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Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management vs ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Alfabet IT Planning & Portf...
Ranking in Project Portfolio Management
14th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ServiceNow Strategic Portfo...
Ranking in Project Portfolio Management
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Project Portfolio Management category, the mindshare of Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management is 3.5%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management is 4.2%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Portfolio Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management4.2%
Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management3.5%
Other92.3%
Project Portfolio Management
 

Featured Reviews

MS
Head of Business Agility and Development at Aqarat Real Estate Development Company
Helps us to implement and understand the status of our projects
The initial setup is straightforward. The solution's deployment takes around two months time. We have to set up the solution. We have to put in the data to ensure that the solution is working. We need to fill out our process, our tools, and our data. Two developers were involved in the deployment process. It is a self-maintained solution that requires updates from time to time. I rate the setup an eight out of ten.
reviewer1470327 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Workflow automation has streamlined request tracking and approval processes for my teams
ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management could be made better by reducing the prices. They should also provide more features with a better price compared to other tools in the market. Power Apps and Power Automate are much cheaper now compared to ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management. They should provide the approval license at no cost for ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management; otherwise, it would be difficult to continue with ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management. They must add integrations with other tools, and also a plug and play integration. The auto-closing of incidents with AI should be implemented; for example, if a user is facing an issue with a computer or some application, that incident needs to be taken care of by AI itself instead of a human.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"My personal experience with the product was good, primarily because of the support team's responsiveness."
"I would recommend trying planningIT"
"ERP approach to IT (edit architecture elements as data using forms, easier for many people compared to drawing / modeling) Hundreds of predefined reports (not only for analysis but also for displaying profiles for single elements like an application including dynamically generated diagrams based on edited data) Very sophisticated meta model (dozens of man years of experience condensed in it) Enterprise collaboration features Web client for the enterprise, either on-site installation or running in a private cloud."
"The dashboard is the most valuable feature."
"The most important feature of ServiceNow IT Business Management is flexibility."
"It helps us in utilizing the resources to the perfect level to generate more revenue at the same cost."
"The feature I find the most valuable is the one that lets you see how much time has been used in processing a ticket. This allows us to better monitor performance."
"The Flow Designer is particularly fascinating, because anyone who is not experienced in coding could start creating automated workflows within ServiceNow."
"We now have good visibility of our entire information system."
"The demand management tool is very strategic because it helps assess risk, gives you a visual of different demands, and rates those values."
"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very intuitive to set up."
"The presentation feature was valuable to our company, and the ticket creation system is handy because it is customizable."
 

Cons

"The user-experience, enhanced performance, and in-hand governance can be improved."
"Only few predefined integrations with other tools exist, most integrations are implemented via an integration module based on XML typically needing vendor expertise."
"The tool is clearly not very intuitive."
"The program isn't very user-friendly, as it is rather difficult to use."
"The price keeps going up, and to remain competitive, it needs to have a competitive edge."
"We track salaries or paychecks of the resources. They change from time to time, such as every six months or every year. If they can come up with a default or out-of-the-box feature to manage those multiple payable costs so that we can automatically calculate the project costs rolled up. That would be the coolest feature that we can expect from ServiceNow. We would like to have an automatic feature to manage the payable costs. We should be able to manage or maintain multiple pay costs so that while calculating the project roll-up costs for individual projects, the respective pay costs in a particular period are picked up automatically from the backend. Currently, we have to customize that. It is doable. We have done it but through customization."
"A major improvement we would like to see is definitely around agile management."
"The portfolio managed is good for IT, but it's not good for non it's not necessarily great for construction projects, such as the building of physical infrastructure."
"Improving configuration activities and productivity would be beneficial, as fresh graduates using the system require training to adapt."
"SPM is definitely strong for project management, but its finance capabilities are not as robust."
"The product comes with little options out of the box."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive. There is a yearly licensing cost. There are no additional costs, only the standard license, and the cloud license."
"We have a team of about 6,500 employees across the globe. So, the amount of money I'm going to save by putting the money on the table for the implementation and licenses is very high."
"It's more suitable for larger companies as the licensing cost is relatively high. Not everyone can afford this tool."
"The tool is expensive."
"The solution was quite expensive."
"The pricing is negotiable based on the contract and licensing perspective."
"It is a little expensive. We are in Brazil, and for us, it is a little expensive."
"The cost of the solution should not be more than $50,000 annually."
"I rate the price of ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management a seven out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Government
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise27
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management?
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ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management could be made better by reducing the prices. They should also provide more features with a better price compared to other tools in the market. Power Apps a...
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My use cases for ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management include ITSM. For ITSM, I use it for the service desk, workflow creations, catalog creation, and automatic allocations. I work with Servic...
 

Also Known As

planningIT, alfabet planningIT, Alfabet IT Planning and Portfolio Management
IT Business Management, ServiceNow IT Business Management Suite, ServiceNow ITBM Suite, ServiceNow ITBM
 

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Sample Customers

FUJITSU, Coca Cola, ING, CreditSuisse, CosmosDirekt, GTA, Echo Entertainment Group, Electrolux, Cern
Proximus, UNT SYSTEM, SAP SuccessFactors
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