--- description: Review of Planview AdaptiveWork Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Planview AdaptiveWork | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Task Management Software](/directory/1412/task-management/software) > [Planview AdaptiveWork](/software/2531/clarizen) # Planview AdaptiveWork Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/2531/clarizen Page: 1 / 8\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/2531/clarizen?page=2) > Organizations managing multiple portfolios often reach a point where their tools no longer match how they work. Teams moving off consumer-style work management tools or disparate PPM tools lack consolidated visibility and consistent governance across portfolios. Resource management stays reactive and spreadsheet-based until multi-portfolio complexity makes that approach unworkable. Financial tracking is thin, making it hard to demonstrate portfolio value or make informed funding decisions. And PMO leaders spend hours manually gathering data to answer basic status and risk questions. Planview AdaptiveWork is project and portfolio management software built to address these problems directly. It supports waterfall, agile, stage-gate, and hybrid delivery in one governed system, so teams work in the model that fits them without switching methods. Governed workflow automation addresses governance that can't scale. Administrators build and change low-code workflows for any step in the portfolio and project process without writing code, and changes ripple automatically across hundreds or thousands of projects at once. Bidirectional reporting addresses poor financial and portfolio visibility. It connects top-down portfolio-to-project and bottom-up project-to-portfolio views of financials, resources, and delivery progress, tracked by specific time period rather than total spend alone. Time-phased resource and capacity planning addresses reactive, spreadsheet-based resource management. It covers thousands of resources, including employees, contractors, and equipment, across a planning horizon that extends years forward and back. The AI Staffing Optimizer ranks resources by fit score against skills, cost, location, and experience. An extensible data model addresses tool fragmentation. Every standard object, custom field, and custom object automatically generates its own API endpoint, so AdaptiveWork connects to existing ERP, ALM, PLM, HR, and BI systems without middleware. Planview Anvi, available as an add-on, addresses manual portfolio interrogation directly. Embedded across AdaptiveWork's core functionality, Anvi answers natural language questions about any project, program, or portfolio using live data, proactively flags cost, timeline, and resource risk against baselines through a risk identification agent, runs sentiment analysis across project text fields, and automates recurring status reporting through scheduled agents. A work plan agent surfaces recommendations at project initiation based on successful delivery patterns, and a Portfolio Optimizer recommends which projects to keep or deprioritize based on defined KPIs. In-app AI also includes a text assistant for shortening, lengthening, correcting grammar, and translating project text, and a chat interface for help and guidance, project analysis, summarization, recommended actions, and email generation. AdaptiveWork is available standalone or with Planview Anvi, Advisor, and OKRs as additional add-ons. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 177 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 177 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Planview - **Founded**: 2000 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Per User - **Pricing Details**: Planview products are delivered on a per-user/per-year basis. Please contact us to learn more\! - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese - **Available Countries**: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Accounting - Activity Dashboard - Activity Tracking - Agile Methodologies - Alerts/Notifications - Approval Process Control - Assignment Management - Billing & Invoicing - Budget Management - Budgeting/Forecasting - Business Process Automation - CRM - Calendar Management - Capacity Management - Change Management - Charting - Client Portal - Collaboration Tools ## Integrations (24 total) - Asana - Azure DevOps Server - Box - Dynamics 365 - GitHub - GitLab - Google Drive - Jira - Microsoft Excel - Microsoft SharePoint - NetSuite - OneLogin - Polarion ALM - QuickBooks Online - SOFTRAX Revenue Management System ... and 9 more integrations ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Task Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/1412/task-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Task Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/1412/task-management/software) - [Project Portfolio Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/1937/ppm/software) - [Online Project Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/436/web-based/software) - [Construction Management Apps Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/1722/best-apps/software) - [Nonprofit Project Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/3863/nonprofit/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Additionally, we can quickly visualize those activities that require the most attention from project managers by quickly inspecting our Gantt charts or boards, and this follow-up can be related to the financial plan, resource management, or even registration and validation. of project milestones.With Planview AdaptiveWork we can make a comprehensive follow-up of our projects and reduce the costs associated with supervision since it guarantees efficient planning, execution, and control, in addition to the fact that it has the ability to make very complete reports for stakeholders. > > **Cons**: Planview AdaptiveWork is a very complete tool, capable of giving us 360-degree visibility, and it is easy to use by experienced project managers and trained in this branch of knowledge, however, it may be for those who do not know the theory in detail. In project management, it is a bit laborious to familiarize yourself with capacity planning, versioning, API support, critical path, and more.That being said, it is a great platform, developed to manage both small projects and project portfolios, and allows collaborative work in the organization. > > Planview AdaptiveWork is robust and effectively scalable. It has features and implementations that distinguish the brand and is widely adopted in multiple organizations.It has multiple key functionalities for any organization, such as project portfolio planning, intelligent resource management, email interaction, and mobile collaboration, as well as being excellent for project financial management. In general, its use creates an immediate positive impact on organizations, which are favored by increasing visibility and optimizing the use and collaboration of company personnel. ----- ### "'A Robust, Present-day, Web-based Collaborative Management Tool'" — 5.0/5 > **Angela** | *12 July 2024* | Higher Education | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Its very useful for workplace coordination, connecting staff and enabling real-time visibility in projects. A Robust Tool with useful functionalities that make work management and collaboration easy. > > **Cons**: Reporting needs to be more intuitive. There's technical issues with its search functionality as well. > > It sets me up very well for coordinated workflow management, workplace connection and collaboration. Ensuring seamless operations and streamlined activity. ----- ### "Efficient PPM with Offline Access Capabilities: Planview AdaptiveWork" — 5.0/5 > **Samantha** | *14 September 2026* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Planview AdaptiveWork allocates robust PPM (project, portfolio management) capabilities in one place. I like the centralized project collaboration board which streamlines business processes through workflow automation. > > **Cons**: Planview AdaptiveWork is the KING of PPM, I crown it because it is the only tool I have used so far with offline access. ----- ### "PM tool is not bad, but integrated time/expense/invoice processing did not work." — 1.0/5 > **Jonathan** | *9 May 2018* | Automotive | Recommendation rating: 2.0/10 > > **Pros**: Project management tool is comparable to MS Project. Users that are looking for a subscription PM product rather than purchasing MS Project may benefit from this software, but I am not sure if all PM features are available out-of-the-box at cheaper subscription levels. > > **Cons**: Although the PM tool is comparable to MS Project, it also comes with a level of complication also comparable to MS Project. Full functionality of PM (i.e. including resource management) requires buy-in by all departments/users in the company, and this is difficult to acheive in large or diverse organizations. Our company implemeted this software with the goal of bringing project management together with time reporting, expense reporting, and invoice processing. The purpose of implementing Clarizen was to have a centralized system where we could report project status by including all relevant metrics on the project in a list or detailed view, e.g. planned time vs. actual time, planned cost vs. actual cost, and project manager comments/narrative on goal vs. result. This purpose was never realized. Clarizen underestimated the work effort to develop customizations, which resulted in the time module never being completed, the expense/invoice modules were cumbersome to use, the related approval workflows had many problems, and support from Clarizen management was almost non-existent. We are now taking a different approach. No longer do we believe that one system can handle all our needs, and so we have adopted different systems with some integration between them to try to bring together all project-related data. > > We got very little benefit from this software, as it did not perform as expected. ----- ### "Robusta Project Portfolio Management GURU that has Offline Access Capabilities \~ by Director of S\&M" — 5.0/5 > **John.** | *16 September 2026* | Renewables & Environment | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Planview AdaptiveWork allows me to create Gantt timelines for real-time product launches and campaigns. I also like how Planview AdaptiveWork streamlines project collaboration and business process management under one roof. > > **Cons**: I can’t even recall the last issue that I encountered while using Planview AdaptiveWork and I have used it for nearly five years now. ----- Page: 1 / 8\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/2531/clarizen?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/2531/clarizen) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data