Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management vs Planview PPM Pro comparison

Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management vs. Planview PPM Pro

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Primavera Portfolio ...

Ranking in Project Portfolio Management

10th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Planview PPM Pro

Ranking in Project Portfolio Management

7th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Project Management Software (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Project Portfolio Management category, the mindshare of Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management is 4.7%, up from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planview PPM Pro is 7.1%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Project Portfolio Management

Featured Reviews

ManeshGeorge

Senior Consultant at Aurecon

Efficient project planning with advanced impact and delay analysis features

You need to have a good understanding of project management before you build programs using P6. Learning the tool takes time, so you should spend hands-on time with it while developing your project management skills. It's a mix of hands-on work and project management skills. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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MartinQuiroga

Value Stream Management specialist & Solution Leader at Tricise at OdPe Business Solutions

Needs to improve roadmap, scalability and communication

The product feels like a toy. The tool needs to improve its roadmap. It needs to improve things on a project management level which includes communication as well. I am working with the product for two to three years. The product is not scalable. We have around 15-20 users for the product. My…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management is a well-engineered product from an IT perspective."

"The most valuable feature of Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management is accuracy."

"The solution's tech support is good."

"The ability to streamline the process of obtaining signatures from our contractors is valuable."

"The most valuable features were the cost breakdown structure and work breakdown structure."

"Delay analysis and extension of time claims are some of the key features."

"I like Primavera's planning capabilities."

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"PPM Pro absolutely enables us to create reusable project templates that reflect our project management lifecycle. We had a good customer session on this, where a team utilizes portfolio management and project management of the tool very intensively. We follow all of the templates but having said that, we have so many divisions and we have so many users and project managers utilizing the tools. They have a different bunch of templates. We're not just following one or two templates. We have a number of templates that the teams are using."

"The Warm screen, even though we're not going to the deep levels and deep details of all the projects and trying to assign resources at the lowest level, it gives us a quick visual of what resources are being worked on, what projects, and on what activities they're working on. At least at a very high level, because we're not using all the assignment components to the fullest detail, but at least with what Planview gives us as a tool and how we're leveraging it, it gives us that quick view of who's working on what project and who's booking time to what project at any given time or any given a week."

"It has helped us make good decisions in terms of what projects to take or how to prioritize projects when we have multiple directors from the business or product. It has definitely helped us prioritize and work on our critical things."

"It is flexible, because so far we haven't been able to figure out anything that it cannot do. It's highly configurable. We've added custom field design screens to fit our needs, develop reports, and dashboards that give us the ability to deliver much better information, especially to senior IT management."

"We use PPM Pro with Projectplace. It is absolutely 100 percent fantastic. Now, we can give people that more collaborative, comfortable look and feel with a Kanban board view. We give them a smart app that goes along with it, essentially not having to worry about using rigid project management. They are very complementary towards each other: PPM Pro and Projectplace. What one is not so strong in, the other one has strengths in it. It is fantastic."

"The solution is great for viewing projects and timelines."

"In my current company, it provides a quicker ramp up to understand what it can do for people by taking away all their barriers to entry: time, managing resources, and linking projects."

"PPM Pro is really great at the portfolio level like seeing what projects are in flight versus complete, or maybe not started. The portfolio level view is good for stage-gate management specifically."

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Cons

"There is a need for improvement in the interfacing and possibly better integration with other programs."

"The scalability has room for improvement."

"There is a need for improvement in the interfacing and possibly better integration with other programs."

"They should work on integrating the solution with ERP."

"Primavera could be better integrated with other products, and it needs more cost management features."

"There is scope for development in integrating with some AI products."

"The solution's user interface is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."

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"I would like to schedule reports. I would like to be able to schedule a report and every Monday it sends that report to these people. That circumvents having to give them a license. It's just a way of saying "Okay, this is what's going on this week," and it just happens. I don't have to worry about it."

"It takes more time than it should to create a new project because we can't bulk edit things very easily. That is definitely an area that has room for improvement."

"I think PPM Pro is going to release a resource self-service admin which is going to duplicate the standard groups. I think that will help us a lot because right now a standard group has their own permission and we don't know what permission is getting out to the users. After the resource self-service admin will be in place, I think we will be in a much better position in terms of the formation profile."

"The calculated field area needs improvement. There are a lot of formulas and functions available to make a calculated field, but it is still not comprehensive. We process the data to represent it through a report or dashboard. Due to the current constraints, for complex calculations, we do the data processing outside PPM Pro."

"Reporting and dashboards need improvement. They've got the new beta coming out now and I've been playing around with that in our sandbox environment."

"Additional Agile capabilities, including integration with the Agile development app, would be welcome features."

"Integrations need improvement. We have the ability now with the FLEX licensing to take advantage of the different applications. But if you want them integrated there's a really large cost associated with that. The integration should be included in the cost per license. We shouldn't have to pay these really high fees to get the systems to talk together."

"From a usability standpoint, the part where there are people on the tasks section on a team is a little challenging. Then for some reason, the in-demand reports are embedded in the resource section and to run them is just completely different and separate from the reports entity which is a lot."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution itself is cost-effective."

"The solution is highly priced compared to one of its competitors."

"My company has made an annual payment towards the costs of the solution. Price-wise, the solution is okay."

"Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management is an expensive solution. There is an upfront cost to purchase the solution and then there are annual fees to use the solution."

"Our current license is from 2019 to 2022. So for that three-year subscription, it was $60,000 for the subscription, users, platform, and connections. Then there were some add-ons. Connecting to some of our other systems like HR for that period cost us around $12,000."

"The cost was in line."

"The pricing for me is more about understanding your own needs in the company because it is one license for one person model. So, you have to really understand how many licenses you need and what may be the influx of your staff. The good thing about Daptiv is that we just need a quick telephone call to our customer success manager if we want to increase our licensing. It takes a day or two to do. So, we can upscale very quickly. We've never downscaled, but I'm guessing if we had to, we'd have to wait till the contract completes or renegotiate a different licensing cost. So, you definitely need to understand what different types of licenses provide from a functionality point of view, and then order 10% more than you need based on the influx of staff in the company. There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. We have the report functionality for which we pay separately for 10 hours per month."

"A collaboration of all their tools truly gets the biggest bang for the buck."

"Bulk volume discounts are a little better. Right now we have to buy in lots of 20 at $200 a license. That's a little steep. For example, with Service Now, I pay $48 a seat for a license."

"We have their Flex plan."

"$6 million has been the return on investment so far, and that was because of work intake. Now that we are scrutinizing the work intake and asking questions like, "Is there an alternative to your $10 million project?" We had one project come in for $10 million, scrutinize it through our gate review process, and wound up with the alternative, which was $3.8 million. So, a $6 million savings."

"Because we have PPM Pro with Project place, we transitioned to the Flex model."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Energy/Utilities Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management?

Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management is a well-engineered product from an IT perspective.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management?

Primavera appears to be more expensive than Microsoft Project but potentially less than Maximo. Pricing details from ten years ago are not committed to memory, and I would have to refer back to doc...

What needs improvement with Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management?

There is a need for improvement in the interfacing and possibly better integration with other programs. The software could benefit from enhancements that make it more user-friendly for various tasks.

What do you like most about Planview PPM Pro?

The product's deployment is straightforward.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Planview PPM Pro?

Licensing costs are competitive enough. The price is reasonable given that the solution is geared towards large companies.

What needs improvement with Planview PPM Pro?

The product feels like a toy. The tool needs to improve its roadmap. It needs to improve things on a project management level which includes communication as well.

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Also Known As

Primavera Portfolio Management, OPPM, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management

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Overview

Oracle's Primavera Portfolio Management is the leading portfolio management software solution, providing unmatched flexibility and infrastructure for enterprise portfolio management. With its unique functionality, real-world enterprise scalability, and unlimited configurability, Primavera Portfolio Management is ideal for managing just about any type of portfolio from ideation through execution.

Oracle

Planview PPM Pro centralizes the management of resources and projects while facilitating governance and providing visibility for improved decision making. Planview PPM Pro provides the ability to collect, prioritize, and execute projects so that PMOs can focus their resources on the work that delivers the most value.

Planview PPM Pro helps businesses get out of managing projects in complex spreadsheets or tools so they can gain visibility into all work and resources. For informed decision making, use Planview PPM pro to streamline project efforts into a single source of truth. The solution gives businesses the ability to align their centralized project portfolio to achieve business outcomes through financials, projects, and resources.

Planview PPM Pro Features

Planview PPM Pro has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Portfolio planning: Select the right projects that bring the most value to the business.
Reporting and dashboards: For better decisions, measure, manage, track, and report on all work.
Manage demands and plan resource capacity: Evaluate and make trade-off decisions based on available resources. Manage work requests in one place.
Manage resources: Ensure resources are working on the most important projects and understand resource capacity to appropriately staff those projects.
Manage portfolios and financial planning: Manage tasks and resources, project schedules, and the financials to deliver on time and on budget.
Scoring: Gather scores from across the organization throughout the project lifecycle to prioritize the highest value work and requests.
Planview FLEX: Use Lean-Agile and collaborative tools to help teams deliver their best work.
Centralized portfolio: Get visibility into all work, streamlining projects into a single source of truth. This establishes governance and improves overall delivery.
Predictive portfolio analysis: Identify the optimal mix of projects to predict, plan, and re-plan a balanced portfolio of resources and projects. Optimize delivery, increase agility, and save time and money.
Top-down portfolio planning: Create as many portfolios as needed to drive business alignment. Organize projects in portfolios, or contribute varying amounts across multiple portfolios.

Planview PPM Pro Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Planview PPM Pro. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Ability to prioritize project portfolios with top-down planning.

Increased confidence in knowing what resources are working on what projects. You can proactively allocate resources and improve delivery across your entire project portfolio.

Deliver on time and on budget to focus on your highest impact work. Align your projects with your goals.

Dashboards and reporting visibility give you power to accelerate PPM time-to-value for the business.

Ability to empower teams with FLEX because today’s enterprise is embracing a combination of work approaches to increase the success rate of strategic delivery.

Integrate your core applications seamlessly.

Reviews from Real Users

Planview PPM Pro stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Some of these include its exceptional customer service, its easy customization, and its real-time dashboards. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

Jai A., IT Project Manager at Orange Business Services, notes, “For every project, we have to establish timelines, set deadlines, and estimate the completion date of a particular task. PPM Pro notifies us if we are approaching the deadlines, and we can customize this to give notice two or three days in advance.”

Prateek A., a Manager at NISG, writes, “It helps you visualize all your strategic plans and the KPIs. It provides that information on a unified dashboard, in which you can track all your resources and the portfolios. It helps senior stakeholders and executives with clear reporting about project intake and demands, in real time."

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Sample Customers

Yarra Valley Water, John Wayne Airport, Hatch Mott Macdonald, Austrian Power Grid AG, EDF France, Chiyoda Corporation, Croatian Waters, Selex ES, Chicago Park District

The Weather Channel, corcs, Crayola, Scan Health Plan, Vermont, Bank of the West, North West Company, University of Southern Mississippi, Jeffries, Purdue University, Chesterfield County Virginia, City of Memphis

Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management vs. Planview PPM Pro