Planisware Orchestra
About Planisware Orchestra
Planisware Orchestra is a SaaS solution for project portfolio and resource management with expertise in hybrid project execution environments.
With Planisware Orchestra, your project portfolio is at your fingertips. You can prioritize, schedule, and control your portfolio in real-time. You share best practices among collaborators of all skill-levels. You benefit from Planisware's experience with ready-to-go packages that accelerate deployment.
MANAGE THE FULL PROJECT LIFECYCLE FROM A SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH
- From idea to launch: With Planisware Orchestra, collect and centralize ideas, evaluate the strategic value, cost and benefit each idea with ease and transparency. Compare and prioritize projects, to identify the most interesting to launch.
- Collaborative Planning: Create projects from pre-defined templates, manage schedules, delegate phases, and combine project planning methodologies as needed (Waterfall, Agile, Stage-Gate...).
- Resources & Cost Management: Leverage accurate data to better manage workload and costs. With Planisware Orchestra you can adequately allocate your resources: project participants and budgets.
- Collaboration tools: Share and track data, interactions, and documents in a single platform. As the single source of truth, Orchestra enables a shared understanding of key milestones in a project’s life cycle.
- Reporting & dashboards: With Planisware Orchestra, communicate instantly with dashboards that automatically consolidate key project indicators and data collected by your team.
- Portfolio prioritization: Manage the overall progress and strategic value of your programs and portfolios. Orchestra enables informed decision-making based on your resource capacity and budget.
Key benefits of Planisware Orchestra
Planisware Orchestra is built to support you towards 4 major objectives:
- Empower managers with real-time access to the data health and performance of their portfolio.
- Support a common project culture that unites all project participants regardless of their level of maturity and their role (operational, strategic, financial, final user, etc.).
- Help portfolio managers establish the ideal mix of projects to achieve strategic objectives. This requires the analysis of requests and projects in all their components: strategic value, costs, resource requirements, risk profile, benefits ...
- Offer project managers collaborative planning tools adapted to their context: waterfall, scrum, Kanban, hybrid planning, simple to-do lists, etc.
Images
Not sure about Planisware Orchestra?
Compare with a popular alternative
Starting Price
Pricing Options
Features
Integrations
Ease of Use
Value for Money
Customer Service
Alternatives
Jira
Meisterplan
Kantata
Cerri Project
Reviews
Already have Planisware Orchestra?
Software buyers need your help! Product reviews help the rest of us make great decisions.
- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great app !
Reviewed on 01/07/2017
Pros
I particularly appreciate the integration of different features : project management, ressources management, budget, time tracking. We also implemented specific features apart from project development like non-conformity treatment, executive committee decisions management, customised reports
Cons
My company find it a bit expensive but it worth it. Needs a real training to get the full performance.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Orchestrating a plan
Reviewed on 25/07/2022
Pros
It's a versatile tool with lots of options for customization. I can see large or small organizations getting great use from the functions, with a careful assessment of your individual needs. Lots of ways to visualize progress on projects. It also has paths for simplifying the user experience for different members of the team. What I/we perhaps like most about the software is the ability to not only plan the project, but assign resources (allocate) at different increments (hours, % of FTE, days) - and to have that information push automatically to the individual owners of those allocations for task management and time reporting.
Cons
UI still needs some sharpening (and I've seen the teams improve on this since we signed on). Limited integrations with other commonly used software.
Reasons for Choosing Planisware Orchestra
Previous tools and approaches could look forward to build a project plan, and look backwards to report time, but could not look forward to align resource needs with the project plan. Our resource needs were often an educated guess at best.- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
NQI Orchestra Review
Reviewed on 09/07/2020
We started with a new version of Orchestra : 7.0. This version wasn't mature and we faced many...
We started with a new version of Orchestra : 7.0. This version wasn't mature and we faced many bugs.
Ramp-up is not easy (Planning, budget and Ressources management).
Owerall, this tool is good, there are good ideas and functions. Now, the next step should be to simplify the User interface. Some idea : include more batch actions, simplify Planning > Gantt (only one view), simplify Project Ressource Management by displaying ressources need more easyly >> too many clicks to display ressrouces need.
Pros
- Integration between projects and ressources
- Customisation with the Designer
- Possiblity to export lists
Cons
- "Clicodrome". Too many click to do something. No possiblity to do "batch" actions in lists.
- Timesheet workflow validation too restrictive
- In project Budget and project ressource management no possibility to express the ressource need by competencies. Only ressource type is available >> too restrictive as a ressource can have only one "type". Most of organisation have ressources that can do many activities in projets (Project management and business analysis for exemple). Assign ressources by type is too restrictive. Real need to asign ressources by competencies.
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Simple efficient and scalable
Reviewed on 31/08/2020
We stard with Planisware Orchestra in 2011. First to manage IT projects and then gradually to...
We stard with Planisware Orchestra in 2011. First to manage IT projects and then gradually to manage all IT activities. This tool has evolved a lot since 2011 and allows us today to manage the entire activity, workforces load and budgets forecasting.
Pros
Capapcity to manage large organizations and numerous resources.
Easy to use without too many concessions on advanced features.
Scalable solution both in terms of users and functionalities.
Great local support (France).
Suitable for RUN and BUILD activities.
Numerous intégration possibilities (flat files, datamart, Reporting Tools, etc.)
Cons
Agility is not perfectly managed. Kaban could be smoother.
Reasons for Switching to Planisware Orchestra
Simplicity, Scalability, SaaS, Price- Industry: Research
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Very good tool, easily and intuitive to use on main functions.
Reviewed on 13/07/2017
The main benefits are in the simplicity of navigation and use for the end-users: very good design...
The main benefits are in the simplicity of navigation and use for the end-users: very good design and organization of the activity with fast access to the interesting information for the different level of the organization.
Pros
Orchestra is tool very appreciated by the users. Its design is clear and intuitive, which allows the different users to navigate inside the tool after 1 hour of training. Its use is also sufficiently simple for the occasional users (1 time per month or less) to re-find the menu without a new reading of the user guide.
The access is simple and efficient from a location. We use it to manage the R&D activity of several laboratories in the world with more than thousand users and several thousands of projects follow by the system. The simultaneous connection of several dozens of users induces no difficulty. Each one can make his job: his creation or updated of project information.
This tool offers the possibility to add specific modules require by additional needs. Support team is rather efficient and provides a good assistance for small difficulty or misunderstanding. Nevertheless, the new developments require very accurate specifications from the final user in order to reach quickly the new functions.
Cons
There are no clear dark points about this software. Some specific attentions must be brought to the recording time (storage of the data) for specific functions. This time can increases with the number of manipulated elements or for specific functions. It is not a real issue, except in the case of long set of data recording.
Planisware Orchestra FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Planisware Orchestra.Q. What type of pricing plans does Planisware Orchestra offer?
Planisware Orchestra offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: USD 45.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
For pricing information, contact Planisware Orchestra directly.
Q. Who are the typical users of Planisware Orchestra?
Planisware Orchestra has the following typical customers:
201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Planisware Orchestra support?
Planisware Orchestra supports the following languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
Q. Does Planisware Orchestra support mobile devices?
Planisware Orchestra supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Planisware Orchestra integrate with?
Planisware Orchestra integrates with the following applications:
Jira, Kelio, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, SAP Business One, Tableau
Q. What level of support does Planisware Orchestra offer?
Planisware Orchestra offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
Related categories
See all software categories found for Planisware Orchestra.
