Aspen vs Cohentis

Aspen is cloud-based enterprise change management software from KRD Solutions and Services Limited for change leads and their teams. It records programmes, projects, changes, impacts, training needs and activities against the organisational units they affect. Organisation-wide impact heatmaps show which teams are affected and when people are needed by several workstreams. Configurable heatmaps, roll-ups and engagement material use the information logged in the system. Aspen is designed around Prosci and ADKAR, while supporting other non-proprietary change models. AI assistance can draft impact assessments, training needs analyses, stakeholder portfolios and roll-up reporting. Teams choose when stakeholders receive dashboard invitations, or can simply log and map changes and stakeholders. Project managers can view change activity, but Aspen is not a project management tool. It supports impact assessment, stakeholder communications and change analytics, runs on the web, and is priced on request. KRD offers a 30-minute demonstration based on a prospective customer’s change.

Cohentis connects strategic plans, expected benefits, initiatives, and evidence of whether teams adopt changes. It has three apps: Change portfolio for organisation-wide initiatives, Change plan for change managers, and Change mission for change agents. The portfolio maps benefits to initiatives and records each benefit's starting point, target, and latest measurement. Users set leading indicators, target values, and measurement rhythms; the app schedules measurements and flags due or overdue items. Change plans include a risk register and a timeline with sub-plans, milestones, measurement points, and dependencies. Change agents can open mission files without an account, capture what people say on a device, and send findings back as a file. The product links actions to risks, insights to conversations, and decisions to what prompted them. For Free and Pro, project data is stored as a file on the user's device, with no account or server holding the change project. The Free plan is free for one person and one project; Pro is $20 a month per change manager.