I have no specific advice for first-timers; just no fear. Flex your innovative side and continue to iterate and innovate. Innovate or die, that is my advice. That is okay by me if you want to use my company, thinkpeople.tech. I believe you might be using my Next Trial. I prefer thinkpeople. Thinkpeople is my choice; I do project management and product management. I rate Planisware ten out of ten.
Solution Architect | Planisware Consultant at Schlumberger
Real User
Top 5
Jul 14, 2025
I believe that before any organization makes an agreement with Planisware, someone who knows the tool should be in the team, on the technical side or the development team. The problem I see with most organizations is that they don't have a Planisware expert; they communicate based on recommendations and go ahead without fully understanding the tool. If you have someone in your organization who understands Planisware well, they can talk to Planisware on behalf of your organization and understand what is needed. That would be helpful for every organization. I've worked for five organizations now, and in two or three of them, I joined after the initial phase only to discover that there was no one knowledgeable present. Overall, I would rate Planisware 8 out of 10.
Planisware Developer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
Jul 11, 2025
The review suggests keeping an eye on the user experience and reporting features. The reviewer works as a Planisware developer at SLB company. The overall rating given to Planisware is 7 out of 10.
On the scale of 1 to 10, Planisware has an overall rating of 9.5. Thirty years of product maturity, intense vendor commitment to keep excelling are unassailable signposts. External published reviews from organizations such as Garner attest to Planisware Enterprise as a worldwide program leader. Expanding user community also demonstrates success. Strive to establish gaining technical proficiency with Planisware's tools so that your organization can readily implement ongoing operational improvements. I recommend nightly or at least weekly proactive analysis of Planisware SaaS log files to pinpoint issues before they become troublesome to the user community. Typical problem resolution investigation tends to fixate reactively on user-reported glitches and may miss emerging trends. Proactive global analysis of log files can reveal quantitative correlation over time of application stability and health. Assuring access to Planisware Enterprise backups is also beneficial. Evaluating strategic portfolio management systems is possibly as challenging as comparing major symphony orchestras for excellence. Is Berlin Philharmonic markedly superior in musicality to Pittsburgh Symphony? Adding product maturity, international product acceptance, professional published comparisons into consideration, Planisware Enterprise is much more than decent for anchoring strategic portfolio management. On a practical level, Planisware Enterprise is recognized pacesetter. A Sampling of Noteworthy Planisware Enterprise Tools Data Quality Audit is now integrated into the Projects Module. Defense Contract Management agency introduced DQA in 2005. This 14-point schedule-check criteria has become an industry-standard for best practice that Planisware Enterprise adapted “out of the box.” Positioning DQA pane to the side of the schedule view, Project managers and others (e.g., PMO) can rapidly spot potential glitches and delays and apply corrective measures. Problem targets appear in red for easy identification. Administrative users can adjust threshold, add additional rules, and enable them to appear in reporting. Conceptual overview of these metrics in Planisware: 1. Logic—missing links; 2. Leads—distort total float; 3. Lags—affect critical path; 4. Relationship types—most are finish-to-start; 5. Hard constraints; 6. High total float; 7. negative float; 8. high-duration tasks; 9. Future tasks have actuals; 10. Incomplete tasks—no resources nor money allocated; 11. Missed tasks—failed baseline dates; 12. Critical path test (continuous from pf to pf); 13. Critical path index 14. Baseline execution index—tasks accomplished against planned completion tasks Planisware Enterprise removes manual tedium for Project Managers who may be calculating these metrics on a case-by-case basis. Applying these DQA metrics as a set across all projects greatly simplifies and shortens time for periodic review. AI Help applies Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to help center content of PDF E-Learning documents residing in your designated Planisware environment. Familiar counterparts are the text paragraphs that Google Search adds in front of answers to your queries. AI Help provides step-by-step answers and identifies up to five pertinent documents. A super-user with administrative rights can provide environment specific setup for AI Help, likely with guidance from a training specialist familiar with local needs. Large Language Model connector has to be created during setup for this tool. Approval Workflow uses pre-defined “definition” to enact approve/deny/review/cancel rules at a single level of action for designated decision-maker roles. Although conceptually easy to understand and apply in daily use, this tool requires local functional administration proficiency to configure for a given enterprise’s user population. Underlying technical framework already has relationship links to simplify configuration setup. Planisware Sign provides eSignature for designated signers within Planisware Enterprise. Setup can also handle external users with third-party DocuSign or Adobe Sign. Lesson Learned module identifies and encapsulates knowledge gained by experience—operationally significant, technically valid, and applicable for either reinforcing a condition that is positive or reducing shortcoming. An administrator can specify where lessons learned creation can occur, e.g., projects, activities, requirements, portfolio. Users who may access shared Lessons Learned module are also administrator-defined. Scenario Optimization enables rapid elimination of overload bottlenecks with particle swarm optimization (PSO). Selected user incentives, especially for project managers Refinements in everyday PM functions such as Gantt chart have also matured with ease of use. Each project manager can quickly spot and resolve scheduling challenges. Identifying predecessors or successors is simplified to one or two mouse clicks. Accounting calendars can span longer than twelve months to accommodate less common fiscal years. Resource forecasting and demand planning can deploy with multiple calendars that respect working days in other countries. Date and time of day formats can simultaneously correspond to many country conventions. In large projects, workpackage management enables project managers to bundle a set of activities with a given objective and delegate control to a workpackage manager. One-pager (swimlane reporting) can integrate directly with Planisware Enterprise with purpose-built connectors provided. Project managers can pre-select an array of activities that appear and reduce preparation time to minutes rather than multiple hours. Preparing monthly reports for collective review becomes fast, semi-automated, and easily repeated in following months. Agile reporting is now available in the portfolio module. Epics define and flexibly detail high-level work (e.g., initiative) that is too large for a user story to finish in a single sprint. Progressively Staging Planisware Enterprise Rollout Distinct advantage that Planisware Enterprise has is that any particular customer installation can initially provide basic modules and tools, such as project scheduling and enterprise strategic planning, then phase in other functions in a company roadmap. Functionality is enhanced using a cohesive set of modules. Planisware Enterprise 26Q1 has over two dozen modules. Pre-connected module architecture greatly reduces technical challenges that would otherwise involve substantial custom programming, testing, and validation. Module configuration, as distinct from custom programming, is relatively rapid. Planisware Enterprise provides data connectors with MS Teams, contracts, managing products, document management, and signature approval. Content for Planisware modules flows from functional experts in your organization. A functional administrator serves as a specialized business analyst that is adept with Planisware and is immersed in your organization’s proprietary content. Planisware Enterprise offers pragmatic dashboards and captivating bubble charts that visualize integrated advanced analytics. KPIs include resource load and risk levels; net present value; return on investment. Superusers can tailor reporting dashboards for rapid and insightful impact. Planisware activity types and project templates bring consistency Here is a firsthand example of how a Planisware feature can harvest dividends while reducing future effort: Best practice identifies each project activity by customary descriptive name—the “what” component—and by the activity’s inherent project functional type—the “why” facet. Resource algorithms typically use Planisware activity types. A consistent, organization-specific Planisware activity type categorization (WBS type) facilitates creation of project templates. A purpose-specific Planisware breakdown structure serves as authority for approved activity types. Each project template, with hundreds of pre-defined activities (WBS element; task; start milestone; finish milestone) contains an almost complete work schedule with durations, WBS type, and links in place. An organizational unit may have six or more templates for project managers to select and implement for new projects. Using Planisware project template as new project foundation assures consistency and completeness. Using pre-defined templates propagates WBS types across the portfolio. Note that Planisware provides relatively limited documentation (beyond rudimentary conceptualization) for creating hundreds if not thousands of activity types across multiple templates. My white papers, freely available online, provide substantially more pragmatic instruction for creating and using Planisware activity types. Planisware documentation Help Center is the current name for eLearning. The familiar Planisware hierarchy organizes hundreds of categorized PDFs. For example, the Projects module currently has fifteen entries with three additionally sub-divided. Many concise video topics are also listed. Narration tends to overuse verbal “here” and requires visual attention to surmise the specific object that the narrator is pointing out when saying “here” and “here.” Smart search helps authorized users search globally across the database. Help Center documents and tutoring videos, accessible to users online from within Planisware, are professionally edited to a high standard. Implementation consulting Achieving go-live operational status with Planisware requires substantial team effort. With over 850 employees located in 35 countries, Planisware commits to making Planisware Enterprise a success in each corporate-level implementation. Planisware as a company has plenty of implementation project experience to establish winning implementations at a basic level. Advanced implementations call for paid consulting from Planisware, individual consultants with expertise, and/or organizations that ha...
Ensure you approach it with a long-term perspective as it represents a significant investment. While it may seem like a major commitment, the returns are substantial across various aspects of project management, portfolio management, cost analysis, and work estimation. To navigate this comprehensive tool, it's essential to have individuals willing to learn and leverage the expertise of platform consultants. Success with Planisware is a collaborative effort—a team working together—rather than a solitary endeavor. Overall, I would rate it nine out of ten.
Delivery Leader : Digital Productivity Studio at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 5
Jul 24, 2023
We introduced Planisware because we wanted to have everything consolidated. Getting into something else when Planisware is already in the house doesn't make sense. The only element which Planisware misses out on is it does not have its own CI/CD kind of setup. If I have a set of teams doing a custom app development and their source code repository, and they need a source code repository, then Planisware is not the tool. Work management can be done in Planisware, but the source code management and the CI/CD pipelines cannot be set up in Planisware. Planisware is a SaaS product. Overall, I rate Planisware a seven out of ten.
Practice Head - Wipro Digital - PPMS at Wipro Limited
Real User
Jul 4, 2022
It is a service company. We are pro-technology. We have experience with project and portfolio management services. What we do here is provide services to other businesses that own one of these tools. Assume ABB has Planisware, and we provide them with application development and support services. Planisware, Planview, Broadcom, Clarity, and Micro Focus PPM are among the products in our portfolio. Then there's Jira. And then there's Clarizen, which was recently acquired by Planview. These are the five, tools in the portfolio. I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it. I would rate Planisware a nine out of ten.
Establish a priority of gaining technical proficiency with Planisware's tools so that your company is not entirely dependent upon billable consulting time for ongoing operational improvements. I recommend nightly proactive analysis of Planisware Intranet Server log files to pinpoint issues before they become troublesome to the user community. Typical problem resolution investigation tends to fixate reactively on user-reported glitches and may miss emerging trends. Proactive global analysis of log files can reveal quantitative correlation over time of application stability and health.
Planisware offers powerful project, resource, and portfolio management, acclaimed for adaptability and integration capabilities, especially in complex R&D projects, data centralization, and business case prioritization.Planisware stands out with its advanced reporting tools, customizable views, and agile management. Equipped with an inbuilt BI tool, it enhances data analysis without external applications. Organizations appreciate resource capacity planning, scenario planning, and...
I have no specific advice for first-timers; just no fear. Flex your innovative side and continue to iterate and innovate. Innovate or die, that is my advice. That is okay by me if you want to use my company, thinkpeople.tech. I believe you might be using my Next Trial. I prefer thinkpeople. Thinkpeople is my choice; I do project management and product management. I rate Planisware ten out of ten.
I believe that before any organization makes an agreement with Planisware, someone who knows the tool should be in the team, on the technical side or the development team. The problem I see with most organizations is that they don't have a Planisware expert; they communicate based on recommendations and go ahead without fully understanding the tool. If you have someone in your organization who understands Planisware well, they can talk to Planisware on behalf of your organization and understand what is needed. That would be helpful for every organization. I've worked for five organizations now, and in two or three of them, I joined after the initial phase only to discover that there was no one knowledgeable present. Overall, I would rate Planisware 8 out of 10.
The review suggests keeping an eye on the user experience and reporting features. The reviewer works as a Planisware developer at SLB company. The overall rating given to Planisware is 7 out of 10.
I found Planisware to be a value-for-money product. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
On the scale of 1 to 10, Planisware has an overall rating of 9.5. Thirty years of product maturity, intense vendor commitment to keep excelling are unassailable signposts. External published reviews from organizations such as Garner attest to Planisware Enterprise as a worldwide program leader. Expanding user community also demonstrates success. Strive to establish gaining technical proficiency with Planisware's tools so that your organization can readily implement ongoing operational improvements. I recommend nightly or at least weekly proactive analysis of Planisware SaaS log files to pinpoint issues before they become troublesome to the user community. Typical problem resolution investigation tends to fixate reactively on user-reported glitches and may miss emerging trends. Proactive global analysis of log files can reveal quantitative correlation over time of application stability and health. Assuring access to Planisware Enterprise backups is also beneficial. Evaluating strategic portfolio management systems is possibly as challenging as comparing major symphony orchestras for excellence. Is Berlin Philharmonic markedly superior in musicality to Pittsburgh Symphony? Adding product maturity, international product acceptance, professional published comparisons into consideration, Planisware Enterprise is much more than decent for anchoring strategic portfolio management. On a practical level, Planisware Enterprise is recognized pacesetter. A Sampling of Noteworthy Planisware Enterprise Tools Data Quality Audit is now integrated into the Projects Module. Defense Contract Management agency introduced DQA in 2005. This 14-point schedule-check criteria has become an industry-standard for best practice that Planisware Enterprise adapted “out of the box.” Positioning DQA pane to the side of the schedule view, Project managers and others (e.g., PMO) can rapidly spot potential glitches and delays and apply corrective measures. Problem targets appear in red for easy identification. Administrative users can adjust threshold, add additional rules, and enable them to appear in reporting. Conceptual overview of these metrics in Planisware: 1. Logic—missing links; 2. Leads—distort total float; 3. Lags—affect critical path; 4. Relationship types—most are finish-to-start; 5. Hard constraints; 6. High total float; 7. negative float; 8. high-duration tasks; 9. Future tasks have actuals; 10. Incomplete tasks—no resources nor money allocated; 11. Missed tasks—failed baseline dates; 12. Critical path test (continuous from pf to pf); 13. Critical path index 14. Baseline execution index—tasks accomplished against planned completion tasks Planisware Enterprise removes manual tedium for Project Managers who may be calculating these metrics on a case-by-case basis. Applying these DQA metrics as a set across all projects greatly simplifies and shortens time for periodic review. AI Help applies Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to help center content of PDF E-Learning documents residing in your designated Planisware environment. Familiar counterparts are the text paragraphs that Google Search adds in front of answers to your queries. AI Help provides step-by-step answers and identifies up to five pertinent documents. A super-user with administrative rights can provide environment specific setup for AI Help, likely with guidance from a training specialist familiar with local needs. Large Language Model connector has to be created during setup for this tool. Approval Workflow uses pre-defined “definition” to enact approve/deny/review/cancel rules at a single level of action for designated decision-maker roles. Although conceptually easy to understand and apply in daily use, this tool requires local functional administration proficiency to configure for a given enterprise’s user population. Underlying technical framework already has relationship links to simplify configuration setup. Planisware Sign provides eSignature for designated signers within Planisware Enterprise. Setup can also handle external users with third-party DocuSign or Adobe Sign. Lesson Learned module identifies and encapsulates knowledge gained by experience—operationally significant, technically valid, and applicable for either reinforcing a condition that is positive or reducing shortcoming. An administrator can specify where lessons learned creation can occur, e.g., projects, activities, requirements, portfolio. Users who may access shared Lessons Learned module are also administrator-defined. Scenario Optimization enables rapid elimination of overload bottlenecks with particle swarm optimization (PSO). Selected user incentives, especially for project managers Refinements in everyday PM functions such as Gantt chart have also matured with ease of use. Each project manager can quickly spot and resolve scheduling challenges. Identifying predecessors or successors is simplified to one or two mouse clicks. Accounting calendars can span longer than twelve months to accommodate less common fiscal years. Resource forecasting and demand planning can deploy with multiple calendars that respect working days in other countries. Date and time of day formats can simultaneously correspond to many country conventions. In large projects, workpackage management enables project managers to bundle a set of activities with a given objective and delegate control to a workpackage manager. One-pager (swimlane reporting) can integrate directly with Planisware Enterprise with purpose-built connectors provided. Project managers can pre-select an array of activities that appear and reduce preparation time to minutes rather than multiple hours. Preparing monthly reports for collective review becomes fast, semi-automated, and easily repeated in following months. Agile reporting is now available in the portfolio module. Epics define and flexibly detail high-level work (e.g., initiative) that is too large for a user story to finish in a single sprint. Progressively Staging Planisware Enterprise Rollout Distinct advantage that Planisware Enterprise has is that any particular customer installation can initially provide basic modules and tools, such as project scheduling and enterprise strategic planning, then phase in other functions in a company roadmap. Functionality is enhanced using a cohesive set of modules. Planisware Enterprise 26Q1 has over two dozen modules. Pre-connected module architecture greatly reduces technical challenges that would otherwise involve substantial custom programming, testing, and validation. Module configuration, as distinct from custom programming, is relatively rapid. Planisware Enterprise provides data connectors with MS Teams, contracts, managing products, document management, and signature approval. Content for Planisware modules flows from functional experts in your organization. A functional administrator serves as a specialized business analyst that is adept with Planisware and is immersed in your organization’s proprietary content. Planisware Enterprise offers pragmatic dashboards and captivating bubble charts that visualize integrated advanced analytics. KPIs include resource load and risk levels; net present value; return on investment. Superusers can tailor reporting dashboards for rapid and insightful impact. Planisware activity types and project templates bring consistency Here is a firsthand example of how a Planisware feature can harvest dividends while reducing future effort: Best practice identifies each project activity by customary descriptive name—the “what” component—and by the activity’s inherent project functional type—the “why” facet. Resource algorithms typically use Planisware activity types. A consistent, organization-specific Planisware activity type categorization (WBS type) facilitates creation of project templates. A purpose-specific Planisware breakdown structure serves as authority for approved activity types. Each project template, with hundreds of pre-defined activities (WBS element; task; start milestone; finish milestone) contains an almost complete work schedule with durations, WBS type, and links in place. An organizational unit may have six or more templates for project managers to select and implement for new projects. Using Planisware project template as new project foundation assures consistency and completeness. Using pre-defined templates propagates WBS types across the portfolio. Note that Planisware provides relatively limited documentation (beyond rudimentary conceptualization) for creating hundreds if not thousands of activity types across multiple templates. My white papers, freely available online, provide substantially more pragmatic instruction for creating and using Planisware activity types. Planisware documentation Help Center is the current name for eLearning. The familiar Planisware hierarchy organizes hundreds of categorized PDFs. For example, the Projects module currently has fifteen entries with three additionally sub-divided. Many concise video topics are also listed. Narration tends to overuse verbal “here” and requires visual attention to surmise the specific object that the narrator is pointing out when saying “here” and “here.” Smart search helps authorized users search globally across the database. Help Center documents and tutoring videos, accessible to users online from within Planisware, are professionally edited to a high standard. Implementation consulting Achieving go-live operational status with Planisware requires substantial team effort. With over 850 employees located in 35 countries, Planisware commits to making Planisware Enterprise a success in each corporate-level implementation. Planisware as a company has plenty of implementation project experience to establish winning implementations at a basic level. Advanced implementations call for paid consulting from Planisware, individual consultants with expertise, and/or organizations that ha...
Ensure you approach it with a long-term perspective as it represents a significant investment. While it may seem like a major commitment, the returns are substantial across various aspects of project management, portfolio management, cost analysis, and work estimation. To navigate this comprehensive tool, it's essential to have individuals willing to learn and leverage the expertise of platform consultants. Success with Planisware is a collaborative effort—a team working together—rather than a solitary endeavor. Overall, I would rate it nine out of ten.
We introduced Planisware because we wanted to have everything consolidated. Getting into something else when Planisware is already in the house doesn't make sense. The only element which Planisware misses out on is it does not have its own CI/CD kind of setup. If I have a set of teams doing a custom app development and their source code repository, and they need a source code repository, then Planisware is not the tool. Work management can be done in Planisware, but the source code management and the CI/CD pipelines cannot be set up in Planisware. Planisware is a SaaS product. Overall, I rate Planisware a seven out of ten.
We have a maintenance contract with Planisware for them to complete the maintenance for us. I rate Planisware a seven out of ten.
It is a service company. We are pro-technology. We have experience with project and portfolio management services. What we do here is provide services to other businesses that own one of these tools. Assume ABB has Planisware, and we provide them with application development and support services. Planisware, Planview, Broadcom, Clarity, and Micro Focus PPM are among the products in our portfolio. Then there's Jira. And then there's Clarizen, which was recently acquired by Planview. These are the five, tools in the portfolio. I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it. I would rate Planisware a nine out of ten.
I would rate it a seven out of 10.
I would recommend this solution to others. I rate Planisware a six out of ten.
Establish a priority of gaining technical proficiency with Planisware's tools so that your company is not entirely dependent upon billable consulting time for ongoing operational improvements. I recommend nightly proactive analysis of Planisware Intranet Server log files to pinpoint issues before they become troublesome to the user community. Typical problem resolution investigation tends to fixate reactively on user-reported glitches and may miss emerging trends. Proactive global analysis of log files can reveal quantitative correlation over time of application stability and health.