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Project Portfolio Management
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software helps to optimize an organization's project portfolios, collecting and consolidating data across multiple projects to assist in managing risks, resources and timelines.
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Latest Research
IBM is changing the terms of its ubiquitous Passport Advantage agreement to remove entitled discounts on over 5,000 on-premises software products, resulting in an immediate price increase for IBM Software & Support (S&S) across its vast customer landscape.
Latest Research
The application portfolio management (APM) tool space can be a confusing one, as many software vendors offer their own take of what APM is. Enterprise architecture, application management and project portfolio management tools offer an APM use case, but these are often quite skewed the primary function of the tool.
Project Portfolio Management Products
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LiquidPlanner
LiquidPlanner
Only LiquidPlanner creates schedules automatically based on project priorities and predicts through dynamic calculations the most likely completion dates of all your projects. Simply prioritize work for your team and get a realistic picture of when it will get done. As priorities shift, you'll instantly see the impact of changes in your business.
8.8
Composite Score
9.2
CX Score
+96
Emotional Footprint
88%
Likeliness to Recommend
25
Reviews
TeamDynamix
TeamDynamix PPM
TeamDynamix offers a combined Service & Project Management platform: ticketing, incidents, problems, asset / configuration, change management and project portfolio management – all in one. The solution is highly flexible and configurable – configured to YOUR level of ITIL adoption – with a WCAG 2.0 AA compliant portal branded to YOUR company. Project Portfolio Management as you like it – use waterfall, agile, card wall or task lists – depending on the project type. The platform is easy to use, own & operate – with no coding/scripting. Webhooks & APIs accommodate integration and all is supported by a full service implementation & support team at TeamDynamix.
8.6
Composite Score
9.2
CX Score
+95
Emotional Footprint
91%
Likeliness to Recommend
59
Reviews
Wrike
Wrike
Wrike combines project management with a real-time workspace for collaboration, discussion, and document sharing. It provides online project management software to set up priorities and align your team to work faster and smarter across your organization.
8.5
Composite Score
9.0
CX Score
+90
Emotional Footprint
89%
Likeliness to Recommend
78
Reviews
Mavenlink
Mavenlink
Mavenlink gives your team a cloud-based solution for managing the entire project delivery lifecycle. Complete projects, track time, plan resources, and monitor financial performance - all in a single, user-friendly application. Know the performance of every project, profitability of every client, and utilization of every resource - so you can replicate what works.
8.5
Composite Score
9.0
CX Score
+92
Emotional Footprint
91%
Likeliness to Recommend
27
Reviews
Changepoint
Daptiv
Daptiv PPM by Changepoint is a project portfolio management (PPM) tool designed and built with real organizations and people in mind. It delivers robust out-of-the-box PPM functionality to fit the needs of your organization today, with the ability to customize and mold to fit the needs of your organization tomorrow.
8.4
Composite Score
8.5
CX Score
+86
Emotional Footprint
84%
Likeliness to Recommend
22
Reviews
ONEPOINT Projects
ONEPOINT Projects PPM
ONEPOINT Projects provides many practical features that help you in everyday project and portfolio management. Every feature is designed to be IPMA, PMI, and PRINCE2 standards compliant and as powerful as possible without making it complicated to use. Our key design goals are clarity and ease of use.
8.3
Composite Score
8.5
CX Score
+88
Emotional Footprint
82%
Likeliness to Recommend
36
Reviews
KeyedIn Solutions
KeyedIn
At KeyedIn, our mission is to make our customers more successful by empowering them to place the right bets, turn quickly and deliver faster. As a leader in Agile Portfolio Management, KeyedIn offers a suite of SaaS solutions that support business transformation, strategy realization and organizational change. The company’s award-winning products go beyond simple project management to encompass portfolio analysis, scenario modeling, capacity planning, product portfolio management, strategic resource management and more – supporting the evolving needs of PMOs, ePMOs and SROs.
8.0
Composite Score
8.4
CX Score
+89
Emotional Footprint
79%
Likeliness to Recommend
21
Reviews
Microsoft
Microsoft Project Online
Microsoft Project Online is a flexible online solution for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work. Delivered through Office 365, Project Online enables organizations to get started, prioritize project portfolio investments and deliver the intended business value—from virtually anywhere on nearly any device.
7.7
Composite Score
7.8
CX Score
+76
Emotional Footprint
79%
Likeliness to Recommend
119
Reviews
IBM
IBM Rational Portfolio Management
Focal Point provides product and portfolio management driven by market needs and your business objectives. This comprehensive solution helps you prioritize and select the right investments, balance change with business demands and align resources to deliver the right products at the right time. Now your executives and teams can make decisions that deliver greater value to your customers and your business.
7.7
Composite Score
7.9
CX Score
+76
Emotional Footprint
79%
Likeliness to Recommend
16
Reviews
Atlassian
Advanced Roadmaps for JIRA
Advanced Roadmaps for Jira (previously known as Portfolio for Jira) enables realistic strategic planning, regardless of how many teams or people you have working towards your goals. It provides a single source of truth into the health of your projects.
7.4
Composite Score
7.8
CX Score
+74
Emotional Footprint
77%
Likeliness to Recommend
23
Reviews
Deltek
Deltek PPM
Deltek's PPM software suite easily integrates cost, scheduling and resource information enabling the program team to get reliable program status, earned value reports they can trust, and better understand and show the value of program controls information. As a full suite of true, project management enterprise software, Deltek PPM solutions can be used individually or all together for end-to-end program and project success.
6.5
Composite Score
6.3
CX Score
+56
Emotional Footprint
66%
Likeliness to Recommend
32
Reviews
Broadcom Inc.
Clarity PPM
Application Portfolio Management with CA Project & Portfolio Management (CA PPM) is designed to help organizations simplify and reduce risks of the Application Portfolio, helping you bridge the gap between growing technology demands and available budget. Application Portfolio Management delivers a fact-based decision-making methodology that can reduce the costs and complexity associated with managing a modernized and optimized application portfolio.
5.6
Composite Score
5.4
CX Score
+38
Emotional Footprint
62%
Likeliness to Recommend
24
Reviews
Sciforma
Sciforma PPM Software
Information Technology Governance is a framework for leadership, organizational structures and business processes, standards and compliance to these standards. This framework ensures that the organization's IT supports and enables the achievement of its strategies and objectives, and is used by many IT departments, as well as financial and software industries.
9.5
Composite Score
9.8
CX Score
+99
Emotional Footprint
90%
Likeliness to Recommend
7
Reviews
Smartsheet
Smartsheet
Smartsheet is the best way to plan, track, automate, and report on work, enabling you to move from idea to impact — fast.
9.4
Composite Score
9.7
CX Score
+100
Emotional Footprint
93%
Likeliness to Recommend
13
Reviews
Accelo
Accelo Projects
Accelo goes beyond simple planning and collaboration; it manages your projects against budgets, scheduled & resources in real time. It gives you a powerful platform to respond to change without creating mountains of work or admitting defeat to chaos.
9.1
Composite Score
9.5
CX Score
+98
Emotional Footprint
87%
Likeliness to Recommend
9
Reviews
Planisware
Planisware PPM
Planisware provides a high-level portfolio level and detailed information on projects for educated decision-making, helping organizations keep the entire portfolio aligned with overall corporate strategies and objectives, and enabling them to secure the highest return on investments.
8.5
Composite Score
9.1
CX Score
+97
Emotional Footprint
71%
Likeliness to Recommend
6
Reviews
Planview Inc
Planview PPM PRO
Planview PPM Pro™ software (formerly Innotas®) provides the ability to collect, prioritize, and execute projects, enabling PMOs to focus resources on the work that delivers the most value.
8.4
Composite Score
8.7
CX Score
+88
Emotional Footprint
83%
Likeliness to Recommend
13
Reviews
Planview Inc
Planview Enterprise
Planview Enterprise is an end-to-end portfolio and resource management solution that allows you to integrate the planning and execution of those portfolios. The impact of any business application is measured by its ability to turn data into information that leads to better decisions. Unique to Planview Enterprise, and a major benefit to you, is a focus on rich portfolio analytics and reporting that provides the visibility you need to make the decisions that drive the business forward.
8.2
Composite Score
8.6
CX Score
+80
Emotional Footprint
84%
Likeliness to Recommend
8
Reviews
ConnectWise
ConnectWise Project Management
Best practices in project management require two essential elements: collaboration and coordination. ConnectWise gives you both, ensuring a smooth-running project from beginning to end. Whatever you can imagine from a project management tool, you can do with ConnectWise and its integrated project management capabilities and system-generated templates.
8.2
Composite Score
8.6
CX Score
+91
Emotional Footprint
87%
Likeliness to Recommend
5
Reviews
Oracle
Oracle Primavera
Primavera offers extreme performance to manage Engineering and Construction work across the Enterprise. Integrating project controls specialties to transform the business and deliver success every time.
8.1
Composite Score
8.6
CX Score
+82
Emotional Footprint
81%
Likeliness to Recommend
13
Reviews
Tivitie
Tivitie PPM
The key to delivering project value is building highly productive teams that can find the information they need instantly to do their work and achieve their business goals. Today, project teams must be able to collaborate virtually anywhere, via any means, to keep the conversation active and the projects progressing. Connecting people empowers productivity, increases knowledge and builds confidence; confident teams outperform disconnected project teams every time.
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Composite Score
5.8
CX Score
+65
Emotional Footprint
56%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
3P Works
3PWorks PPM
3P Works is a Project Portfolio Management Software, meaning it is designed to help business leaders, PMOs & Project managers to make sense of their full portfolio of projects. Our cloud-based platform is easy-to-use and provides our clients with the information they need to make informed and intelligent decisions to advance their business.
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Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Antura
Antura Projects
Antura Projects is a complete solution for Project, Portfolio and Resource Management. Our goal is for Antura Projects to always be the first choice for all organizations that require an established PPM-system with powerful functionality that can be implemented quickly and is easy to use.
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Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Augeo
Augeo6
Augeo is a complete solution for PPM that organizes and automates all activities related to the life cycle of projects right from the initial evaluation of the idea until the completion of the project. Augeo includes powerful features to optimize project planning, the use of resources associated with different tasks, evaluating the progress of the project, the reporting as well as a dynamic analysis of portfolio performance.
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Composite Score
8.8
CX Score
+100
Emotional Footprint
78%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
Upland Software, Inc.
Upland PPM
Upland provides three best-of-breed project portfolio management (PPM) applications focused on the unique requirements of today's diverse users. We empower user adoption and productivity by providing the right tool for the right job, addressing: strategic top-down portfolio management, tactical bottom-up project management and collaboration, simplified project and portfolio management.
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Composite Score
--
CX Score
+33
Emotional Footprint
63%
Likeliness to Recommend
3
Reviews
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IBM is changing the terms of its ubiquitous Passport Advantage agreement to remove entitled discounts on over 5,000 on-premises software products, resulting in an immediate price increase for IBM Software & Support (S&S) across its vast customer landscape.
Latest Research
The application portfolio management (APM) tool space can be a confusing one, as many software vendors offer their own take of what APM is. Enterprise architecture, application management and project portfolio management tools offer an APM use case, but these are often quite skewed the primary function of the tool.
Latest Research
KeyedIn released version 7.0 of its flagship product, KeyedIn Projects, featuring support for the transition to an increasingly Agile-focused IT shop. Work is assigned to Agile teams when the individual assignment is impractical.
Latest Research
To provide a single pane of glass for the work done across disparate teams, Planview announced a strategic partnership with Tasktop to expand its Agile Scaler offering. Now, organizations can aggregate the work of various teams into a portfolio and assess status and the financial impact to business objectives and analyze dependencies across different teams.
Latest Research
Earlier this year, Mavenlink announced a PSA-supporting function for targeting and tracking the ratio of billable vs. non-billable time. Consultants get a useful feature, but what about the garden-variety IT knowledge worker?
Latest Research
Wrike’s Laura Quiambao recently blogged about the dangers of employee burnout and highlighted how Wrike Resource can help. It’s tough to argue with her four proposed solutions, but a fifth component is absent from her analysis: engaged, responsible portfolio ownership.
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Workfront recently announced its acquisition of Atiim, a leading OKR (Objectives and Key Results) vendor. It plans to offer an integrated tool set called Workfront Goals in the coming year, connecting the objectives tracking front end (OKR software) to its work management application (Workfront, formerly known as @Task).
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Planview is marketing its automatic timesheet feature as something that enables capitalization of Agile investments and promotes the scale out of Agile itself. But the real question is: how does the software automatically produce timesheet data?
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Clarizen launched Clarizen Go in the last quarter of 2019. Intended to assist the transition to agile workflows, Clarizen Go claims to make creating and moving tasks during a project easier, while also improving visibility into the portfolio with integration with Clarizen One.
Latest Research
While Mavenlink’s press release on its Future of Work survey doesn’t map the findings back to the software itself, we’ll fill in one of the gaps: Mavenlink can help with your work-life balance, assuming that your leadership decides to play along.
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Clarizen and Procore announced a partnership in October that aims to “help construction companies improve agility.” The functional rationale makes sense, but what’s the vendors’ strategic business rationale? Relevance.
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ALM Works Structure for Jira enables Atlassian customers to track and manage projects at scale.
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Atlassian embraces the reality that roadmaps and plans are living, breathing, and continually changing.
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Intake and backlog management are two of the top reasons for failed product and feature delivery. Skop.es brings the analytical and management practices to visualize, quantify, and verify and validate the delivery of the right requirements.
Latest Research
As enterprise IT organizations are trending towards resource management offices, they are signaling the need for improved resource management usefulness from top PPM vendors.
Latest Research
Workfront exemplifies the classical software paradigm of automating systematic, exacting tasks to free up users for creative work. Workfront is a resource management tool that gets integration right but underwhelms on collaborative value.
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VirtoSoftware, a company that focuses on creating add-ons for SharePoint and Office 365, has introduced product that intends to bring simple resource management to your project portfolio within SharePoint. While the function looks simple on the surface, some of the pitfalls of larger portfolio suites are still a concern.
Latest Research
Atlassian is a top provider of software to support Agile development work management and portfolio management. Its impending acquisition of AgileCraft now provides the means to address the gap of aligning executive strategy with the delivery of Agile software solutions.
Latest Research
Stop thinking about backup and start thinking about data protection. Newer technologies are making it redundant.
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Our project portfolio management research practice helps a lot of clients who haven’t succeeded with full-blown PPM suites like Project Server and Clarity. Meisterplan is a portfolio and resource management tool but not a full project management–time sheets–document management solution. We took it for a test drive because many of our customers are looking for this type of tool.
Latest Research
There is no archetypal portfolio mix that all project portfolios should strive toward.
Latest Research
In finance services, it can be a gut instinct to manage and track human resource time in the same manner that we manage money – track every single thing that happens. The problem occurs when we put large amounts of effort into collecting granular data that is not informing any business decision, and is not changing any functional behavior. In the financial services industry, we would call that wasteful spending.
Latest Research
Executive decision makers are increasingly frustrated by the lack of timeline commitment coming from Agile projects. The leaders are reclaiming their ability to do their job, which doesn’t involve writing blank checks to unmanaged software projects. This is where the Portfolio Strikes Back.
Latest Research
The business needs IT to deliver more projects and work orders every day. Common activity and velocity-based metrics used by application development leaders do not create confidence that IT will deliver the solutions the business needs on time. Application development leaders must develop usable metrics to measure and manage IT throughput in order to win the business’ trust.
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