Planview PPM Pro vs SAP Portfolio and Project Management comparison

Planview and SAP are both solutions in the Project Portfolio Management category. Planview is ranked #8, while SAP is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.0. Planview holds a 7.4% mindshare in PPM, compared to SAP’s 6.1% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Planview users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SAP users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

SAP Portfolio and Project Management and Planview PPM Pro are competing in the project portfolio management category. Planview PPM Pro has an advantage due to its flexibility and extensive features aligning with user needs.

Features: SAP PPM provides deep integration with SAP ERP, offers strong portfolio analytics, and supports process automation. Planview PPM Pro stands out with configurable dashboards, detailed reporting, and advanced resource management.

Room for Improvement: SAP PPM could enhance its deployment process and reduce the complexity of integration. Planview PPM Pro might benefit from improved time management features and more efficient task handling for smaller teams.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP PPM demands significant initial setup and specialized expertise. In contrast, Planview PPM Pro offers streamlined deployment, supported by a comprehensive help center and attentive service.

Pricing and ROI: SAP PPM involves higher upfront costs tied to its integration features, benefiting firms with SAP infrastructure. Planview PPM Pro provides flexible pricing and faster ROI, aligning with organizations seeking low initial costs and quick value.

To learn more, read our detailed Planview PPM Pro vs. SAP Portfolio and Project Management Report (Updated: July 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Planview PPM Pro

Ranking in Project Portfolio Management

8th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Project Management Software (16th)

SAP Portfolio and Project M...

Ranking in Project Portfolio Management

9th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Project Portfolio Management category, the mindshare of Planview PPM Pro is 7.4%, up from 7.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Portfolio and Project Management is 6.1%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Project Portfolio Management

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MartinQuiroga

Value Stream Management specialist & Solution Leader at Tricise at OdPe Business Solutions

Needs to improve roadmap, scalability and communication

The product feels like a toy. The tool needs to improve its roadmap. It needs to improve things on a project management level which includes communication as well. I am working with the product for two to three years. The product is not scalable. We have around 15-20 users for the product. My…

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Nalin Kumar

Quality Assurance Group Lead at Samsung

End-to-end project management capabilities and offers seamless vendor and client contract alignment

The system is old, so there are several issues that arise when we fetch data from integrated systems. Sometimes the data gets stuck, and there are instances where we need to access multiple pieces of information simultaneously. This creates problems that I have personally experienced. Therefore, these aspects need to be much more free-flowing and seamless. If something gets stuck, it takes time to resolve, and during the contract phase, we have Service Level Agreements (SLAs). If those SLAs are breached, it becomes problematic. Given that there are approximately 3000 projects running concurrently worldwide, utilizing the system with a vast database and numerous activities taking place. It could benefit from decentralization. Currently, it operates as a central system, but if it could be centralized for specific subsidiaries, it would be easier for us to manage.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The status reporting is the most valuable feature as it's easy to use; it's simple for project managers to enter their information, and the reporting features are very flexible."

"It is flexible, because so far we haven't been able to figure out anything that it cannot do. It's highly configurable. We've added custom field design screens to fit our needs, develop reports, and dashboards that give us the ability to deliver much better information, especially to senior IT management."

"PPM Pro has improved my organization through standardization. The big thing for us is that we came from a very immature state of play. Everyone had their own risk and issue management capabilities and their own different impacts for risks. We've been able to standardize that within the program delivery arena. That for us has been a major thing. We're all speaking the same language about the same things and using the same metrics in order to capture statuses."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that my team can use one tool that's reliable, scalable, and provides the leadership team visibility to what's going on."

"It has helped us make good decisions in terms of what projects to take or how to prioritize projects when we have multiple directors from the business or product. It has definitely helped us prioritize and work on our critical things."

"PPM Pro has enabled us to set up and run a project priority committee (PPC) within the organization. Without the PPM Pro tool, we wouldn't be able to have the project information, updates, and project listings in the pipeline to be able to run the meeting efficiently, give information prior to the meeting, and also run the meeting when we meet on either monthly or on a bi-monthly basis."

"In my current company, it provides a quicker ramp up to understand what it can do for people by taking away all their barriers to entry: time, managing resources, and linking projects."

"The solution's time-tracking abilities are one of the strong points. The only challenge is enabling it to the minute-level task. It's not at a project level but it's at an organization level. If I want it to be at a higher level as compared to some of the other projects where I want it to go to the nth level of a task for the time reporting, I cannot control it at a project level but it's controllable at an organization level. That's the only big challenge that I have."

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"SAP is gradually introducing more flexibility and customization options to the system, allowing users to adapt it to their specific needs."

"The integration portion with SAP models is valuable."

"It improves productivity, cash flow management, and inventory control for clients."

Cons

"Additional Agile capabilities, including integration with the Agile development app, would be welcome features."

"I would like to see integration with third-party applications, like the JIRA, Microsoft Project, and financial applications."

"The agile functionality can be improved. The tool was definitely built around the waterfall PMBOK PRINCE2 methodology, and although there are great functions within the tool for agile, it is often compared to dedicated tools like LeanKit or Jira. At the moment, the only integration we would have is to Jira itself, not to another Planview product. I believe that's coming in 2022 at some point."

"The product feels like a toy. The tool needs to improve its roadmap. It needs to improve things on a project management level which includes communication as well."

"The downside to the way the solution tracks time is if your project manager doesn't add you to the project, you won't see it on your timesheet, even if you did do work."

"We don't use their existing dashboard functionality. Hopefully, with the new reporting release that is coming out in November, we will be able to evaluate as to how we can leverage that. What I hear, "Everyone has either a Tableau or something else because Planview doesn't provide a dashboard." We should not need to use another tool. Planview has the data, so it should be able to give us what we want. This would also reduce costs since we are paying licenses for those tools too."

"Entering day-to-day tasks is a tedious process."

"There should be the ability to store historical functions, but this is not just for this tool. It is applicable to many tools. It would be great if we were able to store specific historical data, such as risk management."

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"The system is old, so there are several issues that arise when we fetch data from integrated systems. Sometimes the data gets stuck, and there are instances where we need to access multiple pieces of information simultaneously."

"It would be valuable if SAP integrated seamlessly with some products like Jira and Bitbucket."

"The platform's support structure needs improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our current license is from 2019 to 2022. So for that three-year subscription, it was $60,000 for the subscription, users, platform, and connections. Then there were some add-ons. Connecting to some of our other systems like HR for that period cost us around $12,000."

"$6 million has been the return on investment so far, and that was because of work intake. Now that we are scrutinizing the work intake and asking questions like, "Is there an alternative to your $10 million project?" We had one project come in for $10 million, scrutinize it through our gate review process, and wound up with the alternative, which was $3.8 million. So, a $6 million savings."

"My advice is to pay attention to integration opportunities to reduce your licensing cost with Planview. There are additional costs for consulting services and advanced customer support."

"A collaboration of all their tools truly gets the biggest bang for the buck."

"The cost was in line."

"Because we have PPM Pro with Project place, we transitioned to the Flex model."

"Pricing was fair and I thought it was comparable to the other ones that we looked at. Other than ServiceNow, it was the most expensive, but we knew we were going to get a lot of value for that, so we went with it. We paid $40,000 for the implementation and for the workshops."

"The pricing for me is more about understanding your own needs in the company because it is one license for one person model. So, you have to really understand how many licenses you need and what may be the influx of your staff. The good thing about Daptiv is that we just need a quick telephone call to our customer success manager if we want to increase our licensing. It takes a day or two to do. So, we can upscale very quickly. We've never downscaled, but I'm guessing if we had to, we'd have to wait till the contract completes or renegotiate a different licensing cost. So, you definitely need to understand what different types of licenses provide from a functionality point of view, and then order 10% more than you need based on the influx of staff in the company. There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. We have the report functionality for which we pay separately for 10 hours per month."

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"The product pricing varies based on whether the client is new or existing and the complexity of their business processes."

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Computer Software Company

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What needs improvement with SAP Portfolio and Project Management?

The platform's support structure needs improvement.

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The platform integration with SAP finance systems has unified language and criteria, reducing the time for growth periods and ensuring international financial control and management. The resource m...

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Overview

Planview PPM Pro centralizes the management of resources and projects while facilitating governance and providing visibility for improved decision making. Planview PPM Pro provides the ability to collect, prioritize, and execute projects so that PMOs can focus their resources on the work that delivers the most value.

Planview PPM Pro helps businesses get out of managing projects in complex spreadsheets or tools so they can gain visibility into all work and resources. For informed decision making, use Planview PPM pro to streamline project efforts into a single source of truth. The solution gives businesses the ability to align their centralized project portfolio to achieve business outcomes through financials, projects, and resources.

Planview PPM Pro Features

Planview PPM Pro has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Portfolio planning: Select the right projects that bring the most value to the business.
Reporting and dashboards: For better decisions, measure, manage, track, and report on all work.
Manage demands and plan resource capacity: Evaluate and make trade-off decisions based on available resources. Manage work requests in one place.
Manage resources: Ensure resources are working on the most important projects and understand resource capacity to appropriately staff those projects.
Manage portfolios and financial planning: Manage tasks and resources, project schedules, and the financials to deliver on time and on budget.
Scoring: Gather scores from across the organization throughout the project lifecycle to prioritize the highest value work and requests.
Planview FLEX: Use Lean-Agile and collaborative tools to help teams deliver their best work.
Centralized portfolio: Get visibility into all work, streamlining projects into a single source of truth. This establishes governance and improves overall delivery.
Predictive portfolio analysis: Identify the optimal mix of projects to predict, plan, and re-plan a balanced portfolio of resources and projects. Optimize delivery, increase agility, and save time and money.
Top-down portfolio planning: Create as many portfolios as needed to drive business alignment. Organize projects in portfolios, or contribute varying amounts across multiple portfolios.

Planview PPM Pro Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Planview PPM Pro. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Ability to prioritize project portfolios with top-down planning.

Increased confidence in knowing what resources are working on what projects. You can proactively allocate resources and improve delivery across your entire project portfolio.

Deliver on time and on budget to focus on your highest impact work. Align your projects with your goals.

Dashboards and reporting visibility give you power to accelerate PPM time-to-value for the business.

Ability to empower teams with FLEX because today’s enterprise is embracing a combination of work approaches to increase the success rate of strategic delivery.

Integrate your core applications seamlessly.

Reviews from Real Users

Planview PPM Pro stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Some of these include its exceptional customer service, its easy customization, and its real-time dashboards. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

Jai A., IT Project Manager at Orange Business Services, notes, “For every project, we have to establish timelines, set deadlines, and estimate the completion date of a particular task. PPM Pro notifies us if we are approaching the deadlines, and we can customize this to give notice two or three days in advance.”

Prateek A., a Manager at NISG, writes, “It helps you visualize all your strategic plans and the KPIs. It provides that information on a unified dashboard, in which you can track all your resources and the portfolios. It helps senior stakeholders and executives with clear reporting about project intake and demands, in real time."

Planview

Portfolio Management integrates information from existing project management, human resources, and financial systems to provide an overview of the project portfolio with easy drilldown to details for portfolio managers, project managers, and resource managers. This enables innovative and collaborative, cross-functional business processes. Project Management covers the entire range of project management activities in development and consultancy projects, from planning to implementation to project completion.

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Sample Customers

The Weather Channel, corcs, Crayola, Scan Health Plan, Vermont, Bank of the West, North West Company, University of Southern Mississippi, Jeffries, Purdue University, Chesterfield County Virginia, City of Memphis

Joy Global Inc., Citrix, EMC Corporation, Concho Resources, Concho Resources, RZD Russian Railways, Family Dollar Stores Inc., Lenovo

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