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Planisware vs PowerSteering comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Planisware
Ranking in Project Portfolio Management
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PowerSteering
Ranking in Project Portfolio Management
17th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Project Portfolio Management category, the mindshare of Planisware is 5.6%, down from 10.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PowerSteering is 1.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Portfolio Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Planisware5.6%
PowerSteering1.8%
Other92.6%
Project Portfolio Management
 

Featured Reviews

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.
it_user4230 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Product at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
Excellent portfolio management SaaS - strategy, savings, visibility
I haven't used the product for over a year, so this could be out of date but entering information was somewhat cumbersome. PPM systems in general are a challenge to keep populated with current information. The business priority of portfolio visibility must be communicated to users and reinforced that the project doesn't exist unless it's updated in the system.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"On a practical level, Planisware Enterprise is recognized pacesetter."
"Compared to other PPM tools, Planisware is more advanced."
"Overall, our company has all disintegrated systems, and with Planisware, we are getting a very integrated view of my portfolio reporting, cost and load, and everything else."
"Planisware offers integration with multiple tools and provides a good level of customization."
"Planisware has improved our project visibility, resource utilization, decision-making, and cost control, leading to higher efficiency and better alignment between business strategy and project execution."
"We have a variety of different modules, but it is mainly used for costs, risks, and resources."
"It has an inbuilt BI tool, which can be compared to Power BI or Tableau."
"Planisware has introduced Agile concepts, making it capable of Agile management similar to Jira and other Agile tools."
"Very configurable software; almost any stage-gate process can be mapped and defined in the software giving excellent visibility to your project portfolio."
 

Cons

"I have experienced some issues, and that’s okay. It tends to be stable when the server's processing power and memory are adequate."
"The initial setup was complex."
"Apart from that, I didn't see much benefit out of it."
"The biggest con for Planisware is that if you are not a Planisware partner, you don't have access to their functions, making it difficult for beginners and new team members."
"Reporting out of PLW has been a definite weakness."
"The solution's user experience and user interface need improvement because they are not that great and intuitive."
"They do not have anything that can assist customers with multi-year roadmap planning."
"Planisware’s technical support process can be quite challenging, as it often takes significant time and effort to reach the right point of contact for issue resolution."
"Entering information was somewhat cumbersome."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are training and certification costs."
"The solution could be less expensive and the cost of scaling is expensive too."
"The solution is expensive and support is an extra cost. There are three license types to choose from, and we only pay for support and cloud services depending on our needs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
5%
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Company Size

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Small Business
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Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise16
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Planisware?
Planisware is very costly. I can comment that it's expensive, and even the consultants from Planisware charge a very high rate for their time. Generally speaking, they are expensive.
What needs improvement with Planisware?
The tool can be improved with integrations to Agile tools. We used Azure DevOps, which I dislike. Better integrations to JIRAs and perhaps open APIs for task management would be super beneficial. A...
What is your primary use case for Planisware?
My use cases involve building out a template library based on our methodology and continuing to iterate on that. We used a template, and basically, to start this out, we built out the template libr...
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Sample Customers

Apotex, Alstom Transport, HP, Stryker, Rexam, Jotun, Gelita, Kraton Performance Polymers, Abbvie, Rio Tinto Alcan, Maruho, Teva, SK Chemicals
Church Pension Group, UK Highways Agency, US Department of Defense, Electrocomponents, Novation, Staples, Molex, Polyone, NHS Lincolnshire
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