Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management vs Planview Daptiv comparison

Software AG and Planview are both solutions in the Project Portfolio Management category. Software AG is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.0, while Planview is ranked #17. Software AG holds a 2.2% mindshare in PPM, compared to Planview’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of Software AG users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of Planview users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management and Planview Daptiv compete in IT portfolio management. Alfabet has the upper hand in pricing and customer support, while Planview Daptiv is noted for its robust features.

Features: Alfabet offers comprehensive analytics, strategic IT alignment, and the ability to auto-calculate RTO between applications. Planview Daptiv is praised for its portfolio view, excellent reporting, and resource allocation and capacity planning functionalities.

Room for Improvement: Alfabet could enhance its user interface and speed up data processing, and offer more integration options. Planview Daptiv may benefit from improving initial setup time, offering more training resources, and expanding its customer support operations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Alfabet provides a user-friendly deployment model with excellent support services. Planview Daptiv offers a customizable deployment process, which might require more time, but compensates with detailed guidance and comprehensive support resources.

Pricing and ROI: Alfabet is seen as delivering good value for its cost with a clear ROI due to its strategic management features. Planview Daptiv, despite a higher initial cost, is seen as a worthy investment offering strong project management features and potential significant returns.

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Categories and Ranking

Alfabet IT Planning & Portf...

Ranking in Project Portfolio Management

13th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Planview Daptiv

Ranking in Project Portfolio Management

17th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Project Portfolio Management category, the mindshare of Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management is 2.2%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planview Daptiv is 1.3%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Mohammad Shalan

Head of Business Agility and Development at Aqarat Real Estate Development Company

Helps us to implement and understand the status of our projects

The initial setup is straightforward. The solution's deployment takes around two months time. We have to set up the solution. We have to put in the data to ensure that the solution is working. We need to fill out our process, our tools, and our data. Two developers were involved in the deployment process. It is a self-maintained solution that requires updates from time to time. I rate the setup an eight out of ten.

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Antonio Lira

Territory Manager LATAM at LeaseWeb

Do not be afraid to migrate to cloud solutions

I started using Daptiv PPM at SAP R/3, 22 module implementation, with over 80 functional team members, in different geographic locations. It definitely gave us the opportunity to centralize all schedules per module and assemble work teams for each subproject, binding them with co-dependent tasks in other modules. This type of tool allowed us to finish the back office stage just a week behind the original baseline, a real record for SAP R/3 implementation.

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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 dashboard is the most valuable feature."

"The powerful collaboration is definitely the most valuable and the fact that you can adjust flexibility to almost any methodology, and the easy creation of complete new functionalities without programming code."

"The timekeeping features are great and very helpful."

"Changepoint gives us a view of the project status and needs very clearly, which are things that we used to miss with MS Project and Excel."

"I like the reporting engine, IBM Cognos, especially the analytics. That's a good tool. It's quite strong on the ideation and capacity-planning side, which is a huge plus."

"It's difficult to pinpoint just one most valuable feature, as there are many features that can be beneficial. For the specific use case of my client's project management office, they found the project management features of the application to be particularly valuable, such as project boards, reporting, and the ability to customize views. Additionally, task management and project scheduling were also highly utilized. However, capacity planning was not used as much as the others, as there was a lack of support from executives to invest in training and implementing it due to a lack of processes in place. The project planning features, dashboard, and reporting capabilities were considered the most valuable."

Cons

"The user-experience, enhanced performance, and in-hand governance can be improved."

"Expense management, simulation scenarios, and budget control could be great and useful features to include."

"This solution needs more standard connectors to other solutions."

"The areas that should be improved in Planview Daptiv are a subject that can be viewed differently depending on who you ask. I feel they should focus on excelling in one specific area rather than providing average capabilities in many areas. For example, their project planning software is satisfactory but not as advanced as Microsoft Projects. The same goes for the capacity planning tool and reporting capabilities, which can be improved upon by using custom Excel spreadsheets or by hiring a business analyst for additional support. In short, the biggest weakness of Daptiv is that it does not excel in any one area and only provides average performance."

"It would also be nice to see some improvements on the IBM Cognos Analytics. There's still work to be done on the analytics side of things, like your condition formality."

"I find the solution has an excessive amount of features. Many aren't even kept current. Some aren't useful at all. There's an overall lack of coherence within the solution. It can make the execution difficult. Many features can easily be eliminated and it would help streamline the solution. They should get rid of 80% of the features and then really focus on the leftover 20% to make it a really great product."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive. There is a yearly licensing cost. There are no additional costs, only the standard license, and the cloud license."

"It's a yearly license, but it's not an open license. It's based on users and their roles. So your administrator is priced differently from your timesheet user."

"The licensing is pretty complex. Each kind of user is a different price. It's approximately $300 per year. They charge additional fees for technical support and other additional services."

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Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management?

The dashboard is the most valuable feature.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management?

The solution is expensive. There is a yearly licensing cost. There are no additional costs, only the standard license, and the cloud license.

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What needs improvement with Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management?

The user-experience, enhanced performance, and in-hand governance can be improved.

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Overview

Software AG's Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management Platform provides decision-makers with insight into the IT portfolio to make the right IT investment decisions and to plan how IT will support the business in the future.

Software AG

Daptiv by Changepoint is an industry-leading Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solution that helps businesses connect strategy to execution. Plan and monitor your portfolios from a top-down perspective to ensure you’re investing in the right projects to align with the overarching goals of your business.

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Sample Customers

FUJITSU, Coca Cola, ING, CreditSuisse, CosmosDirekt, GTA, Echo Entertainment Group, Electrolux, Cern

AOS Studley, Austrian Airlines, bpost bank, Employees Provident Fund, Stena Metall, VitalityHealth, Precor

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