Planisware Reviews

Resource forecasting and demand planning. Users can do both short-term and long-term planning. Generic resources and named resources can be structured according to corporate need. 

Currently, Planisware Enterprise 7.1 has about two dozen modules internally architected and available for local configuration. The pre-connected module architecture greatly reduces technical challenges that would otherwise involve substantial custom programming and validation. Connections with MS Teams, contracts, managing products, document management and stage & gate are some of the modules that can extend capabilities. 

Configuration (done by your technical super-user/administrator) can activate or hide any module from regular users. Content for modules depends upon functional administrators in your organization. A functional administrator is a gatekeeper/business analyst that is adept with Planisware and knows your local needs. Don't expect Planisware to provide local proprietary content.

Using an integrated Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS; sometimes called Responsibility) distinct from the Resource Breakdown Structure gives substantial reporting flexibility out of the box. 

Making use of a consistent, organization-specific activity type categorization (WBS type) facilitates creation of project templates. Note that Planisware provides relatively limited documentation (beyond rudimentary conceptualization) for producing activity types across multiple templates. My white papers, freely available online, provide substantially more pragmatic instruction for using and producing Planisware activity types (AT). 

A distinct advantage of Planisware Enterprise is that any given customer installation can respond to local priorities, such as scheduling or time reporting, then phase in other priorities in your application roadmap over time. Functionality is enhanced and made easier to use with a cohesive set of modules. 

Planisware Enterprise offers very practical dashboards and bubble charts that visualize integrated advanced analytics. KPIs include: resource load and risk levels; net present value; return on investment. Project data cleanly consolidates to portfolio views.

Planisware Enterprise offers very practical dashboards and bubble charts that visualize integrated advanced analytics. KPIs include resource load and risk levels; net present value; return on investment. Project data cleanly consolidates to portfolio views. Recently, One-pager (swimlane reporting) can integrate directly with Planisware Enterprise. Generating monthly reports for projects takes far less tedium and time.

Data exchange and integration with Office 365 and Google Suite applications continues to mature. Project managers can work productively from within Planisware Enterprise. Native access to MS Office Online applications from within E7 include interactive editing and data integration from corporate email, documents, and worksheets. Planisware project data, graphs, and consolidations can flow into PowerPoint slide presentations.

Software as a Service (SaaS) speeds up deployment and simplifies maintenance. Planisware earned ISO 27001 certification in late 2019Q1 for superior data security. Hosting E7 on local Linux servers remains an alternative 

Standardized colors and clearer icons have made the overall interface more modern, inviting, and usable than earlier releases. Documentation and tutoring videos, accessible to users online from within Planisware, has become abundant and professionally edited to a high standard. 

Project scheduling, resource forecasting and demand planning. One can do both short-term and long-term planning. Generic resources and named resources can be structured according to corporate need.

Integrated organizational breakdown structure (OBS; sometimes called Responsibility; distinct from the Resource Breakdown Structure) gives substantial reporting flexibility out of the box.

Planisware has a designated activity type breakdown structure that provides “know-why” categorization for each activity. This capability is valuable for filtering activities, building project templates, and using activity types in parametric estimation. Populating the activity type structure is enterprise specific.

A distinct advantage of Planisware Enterprise is that any given customer installation can build upon local priorities, such as scheduling or time reporting, then phase in other priorities in your application roadmap over time. Functionality is enhanced and made easier to use with a growing, cohesive set of modules.

Planisware Enterprise offers very practical dashboards and bubble charts that visualize integrated advanced analytics. KPIs include resource load and risk levels; net present value; return on investment. Planisware BI-Box simplifies connecting Planisware data with external data sources for analysis in external tools such as Tableau and Power-BI.

* Planisware Enterprise provides consistent, verifiable source of truth for project progress and costs. Standardized use across organization helps avoid disputes over whose spreadsheet (or slide) contains superior data.

* Predictive analysis examines prior data and helps solidify work effort estimations.

* Current release enables native access to MS Office Online applications from within including interactive editing and data integration from corporate email, documents, and worksheets. Planisware project data, graphs, and consolidations can flow into PowerPoint slide presentations.

* Software as a Service (SaaS) speeds up deployment and simplifies maintenance. Planisware earned ISO 27001 certification March 2019 for superior data security.

* Standardized colors and improved icons have made the overall interface more modern, inviting, and usable than earlier releases. Documentation and tutoring videos, accessible to users online from within Planisware, is abundant and professionally edited to a high standard.

1. Lessons learned from initial deployment usually warrant subsequent "refreshed" deployments. In some cases, these initiatives embrace newly identified requirements and use a later, major release of Planisware. While this may appear to be needlessly labor intensive, collective insights learned from one release can magnify the effectiveness of the next.

2. Planisware governance should be multilateral in scope under proactive leadership of a vice-president level "champion" of portfolio/project/product strategic deliverables.

3. Personnel involved with Planisware implementation, deployment, operations, training, and governance need to embrace succession planning. Responsibilities constantly change in organization; these roles must be appropriately renewed.

4. Commitment to Planisware, as with other enterprise solutions, calls for ongoing advocacy and frequent re-selling of effectiveness and benefit realization. That commitment and confidence must prevail at the upper level of a company and permeate throughout the organization for long-term success.

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.

The use case involves a highly sophisticated project and portfolio management tool. While it comes with a hefty price tag, it delivers exceptional value by seamlessly handling all necessary operations for successful project management, ensuring a significant return on investment.

Its benefits extend to the centralization and control of projects, particularly in terms of maintaining consistency in defining tasks, projects, cost accounts, and other essential elements. This level of standardization is crucial for efficiency and clarity, especially in large organizations managing diverse projects with varying timelines and complexities. The software's strength lies in its adept handling of categorization, allowing users to tailor how projects are categorized based on their specific organizational needs. Moreover, it facilitates the creation of activity types and simplifies the development of project templates. These templates serve as master projects, enabling users to swiftly replicate and customize projects by leveraging pre-defined structures. The significance lies in the ability to replicate successful approaches consistently. When a company discovers an effective method, it can be seamlessly incorporated into Planisware. The result is a standardized language that remains consistent across various projects.

Since I'm completely technical, the primary use case of Planisware for my clients has been project management, time management, portfolio management, and reporting.

Planisware offers integration with multiple tools and provides a good level of customization. However, a noted advantage for some users is the user interface, although I personally do not find it very user-friendly. Additionally, its ability to scale easily is valuable.

Our main use case for Planisware is for CapEx control for a portfolio.

Our organization has greatly benefited from utilizing Planisware in regard to investment management. Planisware serves as a platform for all nine countries that we manage to submit their investment requests, which are then centralized and processed through an approval process all within the Planisware system. This centralized approach to investment management through the use of Planisware has greatly improved the functionality of our organization.

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.

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.