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IBM Engineering Workflow Management vs Planview AgilePlace comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
IBM Engineering Workflow Management boosts productivity by 30%, enhancing team efficiency and leadership insights with user-friendly tracking features.
Sentiment score
6.7
Planview AgilePlace eases administrative burdens, supports remote work, and satisfies board demands despite some users' focus on anecdotal benefits.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.1
IBM Engineering Workflow Management offers reliable, skilled support with effective local vendor assistance, though customization and forum support are limited.
Sentiment score
8.0
Planview AgilePlace's support is praised for responsiveness and effective assistance, though feature enhancement timelines can be frustrating.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
IBM Engineering Workflow Management is scalable and adaptable, with some integration challenges and performance improvement needs noted by users.
Sentiment score
7.3
Planview AgilePlace supports large-scale operations, effective integrations, and agile methodologies, ensuring stable performance and benefiting diverse global teams.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.7
IBM Engineering Workflow Management's stability varies with customizations, server factors, and deployment planning, affecting performance for some users.
Sentiment score
7.7
Planview AgilePlace and LeanKit are praised for stability, with minimal downtime and quick resolution of issues.
 

Room For Improvement

IBM Engineering Workflow Management faces challenges in integration, customization, usability, vendor reliance, and requires enhanced tools and cloud adaptability.
Planview AgilePlace users seek improved integrations, scrum, reporting, project management features, and pricing adjustments for better functionality and flexibility.
Improved graphics in terms of metrics and connectivity to SharePoint from Microsoft products would be beneficial.
 

Setup Cost

IBM Engineering Workflow Management offers flexible licensing with complex yet worthwhile pricing, yielding strong ROI and excellent support.
Enterprise users find Planview AgilePlace pricing worthwhile, appreciating FLEX licensing for application consolidation and favorable agreements.
 

Valuable Features

IBM Engineering Workflow Management enhances software development with task linking, traceability, agile support, and seamless change management integration.
Planview AgilePlace boosts productivity with customizable Kanban boards, easy work tracking, and seamless integration for enhanced project management.
It provides more efficiencies for our scrum team, ensures everyone is on the same page, and offers leadership insight into progress.
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Engineering Workflow Ma...
Ranking in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools
10th
Average Rating
6.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Software Configuration Management (4th)
Planview AgilePlace
Ranking in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools
11th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Enterprise Agile Planning Tools category, the mindshare of IBM Engineering Workflow Management is 1.3%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planview AgilePlace is 2.0%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Suvajit Chakraborty - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers good traceability elements but UI needs improvement
There is room for improvement in the UI. The UI has to improve a lot compared to the competitive tools, like Atlassian Jira, for example. It's very easy to use. It is easy to manage and easy to use. Anybody can learn it right quickly and start with it. But IBM ELM is something where somebody has to have good knowledge, training, and understanding and then only start using it. But there's a big known knowledge curve for IBM ELM. But once that is there, it's normally; organizations do have their own internal team to basically manage it IBM ELM portfolio, the tool chain. So if they have internal teams who are doing it for quite some time, not something new, then it is definitely better. But if there's if somebody is starting new, definitely there is a knowledge curve time it can take at least a year or maybe a couple of years before they can start realizing the benefits.
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Gives us visibility into projects and enables users to leave comments on different projects
We use the submit feedback button pretty often. I encourage the teams to use that if they see anything that could be improved. But we've been really happy with how fast LeanKit improves. The biggest improvement would be the API and data connections and making the data more accessible or quicker to access. One of our team members has brought up actual-time tracking on a card as a potential improvement. They had an interest in knowing how long a specific card had been worked on by a specific user or somebody that was assigned to that card. But there's not really a way for them to start and stop a time that they were actually working on it, except for if we created a different lane and they dragged it into the lane and then stopped using it in the lane. They requested that there'd be some sort of timer function on each one of the tasks.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
19%
Government
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Healthcare Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Insurance Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Engineering Workflow Management?
We can track the status of test cases (passed or saved) in a single view. Based on releases and other attributes, we generate various reports and extract metrics from the data.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Engineering Workflow Management?
I've heard IBM Engineering Workflow Management is more expensive than other tools. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten.
What needs improvement with IBM Engineering Workflow Management?
Improved graphics in terms of metrics and connectivity to SharePoint from Microsoft products would be beneficial.
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Also Known As

IBM Rational Team Concert (IBM ALM), IBM RTC
Planview LeanKit, LeanKit
 

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Sample Customers

Telstra Corporation, Visteon, Atos SE, Panasonic Automotive Systems, IBM Global Technology Services, CareCore National, JTEKT Corp., ItaÒ BBA, Avea, CACEIS, Danske Bank Group, APIS IT
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