Planisware Reviews

Planisware is used for project management, resource planning, and effort trackings such as time sheets. You can use it for financial planning, portfolio planning, for enterprise portfolio, where you can define what your cost will be. Planisware can do all of these things.

There are two things in particular that I enjoy. The first is the portfolio planning section. Another advantage is that it is highly customizable. We can tailor it to the needs of the customer.

They do not have anything that can assist customers with multi-year roadmap planning. A feature that allows you to capture details about what kind of roadmap you have for the next phase, three years, and then track at the CIO or management level, is one thing that is lacking, and an area they can work on it.

We have been working with Planisware for more than 10 years and we have more than 30 consultants in Planisware.

Planisware can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. there is a mix of junior and senior people.

It is very stable. 

I have customers who have been using it for more than five, or seven years and are very happy with the availability. Some of them are also moving to a SaaS environment.

Planisware is a highly scalable solution.

I have not directly contacted technical support. My team works for customers, and they get involved, but I've heard that it's quite prompt. They have a good technical product and a technical support team that assists various customers.

The initial setup is fairly straightforward. When Planisware sells its application, they have its own people install and configure it. That's how it works: service providers come in for application development and support. Minor patch deployment is very easy. Generally, installation and upgrades are done by Planisware, but it's very simple.

I'm not aware of any pricing. Planisware sells the tool; prices vary depending on the customer. There are training and certification costs.

It is a service company. We are pro-technology. We have experience with project and portfolio management services. What we do here is provide services to other businesses that own one of these tools. Assume ABB has Planisware, and we provide them with application development and support services. Planisware, Planview, Broadcom, Clarity, and Micro Focus PPM are among the products in our portfolio. Then there's Jira. And then there's Clarizen, which was recently acquired by Planview. These are the five, tools in the portfolio.

I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate Planisware a nine out of ten.

It is mainly used for program management, which includes cost, risks, and obviously, resources.

We have a variety of different modules, but it is mainly used for costs, risks, and resources.

Its stability should be improved. Its stability is the main issue, but we sometimes also have issues with calculations.

In terms of additional features, it already has a lot of modules, so it's enough for us at this time.

I have been using this solution for around two years.

There are a lot of bugs, and the stability of the system has been a problem for a year and a half. It is not really stable.

It is all managed through a contract. There is a process, and the client cannot add licenses or new users. There are a defined number of licenses that are sold to the client, but in terms of scalability, as far as I know, there are no limits related to the number of projects, etc. There can be an enormous amount of projects. It is just the process that defines the rights and the responsibilities of the users.

I am not in direct contact with them, but sometimes, they send someone to help the client. Sometimes, they are able to find solutions, and sometimes, they are not. 

One of the biggest problems was related to the data structure. I don't know if it's part of their business model, but at the beginning, they could have asked the client to give them a visual of the data structure. That's because when you're migrating to Planisware, it will impact the way the software is built up. This is something they didn't do that much at the beginning. It was like, "We're Planisware. We're selling the solution, and this is it." Because of this, stability problems came up, and this is where you had to go back to Planisware to ask for support because you cannot change the software. If you have to change the software because of a certain data structure, you have to always contact Planisware.

The deployment was done in different ways, and it lasted a year.

We have our own team for its deployment. We have a dozen people on our team.

I would rate it a seven out of 10.

Overall, I would say this software deserves an 8/10 given the overall balance of features it provides and its flexibility to adapt to organisations.

Planisware integrates in a powerful way project scheduling, resource & costs management amongst other things. Such a mix is extremely useful in R&D matrix organisations. It is not a surprise if PLW is a market leader amongst Pharma companies, which struggle to maintain product portfolios with decreasing resources.

The integrated resource management capability enables fully-loaded project costing, more transparent portfolio reviews and budget preparations. Senior Management has access to one, single truth on projects in the portfolio.

Reporting out of PLW has been a definite weakness. But the recent PEX module is addressing that issue quite nicely, even if the product is still being improved.

All in all, I have dealt with PLW for about eight years. Initially I used it with Legacy systems, then used it to build a brand new project & portfolio management platform (following a rigourous review of three other competitors)

A project this size generates LOTS of issues. Next to change management challenges and the complexity of building such an intregrated, transversal solution amid an existing landscape, the deployment has been, in retrospect, relatively smooth.

We worked hard on building a solid and generic data model, which has allowed us to avoid major stability issues.

Not really. The solid data model, and selection of state of the art servers has guaranteed very decent system performance. Users located across Europe, US, and Asia continue to enjoy stable and equal performances.

We have worked directly with PLW consultants. Their expertise and dedication levels have allowed us to find solutions to the questions and issues which would come up along the way.

Other than stand-alone MSP plans, not really.

The solution we have implemented spans across the whole organisation. As such, we have raised a lot of organisational operating issues and misalignments during the design phase. It was a conscious effort to use the opportunity to challenge and revisit the way the organisation operates.

As a consequence, it is fair to say the technical set-up has been complex indeed.

We worked with dedicated vendor consultants AND an in-house support team already knowledgeable about PLW. I can say that PLW consultants are, as a rule, dedicated, straightforward, competent and experienced individuals. I have dealt with about 10 different consultants (Paris office) and they have all contributed to my general satisfaction of the PLW product.

We did review four options, in an effort to truly choose what would be best for the company. We looked at the (then - around 2010) key names around, i.e. Oracle Primavera, MS Project, and SAP (given the extensive use of that ERP at the company). PLW came out in the end as the most flexible and capable solution for the business needs which had been identified. Please note that the advantage it had in terms of data migration (PLW was already being used in legacy systems) was excluded as a criteria during the selection process.

Know precisely what you want to do. PLW is a very flexible toolbox (as stated by PLW themselves), so make sure to define clearly your goal, keep the end-user in mind and enjoy the trip!

The solution can be used for performance monitoring, project management, and support.

The solution is performance-oriented and easily customized accordingly to many areas, such as performance KPI.

More integration is needed with other kinds of products for better collaboration.

I have been using this solution for approximately one week.

I have found the stability to be good.

The solution is scalable.

We have one department using this solution and it has approximately 50 users.

We use professional consultants to do the implementation of the solution.

The solution could be less expensive and the cost of scaling is expensive too.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Planisware a six out of ten.

I value the project and resource management.

We have found it to be a good project and portfolio management tool.

I would like to see improvements in the following modules:

• Resource
• Project
• Portfolio
• Timecard

I have used it for almost six years.

I did not encounter any stability issues.

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

I would give technical support a very high rating.

We have only used Planisware.

The initial setup was complex. The scripting was OPX2 scripting.

It is an expensive tool.

We evaluated other options. As this is a customized tool, we needed to provide a breakdown of how the organization is going to use it.

This included a technical breakdown of structures and an explanation of the different modules such as resource, project, portfolio, and timecard.

Compared to other PPM tools, Planisware is more advanced. We can do more customizations with this tool.