Planisware Reviews

Strategic planning and project execution, effectively orchestrated through Planisware Enterprise, can achieve value delivered. In other words, “make vision reality.”  

Expansive business transformation is a corporate use case when at least one company executive sponsors company-wide commitment and vigorous participation.  

Major corporate performance indicators provided in 26Q1 include:

§Strategic Project Portfolio Management—AI-powered (optimizing strategy-execution synchronization; objectives and key results linked consistently to projects and initiatives; scenario modeling; roadmapping)

§Execution Performance (assessing cost, schedule, quality metrics with project goals; predictive analytics)

§Risk and Opportunity Management

§Financial forecasting (value realization, ROI)

Mature, bottom-up architecture of 26Q1 facilitates day-to-day project management, automated resource assignment, and capacity planning. Improved user experience promotes easier data consolidation. Oscar, Planisware’s AI agent, speeds up analysis.

In 26Q1 release, we have comprehensive unified platform modernization—user interface, simplified access, reorganized menus, dashboard enhancements, improved visualization—incorporates more than thirty years of sustained excellence in providing single source of truth for major enterprises and multi-national organizations.

26Q1 effectively  embraces multiple data dimensions attuned to distinctive needs of stakeholders—managers, PMO, IT, corporate administrators, CEO, and boardroom members).

Planisware Enterprise, originally called OPX2, has flourished beyond its mid-1990s foundational roots that integrated management of projects, resources, and portfolios.  

Proficient accelerator of the project economy, Planisware Enterprise galvanizes company capabilities beyond classic project and portfolio management. Transforming pressures of the fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) have inspired the wide-ranging feature set that Planisware EPPM provides.   

Pervasive technology presence in today’s world contributes to intense stakeholder scrutiny, project complexity with multi-level scheduling, expectation of data-driven decisions, and proactive knowledge- sharing—bottom up and top-down together.  

Scope of Planisware Enterprise 7.1.4 (December 2024) includes additional tools for strategy, finance, risk, contracts, application connectivity, idea management, lessons-learned tracking.   

Planisware’s strategic planning capabilities clarify and communicate enterprise project objectives and key performance indicators across the organization and tie them to specific projects.   

User outcome, in simple terms, is doing the right projects and doing those projects right.  

Project managers gain strategic perspective because top-level findings and scoring dynamically flow into their respective project plans.   

Markedly more effective project/product execution is a key benefit from how Planisware Enterprise dynamically integrates strategic enterprise knowledge sharing—goals and key objectives—into a mature, cohesive project portfolio system that provides real-time data consolidation and single-source-of truth analytics.  

Top-down wisdom and bottom-up productivity coalesce in Planisware Enterprise.   

Ongoing capability improvements such as automated data quality audit and built-in project summary dashboard available from with the project module as a tab greatly empower user productivity.

Creating and using formulas in Planisware Enterprise has been streamlined, with integrated formula validation. In my judgment, having more extensive "offline" documentation would benefit new users, especially with a selection of non-trivial examples of how formulas in Planisware empower productivity.

Historically with Planisware, the load array, a feature that has been available since the 1990s with improvements, enables very flexible time slicing that surpasses such reporting capability via Excel. In concert with native and composite cost curves, the load array charts provides thoughtful, adaptable consolidation and drill-down for time-phased data such as capacity (resource availability) and demand (planned or archived hours on tasks).

 Planisware Explorer (PEX) offers enhanced capabilities for reporting and charting that goes beyond the functions in the Report Builder module, such as dynamic queries. PEX requires extra training for operational proficiency, typically from multiple fee-based Planisware courses.

Administration module enables super-user to control visibility of modules for regular Planisware users. The Data page shows available Object types.

Continuing  improvements in  documents management centralize communications among project users and stakeholders. Because the documents are included in each Planisware environment/configuration, messaging and documents associated with projects are easier to access than being spread through normal corporate email. Planisware stores project related documents and messages in a single database. Snapshots (backups) at a given point in time are easy to make and restore to alternate environments, even on an automated nightly basis.

Program and project roadmaps integrate well with PowerPoint. Slide elements are editable and dynamically linked (if so specified) to detail projects. Capability to drill down into project specifics is mature, native functionality.

Strategic Portfolio module offers an OKR page (objectives and key results) to connect specific company strategy with defined measurable actions.

Planisware helpfully distributes incremental updates on a quarterly schedule. Extent of the client base and collective user expectations push priority improvements into new versions and resolve rare technical glitches rapidly. 

What any single user or small client may earnestly request for increasing productivity may take years for development to start—unless one pays rather dearly for underwriting special services from Planisware’s offshore support group.

Individual users, particularly those who suddenly lack affiliation with a paying client between jobs have been bottom priority in my experience. Service tickets don’t apply for this category of formerly active users.  

I recommend that Planisware provides formerly active users privilege of connectivity with Planisware “playground” environments that are periodically refreshed with a current release version. This new option  would cultivate “hands on” proficiency in the overall Planisware user community.

My Planisware journey began in 1996. Longest employment was at  

Merck (2002–2011) and continues with contingent worker assignments. I have over twenty years overall experience with Planisware, primarily for pharma organizations.  

Stability, particularly with Linux hosting of Intranet Server, is consistently good. Most cases of stability problems traced back to incorrect data, such as schedule dates that are impossible in the real world. Identifying and fixing bad data resolved stability issues about 80% of the time. In one or two cases since 2002, a Planisware update (patch), in one incident received within twenty-four hours after reporting, remedied incorrect data handling.

Planisware scales effortlessly when hosted on decent Linux Server(s) with ample RAM and sufficient CPUs. 

In a SaaS environment, what Planiware determines is adequate performance by sevice level agreement may not align with your company's users over time. Planisware can upgrade servers your organization uses after appropriate negotiation. 

Customer Service:

Very good overall. Planisware tries to be customer-centric. Their approach has been primarily reactive to customer questions and concerns, not proactive and comprehensively enabling. Customers typically receive better answers and solutions when they are politely aggressive with Planisware.

Technical Support:

Between good to excellent, depending upon the proficiency of the individual Planisware consultant who responds. In my experience, some answers via SupportUS have been incorrect. The majority of responses are helpful and valid.

Home grown pjroect management solutions and Microsoft Project at companies that I worked. either fulltime employee or contingent worker. Many enterprises simply outgrew Microsoft Project as inadequate for enterprise project management and strategic portfolio management

Scope of implementation, both for initial setup and major updates, calls for multi-talented team effort.

It is customary to have at least three distinct Planisware environments per customer: develop; test; production. I recommend planning for a playground environment (similar to develop) to allow pretesting of new releases without disturbing the integrity of the current develop environment). Having a distinct train environment allows new users to gain operational proficiency without compromising production. One operational question that repeatedly occurs is, "what has changed overnight?" An automated nightly backup environment can be of great help in answering these questions quickly. If your organization uses a monthly or quarterly point of reference for project data, one or more environments for keeping this copy accessible  records can help greatly.

On the scale of 1 to 10, Planisware has an overall rating of 9.5.

Thirty years of product maturity, intense vendor commitment to keep excelling  are unassailable signposts. External published reviews from organizations such as Garner attest to Planisware Enterprise as a worldwide program leader. Expanding user community also demonstrates success.

Strive to establish  gaining technical proficiency with Planisware's tools so that your organization can readily implement ongoing operational improvements.

I recommend nightly or at least weekly proactive analysis of Planisware SaaS log files to pinpoint issues before they become troublesome to the user community. Typical problem resolution investigation tends to fixate reactively on user-reported glitches and may miss emerging trends. Proactive global analysis of log files can reveal quantitative correlation over time of application stability and health. Assuring access to Planisware Enterprise backups  is also beneficial.

Evaluating strategic portfolio management systems is possibly as challenging as comparing major symphony orchestras for excellence. Is Berlin Philharmonic markedly superior in musicality to Pittsburgh Symphony? Adding product maturity, international product acceptance, professional published comparisons into consideration, Planisware Enterprise is much more than decent for anchoring strategic portfolio management. On a practical level, Planisware Enterprise is recognized pacesetter. 

A Sampling of Noteworthy Planisware Enterprise Tools

Data Quality Audit is now integrated into the Projects Module. Defense Contract Management agency introduced DQA in 2005. This 14-point schedule-check criteria has become an industry-standard for best practice that Planisware Enterprise adapted “out of the box.”  

Positioning DQA pane to the side of the schedule view, Project managers and others (e.g., PMO) can rapidly spot potential glitches and delays and apply corrective measures.  Problem targets appear in red for easy identification. Administrative users can adjust threshold, add additional rules, and enable them to appear in reporting.   

Conceptual overview of these metrics in Planisware: 1. Logic—missing links; 2. Leads—distort total float; 3. Lags—affect critical path; 4.  

Relationship types—most are finish-to-start; 5. Hard constraints; 6. High total float; 7. negative float; 8. high-duration tasks; 9. Future tasks have actuals;  10. Incomplete tasks—no resources nor money allocated; 11. Missed tasks—failed baseline dates;  12. Critical path test  

(continuous from pf to pf); 13. Critical path index 14. Baseline execution index—tasks accomplished against planned completion tasks  

Planisware Enterprise removes manual tedium for Project Managers who may be calculating these metrics on a case-by-case basis. Applying these DQA metrics as a set across all projects greatly simplifies and shortens time for periodic review.  

AI Help applies Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to help center content of PDF E-Learning documents residing in your designated Planisware environment. Familiar counterparts are the text paragraphs that Google Search adds in front of answers to your queries.   

AI Help provides step-by-step answers and identifies up to five pertinent documents.   

A super-user with administrative rights can provide environment specific setup for AI Help, likely with guidance from a training specialist familiar with local needs. Large Language Model connector has to be created during setup for this tool.  

Approval Workflow uses pre-defined “definition” to enact approve/deny/review/cancel rules at a single level of action for designated decision-maker roles. Although conceptually easy to understand and apply in daily use, this tool requires local functional administration proficiency to configure for a given enterprise’s user population.  

Underlying technical framework already has relationship links to simplify configuration setup.  

Planisware Sign provides eSignature for designated signers within Planisware Enterprise. Setup can also handle external users with third-party DocuSign or Adobe Sign.  

Lesson Learned module identifies and encapsulates knowledge gained by experience—operationally significant, technically valid, and applicable for either reinforcing a condition that is positive or reducing shortcoming. An administrator can specify where lessons learned creation can occur, e.g., projects, activities, requirements, portfolio. Users who may access shared Lessons Learned module are also administrator-defined.  

Scenario Optimization enables rapid elimination of overload bottlenecks with particle swarm optimization (PSO).  

Selected user incentives, especially for project managers  

Refinements in everyday PM functions such as Gantt chart have also matured with ease of use. Each project manager can quickly spot and resolve  scheduling challenges. Identifying predecessors or successors is simplified to one or two mouse clicks. Accounting calendars can span longer than twelve months to accommodate less common fiscal years. Resource forecasting and demand planning can deploy with multiple calendars that respect working days in other countries. Date and time of day formats can simultaneously correspond to many country conventions.  

In large projects, workpackage management enables project managers to bundle a set of activities with a given objective and delegate control to a workpackage manager.  

One-pager (swimlane reporting) can integrate directly with Planisware Enterprise with purpose-built connectors provided. Project managers can pre-select an array of activities that appear and reduce preparation time to minutes rather than multiple hours. Preparing monthly reports for collective review becomes fast, semi-automated, and easily repeated in following months.  

Agile reporting is now available in the portfolio module. Epics define and flexibly detail high-level work (e.g., initiative) that is too large for a user story to finish in a single sprint.  

Progressively Staging Planisware Enterprise Rollout

Distinct advantage that Planisware Enterprise has is that any particular customer installation can initially provide basic modules and tools, such as project scheduling and enterprise strategic planning, then phase in other functions in a company roadmap. Functionality is enhanced using a cohesive set of modules.   

Planisware Enterprise 26Q1 has over two dozen modules. Pre-connected module architecture greatly reduces technical challenges that would otherwise involve substantial custom programming, testing, and validation.   

Module configuration, as distinct from custom programming, is relatively rapid. Planisware Enterprise provides data connectors with MS Teams, contracts, managing products, document management, and signature approval.   

Content for Planisware modules flows from functional experts in your organization. A functional administrator serves as a specialized business analyst that is adept with Planisware and is immersed in your organization’s proprietary content.   

Planisware Enterprise offers pragmatic dashboards and captivating bubble charts that visualize integrated advanced analytics. KPIs include resource load and risk levels; net present value; return on investment.   

Superusers can tailor reporting dashboards for rapid and insightful impact.  

Planisware activity types and project templates bring consistency  

Here is a firsthand example of how a Planisware feature can harvest dividends while reducing future effort:   

Best practice identifies each project activity by customary descriptive name—the “what” component—and by the activity’s inherent project functional type—the “why” facet. Resource algorithms typically use Planisware activity types.  

A consistent, organization-specific Planisware activity type categorization (WBS type) facilitates creation of project templates. A purpose-specific Planisware breakdown structure serves as authority for approved activity types.   

Each project template, with hundreds of pre-defined activities (WBS element; task; start milestone; finish milestone) contains an almost complete work schedule with durations, WBS type, and links in place. An organizational unit may have six or more templates for project managers to select and implement for new projects. Using Planisware project template as new project foundation assures consistency and completeness. Using pre-defined templates propagates WBS types across the portfolio.   

Note that Planisware provides relatively limited documentation (beyond rudimentary conceptualization) for creating hundreds if not thousands of activity types across multiple templates.   

My white papers, freely available online, provide substantially more pragmatic instruction for creating and using Planisware activity types.  

Planisware documentation  

Help Center is the current name for eLearning. The familiar Planisware hierarchy organizes hundreds of categorized PDFs. For example, the Projects module currently has fifteen entries with three additionally sub-divided.   

Many concise video topics are also listed. Narration tends to overuse verbal “here” and requires visual attention to surmise the specific object that the narrator is pointing out when saying “here” and “here.”   

Smart search helps authorized users search globally across the database.   

Help Center documents and tutoring videos, accessible to users online from within Planisware, are professionally edited to a high standard.  

Implementation consulting  

Achieving go-live operational status with Planisware requires substantial team effort. With over 850 employees located in 35 countries, Planisware commits to making Planisware Enterprise a success in each corporate-level implementation. Planisware as a company has plenty of implementation project experience to establish winning implementations at a basic level.  

Advanced implementations call for paid consulting from Planisware, individual consultants with expertise, and/or organizations that have developed specialized working knowledge to deploy Planisware’s architecture and features.  

Each client organization needs to invest heavily in substantial training for its own implementation team to gain proficiency and participate meaningfully in technical decisions and functional content. Day-to-day operational oversight always remains local responsibility.  

For paid Planisware clients a mature service ticket process is available, possibly provided as extra-cost Planisware contract.   

Discussions with Planisware users conclude that commitment to achieving and sustaining product proficiency across versions is a key best practice. At-cost Planisware certification courses can provide training for a corporate customer’s superusers (those responsible for maintaining L1 technical changes).

My use cases involve building out a template library based on our methodology and continuing to iterate on that. We used a template, and basically, to start this out, we built out the template library based on the methodology and continued to iterate on that and reapplied the template. Templates were really nice. We defined deliverables with custom deliverable IDs built in, as well as the full workstreams, and we had a lot of customization in the columns which directly translated from the methodology.

We would apply that method based on a phase, and then continue to build that out. Each phase of the project was a multi-year project consisting of over 3,000 lines, 4,000 lines apiece. We had many contributors and nine project managers along with a program manager. We attempted to use project status reporting, KPIs, and project status reporting, but due to the scale of that project, the templates were challenging. So we did use them as backup slides for each of the workstreams.

Each workstream would have a filter for showing on the KPI and the dashboard, having a flag to show. We would snapshot those before the meeting from each of the five or seven different workstreams. We also did integration to Power BI for all of our reporting. We extensively assigned resources and capacity. We requested a workflow for task requests based on the forecast and managed the demand and capacity approvals, which went out to a SharePoint site. However, due to the size of this particular project, we ended up auto-approving everything because we had around 1,300 resources, and things were shifting rapidly.

We did not use the collaboration tools and scenario planning features directly. Instead, we did what-ifs with multiple workstreams, having five workstreams and then under each one, nine separate end-to-end workstreams. The scenario planning and what-ifs were complicated because if one end-to-end workstream made a change, it would impact the entire program. Therefore, we operated a command and control waterfall style and froze that. We pivoted those WBS items out to our Kanbans and managed synchronization between the Kanban and the start and end for the level five; I think we actually went all the way down to level seven. We managed the reconciliation of the percent complete to identify any slippage.

Planisware is a beautiful tool that is very efficient, clear, well-designed, and more robust than any I have used. I started my project management with Primavera, which was the biggest at the time, and I have worked through various tools across the globe, but Planisware is the most robust and has the best stable features that are beneficial for small and medium projects. Since I really only run large projects, it is easy for small projects, and the size of this particular project would have been nearly impossible to manage in other tools like Microsoft Project or Smartsheet or any of those others.

A powerful feature was the resourcing and resource leveling. The SPI and KPIs built in were fantastic for keeping the schedule performance identified. Furthermore, the resource capacity analysis was beneficial. We managed risk in SharePoint, identifying RAID: risks, actions, issues, decisions, and dependencies. We tracked those numbers inside of another custom flex field, where those would be reported on as well, with direct links to manage those RAID items.

The tool can be improved with integrations to Agile tools. We used Azure DevOps, which I dislike. Better integrations to JIRAs and perhaps open APIs for task management would be super beneficial. As a project management tool, it is perfect, but the ability to be agile with task management could improve it.

There is always an opportunity for more flexibility regarding integrated reporting. The project dashboard feature worked perfectly for small to small-medium projects, but on a large scale, it was not flexible enough to handle a program-level dashboard. However, that is probably a nice-to-have rather than a need-to-have. The integrations to Agile are essential; we had to do a full build to accomplish that.

Positive

Given that this company had a very large PMO operations team, they hired the implementation lead from Planisware to manage the run and enhancement requests along with operational releases on a weekly basis. It was super easy. I joined the PMO at the project's beginning and worked directly with her to implement all necessary changes for this large-scale program, and it was super easy.

I definitely believe it is worth the money to have as a tool. I thought it was necessary for any organization running real projects to have a top-level tool. In my view today, Planisware is that tool. It is primarily used for the pharma vertical and related fields, and since we were running a full ERP digital transformation project in the life sciences domain, it suited that requirement very well. I consider it top-tier for sure.

My other tool is Smartsheet, which I use for lower-level projects. It is okay, but Planisware is top tier in my perspective. I have managed a billion-dollar program, including projects for American Airlines and Adidas, and this software outperforms Microsoft Project any day.

I have no specific advice for first-timers; just no fear. Flex your innovative side and continue to iterate and innovate. Innovate or die, that is my advice. That is okay by me if you want to use my company, thinkpeople.tech. I believe you might be using my Next Trial. I prefer thinkpeople. Thinkpeople is my choice; I do project management and product management. I rate Planisware ten out of ten.

My client uses Planisware as their primary tool for project and portfolio management, supporting both large-scale programs and short-duration projects. It enables effective resource management, scheduling, budgeting, cost tracking, and performance monitoring across all initiatives.

I appreciate Planisware for its ability to provide not only comprehensive data but also clear visual representations, which greatly enhance project insight and decision-making.

Planisware is particularly valuable for optimizing resource allocation across multiple projects. It allows us to monitor timesheet compliance, resource availability, and bandwidth utilization, especially for shared or leased resources.

We also make use of collaboration tools and scenario planning features within Planisware, though currently on a limited scale.

In my project, Planisware is integrated with our SAP ERP system through a two-way data exchange, where project data flows to SAP and cost data is synchronized back into Planisware for accurate financial tracking.

Planisware has brought significant improvements to our organization’s project and portfolio management efficiency. It provides a centralized platform where all project-related data—schedules, costs, resources, and performance metrics—are stored and visualized in real time. This has reduced manual reporting efforts and improved the accuracy and transparency of project information.

One of the key benefits has been in resource optimization. With Planisware, we can clearly see team members’ availability, workload, and timesheet compliance, which helps us allocate resources more effectively across projects and avoid both underutilization and overload.

Planisware’s integration with SAP has also streamlined our financial management processes. Data synchronization between Planisware and SAP ensures that cost tracking, budgeting, and forecasting remain consistent and up to date across systems.

Additionally, the scenario planning and what-if analysis features have helped management make more informed strategic decisions, particularly when balancing priorities across multiple portfolios.

Overall, Planisware has improved our project visibility, resource utilization, decision-making, and cost control, leading to higher efficiency and better alignment between business strategy and project execution.

Planisware provides the advantage of viewing both data and visual representations simultaneously, enabling better analysis and decision-making. It is highly effective for managing large-scale projects, as well as for tracking progress, recording project details, and reviewing forecast plans.

Our customers make extensive use of the resource management capabilities in Planisware to optimize utilization and ensure balanced workloads across projects.

We have also integrated Planisware with our SAP ERP system, establishing a two-way data and cost exchange that enhances accuracy, transparency, and consistency between project and financial data.

Planisware’s technical support process can be quite challenging, as it often takes significant time and effort to reach the right point of contact for issue resolution.

We have occasionally experienced system crashes and performance slowdowns, which can impact productivity during peak usage periods.

However, with the upcoming releases introducing interface enhancements, we expect improved usability and stability. At this stage, I don’t have any specific changes to suggest until those updates are fully rolled out.

I have been working on Planisware from the last 5 years.

My experience has been primarily with Planisware. While it is a robust and comprehensive tool, the ROI can occasionally be impacted due to our dependence on the platform’s system stability.

Planisware offers scalability, though it currently has some limitations when handling very large-scale implementations. The good part is that the team continues to enhance scalability and performance with each new version.

We did experience some system crashes earlier this year, but fortunately, most of them occurred during weekends, which minimized the impact on our users and ongoing project activities.

Planisware’s technical support process can be quite time-consuming, and it is often challenging to get timely assistance when issues arise.

When we experienced system crashes earlier this year, most incidents occurred during weekends, which fortunately minimized the impact on our users.

Positive

I have experience only with Planisware.

I used Clarity for a very short time, so I cannot provide a comprehensive comparison.

The initial setup and deployment process of Planisware is relatively straightforward and well-structured. Once the business requirements are clearly defined, the implementation team can configure the system accordingly. Overall, the process is not overly complex.

So, we implement it through a vendor Planisware itself.

We can rate them 8.5/10.

At times, I feel that the ROI is not fully optimized, as it largely depends on Planisware’s system stability and performance consistency.

I have heard that the pricing of Planisware is very costly.

I used Clarity for a very short time, so I cannot provide a comprehensive comparison.

I have heard about MS Projects frequently.

My experience is primarily with Planisware.

The reviewer gave Planisware a rating of 8 out of 10.

I work for an oil and extraction company, and previously I've worked with pharma and automobile industries as well. Planisware is primarily used for planning, scheduling, resourcing, and budgeting. In addition to that, Planisware also has the flexibility to do work management execution and agile modules. It is an all-rounder. Though it is a complex tool and the customizations are limited, it is one of the best tools available in the market for project portfolio and program management.

The features of Planisware that I have found most valuable are project management and resource management.

Project management in Planisware has the ability to create projects and then track them by creating events, schedules, and tasks. You can assign resources, create budgets, baseline the cost amount, track how much you have incurred, and how much you have planned—essentially, you can manage it all the way to closure. It includes a complete project life cycle.

The resource management feature in Planisware has helped me and my customers optimize the allocation of resources across various projects because it has the supply and demand concept. Project managers can raise the demand through the plan generation for their project or task. When it gets published, there will be a resource manager for each group or pillar who reviews the raised demand. They can look into the available resource pool and then provide the supply accordingly.

One drawback with Planisware is that it doesn't have good features for test management or agile; it lacks many concepts in agile such as retrospective, velocity planning, and backlog view. Some features are still missing because they have introduced these agile modules only in version seven and are still improving that product, so I see a good roadmap on those modules from Planisware's end.

I find Planisware's collaboration tools to be good but not great as they still have certain restrictions. It can interact with Jira, it can interact with ADO, and you can have APIs created to interact with your internal HR systems or other systems for data flow. However, the error messages or fail scenarios don't provide good visibility of what is happening, why errors occur, or why something is not working.

Regarding scenario planning, I haven't explored much on that side. We have the strategic module, strategic planning module, but we haven't explored much on the other side, so I don't have much experience or exposure to scenario planning.

For application availability or issues with downtime, if you are on SaaS, you don't need to worry about it; the application is stable, and they take care of everything, including performance and downtime. When you are on-premise, you might see some issues because the team may not know what went in and why it's working, requiring time to investigate the issues.

Over the years, Planisware has evolved significantly. When I started, the Planisware application was V5, and the application would take restart timings of three to four hours. If you needed to do some development, it would take one to one and a half hours just to open the tool. Now they have improved substantially in terms of performance and loading time; it has this intranet web tool concept, so it is not a pro concept anymore. They have made significant improvements, but still, there is a long way to go in terms of their flexibility, adaptability, and usability.

To a certain extent, Planisware is scalable because you can only use the modules that you have in the system. You cannot introduce a new module without Planisware support; it has to be done by their product team.

The scalability rating depends on what kind of scalability we are looking for. If you are looking for improving features, I would rate it 6.5 out of 10. If you're hoping to introduce something new in the tool that doesn't exist, such as a new kind of module, then I don't think that will happen without consultation with the Planisware team and understanding their roadmap.

If I have to rate customer service and technical support for Planisware, I would give it a five out of 10 because they only provide support via the ODD, which is the standard ticket mechanism, mainly through emails; there is no on-call support provided.

Positive

I have worked with different customers and have seen integrations flowing with internal systems either through CSV format, or through database to database interactions. The most advanced is through REST API connectors, which allow you to interact with different enterprise systems seamlessly.

We have this module called Planisware Explorer, PEX reports, and you can build queries and create dashboards and reports to fetch data. It's good, but it's not as advanced as the other BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau. If you need some information, it's good, handy, and you can have live information or on-demand information. However, with the PEX, you have a drawback: if you create on a class, you cannot bring much information from other sections or modules. You have to create reports in each module. When it comes to Power BI, you can export data through ETL or the Power BI box feature and create a very good visually appealing report with more advanced filters, conditions, and schedules.

I do think it is value for money.

Planisware is very costly. I can comment that it's expensive, and even the consultants from Planisware charge a very high rate for their time. Generally speaking, they are expensive.

I believe that before any organization makes an agreement with Planisware, someone who knows the tool should be in the team, on the technical side or the development team. The problem I see with most organizations is that they don't have a Planisware expert; they communicate based on recommendations and go ahead without fully understanding the tool. If you have someone in your organization who understands Planisware well, they can talk to Planisware on behalf of your organization and understand what is needed. That would be helpful for every organization. I've worked for five organizations now, and in two or three of them, I joined after the initial phase only to discover that there was no one knowledgeable present. Overall, I would rate Planisware 8 out of 10.

As an energy customer in the French energy sector, we need Planisware for project management, including the management of bills and resource personnel.

The features of Planisware that I find most useful are the ones I use all the time because whenever I have a new action, I enter it and make modifications.

The most important feature of Planisware is when you begin a task, you can make modifications, delete tasks, or add new ones. I work with Planisware all day long because I have many IT infrastructure projects.

I utilize Planisware's resource management feature. The tools are already optimized, and I don't have anything more to optimize for Planisware since it's a SaaS solution, which is better.

The tools communicate with other tools, making it effective, and when we have a new resource, we can add it and send it to the resource management team, who can view it in Planisware.

Scenario planning in Planisware is good for detailed planning, but the design planning tool needs optimization. The positive impact I have seen from working with Planisware is due to its efficacy and speed; it has very few updates and is easy to use.

I do not have experience with Planisware's advanced reporting capabilities as we use other tools.

In my opinion, Planisware could be improved, particularly in the reporting area.

The reports should be improved because all companies now need reporting, and with tools such as Grafana or Tableau, Planisware needs to add interfaces for data lakes since all companies require this.

I have been working with Planisware for five years.

I participated in the initial setup and deployment of Planisware, helping my ex-team with the installation process.

The installation was straightforward because Planisware is a SaaS solution requiring just the binaries and the license.

Regarding stability, Planisware has been very stable for me, allowing me to control the tool, and if there are any problems, I can contact support, but I have not encountered any issues.

The scalability of Planisware is good, as when you want to implement changes, you need to manage the process with your collaborators, which can be challenging for older staff, but it is not complicated to install.

Before using Planisware, I used a local solution, MS Project, which was very complicated and outdated.

I decided to switch to Planisware because the previous solution became old and was not modern enough.

I participated in the initial setup and deployment of Planisware, helping my ex-team with the installation process.

Before choosing Planisware, we evaluated other options, but the manual solutions were not automated and wasted a lot of time, so Planisware is better for productivity.

Planisware is already integrated with other tools in our infrastructure.

I am satisfied with this integration because it connects with Azure, Microsoft Azure, and with Active Directory, allowing us to share templates and integrate them in real time with Planisware and other tools.

I assess Planisware's ability to integrate seamlessly with my existing enterprise systems as positive because I have worked for this energy company for seven years, and I know they continue to use it.

I do not use Planisware's collaboration tools.

I do not know the cost of Planisware or how much my company pays for the product.

On a scale of 1-10, I rate Planisware an 8.

I used Planisware to maintain my projects, specifically for the enterprise application project. All my projects were there, and my team members were logging their time. We mainly use it to track their timing against each project. Apart from projects, we also have some admin work that can also be tracked over there. If someone is on leave, that also needs to be mentioned so that we can see how many hours they are working per week.

If I assign any work in Planisware, the people are able to log their time against it. We have not given much access to the people in Planisware apart from logging their timing.

The benefit was that people were able to track their time in Planisware. People were able to see how much time they are putting effort into each and every project and where they are more into meetings. Apart from that, I didn't see much benefit out of it.

I appreciated the way the project has been managed in Planisware, though the communication is missing. If I compare Planisware with Asana, I appreciate the templates in Planisware. It has brief information about the project, and assigning that project is also good. But internal chatting and internal assigning work was not seen in Planisware, which I could see in Asana more.

I appreciated the dashboard in Planisware that I used to maintain, but it can be more organized. Though I can maintain the dashboard, I would prefer a more personalized view; if it is my project, I should see only my project dashboard, which was missing. I was getting many notifications which were also there. I am unsure whether it is me who does not know how to organize my dashboard or if it's common for everyone.

I utilized the resource management feature in Planisware, and it was good. When I used to take out the entire month Excel sheet of resource management timekeeping, what they entered and what we receive in an Excel sheet has a conflict. I have raised this concern. When we take out an entire month PDF, it shows different information. I don't know how this error was occurring.

I have been working with Planisware for one and a half years.

We just used Planisware for a year, and if we would have used it for a longer period, we would have integrated it with our Jira or with ServiceNow. But as we are going to use ServiceNow and Asana, we didn't integrate with anyone.

I have not had any stability issues, downtimes, or crashes with Planisware. If there was downtime, we received information in advance for that.

Planisware was scalable when we needed to add additional resources to scale it up or out.

I had frequent back and forth communication with the technical support of Planisware. I would rate the tech support of Planisware a seven on a scale of one to 10.

I give it a seven because the support was good, but there's more space for collaboration that we can do internally through Planisware, which was not the case. We had to go to the teams and talk to the technical people after assigning the work in Planisware.

I used Jira before choosing Asana. I prefer Jira for Agile projects, Asana for more interactive collaboration with different team members, and for waterfall projects, I prefer Planisware.

In the implementation of Planisware, I was involved in collecting the data and feeding that data into Planisware, but not about the cost.

The initial setup of Planisware was challenging, but it was eye-opening and good to collect the data because I was collecting the data, comparing the data, separating the data of OPEX and CapEx projects, and then determining who the sponsor was. There are many columns that we need to fill for Planisware which we didn't do for Asana.

The deployment of Planisware was done with external involvement, but I was not directly communicating with them because the PMOs were the ones who were talking and taking the data. The internal PMOs of the company were talking to us.

I am not currently working with Planisware because my company has recently changed from Planisware to Asana. It has been just two months since I stopped using Planisware because our contract ended with them. They were not interested in extending, perhaps due to cost issues or unresolved concerns.

I found Planisware really effective, and I appreciate it. I don't see any features that need to be enhanced. I had limited access, so I might not be aware of all features.

In Asana, we have limited licenses, so I am still not using complete features. The main difference between Planisware and Asana is mainly where we assign the work, and after assigning the work, we can chat. That is one thing which I really appreciate in Asana, which is not there in Planisware.

I believe I had limited access in Planisware; many features were not explored because I had limited options to choose. There must be additional features that I didn't use.

It all depends upon the requirement of an individual organization. Depending upon the requirement, they can definitely select Planisware if it is more about project handling and time tracking for resources.

It's a good product. I would rate Planisware seven out of ten.

Primarily, Planisware is used for project, program, and portfolio management purposes. Projects can be scheduled, and budgeting, tracking, resource management, efforts, forecast, and scheduling can be executed using the Planisware application.

It offers capabilities to manage the complete project life cycle.

Planisware has introduced Agile concepts, making it capable of Agile management similar to Jira and other Agile tools. Users can create Apex Arts, and they can plan their features, stories, PBIs, etc.

The UI and UX of Planisware are not that advanced, similar to SAP. Additionally, there are some bugs and open ends in the system, and it's an expensive tool.

I have been working with Planisware for around 13 years.

For stability, if it is on-premise, I would rate it seven out of ten. If it is a SaaS platform, I would rate it nine since Planisware ensures the application is up and running.

Since it's a COTS product, if it is on-premise, we can customize it to a greater extent according to our needs. There are technical limitations when it's a SaaS platform, and the scalability rating would be six out of ten.

The response time is faster from the US team, yet it is not as fast as Microsoft.

Neutral

I have been using Spotfire in my previous organizations.

For the initial setup, I would recommend including project, program, portfolio, and resource management modules together.

Planisware is an expensive tool, and the licenses are also costly.

If you are planning to introduce Planisware to your organization, you should go with some of the essential modules in the first phase itself.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

We actually use it for project planning and estimating the cost for the projects, in resource management, and as a timecard application. Users can log their time using the timesheet.

It has an inbuilt BI tool, which can be compared to Power BI or Tableau. We don't need to export Planisware data to an external application, and we don't need to create any reports. We can use the in-house tool. I really like it.

I haven't had the time to work with any other TPM tools, so I can't compare it to other tools just yet.

I have been in this field for four years.

Finding a tool without having any hiccups is a bit difficult. I have experienced some issues, and that’s okay. It tends to be stable when the server's processing power and memory are adequate.

The scalability depends on the scenario. As a PBM tool, the users are limited to product planners, so there are no stability issues. However, if it is used as a timecard application by more than 5,000 users, it may experience stability issues. It's worth noting that now it's available as a SaaS application, which has improved its stability.

For functional support, it can be managed from our end, however, if there's something related to the core functions of Planisware, we need to contact them. Their support is good, though they may take some time to respond.

Neutral

I don't have any specific details, however, it might be expensive.

I found Planisware to be a value-for-money product.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

The use cases for the Planisware solution were described.

The Planisware resource management feature is utilized in the organization. The collaboration tools and scenario planning features are also implemented. Planisware's advanced reporting capabilities help the organization track project performance and align initiatives with organizational goals.

There were suggestions for improvements and enhancements in Planisware.

Information about involvement in the initial setup and deployment process of Planisware was discussed.

Information regarding downtimes, crashes, and stability issues with Planisware was discussed.

Planisware is implemented across multiple locations without any scalability issues or limitations.

The technical support of Planisware was rated and questions were escalated to them.

Positive

The Return on Investment will be clearer for the decision-making personnel.

Information about pricing, setup cost, and licensing cost of Planisware was requested.

Other options and solutions on the market apart from Planisware for PPM were evaluated.

The review suggests keeping an eye on the user experience and reporting features. The reviewer works as a Planisware developer at SLB company. The overall rating given to Planisware is 7 out of 10.

We use the solution for portfolio programs and project management. We are now improvising on intake and ideation.

We are on a journey of rolling out the Planisware tool for our entire organization. For now, it will be too early for us to call it a victory and say that a particular feature is prominent in Planisware.

Overall, our company has all disintegrated systems, and with Planisware, we are getting a very integrated view of my portfolio reporting, cost and load, and everything else. That is definitely an advantage of the Planisware PPM software we are using.

The solution's user experience and user interface need improvement because they are not that great and intuitive. They are too dependent on scaled agile for their Agile and Epic road map module. Organizations that do not follow a scaled agile framework might follow something different, like a scrum of scrums. There is still scope for improvement in this area for the solution.

I have been using Planisware version 7.1 for six to seven months as an end user.

There are some bugs in the solution, but they are not those critical ones, or they are not the showstopper ones.

I don't see any challenges with the scalability of Planisware. I haven't seen scalability as an issue with Planisware during the six to seven months of the rollout we have done. Currently, around 5,000 users are using Planisware in our organization.

If you really know Planisware, they have a lot of dependency on their professional services team. There is always a dependency factor with Planisware professional services. You cannot be in a self-sufficient mode with Planisware. That's how their business model is.

Neutral

We started with the SaaS version. So for the initial setup, none of my team members had to invest a lot of effort because we are not using an on-premises version.

We introduced Planisware because we wanted to have everything consolidated. Getting into something else when Planisware is already in the house doesn't make sense. The only element which Planisware misses out on is it does not have its own CI/CD kind of setup.

If I have a set of teams doing a custom app development and their source code repository, and they need a source code repository, then Planisware is not the tool. Work management can be done in Planisware, but the source code management and the CI/CD pipelines cannot be set up in Planisware.

Planisware is a SaaS product.

Overall, I rate Planisware a seven out of ten.