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    IBM Targetprocess

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AIBM Targetprocess is a platform for enterprise agile planning (EAP) and strategic portfolio management (SPM) solutions that allows business and technology planners at all levels to dynamically plan and manage work, resources, investments, programs, and portfolios while ensuring continuous alignment to the enterprise strategy in a single source of truth.N/A

    Shorter Loop

    N/AN/AShorter Loop is a product management platform that helps businesses of all sizes streamline their product management activities while keeping customers' expectations in mind. Equipped with various frameworks, models, and techniques, businesses and teams across the globe can create product visions, personas, create assumptions/hypotheses, and test them through experiments with target audiences/personas to validate them further by mapping their needs, goals, and wants. Gathering customer…

    $15

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    Pricing
    IBM TargetprocessShorter Loop
    Editions & Modules
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    Startup
    $15
    per month
    Scale Up
    $30
    per month
    Enterprise
    $50
    per month
    Offerings
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    IBM TargetprocessShorter Loop
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Features
    IBM TargetprocessShorter Loop
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of IBM Targetprocess and Shorter Loop
    Feature
    IBM Targetprocess
    7.2
    21 Ratings
    5% below category average
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    Task Management8.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management9.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts4.713 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling6.315 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology8.520 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology6.617 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management6.913 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration7.213 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access5.411 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking8.713 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management8.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management8.811 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search5.119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual planning tools7.119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of IBM Targetprocess and Shorter Loop
    Feature
    IBM Targetprocess
    8.5
    19 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Shorter Loop
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    DevOps Tool Integrations8.815 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Review8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Collaboration8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation8.517 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers8.118 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM TargetprocessShorter Loop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (29 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Apptio Targetprocess is well suited to track work and progress of that work. In addition it is easy to tie that work to OKRs. Cost and hours rollup across the work hierarchy works well. Our users like the flexibility of Targetprocess and the ability to develop their own views and reports Scenarios where it is less appropriate is to do executive level reporting and develop reports that can pull in all of our time data since there is a 300k record limit
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    Pros
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Extremely flexible: We are able to setup work for different groups in ways that work best for them.
    • Fantastic support group: They are extremely knowledgeable and helpful. I enjoy working with them.
    • Automation: Their automation capabilities have saved us a lot of time.
    • Customizing screens: We can go into code for the different entities, move fields around or hide them, add tabs or additional sections as needed to make for a streamlined user experience.
    • Reporting: Their reporting is flexible and phenomenal. There are so many different ways to pull data and the interface is easy to use.
    • Their user guide is well built and extremely helpful.
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    Cons
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • The UI is bit complex for new users who never used it. i think this can be sorted out by providing the steps to access?
    • dashboards with large datasets can cause performance lags or timeouts
    • Introduce more flexible, template-based RBAC configurations.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Targetprocess is the most flexible application for tracking work among teams that we have found. This power comes from near limitless ability to customize your views on the work tracked in the system, and from the myriad reporting options to draw metrics and stats out of the data there. Custom fields, processes, and mashups all add to this flexibility and appeal.
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    Usability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    The UI is intuitive and consistent. The complexity of the app means there is a steep learning curve though, but it is well worth putting in the effort to get the most out of the tool. We have some team members who are learning new ways of doing things after 1-2 years of working in Targetprocess.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Some minor outages are experienced, though these tend to pass within an hour usually and work can continue
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    Performance
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Reports are fast loading, considering they can refresh in a second or less and we have 7 years of work tracked in over 40k entities. Pages can load slowly when the views are very busy, but not frustratingly. I am a console user most of my career and generally prefer it over webUI interfaces, but Targetprocess won me over from the beginning and I spend half my day using it now.
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    Support Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    TargetProcess' support is one of its strengths. The support team is very responsive and helpful when there is a problem but they're also proactive in providing good release notes and engaging with the community through a voting scheme to influence the priority of new features.
    The team also releases new versions frequently with new features but with no knock-ons to currently working features.
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    Implementation Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    You should take some time to get everyone to agree how the system should be setup before work starts being tracked in Targetprocess, this avoids difficult and disruptive changes to processes or plugins later when everyone relies on it daily.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I would say TargetProcess is an incredibly wonderful tool. As compare to JIRA Software, it is a fully featured product. It fulfills all my business needs. Tracking efficiency of this application is quite favorable
    in order to track all the details from a certain project in just a few minutes.
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    Scalability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    We use the hosted version of Targetprocess and have never run into limitations or degraded performance due to scalability. Excellent performance over 7 years!
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    Return on Investment
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • No direct positive business ROI has caused executive leadership to play down use of the tool
    • We are hoping to use this to track progress of OKRs and business strategy, but don't have but in from executives on the value of this yet.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Targetprocess Screenshots

    Screenshot of Resource Management: Reduces risk by dynamically managing resources, capacity, and demandScreenshot of Program Management: To deliver value throughout a strategic portfolioScreenshot of Portfolio Budgeting: Shifting from project to product fundingScreenshot of Strategic Planning: Continuously links work, labor, and investments to business strategy

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