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Resource Planning Comparison

Planisware vs. Planview AdaptiveWork

At a glance

At a glance

Planisware

Best for

Best for PMOs and portfolio offices that need to decide which projects to fund and staff across a large organization.

  • Enterprise

Planview AdaptiveWork

Best for

Best for enterprise PMOs that want portfolio intake, delivery, capacity and project financials answered by one system.

  • Enterprise

Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.

Full Comparison

Criterion Planisware Planview AdaptiveWork
Starting price Not stated Quote-based Planview publishes no prices for AdaptiveWork; every quote comes from sales.
Free trial Not stated Demo on request; Planview lists self-service trials only for AgilePlace and ProjectPlace, not for AdaptiveWork
Users 800,000 users across 600+ organizations Not stated
API Not stated Yes, documented REST API with separate EU and US endpoints
Hosting Planisware's own cloud, single-tenant servers in 12 data centers Cloud, delivered as SaaS with web and mobile apps
Made in Not stated United States (Planview, Austin, Texas)
Resource planning Yes, supply, demand and bottleneck views across the portfolio, what-if simulations and skill-based capacity planning, with resource demand estimated from templates, by analogy or with AI Yes, real-time capacity against current workload, analysis of over- and under-allocated people, and what-if modelling of resource decisions
Task planning Yes, a Gantt engine with PERT diagrams and work breakdown structures, Earned Value and Stage-Gate, list, kanban and timeline views, and agile teams, sprints and SAFe trains Yes, Gantt charts and work breakdown structures, with waterfall, agile and hybrid delivery in the same system
Time tracking Yes, task-level effort tracking on mobile and desktop with configurable approvals, feeding actuals back into projects and portfolios Yes, billable and non-billable hours and expenses booked to the work item or project, with an approval workflow
Reporting and controlling Yes, real-time dashboards and ad-hoc reporting with drill-down, standardized portfolio status reports and export to PowerPoint, PDF and Excel Yes, configurable reports and dashboards, plus financial management covering budgets, cost and revenue forecasting
AI features Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support Email helpdesk more entries Email helpdesk, Community forum
Onboarding more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Guided onboarding, Personal consulting Documentation and knowledge base
Company size Enterprise Enterprise
Integrations more entries Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, SAP, Oracle Fusion Cloud, Oracle NetSuite, Anaplan, Jira, Azure DevOps, Broadcom Rally, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik, Workday, Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365, ServiceNow, Okta, SharePoint, Box, DocuSign, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Oracle Primavera, OnePager, Tray.io, Apache Kafka Jira, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Excel, Slack, Box, Google Workspace, SAP, Oracle NetSuite, Oracle E-Business Suite, Zendesk, Tableau, Procore, Ziflow, Gainsight, Zapier

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The short version

Key Differences

  • Hosting Planisware Planisware's own cloud, single-tenant servers in 12 data centers Planview AdaptiveWork Cloud, delivered as SaaS with web and mobile apps
  • Support Planisware Email helpdesk Planview AdaptiveWork Email helpdesk, Community forum
  • Resource planning Planisware Yes, supply, demand and bottleneck views across the portfolio, what-if simulations and skill-based capacity planning, with resource demand estimated from templates, by analogy or with AI Planview AdaptiveWork Yes, real-time capacity against current workload, analysis of over- and under-allocated people, and what-if modelling of resource decisions
  • Task planning Planisware Yes, a Gantt engine with PERT diagrams and work breakdown structures, Earned Value and Stage-Gate, list, kanban and timeline views, and agile teams, sprints and SAFe trains Planview AdaptiveWork Yes, Gantt charts and work breakdown structures, with waterfall, agile and hybrid delivery in the same system
  • Time tracking Planisware Yes, task-level effort tracking on mobile and desktop with configurable approvals, feeding actuals back into projects and portfolios Planview AdaptiveWork Yes, billable and non-billable hours and expenses booked to the work item or project, with an approval workflow

Every line is one datapoint from the table above, picked automatically. Nothing here is written text.

The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Planisware

Strengths

  • Strategy, portfolio, resources, finance and delivery in one platform
  • Editions preconfigured for PMOs, IT, R&D and capital projects
  • Single-tenant cloud with control over where data is stored

Limitations

  • Aimed at portfolio offices rather than the day-to-day work of a small team
  • Five editions to choose between before a purchase

Planview AdaptiveWork

Strengths

  • Portfolio intake, project plan, resource capacity, time and project financials sit in one system rather than in separate tools
  • Waterfall, agile and hybrid delivery are supported side by side, with Jira connected for teams that stay there
  • Documented REST API plus prebuilt connections to Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, NetSuite and Oracle E-Business Suite

Limitations

  • No published prices, so budgeting for it takes a sales conversation
  • No self-service trial; Planview lists one for its AgilePlace and ProjectPlace products but not for AdaptiveWork

Plans

Pricing

Planview AdaptiveWork

  • Quote-based Not stated Planview publishes no price list for AdaptiveWork; quotes come from sales.
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What users say

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Planview AdaptiveWork

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Where this comes from

Where this comes from

Planisware https://planisware.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-26

Planview AdaptiveWork https://www.planview.com/products-solutions/products/adaptivework/ · no check date recorded yet

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