Current Project Management Software Comparison
| Translated by Julian Hammer
The quest for a good PM software can quickly get out of hand. Luckily, software comparisons can help you not to lose your bearings. Currently, the new BARC studies, the evaluation portal for business software Trusted, and the expert portal for project management topics projektmagazin.de evaluate PM software. PLANTA successfully participates in software comparisons and assessments on a regular basis.
PLANTA in Software Comparisons
Trusted
In Trusted’s project management software test, PLANTA project is ranked “best hybrid system”. The comparison and evaluation portal for business software Trusted has compared 23 tools which are currently on the market. PLANTA is the top solution for hybrid project management.
BARC Study PM Software
In the 10th „Software-Systeme für Projektmanagement“ market overview by Mey Mark Meyer, 17 of the leading multi-project management software solutions, including PLANTA, are analyzed on the basis of 300 individual criteria. PLANTA is evaluated, a.o., as follows:
“The scheduling function and resource planning should leave nothing to be desired, even in complex projects. (…) This is how you build up a multi-project information system. The software is not only suitable for the planning and controlling of complex projects, e.g. in plant construction, but it can also be used to, e.g., prepare projects and process project applications systematically as well as to evaluate the impact of new projects on the project portfolio. (…) The completely integrable component „PLANTA pulse“, which can also be used as a standalone, enables you to also coordinate agile and hybrid projects within the portfolio.” For further details on this, see BARC.
projektmagazin.de
PLANTA project takes a leading rank with 92 % range of functions and 92 % software quality in a current project management software comparison. Of approx. 60 PM software suppliers which are listed on projektmagazin.de, 40 PM systems were systematically evaluated and verified in the assessment of consulting company Le Bihan. In this software assessment, the software manufacturers present their software tools based on an evaluation system which is divided into the following phases with their own respective catalog of requirements:
- General features
- Initiate projects
- Plan projects
- Carry out projects
- Finish projects
- Program and portfolio management
The specialty in the evaluation procedure of this assessment is that the quality is taken into account independent of the range of functions. Hence, there is always one value which represents the range of functions and one value which appreciates the software quality.
PPM Practice Test by CSP AG
This test, which evaluates PM software in practice, is carried out every three years based on a key subject. In 2016, PLANTA took a leading rank in all of the three thematic fields: Management cockpit, PPM cockpit, Project cockpit. In 12 of 15 areas of evaluation, PLANTA made the 1st place in a comparison of 10 PPM tools which are currently on the market — including CA PPM, MS Project, and Projektron BCS..
The central topic of this practice test is of particular importance for management and persons responsible for projects who want to systematically plan and control the project portfolio of their company with a PPM tool. PLANTA Portfolio provides a quick overview of the status of the existing portfolios and helps you to invest in the “right” projects which are expected to comply best with the company strategy.
Also with respect to the Standard version of the tool criterion, the branch-independent project management and project portfolio management software PLANTA project and PLANTA portfolio scores the best rating. The system allows for a “quick operational readiness” on part of the customer and “an option for making individual adjustments” and mapping own processes flexibly in the system.
PLANTA received particularly high ratings (more than 90%) in the PPM practice test in the fields of prioritization, portfolio by criteria, status survey and project progress. In Portfolio by status, Project progress and project risks, PLANTA gains a lead of 10% over the other project portfolio management tools
You can download the report on the PPM practice test 2016 by CSP AG from CSP Ag’s website.
