Planview AdaptiveWork vs Upland ComSci

Planview AdaptiveWork is portfolio and work management software for planning and delivering portfolios, projects, and work. Planning tools include demand intake, resource and capacity planning, timelines, Gantt charts, work breakdown structures, templates, workflow automation, and risk management. Planview Anvi adds project sentiment and risk assessment, conversational project intelligence, summaries, writing assistance, and prioritization recommendations. Users can configure reports and dashboards, create portfolio roadmaps, and generate branded PowerPoint reports with Slide Publisher. Financial management covers budgets, time and expenses, utilization, revenue forecasts, and rate cards. Collaboration includes discussions, file sharing, digital proofing, and external stakeholders. AdaptiveWork supports waterfall, agile/scrum, collaborative, and hybrid delivery, and can roll up delivery from external systems through Jira. Listed integrations include Microsoft Teams, Slack, Salesforce, SharePoint, Box, SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, Zendesk, and Zapier. It is available on web, iOS, Android, and through an API; mobile apps support reviewing work, reporting progress, and submitting work items. Pricing is available by contacting an account executive.

Upland ComSci is a web-based IT financial management solution for organizations that want to manage technology costs and show them to business owners. It provides service costing, sub-ledger detail and consumption-based chargeback. For application portfolio work, it reports total cost of ownership by application to support management and rationalization. ComSci also consolidates cost and usage data from multiple cloud and SaaS providers, with dashboards, reports and line-item detail for monitoring, showback and chargeback. Its analytics cover product costs, unit costs, business-unit demand, application ownership costs and cloud cost drivers. Teams can use the data to identify underused cloud instances for consolidation or retirement and find overutilized resources. The solution supports budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation and scenario planning. It integrates with corporate reporting systems including Oracle Hyperion, IBM Cognos and SAP BusinessObjects. ComSci can also produce bills for shared services such as office space, administration, legal, marketing and HR, in addition to IT services. Upland describes the product for IT finance managers and teams in small and large enterprises. Pricing is on request.