The use case involves a highly sophisticated project and portfolio management tool. While it comes with a hefty price tag, it delivers exceptional value by seamlessly handling all necessary operations for successful project management, ensuring a significant return on investment.

Resource forecasting and demand planning. Users can do both short-term and long-term planning. Generic resources and named resources can be structured according to corporate need. 

Currently, Planisware Enterprise 7.1 has about two dozen modules internally architected and available for local configuration. The pre-connected module architecture greatly reduces technical challenges that would otherwise involve substantial custom programming and validation. Connections with MS Teams, contracts, managing products, document management and stage & gate are some of the modules that can extend capabilities. 

Configuration (done by your technical super-user/administrator) can activate or hide any module from regular users. Content for modules depends upon functional administrators in your organization. A functional administrator is a gatekeeper/business analyst that is adept with Planisware and knows your local needs. Don't expect Planisware to provide local proprietary content.

Using an integrated Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS; sometimes called Responsibility) distinct from the Resource Breakdown Structure gives substantial reporting flexibility out of the box. 

Making use of a consistent, organization-specific activity type categorization (WBS type) facilitates creation of project templates. Note that Planisware provides relatively limited documentation (beyond rudimentary conceptualization) for producing activity types across multiple templates. My white papers, freely available online, provide substantially more pragmatic instruction for using and producing Planisware activity types (AT). 

A distinct advantage of Planisware Enterprise is that any given customer installation can respond to local priorities, such as scheduling or time reporting, then phase in other priorities in your application roadmap over time. Functionality is enhanced and made easier to use with a cohesive set of modules. 

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.

We use the solution for portfolio programs and project management. We are now improvising on intake and ideation.

Our main use case for Planisware is for CapEx control for a portfolio.

Project scheduling, resource forecasting and demand planning. One can do both short-term and long-term planning. Generic resources and named resources can be structured according to corporate need.

Integrated organizational breakdown structure (OBS; sometimes called Responsibility; distinct from the Resource Breakdown Structure) gives substantial reporting flexibility out of the box.

Planisware has a designated activity type breakdown structure that provides “know-why” categorization for each activity. This capability is valuable for filtering activities, building project templates, and using activity types in parametric estimation. Populating the activity type structure is enterprise specific.

A distinct advantage of Planisware Enterprise is that any given customer installation can build upon local priorities, such as scheduling or time reporting, then phase in other priorities in your application roadmap over time. Functionality is enhanced and made easier to use with a growing, cohesive set of modules.

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. Planisware BI-Box simplifies connecting Planisware data with external data sources for analysis in external tools such as Tableau and Power-BI.

Planisware is used for project management, resource planning, and effort trackings such as time sheets. You can use it for financial planning, portfolio planning, for enterprise portfolio, where you can define what your cost will be. Planisware can do all of these things.

It is mainly used for program management, which includes cost, risks, and obviously, resources.

The solution can be used for performance monitoring, project management, and support.