Amplify Strategy Execution Reviews

Overall Amplify strikes a difficult balance between PMO features and Benefit/Cost realization without spending months on developing the instance thus losing valuable time.

Pros:
- Its a quick process depending on how much of the program's business case is defined at launch. The tool itself under the guidance of the Amplify team can be spun up in several weeks allowing fast cost/benefit realization tracking
- Its scalable, able to support programs with hundreds of initiatives without becoming unwieldy
- Dynamic views of the program hierarchy specific to each user
- Fast Configuration feature allows for bulk uploads of initiatives, benefit values, etc.
- Tool combines PMO features with benefit maturity tracking enabling users to derive critical insights regarding financial impact of dependencies
- Custom reporting with Power BI embedded supports creation of client specific reports with ability to export. In house dashboards are also user friendly
- Benefit Ledger and table views are excel friendly with copy/paste options and additional options for customization
- [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] and the rest of the Amplify team are very accessible and wonderful to work with. They offer lots of support in the onboarding process and questions submitted by the customer service portal are answered promptly. In nearly 2 years I've never had a negative experience.
- The UI and other tool features are regularly updated. Clients can also help shape future updates depending on their needs

Cons:

-Some features like the investment dashboard can feel a little rigid despite customization options
- Amplify supports tracking of non financial KPIs but dashboard views are limited to Power BI
- Navigating in demos with admin access can feel a little overwhelming to clients at times but once users are in the tool from the Steerco to the single initiative owner there's typically no issue as it supports user specific rights.

In my experience the pros far outweigh the cons and with regular updates Amplify is only becoming a better tool.

Amplify was easy to implement with out of the box integration that made it easy to transition from other software and spreadsheets into Amplify in just two months. While the software has an incredible tool set out of the gate the admin capabilities add significant control to meet multiple execution strategies. User training was not complicated as it is built as a very intuitive tool. The ability to design multiple approval paths is slick, the ability to add your own custom fields can help you meet the most complex need. The audit trail capture ensure all actions are captured and available. There are a large number of reports that come with Amplify, it can be connected to PowerBI, if you have the right inhouse resources you can write your own custom reports.

I knew you were going to ask me this question. I'm finding it hard to come up something despite having used the software for over a year. In the initial selection process I independently found another customer and called them for a reference and their reference sounded just like this one. Of course sometimes we are a bit skeptical but [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] delivered 100%.

1. Amplify provides great customer support:
-we were able to configure quickly multiple templates for various types of projects we deliver across our consultancy competencies
-they worked with our wish list requests and promptly made enhancements to their tool
2. Intuitive and flexible
3. Power BI integration
4. Data security
5. Financial and non-financial benefits tracking

It's not quite mature on the PMO resource management. I know it's on their roadmap to address it.