality to schedule meetings and also for recording. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is a best software for portfolio and project management. I can easily store and share all of our data and documents with this efficient software. This is very easy to use and also a reliable software. Everyone can easily use this software because it is very user friendly and easy to use. It is not an expensive software because it is very famous software in the market. ### 17. Easily the best for project managers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2020 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** It addresses the strategic aspects of portfolio management, monitoring initiatives. Also manage the project status which is a huge bonus. Timesheet management is also a really good factor. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** It's very expensive for purchasing and implementation. Menus are a bit confusing. I find scheduling also a bit of a problem. **Recommendations to others considering SAP PPM:** Go for it. If you are ready to spend this is the most effective software ever. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Timesheet management, manage financial programs. Billing clients using the tool. ### 18. SAP Usage for Engineering team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2020 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** Global reach - every location's product details were available on the system. Best practices were implemented It was menu-driven rather than function keys. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** It was a very vast spread application - too much generalized. Sometimes we would see fields that were not relevant to the current job, we ended up filling. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project planning and scheduling Time and expense management GANTT Critical path ### 19. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex C. | Senior GL Accountant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2019 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** Ability to allocate my time in 15min increments to different activity codes easily **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** Inability to load application if internet connection is not strong. There should be an offline mode that allows sync ability when reconnected later on. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** time management ### 20. Opinion on SAP **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Xinyu (Candy) Y. | Senior Regulatory Specialist I, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2018 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** Can customize different category & tree and add specific instances. Very customer-centric and solution based **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** Highly dependent on server and changing the central rule is too costly and resource limited. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Supply chain resource optimization and enterprise excellence projects; the project is to achieve operational excellence ### 21. Review of SAP **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh L. | Senior Design Engineer, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2018 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** User interface, shortcuts, extensive capabilities **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** Can be confusing at times looking through the menus. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good consolidation of information, quick, ### 22. Very intuitive and easy to use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2018 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** I like the ability to simply organize everything and easily use the software for collaboration. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** I truly enjoy the software and don’t have any negatives at this time. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps to keep our projects organizes and on track. ### 23. SAP is an easy tool to navigate when managing projects. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Iram R. | Project Manager, Marketing and Advertising, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2017 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** SAP is universal a lot of fortune 500 companies have them, you can add it to your resume. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** I don't like how if theres multiple items running at once it freezes and slows down. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamline and enforce approvals for funding, resources, gate decisions, and ongoing evaluations. Better allocate resources by capturing, prioritizing, and matching demand to available supply. ### 24. Difficult to use, outdated **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2017 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** Ability to store and manage thousands upon thousands of specifications **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** Very glitchy, extremely slow moving, not user friendly **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Specification management, ability to share and edit specifications globally ### 25. SAP PPM - How to use it **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2017 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** SAP PPM, useful to get end to end picture specially financials connectivity. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** Scheduling is a big piece where people still want to use outside. **Recommendations to others considering SAP PPM:** Very useful except for scheduling piece **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project tracking along with timesheets. Huge benefit in financial tracking of projects. ### 26. SAP PPM **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2017 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** Effective tool to managed project portfolios, budget and schedule **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** Should be more configuration and use friendly **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project Portfolios managemnet ### 27. Clunky but manageable **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2016 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** I like that it has the ease of SAP so if you are familar with SAP it is more of the same. That is also what I dislike about it- that it is clunky like SAP tends to be. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** The program can be confusing for a new user with no real base level understanding of project management. I would like to be guided along when utilzing a project management tool and there is none of that. Its kind of trial by fire! I also hate that it makes me "log out" of single sign on often taking 30 seconds to close the session. **Recommendations to others considering SAP PPM:** If you need sophisticated project management especially related to tying everything together into one place I would look elsewhere. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** We utilize the program for time tracking and some project management tracking. I think the plan is to replace it with something more sophisticated in the near future. It was cheap and relatively easy to use which was the draw. ### 28. SAP PPM for Portfolio Project Managment **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alan T. | Technical Lead, Business & Economic Development, Utilities, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2016 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** The SAP PPM is the standard for implementing Portfolio and Project Management in our organization. We use PPM for all of our Generation, Transmission and Distribution capital projects. The solution is scaleable for projects ranging from $8B to <$1M. Our solution integrates tightly with Primavera for real time schedule updates and rolling financial forecasts. We also benefit from backbone of SAP for financial and regulatory reporting. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** Keeping the SAP PPM system update is very manually intensive. The need for a large project support team to maintain data and systems makes it not feasible for smaller organizations. **Recommendations to others considering SAP PPM:** Ensure adequate user testing and training before deployment. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing capital projects with spend in excess of $2B / annum. ### 29. SAP PPM **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachael C. | Research Administrator, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2016 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** The ability to use multifunctional approaches in day to day business **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** System interface is a little user-unfriendly. Takes a while to learn **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Research administration as well as finanical information for all research projects throughout the university. Benefits I have realized include being able to access human resources information quickly and on demand ### 30. Day to day project management follow up **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Isabelle B. | Gestionnaire senior, communauté numérique, Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2016 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** Once you know the software, it's easy to navigate in it. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** It's not user-friendly when joining SAP for te first time, it'S difficult to find the things you're looking for by yourself. You absolutely need a training. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can't talk about the benefits, but we are now able to better invoice our client on the real time we're putting in each program. ### 31. Managing projects with SAP PPM is best **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2015 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** Agenda Introduction Business Challenges in Managing Projects Solution Overview User Experience System Landscape Fast Start implementation approach Key Benefits SAPience.be User Day „13 2 **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** Extra cost on top of normal office package, this should be included. As well the UI/UX is dated and more complex than needed **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Maintain DFM Business Transactions 2. Map Business Transactions for Synchronization 3. Synchronous and Asynchronous Status Synchronization 4. Map DFM Business Transactions to Project / Initiative Business Transaction 5. Map Portfolio Management Status to DFM Business Transaction 6. Map DFM Business Transaction to Portfolio Management Status ### 32. SAP PPM - can it replace legacy project Management tool ? **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2015 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** 1. The Web based UI. 2. Availability of Portfolio, Project and Initiative at one place. 3. Cost Benefit analysis feature. 4. Floor Plan Manger integration makes it easy for developers to do simple Enhancements. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** Through Web Dynpro based UI is good compared to Classical GUI it is not as flexible as new age Web pages or other websites. The only yellow colors for button and background colors somewhat makes it similar to classical GUI. **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** a) We were able to replace legacy tool and had an easy interface with SAP instead of using the integration between the SAP and legacy. b) We were able to directly link the projects in SAP to Projects in PPM and were to analyze health of the Project easily using the reports in PPP. c) Resourcing and CBA for 12 month period in graphical format was good use case. ### 33. SAP is straightforward **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2015 **What do you like best about SAP PPM?** SAP seems like a holistic software for backend tracking of business expenses as well as many other programs. It is always easy to use. **What do you dislike about SAP PPM?** I haven't used it very extensively, so I don't dislike anything **What problems is SAP PPM solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/A ## SAP PPM Discussions - [What does an SAP project manager do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-an-sap-project-manager-do) - [What are the components of PPM?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/sap-ppm-what-are-the-components-of-ppm) - [What is SAP Ppms?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-sap-ppms) - [What does PPM software do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-ppm-software-do) - [View SAP PPM pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-ppm/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-28+18%3A49%3A47+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e0576010-fdec-4075-a4eb-8bba1d0799c8&secure%5Btoken%5D=fe1aef92ae051f2d4f1d06f0eb179edb1fbe20b47581b8ceda784292c863f211&format=llm_user) ## SAP PPM Features **Tasks** - Creation & Assignment - Due Dates - Task Prioritization - To-Do Lists - Dependencies - Drag & Drop **Portfolio Management** - Portfolio Types - Planning - Alignment - Portfolio Mix **Strategic Planning - Strategic Portfolio Management** - Objectives - Roadmaps - Demand management - Resource Planning - Planning - Simulation - Prioritization - Alignment **Projects** - Planning - Project Map - GANTT - Calendar View - Views - Project Budgeting - Issue Tracking - Templates - Time & Expense - Methodologies **Project Management** - Dependencies - Priorities - Lean Management **Strategic Management - Strategic Portfolio Management** - Visiblity - Tracking - Risk Management - Implementation - Change Management - Optimization - Strategy Model - Frameworks **Resource Management** - Resource Definiton - Scheduling **Resource Management** - Definition - Allocation - Optimization **Data Analysis - Strategic Portfolio Management** - ESG Impact - Financial Performance - Forecasting **Project Monitoring** - Baselining / KPIs - Resource Allocation - Dashboards **Data & Analytics** - Data Consolidation - Visualizations - Performance - Risk Analysis **Artificial Intelligence - Strategic Portfolio Management** - Process Intelligence - Predictive Insights - Virtual Agents **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Strategy - Project and Portfolio Management** - Simulation - Tracking - Planning - Objectives - Visiblity - Alignment - Risk Management - Implementation - Optimization - Prioritization **Agentic AI - Project Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top SAP PPM Alternatives - [Clarity](https://www.g2.com/products/broadcom-clarity/reviews) - 3.7/5.0 (85 reviews) - [Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-microsoft-project-portfolio-management/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (1,577 reviews) - [Oracle Primavera](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-primavera/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (340 reviews)