Upland PowerSteering Pros and Cons

PowerSteering is a user-friendly application that is highly configurable that has met the business needs for over 13 years.The implemantation was provided very quickly by the Upland team once all requirements were communicated in a session with them.The application is used daily. The reporting outputs provide Microsoft Excel as an option along with PDF and others. I use Excel quite a bit when presenting data. API's can alsobe used as an intregration tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While reporting is very good, I sometimes find myself looking for how to obtain and assemble the desired information on a report. The support team is there to provide their expertise when I get to an impass. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PowerSteering is a user-friendly application that is highly configurable. The reporting outputs streamline metric tracking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Due the overall scope of the application it can be a bit cumbersome for smaller projects. However, you can set up different schema for different sized projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Leverage powerful Business Intelligence capabilities.

Highly supported and used by most businesses.

A completely integrated project and portfolio management solution with LSS project tracking.

Aligns strategy, resources, and execution during change efforts in an intuitive manner.

Leverage cloud delivery benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Could implement more intuitive Drag and Drop functionality to easily visualize comprehensive, accurate, and actionable insights.

Better integrations and mobile/ desktop support

Does not allow for Ad Hoc analysis.

Really only makes sense for large enterprises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it is user-friendly and easy to manage. It also provides you with a lot of options to manage data and organize it in a way that is effective and reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like that there aren't many oppportunities to get a discount on the system. I also feel that it requires quite a bit of training to get acclimated to the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The flexibility in reporting, configuration, and administration is great and gave my organization the confidence that they could configure this to meet all of their needs. Also, having everything (projects, time reporting, portfolio snapshot, product ideas, etc.) in one tool has a lot of promise if it can be pulled off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This power and customization ability comes at a steep cost though in terms of usability, the user interface, and the overall experience of using the tool. For instance, we started to roll out PowerSteering for time reporting on projects for all staff after using a different tool for the last several years. The first reaction from most staff was 'Wow – where do I begin?' The interface is not intuitive and takes a significant amount of time to learn. This is fine for someone who will be using the software every day, but is a large hurdle when trying to drive adoption in the company for anything other than the most basic, mandated data entry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy customized reports, one place to see all project information, including timeframes and project manager contacts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software allows timesheet entry to previous periods. You can only email timesheet users to let them know they have unsubmitted reports. There's no way to email approvers that they have timesheets to approve in their queues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.