Planforge vs Planisware Orchestra

Planforge provides hybrid project and portfolio management for traditional, agile, or combined project work. It covers planning, execution, monitoring, and status reporting across the project life cycle, with capacity planning, resource allocation, utilization views, and scenario comparisons. Other listed capabilities include project intake, portfolio prioritization, budget tracking, executive reporting, and cross-project dependencies. Integrations include Jira, SAP, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Project, Slack, and a GraphQL API; the Jira connector synchronizes issues in both directions for planning and reporting. The free cloud plan is free for up to 4 users, with no time limit and no credit card required. Paid Lean, Professional, and Enterprise plans are for 5 or more users and offer cloud or on-premises deployment. Their listed prices are €4,500 a month, €5,400 a month, and €8,800 a month, billed per user/month. Enterprise includes SSO. Planforge says its AWS cloud hosts European customer data in Frankfurt, Germany, and uses SSL/TLS and HTTPS for transmission.

Planisware Orchestra is a project portfolio management solution for PMOs managing IT, product, work-management, and creative projects. Shared dashboards and real-time views show project status, performance, issues, costs, and resource use. Teams can score projects for business alignment and compare business cases through portfolio scenario analysis. Resource planning covers availability, utilization, capacity, and skills inventory, alongside project intake, budget tracking, executive reporting, and cross-project dependencies. Orchestra supports waterfall, agile, hybrid, and phase-gate methods, with configurable workflows. Listed integrations include Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Broadcom Rally, Tableau, Power BI, SharePoint, and Microsoft Project. The service is available only as SaaS, with pricing on request; a company-reported approximation is about €50 per user per month, not a public quote. A 14-day trial is available to applicants with more than 20 people involved in project planning, a dedicated contact, and time for a consultant call. Cloud operations are certified SOC 1/2 Type 2 and ISO 27001.