Basecamp vs Planview ProjectPlace comparison

37signals and Planview are both solutions in the Project Management Software category. 37signals is ranked #32, while Planview is ranked #26. 37signals holds a 1.0% mindshare in PMS, compared to Planview’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of 37signals users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Planview users who would recommend it.

Basecamp

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66% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Basecamp and Planview ProjectPlace compete in the project management category, aiming to enhance collaboration and productivity. Planview ProjectPlace appears to have the upper hand due to its extensive features, which justify its higher pricing for users needing robust project management tools.

Features: Basecamp focuses on simplicity with task management, file sharing, and communication tools to enhance team collaboration. Planview ProjectPlace provides advanced solutions, including Gantt charts, workload management, and detailed reporting.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Basecamp offers quick setup with intuitive navigation, supported by a self-service model and community resources. Planview ProjectPlace, while involving a more complex deployment, offers dedicated customer service to ensure smooth adoption and tailored support for businesses.

Pricing and ROI: Basecamp's pricing model is competitive with low initial costs, delivering substantial ROI for small to medium teams focusing on essential features. Planview ProjectPlace requires higher initial investment but is justified by its extensive functionalities and strategic benefits, attracting companies needing comprehensive project management.

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Categories and Ranking

Basecamp

Ranking in Project Management Software

32nd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

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Planview ProjectPlace

Ranking in Project Management Software

26th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Basecamp is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planview ProjectPlace is 2.2%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Abenazzer Tadesse

Chief Operations Officer at BeOnline ICT

An easy-to-use project management solution with good stability and scalability

The recent update on the solution has made it a little bit complex. For example, to create a team and a project, there is a separate button that you need to click. Recently they updated it with only one button making it difficult for us to create teams or supply teams other than a project. Hence the solution could be more user-friendly. Additionally, some additional features need to be integrated so it'll be easy for other companies or project managers to manage software projects.

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Eduardo Maya

PMO at Hoteles City Express

A complete and useful solution, but it should be easy to use, and they should provide fast support

Their support team should provide the answers fast because it impacts our daily operations. We use the app every day. We have about 70 projects managed in the app, but their responses are too slow. They can take three or four days to analyze a problem. We have a connection-related problem, which is impacting our daily operations, but we have had the same status for the last two months. It is not easy. The deployment of the application and its functionalities are not easy. It is a complex process to create accounts, names, and catalogs. There should be more operational reports. They have a set of internal reports, but they can't be customized. You don't have the permissions to configure your own reports, which is a very big issue. Currently, you have to ask for permission in order to configure simple filters. You have to ask a third party to configure it. It is expensive, and it also takes a lot of time.

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Pros

"The ability to network informally is great for communicating with colleagues."

"The ease of use is valuable."

"I love the collaborative nature just from my role to help. I'm a strategist. I help manage those large strategic projects. Implementation is one significant piece of my role, but I love the collaboration that can exist within the tool."

"Clarizen's slide publisher is one of my favorite features."

"Projectplace has excellent collaboration features, including some nice kanban boards. We use DocuSign, and Planview just integrated it into Projectplace, so that was helpful. And I like the fact that it links to Enterprise One, the other Planview tool that we use to manage our capital portfolio."

"The workspace ease, navigation, and portfolios are the most valuable aspects of this solution. I just got access to the portfolios from my upper management, so I'm able to look at our specific SRE portfolio to see what's a priority, look at how many hours we've tracked, and things like that. I'm not so much included in the budgeting but it's important to see what projects are higher priority and so forth."

"Projectplace absolutely supports collaboration in real-time. It's probably one of the best tools out there for collaboration. It affects the project's progress quite a bit. I have started two very similar projects in two separate business units, on very similar teams. I did one with Enterprise One, I did one with Projectplace just to see how the mileage would vary. The one with Projectplace had a very short cycle time so we were able to finish the project earlier. The one with Enterprise One was less engaging and it took a little more time. Because we were tracking the tasks inside the schedule it was not on the cards."

"Right from the initial steps, we found this product easy to use."

"Planview Projectplace is a really good solution for document sharing and keeping track of the history of changes in the document. I also like that you can have everything you need for a project in one place, for example, for documentation, planning, and even resource planning."

"The most useful features of Planview are its integration with resource management and the ability to commit and reserve various resources."

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Cons

"The solution could be more user-friendly."

"The product isn't easy to use. It's not very intuitive."

"If the mobile app were improved to show more information then it would be good."

"I believe that the graphs, reporting, and connection with the slides are areas that need improvement."

"The reporting end of it needs improvement. There should be more reporting, more data at your fingertips. It should be easier and a little more user-friendly. I know there is some there, but it's just how do you get more meat on the bones, if you will, of what's available."

"They should also improve the interface. There are other competitors like Microsoft Project for the web, Wrike, Team Gantt who have a way better, modern user interface."

"We'd like to see a heartier connection between Projectplace and Enterprise One. We know that's on their roadmap, but they haven't gotten there yet. Planview could also make better use of Projectplace's template capability."

"In terms of what could be improved in Planview Projectplace, it would depend on the purpose, because if you talk about resource planning, from my perspective, it's not the best tool. It would also depend on the company itself, for example, I've been working with another company and Planview Projectplace was needed more for workload and resource planning purposes, and I don't think the solution covered those purposes well. Its resource planning and workload functions need improvement."

"The time reporting is an excellent feature that they can show from an individual. The only problem I see is the description field. You can't increase that field, like to pull the column and widen the column that I've seen. I'm not seeing anywhere you could do that. Because you may have some of these cards that start with the same name and you only have so much real estate. There should be a way to adjust those columns somewhat so you can look at the description or hover over it and it tells you what the description is."

"Planview is a resource management and project management system. Projectplace allows you to create boards and associate some of Planview's work breakdown structure as a top-level tree under which you can place cards, but there are many limitations because when you make a change in Planview, it is reflected in Projectplace. However, except for a few specific things, changes made in Projectplace are not ported back to Planview. At this point, they're two completely different products. The flaw is that there is very little integration between the two."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I would say the licensing maturity was probably a three out of five. They have a long way to go before they can scale out and retain enterprise customers."

"I believe it is a good value for money for the service they provide and the tailored program. When compared to Microsoft Project."

"It can be expensive, but if you see the functionalities and the processes, it's not as expensive as other applications. We pay about 1 million Mexican Pesos per year for all 100 licenses."

"I think the price of Projectplace is highly reasonable for the amount of functionality that you get. We have what they call a FLEX License. That means you get Projectplace, Enterprise One, and Leankits all on the same license. That's great because then you can use the other products without any additional cost."

"The cost of this product is mid-range. It's not too expensive but not the cheapest on the market."

"In my opinion, the pricing is reasonable."

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Computer Software Company

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Overview

Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool developed by Basecamp and launched in 2004, with a new version being launched in 2012. Basecamp offers to-do lists, wiki-style web-based text documents, milestone management, file sharing, time tracking, and a messaging system. Basecamp Classic also offers integration with Basecamp's own Campfire product, and features APIs that are used by a host of web and mobile apps. Basecamp Classic's interface is available in different languages (e.g. Spanish, French, Italian, German, Finnish and Japanese). The newer version of Basecamp currently only supports English as the interface language.

37signals

Getting work done is easy when your team has the best project management tools that enable traditional and accidental project managers to plan and execute work with their teams. Planview ProjectPlace offers a wide range of powerful work and project management tools that enable traditional and accidental project managers to plan and execute work with their teams, track progress in real time, and ultimately achieve goals.

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