Its benefits extend to the centralization and control of projects, particularly in terms of maintaining consistency in defining tasks, projects, cost accounts, and other essential elements. This level of standardization is crucial for efficiency and clarity, especially in large organizations managing diverse projects with varying timelines and complexities. The software's strength lies in its adept handling of categorization, allowing users to tailor how projects are categorized based on their specific organizational needs. Moreover, it facilitates the creation of activity types and simplifies the development of project templates. These templates serve as master projects, enabling users to swiftly replicate and customize projects by leveraging pre-defined structures. The significance lies in the ability to replicate successful approaches consistently. When a company discovers an effective method, it can be seamlessly incorporated into Planisware. The result is a standardized language that remains consistent across various projects.

Planisware Enterprise offers very practical dashboards and bubble charts that visualize integrated advanced analytics. KPIs include resource load and risk levels; net present value; return on investment. Project data cleanly consolidates to portfolio views. Recently, One-pager (swimlane reporting) can integrate directly with Planisware Enterprise. Generating monthly reports for projects takes far less tedium and time.

Data exchange and integration with Office 365 and Google Suite applications continues to mature. Project managers can work productively from within Planisware Enterprise. Native access to MS Office Online applications from within E7 include interactive editing and data integration from corporate email, documents, and worksheets. Planisware project data, graphs, and consolidations can flow into PowerPoint slide presentations.

Software as a Service (SaaS) speeds up deployment and simplifies maintenance. Planisware earned ISO 27001 certification in late 2019Q1 for superior data security. Hosting E7 on local Linux servers remains an alternative 

Standardized colors and clearer icons have made the overall interface more modern, inviting, and usable than earlier releases. Documentation and tutoring videos, accessible to users online from within Planisware, has become abundant and professionally edited to a high standard. 

Our organization has greatly benefited from utilizing Planisware in regard to investment management. Planisware serves as a platform for all nine countries that we manage to submit their investment requests, which are then centralized and processed through an approval process all within the Planisware system. This centralized approach to investment management through the use of Planisware has greatly improved the functionality of our organization.

* Planisware Enterprise provides consistent, verifiable source of truth for project progress and costs. Standardized use across organization helps avoid disputes over whose spreadsheet (or slide) contains superior data.

* Predictive analysis examines prior data and helps solidify work effort estimations.

* Current release enables native access to MS Office Online applications from within including interactive editing and data integration from corporate email, documents, and worksheets. Planisware project data, graphs, and consolidations can flow into PowerPoint slide presentations.

* Software as a Service (SaaS) speeds up deployment and simplifies maintenance. Planisware earned ISO 27001 certification March 2019 for superior data security.

* Standardized colors and improved icons have made the overall interface more modern, inviting, and usable than earlier releases. Documentation and tutoring videos, accessible to users online from within Planisware, is abundant and professionally edited to a high standard.

1. Lessons learned from initial deployment usually warrant subsequent "refreshed" deployments. In some cases, these initiatives embrace newly identified requirements and use a later, major release of Planisware. While this may appear to be needlessly labor intensive, collective insights learned from one release can magnify the effectiveness of the next.

2. Planisware governance should be multilateral in scope under proactive leadership of a vice-president level "champion" of portfolio/project/product strategic deliverables.

3. Personnel involved with Planisware implementation, deployment, operations, training, and governance need to embrace succession planning. Responsibilities constantly change in organization; these roles must be appropriately renewed.

4. Commitment to Planisware, as with other enterprise solutions, calls for ongoing advocacy and frequent re-selling of effectiveness and benefit realization. That commitment and confidence must prevail at the upper level of a company and permeate throughout the organization for long-term success.

The integrated resource management capability enables fully-loaded project costing, more transparent portfolio reviews and budget preparations. Senior Management has access to one, single truth on projects in the portfolio.

We have found it to be a good project and portfolio management tool.