KeyedIn

Avantages

- Real-time dashboards
- Feature-rich
- Resource management functionality is good
- Single source of the truth
- Highly customizable

Inconvénients

- The reporting functionality is currently not very intuitive but is being improved in forthcoming release

Avantages

KeyedIn Projects is very intuitive / easy to utilise and is extremely feature rich; with an excellent user interface and bags of potential for the future (given regular "releases" that introduce an array of major / minor enhancements).

Navigation around KeyedIn is relatively straight-forward to get to grips with, and bottom up / top down views all seem to work seamlessly together.

On screen dashboards and data "widgets" (out of the box) are very useful / neat and can be easily configured / tailored for different users / executives / role types across any organisation.

Powerful data mining / search / filter features allow us to very easily understand how our portfolio is progressing (in real time) and gives you instant ability to drill down to the heart of any risks / issues and the user interface is such that anyone within our organisation is able to be presented with their own customised dashboard and focus on what matters to them.

Inconvénients

A little more work is required to improve reporting outputs and ability to construct and run custom reports. However, major KeyedIn Project enhancement releases (scheduled in coming months appear to be addressing this), together with addressing customer feedback on the product and modifying where customer suggestions add real value across their customer base.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à KeyedIn

Avantages

I can only speak for the timesheets functionality within keyed in. There are options to fine tune quite a bit if you need to be very specific/detailed about your human resource budgeting.

Inconvénients

It is not the smoothest user experience, things that can be done in 1 click, take 5. It’s often glitchy and things I have saved seem to disappear.

Avantages

Tracey ability on jobs. Ease of use on the shop floor.

Inconvénients

To edit jobs you have to go to many fields just to change quantities on orders. Some functions dead end and you have to go backwards to move forward. IE Create a job from a SO you have to then go back to the SO to get to the work order. No communications from the shop floor back to the office. IE a message that could be submit for review on why there might have been issues with a certain operation. Ease of use for a small shop is difficult as there are many components to go through to use the software in full.

Avantages

Feature rich, graphically rich, intuitive user interface, with strong portfolio and programme capabilities.

Inconvénients

Inability to easily manage task-based dependencies across multiple projects and surface this at programme or portfolio level, thereby making it harder to effectively prioritise resources across multiple projects

Avantages

accessibility to the data
cloud based
Shop floor accessibility

Inconvénients

reporting is dismal.
implementation significantly lacking.
been a customer for nearly 5 years, and still cannot get accounting, scheduling, or job costing to function properly.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à KeyedIn

Avantages

One of things I liked most about this engagement was the honesty and transparency the team showed throughout the selection process. They were upfront with limitations, but showed us other ways to solve the problems.

KeyedIn is simple but powerful and met all our requirements around integrated resource management, PPM accounting and delivery. In a global organisation, it was important to have a tool that supported multiple languages and currencies too.

The portfolio planning capability is a brilliant tool for annual planning and evaluating multiple scenarios.

Finally, KeyedIn offer a very sensible cost model.

Inconvénients

The tooling does support a range of reporting but for the needs of our organisation for rich reporting and the existing governance expectations it fell short initially. This is now being address by KeyedIn

The tool plans on months and days but captures in hours and weeks which presents challenges at month end.

Avantages

I like that we can track project plans based on tasks. It really works well for our company and helps keep our projects on point. I also like that we can set objectives (deliverables) and dates for those deliverables. This allows us to see when tasks are starting to "creep up" on the due date and either add more resources or push the deliverable date out. I also like that if we do push the deliverable out, we have to give a reason and the SW keeps track each time we push the date. This allows me to go back when the project is done, determine which dates we missed and see the reaons for the delay. I think this will help us find holes in our processes and fix them going forward.

I really like the resource management tool, but are still pretty new to using it, so my knowledge is somewhat limited. Thus far, I am seeing some promise and anticipate it will become a very valuable tool.

We are also just getting started in learning the reporting functions, but so far they are able to give us the exact information we need. It has made my weekly reporting to our Senior Team much more manageable and accurate.

Inconvénients

I don't like that there isn't a customer portal available. We also manage customer installs with this software and it would be nice to give the customer a link or temporary sign on they can use to view the progress of their project. We can setup a user, but believe it take a license and we have around 50 - 100 customer installs going at any given time. Managing those users would be a nightmare, so we are opting to just email them reports from the system.

Avantages

KeyedIn has robust functionality that is flexible and customizable. Functionality can be tailored to the business processes that are unique to our business.

Inconvénients

Though there are a lot of reports and it is relatively easy to modify them or build your own, you cannot create your own SQL queries against the database.

Also, adding custom fields, lists and reports is easy to do. It would be nice if there was more flexibility for different types of fields and layouts.

Avantages

Very easy to use tool for time tracking and projects; it's also an OK tool for project budgeting and projections

Inconvénients

The UI of this tool needs to improve it's a bit complex to switch from one tab to another; I believe that's the only thing I have

Avantages

Organization of Widgets. Customizable. Easy to use. Feature-rich. Great user interface (organization of widgets).

Inconvénients

User interface is dated. Reporting features.

Avantages

We selected KeyedIn do to is ease of integration with other cloud based solutions (i.e. SageIntacct, SalesForce) to create a complete seamless ERP with "one source of truth" in regard to data entry.

Inconvénients

Though the Support Staff is very versed, at times their seems to be limited staff that can address integration/syncing issues with other systems we have linked.

Avantages

We’ve used KeyedIn since the Atlantic Global days. The improvements we’ve seen especially in v6.x have been significant. Much easier to use and extract valuable management information than before

Inconvénients

There are still some limitations around number of fields that could be addressed

Avantages

- We were able to test drive the system before signing up.
- KIP provides one source for all out Projects and documents.
- The software can be customized by an admin user without the need for KeyedIn to
get involved. Ex. we have full autonomy over the criteria of our workflow and fields made available in our intake form.

Inconvénients

Training material is /was a rather daunting affair.
We could could have benefited greatly from access to basic Quick Reference Guides for the different types of users we had to train as part of the implementation.

Status updates are a bit lacklustre and can only be sent out as attachments.
Many key stakeholders never read attachments. To encourage reading it would be great if status reports could be exported directly to the body of an email and become a bit more 'colourful'.

Avantages

I love the insights feature - being able to monitor the performance of my portfolio is vital.

Inconvénients

The visual aspect of reporting needs some work i think - i'd like to see a Power BI type output

Avantages

It's very configurable and KeyedIn respond really well to any requests or needs that we have.

Inconvénients

It isn't as 'pretty' as some other PPM offerings and that can put off some of my senior stakeholders who don't want to view the information live. I think some of the recent work that has been done on reporting building/portfolios will help this.

Avantages

Its really easy tool as compared to my previous quite essay to use and user friendly.

Inconvénients

I am not in management side so cant comment on that

Avantages

Very easy to use. Growing company that continues to invest in upgrades. Excellent Customer Support.

Inconvénients

KeyedIn currently has limited options for charts and dashboards. KeyedIn has placed a focus on reporting on their product road map.

Avantages

it spans its use to the entire organization. Assigning tasks and having visibility for everyone

Inconvénients

uploading .mpp and compatibility with that

Avantages

1. Has view on time expected per week and that accommodates for expected public holidays
2. There is a view on what part of the process your expense returns are in (submitted vs approved vs paid)

Inconvénients

1. Very frustrating user interface:
- finding projects or areas to enter time can take more time than time entry
- Interface times out if you don't move around regularly, but will continue to let you enter time or pages, but once you save it will all disappear at a re-login request. Lots of lost work due to this
2. The process for entering time in a category the first time in a day is very different than when you need to go back and add more time
3. Once saved (the only way to ensure your entry isn't lost when moving between pages), there is no ability to subtract time at the user level.
4. Constant reminder emails are sent even if you have submitted your time.
5. Expense page is confusing to add multiple pages of expense items to a single report and it is very easy to submit a report without realizing it, which a user has no ability to modify.

Avantages

KeyedIn is interactive with few good options.

Inconvénients

User Feedback for slow speed from different part of world

Avantages

I can track my time with ease and no hassle is involved in that. The user friendly UI saves time of all of my team members .

Inconvénients

The only drawback of this application is that milestone in Timesheet entry should not be a mandatory as project varies and so does the milestones.

Avantages

It is very easy to use.
Different projects and non-projects items can be easily tracked.

Inconvénients

Nothing that I do not like from a User perspective.

Avantages

- Complete overall solution
- Covers the broad spectrum of touching points within a PS firm
- Competitive pricing

Inconvénients

- Outdated GUI and graphs/analytics
- Not a complete billing cycle solution
- Low quality invoice templates

Avantages

The vast functionality and ease of use makes this product stand out.

Inconvénients

Sometimes confusing! But this depends obviously upon your requirements