Sciforma Overview
What is Sciforma?
Sciforma Project and Portfolio Management Software is a robust and easy-to-use platform that supports PMOs with these very core PPM capabilities: idea & demand, portfolio & program, planning, work and collaboration, resources, and time tracking. Flexible and functionally scalable, it accomodates various PMO maturity levels and fits many sectors: health care, manufacturing, public, finance, and more. Key customer partners include Netgear, NXP Semiconductor, Deutsche Telekom, EADS. Discover powerful portfolio status overviews, project health scores, portfolio simulations, strong capacity planning, and much more.
Sciforma is an award-winning provider of portfolio and project management software. Over 3,000 customers and 300,000 users in all industries around the world use Sciforma to achieve profitable growth and strategic objectives through more efficient and effective management of project resources.
Sciforma is headquartered in the U.S. (Silicon Valley) and has offices in all geographic regions including the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, as well as a global distributor network. The service is available in seven languages.
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From $20-$60/user/month. Pricing determined by # of users and user roles.
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Sciforma Reviews
Sciforma Reviews
Best single-platform product on the market for waterfall, Agile or hybrid
I cannot say enough positive things about the team members I have directly interacted with at Sciforma. From the trainers, to my Customer Success Manager, to members of the support and product development teams. Everyone is accommodating, helpful and collaborative. I was already confident that Sciforma as a solution was the right choice for my organization's needs; the people supporting you are outstanding too! One thing to be prepared for is that the back-end can be a little daunting for admins who are not well-versed in both system configuration and project management. If you are not that comfortable, you will still have a wonderful support team to help you.
Project Oriented Sciforma
Our company started using Sciforma since last year especially for the Project Management related things such as planning, managing, and monitoring and controlling.
Much Left to Be Desired
Overall, I have had an average experience with SciForma. It's excels in record-keeping but can be quite clunky to use. I wish the UI/UX would be improved so using SciForma wouldn't be as hard to use than it currently is.
Beautifully laid out, very intuitive, leverages the best of the tech it's built on.
Our clients have great visibility on the work we are doing for them, we can easily anticipate risks and be able to manage them in a way that set's very clear and resolute expectations, from an Agile development point of view our team collaborates in a way much much better than before while at the same time giving a clear picture to the client side PMs who typically manage their projects in a waterfall fashion. Everyone is part of the same picture.
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Best single-platform product on the market for waterfall, Agile or hybrid
Pros
I have reviewed, implemented, used and replaced several enterprise-level PPM solutions. Sciforma is, in my opinion, the best single-platform solution on the market to enable teams to run various methodologies, yet still report holistically at the enterprise level regardless of the methodology used to run each project. It's a true one-stop-shop for an organization that wants the flexibility to manage projects differently. You are able to do all traditional project management functions related to schedule, Gantt, budget, resource allocation, portfolio reporting and more. The Agile features are simpler than some of the big-name leaders who focus ONLY on Agile, yet robust enough that prior users of those large systems will still find comfort in managing their Agile efforts in Sciforma. For those organizations who are more comfortable with a hybrid-approach, this solutions easily integrates iterations/sprints into the Gantt view. If you have a Steering Committee making decisions about which projects should be started and when, or if your Finance group wants to in-depth financial impacts of the projects, this solution will make everyone happy. Sciforma is going to change how my organization approaches project and resource allocation decisions.
Cons
There are a couple things I'd like to see improved in the tool, though this may be personal preference.
1) I would prefer more automated data to be shown in the out-of-the-box project status reports rather than subjective text boxes and some high-level project data points.
2) I prefer an Agile burndown chart that predicts the sprint completion.
This said, Sciforma does allow you to build custom things (like the status report I want to see), and I've been able to create wish-list tickets for future development--and the product team has accepted several suggestions and placed them on the product roadmap.
Project Oriented Sciforma
Our company started using Sciforma since last year especially for the Project Management related things such as planning, managing, and monitoring and controlling.
Pros
Designer mode, that allows us the flexibility and capability to create and modify our own tools for the production view.
Cons
So far, I don't see anything that I don't like because the more I explore, the more I learn something new.
Much Left to Be Desired
Overall, I have had an average experience with SciForma. It's excels in record-keeping but can be quite clunky to use. I wish the UI/UX would be improved so using SciForma wouldn't be as hard to use than it currently is.
Pros
I like how it keeps track of your previous records and is good for accountability purposes. It is extremely convenient and easy to see what tasks I have been working on the past few weeks.
Cons
Many times the software UI is very clunky and leaves for a fairly annoying experience. Once in a while, buttons don't work and certain loading screens freeze. Though the effects are not critical, I do find the software to be somewhat of a pain to deal with at time and I think that's something that SciForma shouldn't be.
Beautifully laid out, very intuitive, leverages the best of the tech it's built on.
Our clients have great visibility on the work we are doing for them, we can easily anticipate risks and be able to manage them in a way that set's very clear and resolute expectations, from an Agile development point of view our team collaborates in a way much much better than before while at the same time giving a clear picture to the client side PMs who typically manage their projects in a waterfall fashion. Everyone is part of the same picture.
Pros
User adoption is key in any enterprise system, Sciforma's ease of use enables that, it is quite intuitive and a beautiful sight to behold, we've come to see that users highly appreciate that effort. Technically it is very strong (the strongest) yet fully maintaining the balance between technical complexity and ease of use.
With the release of Sciforma 7.1 we've seen massive leaps forward on a solution that was already at a peak compared to it's rivals, the introduction of Programme Management amongst, and the focus on building stronger connections with various data elements has seen Sciforma being highly appraised by our clients.
Cons
There are very little to no cons, everyone ultimately has their preference and Sciforma is ours. We are fully confident in the continuity that Sciforma constantly reassures us with by staying ahead of the race and breaking new grounds in this space.
Very Useful Tool
Pros
This software is very useful. It helps to track project milestones, project status, project costs. It also can be customized to meet our company needs. Sciforma engineering team is very helpful and responsive. They helped to create different dashboards we requested for different groups such as engineering group, finance group and operation group. Also these dashboards can be exported to an excel file to email to different groups.
Cons
As far, I do not feel any feature is missing as this software supports all our requirements.
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Sciforma Pricing
Sciforma Pricing
From $20-$60/user/month. Pricing determined by # of users and user roles.
From $20-$60/user/month. Pricing determined by # of users and user roles.
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Additional information for Sciforma
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Benefits
In addition to its robustness and usability, Sciforma offers invaluable benefits including:
- Adapts to your current portfolio, with the ability to functionally scale capabilities as your organization matures and grows
- Out-of-the-box: Easy to implement, easy to maintain, and configurable
- Quick return on investment
- Offers all project management methodologies (Agile, CCPM, Waterfall, Stage Gate, Prince2)
- Free and Unlimited Read-Only Access
More on critical PPM capabilities:
Demand and portfolio management - prioritize the project portfolio with advanced budget-driven ranking, dynamic business case criteria, scoring, and multi-scenario simulations.
Project and resource management - deploy and mobilize projects with powerful Gantt, sophisicated cost and budget management, integrated agile, resource utilization reporting, and capacity planning.
Analyze and optimize projects with key metrics on configurable dashboards and reports.
Sciforma FAQs
Sciforma FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Sciforma.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Sciforma offer?
Sciforma offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: US$20.00/month
Pricing model: One Time License, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
From $20-$60/user/month. Pricing determined by # of users and user roles.
Q. What are the main features of Sciforma?
We do not have any information about Sciforma features
Q. Who are the typical users of Sciforma?
Sciforma has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Public Administrations, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Sciforma support?
Sciforma supports the following languages:
English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Polish, Spanish
Q. What type of pricing plans does Sciforma offer?
Sciforma has the following pricing plans:
One Time License, Subscription
Q. Does Sciforma support mobile devices?
We do not have any information about what devices Sciforma supports
Q. What other apps does Sciforma integrate with?
Sciforma integrates with the following applications:
Google Calendar, Jira, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Salesforce Sales Cloud, SharePoint, VersionOne, Yammer
Q. What level of support does Sciforma offer?
Sciforma offers the following support options:
Forum, Online Support, Phone Support, Knowledge Base, Video Tutorials
I cannot say enough positive things about the team members I have directly interacted with at Sciforma. From the trainers, to my Customer Success Manager, to members of the support and product development teams. Everyone is accommodating, helpful and collaborative. I was already confident that Sciforma as a solution was the right choice for my organization's needs; the people supporting you are outstanding too! One thing to be prepared for is that the back-end can be a little daunting for admins who are not well-versed in both system configuration and project management. If you are not that comfortable, you will still have a wonderful support team to help you.