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We performed a comparison between Planview Portfolios and Serverless based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Architecture Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Planview Portfolios vs. Serverless Report (Updated: September 2026).

Planview Portfolios vs. Serverless

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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

6.4

Planview Portfolios boosts visibility, efficiency, and decision-making, supporting strategic alignment and enhancing collaboration and operational performance.

Sentiment score

5.7

Serverless significantly cuts costs and development time, enabling efficient scaling, faster issue resolution, and substantial ROI improvements.

It also delivers a set of shared metrics focused on customer value, such as speed and quality, to achieve business results while being able to roll up objectives and key results in the system where work gets done to ensure strategy informs execution and vice versa.

Project Manager at 3M

Reports and real-time analytics enhance real-time data-driven decision making.

Customer Service Representative at Roche

I also love the ability to provide visibility and transparency across an organization; it allows us to create custom reports and dashboards for easy data analysis, hence making data-driven decisions easily.

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Project Manager at AT&T

It saves money, time, and requires fewer people for a project because one person can handle everything, deploying using a single command, with testing and running all managed seamlessly without needing multiple people for various purposes.

Tarikul Islam

Software Engineer at CyberSquadInc

By reducing our monthly infrastructure spend by about 30%, we eliminated the idle capacity costs we were previously paying for underutilized EC2 instances.

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FullStack Developer at EnactOn Technologies

We handle deployment more than 80 percent faster, so we do not need to have a specialized DevOps engineer as my full-stack skills cover it.

Sachith Delaga

Lead Software Engineer

Customer Service

Sentiment score

8.3

Planview Portfolios customer service is mixed, with proactive support but occasional slow resolutions and varying assistance quality.

Sentiment score

5.2

AWS customer support is praised for fast, efficient service and understanding of Serverless, despite some monitoring limitations.

The customer support for Planview Portfolios has been quick to respond and very proactive since I have reached out to them several times.

Project Manager at AT&T

The customer support for Planview Portfolios is very proactive and responsive.

Jackson Vince

System Engineer at BNY

The customer support for Planview Portfolios is very proactive and responsive.

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Project Manager at AT&T

We tried to reach out for some issues and received quick responses.

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Working For M Bank at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Whenever we reach out to them, they quickly reply to us.

Nk Kumar

Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra

When issues arise, I rely on AWS for detailed insights, but the lack of direct access can be limiting.

Hamza Sharif

Cloud Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Planview Portfolios scales effectively for enterprise use, integrating well with tools, despite performance issues with large data loads.

Sentiment score

5.8

Serverless offers automatic scalability and cost efficiency, adapting to demand, but faces limitations with large-scale systems.

The scalability of Planview Portfolios is very effective, and it handles all of my organization's projects and tasks.

Jackson Vince

System Engineer at BNY

Planview Portfolios is very scalable because it grows with the organization.

Customer Service Representative at Roche

Planview Portfolios is very scalable because it handles my organization's growth, allowing us to work with both small projects and big projects at the same time.

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Project Manager at AT&T

For instance, when I launch an app using Serverless and the load increases, the necessary CPU and RAM scale automatically without requiring any additional configuration from me.

AnilKumar13

Devops Engineer at EDAG

It allows users to run multiple requests at the same time and is able to handle even thousands of requests concurrently.

Daniel Asha

AI Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Serverless automatically handles large requests coming to any Lambda and will automatically scale.

Nk Kumar

Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

9.1

Planview Portfolios is reliable and stable, with minor performance issues often linked to external factors or large configurations.

Sentiment score

8.0

Users praise Serverless for stability and high uptime, attributing this to AWS integration and automated scaling, despite minor issues.

Planview Portfolios is very stable; I have not experienced any downtime.

Project Manager at 3M

Planview Portfolios is very stable.

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Project Manager at AT&T

With five years of experience using Serverless services from AWS, I have encountered no outages or issues.

Hamza Sharif

Cloud Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Serverless is stable and very responsive.

Working For M Bank at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We have seen significantly higher uptime compared to our previous setup because the platform handles all the underlying patching and scaling automatically.

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FullStack Developer at EnactOn Technologies

Room For Improvement

Improving Planview Portfolios' integration, customization, automation, documentation, metrics, and UI could enhance user adoption and streamline management.

Serverless needs enhanced cold start performance, better tools, documentation, and scalability, along with improved memory and cost management.

An important improvement would be to add more automation features and provide more online documentation videos that would make it much easier to use for non-technical users.

Customer Service Representative at Roche

Additionally, there should be plenty of resources online, such as tutorials and videos on how to guide and how to use Planview Portfolios, especially with its robust features, explaining each feature and how it works.

Project Manager at 3M

Reporting flexibility is needed so that end users can create their own quick ad hoc reports for analysis and for better data-driven decisions.

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Project Manager at AT&T

It cannot run long-running processes, which keeps it from being a perfect ten.

Abubakkar Siddique

DevSecOps Manager at Ceital - Veroke - MRS

Beyond latency, I believe better observability and debugging tools for distributed Serverless architecture are critical.

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FullStack Developer at EnactOn Technologies

Probably it would have an integration with something like Terraform or another alternative.

reviewer2801481

SRE II at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Setup Cost

Planview Portfolios is costly but valued for large enterprises; the FLEX model offers flexibility, benefiting strategic alignment.

Serverless minimizes long-term costs with pay-per-use pricing, requiring minimal setup investment and reducing maintenance resource needs.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Planview Portfolios has been cost effective and affordable.

Customer Service Representative at Roche

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Planview Portfolios has been cost-effective and fairly pocket-friendly.

Project Manager at 3M

Planview Portfolios is one of the best and a very cost-effective tool.

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Project Manager at AT&T

I recently feel the licensing is a bit expensive.

Working For M Bank at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, I find the pricing model quite efficient for us, as we only pay for execution time in a pay-per-use model, eliminating the idle costs we saw with traditional servers.

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FullStack Developer at EnactOn Technologies

Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing experience, I find the application to be very cost-effective.

Sachith Delaga

Lead Software Engineer

Valuable Features

Planview Portfolios enhances productivity and decision-making through flexible reporting, resource management, and integration with Power BI.

Serverless automates infrastructure, offering auto-scaling, cost efficiency, language flexibility, rapid deployment, and enhanced developer agility with AWS integration.

This enhanced visibility in Planview Portfolios ensures that all users can easily track progress, identify bottlenecks, and make informed decisions to optimize workflow efficiency.

Project Manager at 3M

End-to-end visibility enables us to analyze performance data across the organization to measure the success of strategic initiatives with key performance indicators and make timely decisions to ensure outcome realization.

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Project Manager at AT&T

The comprehensive set of features empowers users to allocate resources strategically, analyze costs accurately, and align project timelines with available resources seamlessly.

Dwayne John

Project Lead at Wells Fargo

Serverless integrates with my existing tech stack and other tools seamlessly; it works flawlessly and is a service of its own, so it does not really affect anything else.

Mukesh Srivastav

Senior Software Engineer at Tech9

Serverless improves the release speed and deployment speed significantly compared to earlier when we used to deploy using Lambda SAM, reducing deployment time and becoming less error-prone, making it very useful.

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Working For M Bank at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

If you want to scale up, then Serverless is the best way. It is scalable and more secure, and it is on-demand, so it is easy to reduce or increase the load based on our needs.

Akbar Abdul Majeed

Programmer at a engineering company with 201-500 employees

Categories and Ranking

Planview Portfolios

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Project Portfolio Management (4th)

Serverless

Ranking in Enterprise Architecture Management

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Enterprise Architecture Management category, the mindshare of Planview Portfolios is 2.8%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Serverless is 0.5%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Architecture Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Serverless	0.5%
Planview Portfolios	2.8%
Other	96.7%

Enterprise Architecture Management

Featured Reviews

Centralized planning has improved resource visibility and supports data‑driven financial decisions

Project Manager at 3M

The best features Planview Portfolios offers are visibility enhancement, robust system performance, and comprehensive resource management. This enhanced visibility in Planview Portfolios ensures that all users can easily track progress, identify bottlenecks, and make informed decisions to optimize workflow efficiency. When discussing robust system performance, the system's robust performance in meeting our various work requirements effectively and efficiently stands out. It is very stable and reliable, contributing to a seamless user experience, which enables users to focus on their tasks without disruptions. I also love the financial breakdown, planning and prioritization, and attribute collection on projects in Planview Portfolios. Planview Portfolios has positively impacted my organization since I started using it. It has enabled me to gain insights into the full scope of work consuming resources. I am able to know where the resources are being consumed more, especially which resources are consuming the most. I have been able to leverage resources management and resource time reporting, which enabled the generation of $90 million in annual revenue through labor billing to customers.

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Sachith Delaga

Lead Software Engineer

Serverless workflows have boosted rapid AWS development but still need better CI and automation

Serverless has many advantages, and it is very easy to handle with a cloud solution. However, there are a few concerns about the limitations. Especially when I work with Lambdas, there are maximum Lambda timeouts. Likewise, there are several things from Serverless, such as maximum file uploads. Serverless can be improved by addressing the challenges faced when we have the first infrastructure. Sometimes it is hard because we need to manually create things such as Cognito pools. While 90 percent of the time is automated, more automation would be better. If Serverless provided CI/CD capabilities, that would also be great, as currently it only allows for manual deployments. Additionally, when working with cloud services, Serverless allows the use of LocalStack or Serverless Dev, but I think Serverless Dev might need simplification for easy access without organization registration. When considering needed improvements, I get frustrated with Lambda time and similar issues, which are actually not related to Serverless but rather are AWS issues. However, when discussing Serverless, the main points I see require improvement from the Serverless end.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Construction Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

28%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	66

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Planview Portfolios?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been that Planview Portfolios is one of the best and a very cost-effective tool.

What needs improvement with Planview Portfolios?

Planview Portfolios can be improved as the user interface defaults to the last opened portfolio, which can waste a lot of time loading a large portfolio if that is not what I need at that moment. J...

What is your primary use case for Planview Portfolios?

My main use case for Planview Portfolios is to ensure governance and decision auditability by incorporating embedded workflows, approval management, and key document retention supporting a single c...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Serverless?

The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was pretty straightforward and smooth. AWS has a number of in-built Serverless options, so you didn't really need to go to the marketplace. Th...

What needs improvement with Serverless?

I think we are moving in the right direction because AWS recently announced something regarding VMs and Lambda VMs for long-running Lambdas. There are also SnapStart and a few other things availabl...

What is your primary use case for Serverless?

We primarily run jobs on Serverless, specifically on AWS Lambda, using short-running jobs triggered by events. We can connect to an API Gateway for various purposes. For instance, if a client wants...

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Also Known As

Planview Enterprise One, Troux

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Overview

Planview Portfolios empowers executives, finance, and portfolio leaders by enhancing strategic investments, improving market responsiveness, and connecting strategy and execution for optimal visibility.

Planview Portfolios offers comprehensive strategic and project portfolio management to organizations. Automating and scaling these processes, it enhances speed-to-value, aligns strategic objectives with execution, and connects business and technology planning for optimal funding and resource capacity. Users gain end-to-end visibility, track progress, and improve decision-making by utilizing integrated financial and capacity planning.

What key features does Planview Portfolios offer?

Strategic Alignment: Aligns objectives and OKRs with execution to ensure strategic goals are met.
End-to-End Visibility: Tracks performance across the organization to support timely decision-making.
Dynamic Planning and Funding: Utilizes scenario modeling for flexible strategic investment funding.
Flexible Capacity Planning: Balances programs and staffing levels against available capacity.
Connected Technology Strategy: Aligns technology investments with strategic digital initiatives.
Adaptive Program Management: Manages dependencies, risk, and progress through integrated planning.

What benefits can users find in reviews of Planview Portfolios?

Workflow Efficiency: Enhances efficiency by minimizing bottlenecks and optimizing execution.
Improved Decision-Making: Provides comprehensive insights for better informed strategic decisions.
Financial Insights: Offers detailed financial tracking across projects for greater transparency.
Organizational Agility: Increases productivity and adaptability through a unified platform.

Planview Portfolios is implemented across projects in industries requiring strategic planning, resource allocation, and financial tracking. Organizations manage project lifecycle and integration with ERP systems on a centralized platform, utilizing customizable workflows and reporting tools to enhance efficiency and streamline team processes.

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Serverless revolutionizes application architecture by eliminating the need for server management, offering a scalable, cost-efficient approach for modern development needs. It enables developers to focus on writing code without the complexities of infrastructure handling.

Originally designed for enhancing agility, Serverless provides on-demand function execution, ensuring seamless scalability and rapid deployment. As a back-end architecture, it allows businesses to execute code in response to events and automatically manage the required resources, optimizing resource usage and minimizing idle capacity. This approach abstracts server provisioning, allowing developers to streamline workflow and focus on creating innovative solutions without dealing with infrastructure concerns.

What are Serverless's key features?

Event-Driven Execution: Triggers functions in response to specific events, automating execution based on user actions or data changes.
Dynamic Scalability: Adjusts resources automatically in real-time to handle varying workloads without manual intervention.
Pay-As-You-Go: Charges only for the execution time and resources used, optimizing costs and ensuring economical resource use.
Automatic Resource Management: Handles server provisioning, scaling, and maintenance, freeing developers from managing infrastructure intricacies.

What benefits should users expect in reviews?

Increased Developer Productivity: Allows developers to focus on code, leading to faster feature releases and quicker innovation cycles.
Cost Efficiency: Operates on a usage-based billing model, reducing overhead costs and financial wastage due to idle resources.
Enhanced Scalability: Seamlessly accommodates fluctuating demand, providing reliability and stable performance.
Reduced Time-to-Market: Facilitates rapid deployment and iteration, helping teams release applications faster.

Serverless finds application across industries such as e-commerce, where it handles app backends, and finance, for managing real-time data processing tasks. Its flexibility supports a diverse range of enterprise needs, including automated data collection in retail and transaction processing in banking.

Sample Customers

UPS, NatWest, Ingram Micro, Canadian Tire, Viessmann, Volvo, NASCO, UNESCO

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