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Mid-sized organizations within large or medium sized companies

About Acuity PPM

Acuity PPM provides Senior Leaders and Project Management Teams (PMO's) with easy-to-use portfolio management software to manage the project portfolio. Acuity PPM provides a Work Intake module to support demand management and helps you create and evaluate new project requests through prioritization, financial planning and resource management (capacity planning).

Once a request is approved, project teams can track project progress with centralized status reports, track key milestones, risks, issues, financial plans, decisions, lessons learned, project and portfolio roadmaps, and resource plans in Acuity PPM. This helps leadership teams select the right projects for the organization.

Connect to common Project Management tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, Wrike, Monday.com, and others.

Our implementations are measured in days, not weeks or months like many vendors. Get started quickly and give leadership the single source of truth they need to accomplish strategic goals.

Pricing

Pricing Details:
Company pricing for the PPM Starter module begins at $599 USD/month (unlimited read-only users). Track project performance, roadmaps and financials with PPM Starter.

Company pricing for PPM Essentials begins at $999 USD/month, which includes a prioritization scoring model to evaluate project value and risk. Rank your projects and visualize the portfolio in a risk-value bubble chart. Essentials also includes Work Intake functionality to help you easily capture new requests and get them reviewed and approved faster by senior leaders.

Company pricing for PPM Plus begins at $1399 USD/month, which advances your portfolio by adding resource capacity planning functionality. Track project level resource plans and roll this data up at the portfolio level to determine when new work can start and whether existing projects can be completed on time.
Free Trial:
Free Trial available.

Integrations

API:
Yes, Acuity PPM offers API access

Ratings/Reviews - 10 User Reviews

Overall 4.3 / 5
ease 4.6 / 5
features 4.2 / 5
design 4.2 / 5
support 4.7 / 5

Company Information

Acuity PPM
Founded: 2018
United States

Product Details

Platforms Supported
SaaS
Training
Documentation
Live Online
In Person
Videos
Support
Phone Support
Online

Acuity PPM Frequently Asked Questions

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Acuity PPM Product Features

Project Portfolio Management

Budget Management
Dashboard
Issue Management
Milestone Tracking
Portfolio Management
Requirements Management
Resource Management
Status Tracking
Task Management
Collaboration
Project Planning
Time & Expense Tracking

Resource Management

Capacity Management
Data Visualization
Demand Forecasting
Drag & Drop
Employee Scheduling
Filtered Search
Resource Allocation
Utilization Management
Skills Tracking

Acuity PPM Reviews

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  • Matt M.
    Sr. Dir, PMO
    Used the software for: 1-2 Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: Administrator, Deployment
    Company Size: 1,000 - 4,999
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    "Perfect Tool for our Organization"

    Posted 2023-03-30

    Pros: User interface is fantastically straightforward. Tremendous flexibility in configuring the tool to meet our specific needs. User adoption is high with such a logical, clean interface.

    Cons: Reporting is a bit limited when you need to do custom reporting, but improvements are coming. Timeline is a bit lacking but at a high level, it meets our specific needs, but again, improvement is coming.

    Overall: The support we receive is outstanding. The tool is incredibly easy to use and logically configured. Great experience for our organization and would recommend to just about any organization.

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  • An Acuity PPM User
    Business Analyst
    Used the software for: 6-12 Months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: Administrator
    Company Size: 100 - 499
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    "Project Administrator feedback"

    Posted 2023-03-30

    Pros: Great visibility of projects and programs as well as portfolio health.
    Easy to navigate
    Easy to add new users to the system and assign appropriate permissions

    Cons: While I am a fairly new user to Acuity, I don't have any issues with the system.

    Overall: Would be great to have the ability to:

    * extract lessons learnt report in an excel document for further analysis
    * customise the standard template for the status reporting page.
    * to link parent/child projects to each other.

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  • Jeanine L.
    Technology Project Manager
    Used the software for: 1-2 Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 500 - 999
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    "Acuity PPM"

    Posted 2023-03-30

    Pros: Very easy package to use - navigating & updating, creating new reports.
    Intuitive.
    Everything from a PM perspective contained within the various tabs.
    Easy to share progress, related documents etc with stakeholders.
    Easy to navigate to other project status reports which may have an impact or dependency on your project.
    New functionality delivered quite frequently.

    Cons: 1. Have encountered an intermittent issue when adding a new risk or issue and app displays blank boxes without a title. Resolution is to shutdown app and restart because if you do try and fill out the blank boxes the risk or issue will not save.
    2. Sometimes when editing a status repot and I've used back space it all the text above is accidentally delete, sometimes a whole paragraph. I have to re-enter updates so have learnt to frequently save the report as I update it.

    Overall: Capabilities of the application are great.
    Easy to use for weekly reporting and allow me keep track of what I've reported in previous weeks/reports very easily.
    Like how the various reports are organised and classified.
    Like new features and keen to use them as soon as the business is ready.

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  • An Acuity PPM User
    Reporting & Planning Specialist
    Used the software for: 1-2 Years
    Frequency of Use: Monthly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 100 - 499
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    "Acuity Usefullness"

    Posted 2023-03-28

    Pros: I'm sure it serves a purpose, but not the way we are using it.

    Cons: Doesn't allow effective decisions to be made from a complete range of source data that automatically calculates variances to key metrics, and then presents them in a succinct format.

    Overall: It's likely an internal problem that sees us have a system is not well regarded. I'm sure we could possibly use it better, but the key project metrics we have in our Financial systems (budgets, forecasts and actuals), all itemised by year and project - as well as key Milestone dates - allow a clear line of sight on how projects, programs and the whole portfolio are progressing. The way we use Acuity, I don't see this being available.

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  • Victoria C.
    Portfolio Manager
    Used the software for: 1-2 Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: Administrator, Deployment
    Company Size: 20,000 or More
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    "Acuity PPM Has Changed The Way Our Department Works"

    Posted 2023-03-24

    Pros: Great views of projects, great view to show stakeholders and a good reference to show an overall status of projects.

    Cons: 1. There are some views and reporting (specific to our company) that I am not able to customize. However, I do have some workarounds in place.
    2. Integration with other tools (export and import data)
    3. Security/Access: Limiting access to certain views based on the resource.
    4. Capacity tool should have more customizations (build in customize shrinkage and also view in hours vs. percent)

    Overall: Acuity is a great tool to give stakeholders a high-level view of the portfolio. PM's can also status out of the tool. It's a simple tool to use and easy to train resources to use as well.

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  • Robert S.
    Director, Enterprise Portfolio Management
    Used the software for: 1-2 Years
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: Administrator
    Company Size: 1,000 - 4,999
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    "Acuity PPM"

    Posted 2023-03-24

    Pros: Simple to use interface.
    User friendly administration.
    The ability to rank projects is a plus.
    Acuity PPM is constantly making improvements based upon direct customer feedback.

    Cons: Would like to ability to track capital budget actuals vs forecasts. However Acuity PPM is constantly making system improvements.

    Overall: Overall Acuity PPM is very easy to navigate and allows for effective track ing of projects information and allows for status updates.

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  • Adam S.
    Director of Innovation and Process Improvement
    Used the software for: 1-2 Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Company Size: 5,000 - 9,999
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    "Accuity PPM enhancing our PMO"

    Posted 2023-03-23

    Pros: We were able to get this tool up and running in a matter of weeks and did not require any programming. The tool is flexible to meet our growing business needs and its use to support the PMO has grown.

    Cons: Would like to see enhanced reporting capabilities and a push capability on the status reports.

    Overall: Very positive experience with Acuity PPM. High value tool at a very reasonable price. Would recommend this for any PMO.

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  • Charles M.
    Director, Project Management
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Company Size: 100 - 499
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    "Perfect solution for project portfolio management!"

    Posted 2023-03-22

    Pros: 1. Acuity PPM is easy to use and adopt at all levels within the company. It has many valuable features essential for project portfolio management, is intuitive, visually appealing and gives us the ability to add customized fields to the dashboard without help from IT.
    2. The scorecard allows us to assign a value and risk score to every project based on criteria import to our company. This is key to prioritization and helps us identify what we should be working on.
    3. Their resource capacity module helps identify constraints impacting our project timeline and overall roadmap.
    4. The product offers a dashboard that allows us to keep a pulse on the health of our portfolio and alerts leadership of identified issues and risks.
    5. The status reports are a useful tool that gives us the ability to capture a project's status summary, accomplishments, and next steps. (Prior to Acuity, we were using a Word document for weekly status updates)
    6. Other useful features include a timeline that allows us to add/track project milestones and a section to document key decisions that are made.
    7. Customer service is exceptional, and they are always open feature enhancement suggestions.

    Cons: Nothing substantial to share. Acuity PPM does an exceptional job with building suggested features/functionality. We are happy with the product.

    Overall: I highly recommend this product for anyone looking to manage a project portfolio. It provides a high level dashboard designed to keep a pulse of the overall health of a portfolio. In addition, you can drill down on a project level for more detailed information.

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  • Ray K.
    Applications Manager
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User, Deployment
    Company Size: 500 - 999
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    "Acuity PPM "

    Posted 2023-03-20

    Pros: This product is a good choice for anyone looking to implement a basic PPM resource. It has the basic features we were looking for with regard to our needs for PPM and also had some advanced features (scoring/prioritizing, timelines & milestones, etc.) that turned out to be useful. As with any product like this, there are some up front decisions to be made on how to use it and then some up front configuration work required. But, nothing out of the ordinary. The product is solid and we've had virtually no technical issues with its performance. Support has been very responsive.

    Cons: The biggest challenges have been with the timeline & milestone entry / update and with the products import/export or reporting. Nothing terribly bad. The update interface could be a little more user-friendly or elegant. Reporting or exporting of data is a little limited. But, they are working and making progress in that area as both support and product development have been responsive to feedback.

    Overall: A very good, reliable, cost-effective product for someone looking to get their feet wet with a PPM solution. Support and development are open to feedback and responsive.

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  • Anna C.
    Project Manager I
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 500 - 999
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    "FI Project Management Use"

    Posted 2023-03-17

    Pros: The ability to quickly see the status of all active projects, and sort with various filters. Adding and removing columns is very easy.

    Cons: iPad experience is less user friendly, but I rarely utilize this software outside of a desktop anyway.

    Overall: Very user friendly, and has allowed us to slowly introduce new features to the expanded team. A great solution for a project team like ours to build upon the automation and efficiency of our PMO.

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