Posted @ 02/17/2017 07:36 PM
Over the year’s companies have reached out to us with a major need to integrate SharePoint with CA PPM. We have learned a great deal about the business challenges these companies face. From management needing consolidated up-to-date reports across systems, to project managers requiring a better way to manage documentation and document approvals. The challenges list goes on and on, and we can proudly say that our SharePoint Solution for CA PPM solves most of them.
During the sales process, we are often asked to provide a list of what our SharePoint Connector can do compared to CA’s offering. In fact, CA themselves have requested this comparison many times when they resell our SharePoint products. So, I thought I’d publish it so everyone has access.
| Differences Between IT-ROI’s and CA’s SharePoint Integration
CORE FEATURES |
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| SharePoint embedded in CA PPM | No | Yes |
| Extracts data from CA PPM | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic Mapping of Projects to SharePoint | No | Yes |
| Automatically create CA PPM project as Site, Library or Folder in SharePoint | No | Yes |
| Supports CA PPM – Risks, Issues and Change Requests | Yes | Yes |
| Drag & Drop documents into knowledge store | No | Yes |
| Full integration with Microsoft Office 365 | No | Yes |
| Ability to map network drives to CA PPM Projects Dynamically | No | Yes (real time) |
| Utilize SharePoint as the document repository for Projects | Yes, it supports SharePoint functionality | Yes |
| Fully integrated team and/or collaboration security from CA PPM to SharePoint | No | Yes |
| CA PPM Data Duplicated in SharePoint | Yes | No SharePoint is utilized as the document repository |
| Bi-directional update for tasks, task dates, assignments, and timesheets, risks, issues, change requests, team, allocation, cost plans and status reports | No | Yes |
| Automatically pass rights to SharePoint from CA PPM (allows PMs to control SharePoint security through CA PPM) | No Known Issues: Proxy Difficulty | Yes |
| Gantt list in SharePoint for Tasks, calendar view for task list as well as full calendar drag/drop support | Yes | Yes |
| Supports data as SharePoint lists | No | Yes |
| Ability to create any bi-directional integration with core systems | No | Yes |
The comparison speaks for itself, the biggest takeaways are:
- The ability to create any bi-directional integration.
- Consistent real-time reporting.
- Fully automated security, and site/project creation features.
- Documentation management.