--- description: Review of Planisware Orchestra Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Planisware Orchestra | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice AU --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Project Planning Software](/directory/453/project-planning/software) > [Planisware Orchestra](/software/29045/planisware-orchestra) # Planisware Orchestra Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/29045/planisware-orchestra Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/29045/planisware-orchestra?page=2) > A TURNKEY SOLUTION TO PROPEL YOUR PROJECT AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT TO THE NEXT LEVEL With over 20 years of experience deploying project management solutions, Planisware Orchestra continues to lead the way in the Strategic Portfolio Management market. 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. OUR VISION OF THE CHALLENGES OF PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Traditional approaches to project management are no longer suited and do not fit with future objectives. At Planisware, we believe that portfolio success lies in an organization’s capacity to create links and facilitate exchanges between all stakeholders. Therefore, we see portfolios and projects as social spaces which need communication to thrive. The Planisware Orchestra solution was built to support you towards this objective and has 4 major objectives: 1. Empower managers with real-time access to the data health and performance of their portfolio. 2. 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.). 3. 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 ... 4. Offer project managers collaborative planning tools adapted to their context: waterfall, scrum, Kanban, hybrid planning, simple to-do lists, etc. > > Verdict: Rated **4.2/5** by 18 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.2/5** | 18 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 70% | (7/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Planisware Enterprise - **Location**: Châtillon, France - **Founded**: 1996 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: USD 45.00 - **Pricing model**: Per User - **Pricing Details**: For pricing information, contact Planisware Orchestra directly. - **Target Audience**: 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), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Chromebook (Desktop), Android (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish - **Available Countries**: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Activity Tracking - Agile Methodologies - Alerts/Notifications - Approval Process Control - Assignment Management - Attendance Tracking - Automatic Time Capture - Billable & Non-Billable Hours - Budget Management - Budgeting/Forecasting - Calendar Management - Capacity Management - Charting - Collaboration Tools - Commenting/Notes - Cost-to-Completion Tracking - Customizable Fields ## Integrations (7 total) - Jira - Kelio - Microsoft Power BI - Microsoft SharePoint - Microsoft Teams - SAP Business One - Tableau ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Project Planning Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/453/project-planning/software) ## Related Categories - [Project Planning Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/453/project-planning/software) - [Agile Project Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/3139/agile/software) - [Collaboration Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4138/collaboration/software) - [Project Tracking Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/1606/project-tracking/software) - [Marketing Project Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/1815/marketing/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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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. ----- ### "Orchestrating a plan" — 5.0/5 > **Antonio** | *25 July 2022* | Higher Education | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **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. ----- ### "NQI Orchestra Review" — 3.0/5 > **Vincent** | *9 July 2020* | Hospital & Health Care | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "Simple efficient and scalable" — 4.0/5 > **Vincent** | *31 August 2020* | Insurance | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "Very good tool, easily and intuitive to use on main functions." — 4.0/5 > **Thierry** | *13 July 2017* | Research | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/29045/planisware-orchestra?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/29045/planisware-orchestra) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data