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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

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Alfabet IT Planning & Portf...
Ranking in Project Portfolio Management
13th
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
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Project Portfolio Management category, the mindshare of Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management is 3.6%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management is 4.4%, down from 11.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Portfolio Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management4.4%
Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management3.6%
Other92.0%
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

"The dashboard is the most valuable feature."
"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 most important feature for us is project portfolio management, which helps us manage and track the entire life cycle of a project or a program at an enterprise scale and across business portfolios."
"In our company we use this solution on a daily basis as an administration application for reporting, where you can assign incident tickets or trade tickets and the relevant department uses it for follow up on problems or changes that have occurred."
"The solution has opened many doors for me."
"The solution is scalable."
"The main benefit that IT Business Management provides for me includes tracking the request and finding out the status of the request, which results in time saving."
"Everything is valuable. It is tough to choose a particular feature, but project portfolio management along with agile 2.0 are two key product features that I would suggest for services companies like us."
"The solution offers a lot of opportunities for integrations. We can integrate with Slack, Azure, all the API alternatives, etc. There's a lot of integration modules provided."
"The Flow Designer is particularly fascinating, because anyone who is not experienced in coding could start creating automated workflows within ServiceNow."
 

Cons

"The tool is clearly not very intuitive."
"Only few predefined integrations with other tools exist, most integrations are implemented via an integration module based on XML typically needing vendor expertise."
"The user-experience, enhanced performance, and in-hand governance can be improved."
"The solution needs a few things in terms of resource management."
"The main challenge we face with SPM is its flexibility, which can sometimes lead to lengthy discussions and slow down implementation. As for improvements, integrating IT finance management tools like AppTio or Nearos would be beneficial. We already have data mining capabilities, but continuous updates and enabling of new features would be great, considering the rapid pace of DevOps advancements in the market. In terms of forward-looking analytics and comparison to tools like Power BI, there are areas that could be enhanced, especially in drill-down reporting."
"The setup is a bit complex. It depends on the organizational needs, and sometimes, we make customizations based on those needs."
"ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management could improve by having more Agile features. Other solutions, such as Rally have more."
"Dashboard interface is limited functionally and not very user friendly"
"ServiceNow IT Business Management could improve by adding better artificial intelligence."
"The dashboard interface is limited functionally and is not very user friendly or particularly intuitive so that, for example, if you want to combine or correlate incidents with relevant changes for a report, it's not easily done and makes reporting difficult."
"The initial setup is complex and should be simplified."
 

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."
"The solution is expensive."
"It is a little expensive. We are in Brazil, and for us, it is a little expensive."
"The tool is expensive."
"The solution was quite expensive."
"I would rate the cost as five out of ten."
"It's more suitable for larger companies as the licensing cost is relatively high. Not everyone can afford this tool."
"The solution could improve by being less expensive and the pricing model is confusing. Many people are getting charged different amounts. There are additional fees that they are adding on."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Government
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

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

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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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