Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management vs Planview PPM Pro comparison

Oracle and Planview are both solutions in the Project Portfolio Management category. Oracle is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.0, while Planview is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.0. Oracle holds a 4.5% mindshare in PPM, compared to Planview’s 7.2% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Planview users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and Planview PPM Pro compete in the project portfolio management sector. Planview PPM Pro is often seen as having the upper hand due to its comprehensive analytics tools and strategic alignment functionalities.

Features: Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management provides advanced project analytics, resource allocation capabilities, and detailed priority management. Planview PPM Pro offers strategic alignment tools, enhanced analytics features, and better insights into project performance.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management could benefit from simplifying its deployment process and enhancing user interface intuitiveness. Planview PPM Pro may improve its resource planning capabilities and streamline project data importation to reduce setup time.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management has a complex deployment process but offers a robust support system. Planview PPM Pro features a streamlined deployment model with adequate support services, making it easier for customers to manage.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management generally incurs higher setup costs, affecting its perceived ROI. Conversely, Planview PPM Pro is noted for a more attractive pricing structure and quicker ROI due to lower initial investments and operational efficiencies.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Primavera Portfolio ...

Ranking in Project Portfolio Management

11th

Average Rating

7.2

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

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Project Management Software (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Project Portfolio Management category, the mindshare of Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management is 4.5%, up from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planview PPM Pro is 7.2%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Project Portfolio Management

Featured Reviews

Johny Segura

Regional Head of Digital Transformation at CUMBRA

Jun 5, 2023

It helps us track progress and results

I work for an engineering and construction company that uses Primavera for project planning and management. We use it in specific projects when clients request it. Primavera helps us track project progress and results. I like Primavera's planning capabilities. Primavera could be better…

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Prateek Agarwal

Manager at a tech company with 201-500 employees

Apr 10, 2022

Notifications of approaching project deadlines help us plan and also avoid delays

Scenario planning is the most important feature. You can easily align strategic management and the portfolios within your organization. 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. It also has some built-in, reusable templates and you can modify them according to your requirements. You can also create templates and workflows from scratch, so that you can plan things accordingly. The team collaboration is nice compared to other tools. You just add your team members, provide them access and, according to the user's level, they are able to use the application. For example, when we create a new project, we create work streams, timelines, and the sub-tasks. Then we have to think about how many team members are required—the skills of the developers, testers, QA teams, consultants, and marketing. We add those team members to that project and provide them access to their tasks so that we can track their progress in the real time. That really helps us. We might have 35 to 40 team members in different locations using this product simultaneously. In addition, the task management features are useful when you have timelines for project completion and for progress. It shows you any gaps or timelines that you have breached. Task management is very useful, and that would be true in any project management tool. Another helpful feature, because we define timelines in the grant chart for each project, is the time tracking. It is very crucial for us to complete a project on time and meet the deadlines for our clients. The way PPM Pro tackles these is great. It provides a notification to us when a timeline or a sub-task within it is approaching the deadline. Integration with PPM Pro is fine. It provides APIs and the integration mechanism for third-party tools and applications, like Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project. We have only integrated it with Microsoft Excel because we generally capture the requirements and the timelines offline. Because the solution doesn't work offline, in situations where the internet is not available, or we are on-the-go with a client, we capture the requirements in Excel. The integration means we get the data from Excel into PPM Pro.

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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

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

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

"I like Primavera's planning capabilities."

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

"The solution's tech support is good."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that my team can use one tool that's reliable, scalable, and provides the leadership team visibility to what's going on."

"Just about everything about the solution is valuable. I can't pinpoint one specific thing. The tool has helped us mature as an agency, has taught us to collect better data and the benefits of having good data."

"It gave us a clarity of purpose. Everybody knows what they are doing and that they are all aligned: Managers know what employees are doing. Employees know what they are doing and the managers think they should be doing. That is the clarity which really helps in efficiency."

"It is certainly the resource management feature that is most valuable for us. It is the supply and demand. Like most companies, one of the hardest nuts to crack is understanding where your people are and getting them to do the right thing at the right time. So, certainly, out of all the functionality, this has been the saving grace for us because it now provides us with the insight to do future planning and stop taking on more work than we are physically capable of doing as a company."

"Has good visibility."

"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."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is reporting."

"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."

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Cons

"The scalability has room for improvement."

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

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

"The reporting could improve project management. We need multiple source reports. If someone is new to the support it has a steep learning curve."

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

"The reporting has room for improvement. I know it's all in the revamping all the time with it, but there are things that I know my PMOs don't like. For instance, they want a pie chart and I think it's a bug in the system. I've been working with somebody on it, but then she thought it was because they were trying to look at negative values, which a pie chart doesn't do, but little things like that quite haven't gotten to what we need as far as reporting, but I think it's on the roadmap."

"Training documentation improvement is required because there are some high-level words in that material, terms that a non-technical person is unable to understand."

"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."

"The reporting has some areas for improvement. It is not always as simple as we would like to get the reports we want or the information that we want."

"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."

"Entering day-to-day tasks is a tedious process."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"The solution itself is cost-effective."

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

"The cost was in line."

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

"$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."

"My advice is to pay attention to integration opportunities to reduce your licensing cost with Planview. There are additional costs for consulting services and advanced customer support."

"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."

"The licensing model is simple. Planview has plans at different levels, so you can pick one according to your budget and user base. They also have customized plans."

"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."

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

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

14%

Energy/Utilities Company

13%

Government

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Healthcare Company

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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.

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

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

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What needs improvement with Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management?

The solution's user interface is an area with shortcomings that need improvement. I would like more additional functions added to the solution in future releases.

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What do you like most about Planview PPM Pro?

The product's deployment is straightforward.

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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.

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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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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.

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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