--- description: Review of Planview PPM Pro 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 PPM Pro | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [IT Project Management Software](/directory/3203/it/software) > [Planview PPM Pro](/software/5566/innotas-ppm) # Planview PPM Pro Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/5566/innotas-ppm Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/5566/innotas-ppm?page=2) > Many PMOs run their portfolio without a real system of record. Projects live in spreadsheets, inboxes, and separate tools, so leaders make investment decisions on incomplete or stale information, and status often comes down to whoever raises it loudest rather than what the data actually shows. Key resources get pulled onto too many projects at once because no one can see demand against capacity across the whole portfolio, so conflicts surface only after a project has already slipped. When priorities shift, and they always do, reprioritizing the plan takes weeks of manual modeling instead of hours. And because every project manager runs their own process, cross-portfolio comparisons end up meaningless. The PMO spends its time assembling reports about the work rather than managing it. Planview PPM Pro is cloud-based project portfolio management software built to solve these problems directly. It centralizes portfolios, resources, financials, and reporting for PMO teams, giving PMO leaders and resource managers a shared system of record, and supports waterfall and hybrid delivery with governance for work intake, financial tracking, and reporting. The Resource Workbench addresses the over-allocation problem head-on: it gives resource managers a centralized, real-time view of demand versus capacity across all open projects, with Skills Profiles for matching resources to project requirements and capacity planning for both employees and contractors. Predictive Portfolio Analysis automatically identifies the highest-value project mix given current resource and budget constraints, and What-If Analysis lets teams manually model staffing and timing changes against available capacity before committing to them, cutting reprioritization from weeks to hours. Configurable request forms and scoring models solve the inconsistent-process problem, routing new work through categorization, sizing, and approval, with distinct workflows, gate owners, and approval rules by request category. Approved requests automatically generate or update projects, so work always enters through a governed path rather than an inbox. Financial management tracks budget, forecast, and actuals at the task, project, and portfolio level, including capitalization tracking for capex versus opex classification, replacing the politics-driven, gut-feel version of portfolio decisions with numbers everyone can see. Reporting runs through PPM Pro's R2D2 engine, supporting Bubble, Pie, Spiderweb, Donut, Column, and List report types, configurable health indicators, and calculated fields that let teams derive custom metrics from existing project data for tailored KPIs without a new data model. Reports can be published, exported, and distributed on a recurring schedule, and Planview.Me widgets give stakeholders self-service access to timesheet approvals, request approvals, task views, and data visualizations without needing full application access, so the PMO stops being the one manually assembling every report. PPM Pro also supports new product development portfolios, applying stage-gate workflows and scoring models to NPD pipelines the same way they apply to IT project intake. Anvi, Planview's AI capability, adds an Insights Widget for AI-powered portfolio health analysis and anomaly surfacing, with an Anvi Chat conversational interface available in early access for project queries and portfolio summaries. PPM Pro connects natively with Planview AgilePlace and ProjectPlace for hybrid delivery teams, and integrates externally with Jira, Azure DevOps, and Cherwell. To help teams get to value quickly, PPM Pro is available with structured FastTrack implementation packages, ranging from a focused two-month configuration engagement to a broader four-month engagement, giving new customers a governed starting point without a full custom implementation. > > Verdict: Rated **4.0/5** by 7 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.0/5** | 7 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 3.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 3.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 70% | (7/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Planview - **Founded**: 2000 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Contact Planview for pricing information. - **Target Audience**: 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - API - Agile Methodologies - Alerts/Notifications - Bar Chart - Billing & Invoicing - Budget Management - Budgeting/Forecasting - Bug Tracking - Change Management - Client Portal - Collaboration Tools - Colour Codes/Icons - Customizable Fields - Dashboard - Data Synchronisation - Data Visualisation - Document Management - File Sharing - Gantt/Timeline View - Idea Management ## Integrations (2 total) - Jira - Zendesk Suite ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [IT Project Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/3203/it/software) ## Related Categories - [IT Project Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/3203/it/software) - [Marketing Project Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/1815/marketing/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) - [Task Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/1412/task-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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This is especially good if you want to create a portfolio framework at the enterprise level. 4) Very good reporting capabilities and easy to learn and use. > > **Cons**: The costing module requires a bit of knowledge. So before digging into this module spend time with your project costing team to learn the basics. Otherwise ensure to involve your Subject Matter Experts in project costing to set up this module. > > I am a consultant and I help organizations select Portfolio/Program/Project Management software. The range of projects that my client manage per year ranges from 60 project/year to 800 projects/year. The complexity of the project ranges from basic to very complex. I found Planview can adequately accommodate the range and complexity. ----- ### "Great Collaboration Tool to Improve Efficiency of Work" — 5.0/5 > **Sanusi** | *28 March 2021* | Higher Education | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The various set of different tools that are available to manage meetings and documents all makes work easier for everyone > > **Cons**: There are not many dislikes in the software except for the fact that the user interface can be improved a bit to make it more user friendly. > > Planview PPM is used across most departments in my school to plan and control projects. It is a very useful tool that has helped to foster collaboration among various teams in the organization. ----- ### "Innotas for Project and time tracking" — 3.0/5 > **Susan** | *24 February 2017* | Insurance | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10 > > **Pros**: Look and feel > > **Cons**: Entering time, entering resources on project, adding documents and versioning those documents > > Innotas has made many improvements this last year which have been great bring the product into the 20th century. However they still have work to do. Adding documents to the project is cumbersome and time consuming. A drag and drop feature would be better and versioning is no longer available. The task enter has been modified but seeing the name of the task is to small they need to make it so you can resize the column. Entering resources on a project is time consuming as you need to enter in 2 places and then on each task. Over all the product is good but with further improvements it could be much better. ----- ### "Planview PPM Pro helps\!\!" — 5.0/5 > **Shaivya** | *18 August 2020* | Nonprofit Organisation Management | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: A great help for HR department and in my company mainly for time manamgement records for the employees. Another department also uses the same in order track the task management for the team and tracking the tasks assigned for the different Releases of our project. For Senior leadership, dashboards have been helpful. > > **Cons**: A little time consuming when it comes to maintaing detailed information on specific tasks. I have to then maintain another task sheet in my local system to tally the details. > > The total segregation of the employees data is maintained along with their time management by HR team. ----- ### "Managing Project and Application Portfolios Using The Cloud" — 5.0/5 > **Rakesh Sharma** | *11 February 2013* > > I would definitely recommend it. Innotas takes the complexity of portfolio management and drills it down to a sophisticated simplicity. Comprehensive integration with third-party applications and an extensible API further strengthen the case for this solution. Highly recommended. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/5566/innotas-ppm?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/5566/innotas-ppm) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data