MCKINSEY WAVE ALTERNATIVE

How Planview delivers what McKinsey can’t

• Enterprise integrations that actually work

  Don’t leave your strategic decisions stranded on disconnected data islands. Wave by McKinsey offers limited API capabilities that lead to siloed data and visibility gaps.

  Planview delivers robust integration with your entire tech ecosystem. JIRA, DevOps tools, ERP, CRM, and financial systems – all popular enterprise tools seamlessly integrate with Planview’s Strategic Portfolio Management solution for better visibility and collaboration. Create real data flow instead of the manual imports Wave relies on.

  Become a truly connected enterprise where strategic decisions are powered by complete, accurate information.

• See beyond Wave’s blind spots

  Wave’s underwhelming reporting capabilities make getting a holistic view of work across the enterprise impossible. It offers a keyhole view into your enterprise, turning your strategic execution into a guessing game. Planview’s data-driven insights give you a complete picture that lets you seamlessly connect strategy to execution across all levels of your organization. Where Wave struggles to provide consistently actionable metrics, Planview SPM delivers timely data that promotes confident decision making. Empower your business leaders to make their biggest decisions using complete information, not fragmented snapshots like Wave delivers.

• Comprehensive portfolio management for your specific needs

  Wave can track high-level initiatives like transformation efforts, but then what? It lacks the enterprise scalability needed to manage complex, company-wide portfolios and strategic initiatives across multiple teams and departments. You’re left with patches of opacity throughout the organization that hide the important information, like the progress made towards your strategic goals or who’s working on what. This makes it incredibly difficult to seamlessly deliver on your big-picture plans, as Wave’s limitations undermine efficiency and make it harder to make informed decisions.

  There’s an ongoing theme with Wave and limited visibility. Compare that with Planview’s SPM solution. Planview delivers a unified platform that brings company strategy to the forefront and aligns it with the work you fund, prioritize, and allocate resources to – not just at the top levels of your company, but across the entire enterprise. Gain a complete view of the organization to link strategy, teams, and outcomes together, weaving a golden thread through your enterprise’s top initiatives down to the associated work.

  Don’t settle for eyes on just the high-level initiatives when Planview gives you visibility into everything.

• Scale without limits

  Your organization is going to grow at some point. After all, that’s a big part of the strategy in strategic portfolio management. So, what’s the use of an SPM tool like Wave if it struggles to support your enterprise as it grows?

  They may brag about their modern UI and quick team adoption, but the truth is Wave isn’t equipped to handle the growing pains that come with scaling your organization. When your business needs expand, Wave creates additional complexity and inefficiency by forcing you to add external tools. This can lead to painful disconnects like siloed departments, data scattered across systems, and missed opportunities due to slow decision making.

  Planview understands that scalability is an essential element of strategic portfolio management. That’s why Planview’s SPM solution is built for enterprise scalability by integrating workflows and housing data into a single source of truth. After all, your SPM solution should reduce growing pains and complexities – not add to them. Instead of external tools, Planview uses native integrations so you don’t need to acquire more technical debt or create additional complexities through custom developments and manual processes. As a result, actionable insights continue to flow smoothly across your entire enterprise so even as you grow, your business leaders are equipped to make quick, informed decisions that drive value.

• Adapt quickly without waiting for consultant availability

  Wave claims to provide rapid deployment through its web-based platform, but there’s a caveat: any configuration changes will need to go through McKinsey. This consultant-first approach means you’re perpetually dependent on a third party to modify your SPM software whenever your business needs change.

  Business agility is more important than ever in today’s fast-paced world. You can’t afford to consult a middleman when you’re navigating economic headwinds, tech disruption, and changing customer demands. Planview’s SPM solution enables your organization to respond quickly to change and disruption with no-code configurations that allow you to use your software to support your unique needs without requiring help from consultants.