SOLUTION // PPM
Planisware
saason-premiseEnterprise PPM reference for large organizations. Gartner APMR Leader 4th year. Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice. Two products: Enterprise (large accounts) and Orchestra (mid-market). 600 clients in 30+ countries. Euronext Paris listed.
GLOBAL SCORE
4.1
Top 1 Project Portfolio Management (PPM)Strengths and weaknesses
Detailed evaluation across 40 criteria
Vendor vision and market positioning 4.7
Project Economy vision with AI. Two complementary products: Enterprise + Orchestra. Predictive AI and forecasting roadmap.
Gartner APMR Leader 4th year. SPM Challenger. Customers' Choice 2024 (4.6/5 SPM, 4.5/5 PPM). Forrester SPM Leader. Most complete PPM market recognition.
Euronext Paris (PLNW). 800 employees, 18 offices, 600 clients in 30+ countries. North American expansion (2 Canada data centers 2025).
Functional capabilities 4.6
Strategic portfolio management reference. Scoring, what-if, capacity planning, pipeline, strategy-execution alignment. Gartner Critical Capabilities 3.66/5 IT Project Management.
Advanced planning. Interactive Gantt, dependencies, CPM, WBS, baselines, milestones. Waterfall, agile and hybrid. Among the most robust enterprise scheduling.
Enterprise resource management. Capacity planning, multi-project allocation, skills, staffing simulation. Historical differentiator.
EVM supported. Solid progress tracking with plan vs actual comparison and forecasts. Not at Deltek Cobra specialization level.
Complete project financial management. Budgets, re-estimates, commitments, P&L, Capex/Opex. Deep ERP integration. Historical strength.
Risk registers, probability/impact scoring, mitigation. Integrated. Decent without being the main differentiator.
Configurable demand intake, pipeline, stage-gate (gate count, go/no-go criteria, scoring, committees). Among the most mature demand management.
Solid executive dashboards and portfolio reporting. Precise and deep. Less visually modern than work management solutions.
Approval chains, audit trail, multi-level governance, phase-gate (gate reporting, decision history, phase templates). PPM enterprise heritage.
SAP PS, Oracle, Jira integrations. REST API. Solid connectors but ecosystem less open than Planview (Tasktop).
Technical fit 4.2
SSO, SAML, MFA. Enterprise standards. Canada data centers 2025 for sovereignty.
Cloud SaaS and on-premise. Encryption, audit trail. GDPR. Listed French vendor.
Performant for 500+ project portfolios. Proven architecture. Some feedback on interface heaviness with large volumes.
SAP PS, Oracle, Jira. REST API. Solid enterprise connectors.
Gartner Customers' Choice. Responsive and competent support. Very positive client relationship feedback.
Solid documentation. Training, certifications. Growing community.
Solution adoption 3.5
Powerful but complex interface. Enterprise perceived as heavy for occasional users. Orchestra has more modern UX.
Waterfall, agile (Scrum, Kanban) and hybrid in a single portfolio. One of the few native multi-method enterprise PPMs.
Advanced Gantt, roadmaps, executive dashboards. Solid visual reporting. Less 'aesthetic' than modern solutions but deeper.
600 enterprise clients, 30+ countries. Dana, Northrop Grumman. Life sciences, industry, aerospace.
Training and certifications available. Change management via partners and internal teams.
Significant learning curve for Enterprise. Functional richness implies heavy training. G2 feedback: overwhelming interface.
Vendor robustness 4.5
Euronext Paris (PLNW). Complete transparency. Listed independent structure.
600 clients, 30+ countries. Aerospace, defense, life sciences, industry. Strong enterprise concentration.
Visible R&D. Predictive AI, Orchestra mid-market, geographic expansion. High innovation pace for a PPM vendor.
Gartner Customers' Choice. Solid partnership. Partner ecosystem more limited than Planview.
Solution deployment 3.0
Enterprise 6-12 months. Orchestra 3-6 months. Specialized consultants needed. Complex implementation.
Training and certifications available. Complexity requires significant training investment.
REST API. Open architecture. Modern standards.
Growing partner ecosystem but more limited than Planview or Oracle. Limited number of specialized consultants.
Legal and contractual terms 4.0
Transparent T&Cs. Listed French vendor, native GDPR. Rigorous approach.
SaaS and on-premise. Deployment flexibility. Negotiable conditions. Human-scale vendor.
Pricing and costs 2.6
High-end enterprise. Unpublished. Orchestra more accessible for mid-market.
Costly implementation especially Enterprise. Specialized consultants. High license/implementation ratio.
Unpublished. Complex model (Enterprise vs Orchestra, modules). Limited readability.
SaaS and on-premise. Canada data centers for sovereignty.
Significant consulting, training, maintenance costs. High enterprise TCO.
Recommended use cases
- Large organizations with complex portfolios (500+ projects, multi-BU)
- Enterprise PMO requiring strategy-execution-finance alignment
- Life sciences, aerospace, industry sectors needing the deepest governance
About Planisware SA (Euronext: PLNW)
Vendor: Planisware SA (Euronext: PLNW)
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 1996
Deployment: saas, on-premise
Category: Project Portfolio Management (PPM)
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