Epicflow vs PDWare ResourceFirst

Epicflow is a multi-project resource and portfolio management solution for planning and controlling work across projects. Its Pipeline gives an overview of projects and milestones and helps teams assess feasibility and deadlines. Capacity planning forecasts resource demand and output, analyzes workload, and helps prevent bottlenecks; what-if simulations let users consider project changes. The listed capabilities include task dependencies, a Gantt view, resource management, time tracking, and AI priority recommendations. Ready-made integrations are listed for Microsoft Project, Jira, and Oracle Primavera, with custom integrations available for project, resource, or HRM systems. Epicflow says its DataGuard cloud service can analyze project information while company data stays on premises. Its security page states GDPR compliance, ISO 27001-certified data centres, and penetration testing to British MOD standards. Growth costs €22.50 per user per month, billed annually, or €25.00 per user per month, billed monthly; both options cover 20 to 50 users, up to 50 projects, and a maximum of 250 tasks. A 30-day trial is available, with unlimited users and a weekly 30-minute support call. Enterprise pricing is on request and its listed capacity starts at 50 users, with unlimited projects and 2000+ tasks.

PDWare ResourceFirst is enterprise portfolio and resource capacity planning software for aligning project demand with available skills and staff. It models prioritized skill demand against capacity across portfolios, teams, and time, with shortfall and utilization views. Its Waterline method funds work that fits within the capacity line and defers work that does not. Teams can compare portfolio scenarios against the same constraints before committing headcount or budget, then post approved scenario changes to the current plan. Planning and analysis tools include labor and financial forecasts, project rankings, roadmaps, swimlanes, waterlines, and pivot reports for project, resource, financial, and skill data. Financial features include cost of capacity, demand and unused capacity, cost centers, chargeback, and budget planning. Listed integrations include SAP, Oracle Financials, Workday, Snowflake, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Excel, and Oracle Time & Labor. ResourceFirst is offered as cloud SaaS on Microsoft Azure or as a thin-client on-premise solution. Pricing is on request; licensing depends on planning-group size and user types. The maker says Level-1 implementation typically takes 4–6 weeks.