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Campfire Interactive Opportunity Management vs Planisware comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
3.8
Campfire Interactive improved strategy and revenue, enhancing forecasting, accuracy, and efficiency, while saving time and reallocating tasks.
Sentiment score
1.0
Users find Planisware valuable for ERP projects, though opinions on ROI and satisfaction vary due to performance issues.
Previously, our younger team members would spend three to four days on data entry to compile information that we can now access instantly with Campfire Interactive.
Director of Sales at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We were able to find six labor equivalents or six individuals’ worth of incremental efficiency through the implementation of Campfire Interactive.
Vice President Business Development at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Enhancing our commercial strategy has been a significant advantage, resulting in millions of dollars in additional revenue that our sales team has been able to achieve through effective planning.
Director of Sales Planning at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is primarily used for the pharma vertical and related fields, and since we were running a full ERP digital transformation project in the life sciences domain, it suited that requirement very well.
Solution Architect at Think People
Sometimes I feel that the ROI is not optimal because we are totally dependent on Planisware's system stability.
Planisware Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Customer support for Campfire Interactive is praised for responsiveness and expertise, despite occasional delays with complex issues.
Sentiment score
3.2
Planisware's customer service is praised for expertise and resources but criticized for slow responses outside the US.
The team is always available to diagnose any issues, respond, and they respond quickly.
Director, Business Systems at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
When they secure many new contracts, the staff can be stretched thin to meet deadlines.
Global Manager of Sales Excellence at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Overall, their support is good to excellent, but if the issue is a little more complex, it can take a little longer.
Sales Analyst at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Their approach has been primarily reactive to customer questions and concerns, not proactive and comprehensively enabling.
Planisware Consultant at Comcast Business
We experienced a couple of issues, and they responded and resolved the issues and bugs promptly.
Solution Architect at Think People
The support was good, but there's more space for collaboration that we can do internally through Planisware, which was not the case.
Principal, Technical Project Management at Teletech Holdings
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
5.3
Campfire Interactive offers scalable opportunity management, efficiently handling data, teams, and applications, but flexibility and full package required.
Sentiment score
4.9
Planisware offers scalable solutions with stable performance globally, yet large-scale or customized setups may face challenges.
I don't have any concerns about scaling up for that. The concerns are more about implementation than scalability.
Market Intelligence & Sales Forecasting at RESRG Automotive
In terms of scalability, Campfire Interactive rates as either a nine out of ten.
Director of Sales at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability of the system is a ten out of ten.
Vice President Business Development at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Planisware scales effortlessly when hosted on decent Linux Server(s) with ample RAM and sufficient CPUs.
Planisware Consultant at Comcast Business
The scalability of Planisware is good, as when you want to implement changes, you need to manage the process with your collaborators.
Responsible for the Project Infrastructure at Comutitres
We experienced crashes in the upcoming year, but these mostly occurred on weekends, which minimized the impact on our users.
Planisware Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
Campfire Interactive is stable and reliable, despite occasional memory issues, downtime, and support-related performance concerns.
Sentiment score
6.5
Planisware is stable, especially the SaaS version, with minor bugs and server issues in the on-premises version.
When it slows down so much, we've had to have Campfire Interactive shut down the system and restart it.
Information Technology Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
If there is something that they feel is a bug or needs a fix that needs to be pushed through, we're able to work with them effectively to schedule those things and not be disruptive to the business.
Market Intelligence & Sales Forecasting at RESRG Automotive
There's a lack of global support when we have issues.
Global Director, Business Development & Marketing at Aludyne
They have made significant improvements, but still, there is a long way to go in terms of their flexibility, adaptability, and usability.
Solution Architect | Planisware Consultant at Schlumberger
Identifying and fixing bad data resolved stability issues about 80% of the time.
Planisware Consultant at Comcast Business
Sometimes the ROI is affected because we are totally dependent on Planisware's system stability.
Planisware Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Campfire Interactive needs improved user interface, flexible integration, advanced reporting, and better technical support for effective opportunity management.
Planisware needs improved integration, user interface, project management tools, and support for better collaboration and Agile methodology compliance.
Currently, if we receive a quotation for 20 parts, we can enter one opportunity in our homegrown system that allows us to list all 20 parts within that single opportunity, but Campfire Interactive requires creating separate opportunities for each part.
Director of Sales at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
They are looking into AI to make longer projections possible and to also improve the quality of the data that we have in the system to calculate this LOP based on historical data or IHS information.
Global Manager of Sales Excellence at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The issues are more related to technical service, specifically when we have an issue or problem with the tool, the communication gap, and the follow-through on issues that need improvement.
Market Intelligence & Sales Forecasting at RESRG Automotive
Extent of the client base and collective user expectations push priority improvements into new versions and resolve rare technical glitches rapidly.
Planisware Consultant at Comcast Business
Better integrations to JIRAs and perhaps open APIs for task management would be super beneficial.
Solution Architect at Think People
The reports should be improved because all companies now need reporting, and with tools such as Grafana or Tableau, Planisware needs to add interfaces for data lakes since all companies require this.
Responsible for the Project Infrastructure at Comutitres
 

Setup Cost

Campfire Interactive Opportunity Management is costly but offers valued features, clear pricing, and adaptable terms for enterprise buyers.
Planisware is costly with various licenses and requires significant investment in setup, support, and training for effective integration.
We had a one-time fee and now I think they are on a subscription model.
Forecasting Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
They were asking for a certain percentage increase, and we said that was not acceptable. They were willing to settle on a different number.
Market Intelligence & Sales Forecasting at RESRG Automotive
Campfire Interactive is on the expensive side, with approximately $100,000 to $120,000 in expenses.
Director of Sales at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I recommend planning for a playground environment (similar to develop) to allow pretesting of new releases without disturbing the integrity of the current develop environment).
Planisware Consultant at Comcast Business
 

Valuable Features

Campfire Interactive offers efficient opportunity management with real-time reporting, ERP integration, and user-friendly features for enhanced productivity.
Planisware offers robust project management with customizable views, built-in BI tools, enhancing decision-making, efficiency, and adaptability.
Since it's actually in a system and not being maintained in a spreadsheet, it has improved both time and accuracy.
Information Technology Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Now everybody is using one set of numbers, and this has helped us improve our revenue forecasting projections by 50%.
Director, Business Systems at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
What makes Campfire Interactive's sales forecasting feature stand out for me is that it is browser-based, making it a unified program solution for forecasting, viewing actuals, analyzing short-term trends, and using that information to create long-term strategies.
Sales Operations Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The tools communicate with other tools, making it effective, and when we have a new resource, we can add it and send it to the resource management team, who can view it in Planisware.
Responsible for the Project Infrastructure at Comutitres
Planisware Explorer (PEX) offers enhanced capabilities for reporting and charting that goes beyond the functions in the Report Builder module, such as dynamic queries.
Planisware Consultant at Comcast Business
 

Categories and Ranking

Campfire Interactive Opport...
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Project Management Software (9th), Opportunity Management (4th)
Planisware
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Project Portfolio Management (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2808297 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Sales Finance Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
New forecasting process has cut update time in half and gives instant, accurate sales visibility
From my perspective as an admin user, I like the fact that I am able to get data out much quicker and it is much easier to use than SAP. From my colleagues' perspective as actual users and key account managers, they appreciate it because it is much quicker than moving around in SAP. They can copy an opportunity and all that data gets transferred over, allowing them to update it extremely quickly. The rule-based access control of Campfire Interactive is excellent. We set up a bunch of different levels of what they can see. This was really important for GDPR compliance for our European colleagues regarding what data would be allowed to be seen by whom. We could set up access where key account managers are only able to see their relevant forecasts while giving access to a CBU leader who can see all of the people who report into them, and someone like an SVP can see everybody. Having that rule-based permission is really great. The forecast accuracy of Campfire Interactive is good. It is all dependent on the data you put into the system, but there are certainly no issues with FX translation or incorrect data somehow showing up. Whatever data you put in the system is accurately reflected when you pull the report. The biggest advantage I have seen with Campfire Interactive versus our previous system, SAP, is the speed to make an opportunity. Even going through the CPQ process, you can do it much faster having it all in one system. Being able to pull reports as an admin, I can pull reports on when people have made changes, which makes it much easier if someone makes a mistake or if I need to understand why certain data is present. We can go in and look at version history. Monthly we run a locked version so we can very easily compare what has changed month over month if there have been drastic changes. In our previous system, I would have various downloads of SAP and someone would ask me what changed, and I would be looking through my Excel download files trying to find a file with the two projects I could compare. Now, I just go into Campfire Interactive, go to reports, include frozen, and I can select whatever months I want and compare that exact project over multiple times. That is way quicker and way easier to use. I like the functionality of being able to pull reports right from the system, and data accuracy is great.
John Andrew Kossey - PeerSpot reviewer
Planisware Consultant at Comcast Business
Capably brings single source of truth to enterprise project portfolio management; provides consequential, flexible data display with effective visualization; integrated use of Agile, Kanban
Planisware helpfully distributes incremental updates on a quarterly schedule. Extent of the client base and collective user expectations push priority improvements into new versions and resolve rare technical glitches rapidly. What any single user or small client may earnestly request for increasing productivity may take years for development to start—unless one pays rather dearly for underwriting special services from Planisware’s offshore support group. Individual users, particularly those who suddenly lack affiliation with a paying client between jobs have been bottom priority in my experience. Service tickets don’t apply for this category of formerly active users. I recommend that Planisware provides formerly active users privilege of connectivity with Planisware “playground” environments that are periodically refreshed with a current release version. This new option would cultivate “hands on” proficiency in the overall Planisware user community.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
44%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
4%
Manufacturing Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise20
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise16
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Campfire Interactive?
I did not have to deal with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Campfire Interactive.
What needs improvement with Campfire Interactive?
Campfire Interactive can be improved as I would like a few things to be more user-friendly. The user interface is slightly dated, the reporting features are also dated, and for our specific busines...
What is your primary use case for Campfire Interactive?
My main use case for Campfire Interactive is opportunity management, reporting, and planning. A specific example of how I use it for opportunity management reporting and planning is budgeting and f...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Planisware?
It is customary to have at least three distinct Planisware environments per customer: develop; test; production. I recommend planning for a playground environment (similar to develop) to allow pret...
What needs improvement with Planisware?
Planisware helpfully distributes incremental updates on a quarterly schedule. Extent of the client base and collective user expectations push priority improvements into new versions and resolve rar...
What is your primary use case for Planisware?
Strategic planning and project execution, effectively orchestrated through Planisware Enterprise, can achieve value delivered. In other words, “make vision reality.” Expansive business transformati...
 

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