Planview PPM Pro vs Sciforma comparison

Planview and Sciforma are both solutions in the Project Portfolio Management category. Planview is ranked #7 with an average rating of 6.0, while Sciforma is ranked #11 with an average rating of 9.5. Planview holds a 7.4% mindshare in PPM, compared to Sciforma’s 3.7% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Planview users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sciforma users who would recommend it.

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Planview PPM Pro

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Sciforma and Planview PPM Pro are project portfolio management solutions with distinct strengths. Sciforma has the upper hand in support and pricing, while Planview PPM Pro offers a comprehensive feature set that justifies its higher costs.

Features: Sciforma offers resource management, timesheets, and adaptability for dynamic projects. Planview PPM Pro provides robust analytics, reporting tools, and depth in data analytics, supporting strategic decision-making.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Sciforma offers straightforward deployment and attentive customer service, ensuring effective need management. Planview PPM Pro provides flexible deployment with a methodical approach to implementation, appealing to structured organizations.

Pricing and ROI: Sciforma features a cost-effective pricing model and strong ROI for quality at a lower cost. Planview PPM Pro requires a higher initial investment, but long-term benefits justify the premium for its superior functionality.

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Categories and Ranking

Planview PPM Pro

Ranking in Project Portfolio Management

7th

Ranking in Project Management Software

16th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Sciforma

Ranking in Project Portfolio Management

11th

Ranking in Project Management Software

17th

Average Rating

9.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Project Portfolio Management category, the mindshare of Planview PPM Pro is 7.4%, down from 7.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sciforma is 3.7%, up from 1.8% 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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Corrie De Jonge

Consultant at The Project ConneXion

A project management solution that can be automated to suit your needs

I rate the initial setup a seven out of ten because it's easy. We had to really understand the solution because it's huge, and we had to know which sections to bite off first. I might even rate the initial setup a nine out of ten if you know what you've got. Once we had all our data and our migration plan, it was quite easy. The challenge lies more with the organization than the system itself. Sciforma is one of the easiest tools to get going with from a technical point of view, but knowledge is key. Deploying the solution takes from six months to a year, depending on the level of data wanted. While deploying the solution, we have to first compile the user's requirements. Then we have to drop a baseline specification in parallel with a concept rollout. Based on what's in the concept, we pick from what the client understands to be the relevant portions, the minimum requirements. Then I convert it into a project execution plan and then execute the plan. After that, we have initial data collection for configuration and then final live data. Then we have the sign-off processes of different departments. There's a lot of upfront work to get the data prepared for transmission, and that is a big challenge. We did almost a thousand projects per year, so there were quite a lot of decisions to speed up the deployment process. The biggest challenge was to get our internal data organized and map it.

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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 solution is great for viewing projects and timelines."

"Time tracking, portfolio management reporting, and what-if analysis create visibility into project planning, resource capacity, and demand planning."

"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."

"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."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is reporting."

"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."

"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 reporting and dashboards are the most valuable features. For most of what we're using it for almost all of it is pretty valuable to us."

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"The integrated portfolio and project management approach is the most valuable feature of Sciforma."

"It makes it more fun to work with a modern designed and easy-to-use solution as a team and not add or analyze data alone. Internal, external, home office, remote work, desktop, mobile (available on iOS and Android), are always connected to One2Team."

"I find Sciforma's customizability valuable."

Cons

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

"It takes more time than it should to create a new project because we can't bulk edit things very easily. That is definitely an area that has room for improvement."

"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."

"Connecting funding and strategic outcomes with work execution is a challenge right now for us. Part of what we are facing is we have a couple of drivers of where projects are coming from. One of them is our innovation group. They are just sort of tangentially using PPM Pro for recording the status of projects and not really planning them within there. We need a stronger link between our current financial reporting system and Planview PPM Pro, so we can start to more easily record our external costs in the tool."

"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."

"The integration with some of these other tools that we use, like the Azure DevOps needs improvement. I heard there are few things coming within Planview or PPM Pro itself, but I think it's still future dated. These integrations are key for us from an organizational perspective."

"Reporting and dashboards need improvement. They've got the new beta coming out now and I've been playing around with that in our sandbox environment."

"The biggest things are the status notes and internal notes. They have made some great improvements these past couple of weeks, but they are still lacking a bit. There are still a little kludgy. It just needs to be a bit more straightforward with notes, copying and pasting. They've made huge improvements, but it still could do some work. E.g., for some reason, the formatting is still looking a little bit weird on selecting different fonts."

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"The report developer needs a bit of streamlining."

"The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) is a bit old and could be improved."

"For the future AI (Artificial intelligence) must be part of a modern solution. AI is with its unique ability to monitor patterns, is a capable assistant for project managers. Artificial intelligence is being used to help with project organization on a collection of different data from multi-data sources."

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."

"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."

"The cost was in line."

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

"Bulk volume discounts are a little better. Right now we have to buy in lots of 20 at $200 a license. That's a little steep. For example, with Service Now, I pay $48 a seat for a license."

"We have their Flex plan."

"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."

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

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"I rate the pricing a four out of ten because Sciforma's rates are good."

"The solution's pricing is neither too expensive nor too cheap."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

12%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Planview PPM Pro?

The product's deployment is straightforward.

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What needs improvement with Planview PPM Pro?

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.

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What advice do you have for others considering Planview PPM Pro?

I would rate the solution a four out of ten.

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What do you like most about One2team?

The integrated portfolio and project management approach is the most valuable feature of Sciforma.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for One2team?

The solution's pricing is neither too expensive nor too cheap.

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What needs improvement with One2team?

The solution's graphical user interface (GUI) is a bit old and could be improved.

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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

Sciforma is a leading provider of Project & Portfolio Management Software. With more than 30 years of experience, Sciforma is tailored to meet any industries' needs. Sciforma is an enterprise-wide solutions created to meet strategic, functional and executional needs. Adaptability and scalability are the perfect adjectives to describe Sciforma, which is available SaaS, Hosted and On-Site.

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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

1&1, ABB, abbvie, Accor, Acoss, Actia, ALD Automotive, Airbus, Artelia, ascom

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