The Microsoft Project Alternative Built for Enterprise Scale

We understand your concerns about transitioning from a tool your team has used for years.

Here’s what you need to know:

Familiar from Day One: Your team keeps the Gantt charts, task/subtask structures, and project views they know—minimal learning curve, maximum productivity from the start.

Built for Project Managers: Designed by project teams, for project teams, with dedicated migration support and change management partnership to ensure smooth adoption across your organization.

Better Total Cost: Replace your patchwork of SharePoint customizations, partner tools, and homegrown portfolio roll-ups with one integrated platform, reducing hidden costs while gaining powerful capabilities Microsoft Project never delivered.

Migration Support Built-In: Our Services team specializes in Microsoft Project transitions. What does that mean for you? Proven methodologies, dedicated support, and measurable results.

Familiar Interface with Enterprise Capabilities: With Planview, your team keeps the project management tool experience they know—Gantt charts, task/subtask hierarchies, and task ID search—so adoption is seamless. Meanwhile, your organization gains real-time status visibility, cross-project resource optimization, and better project planning and prioritization tools purpose-built for portfolio management that Microsoft Project never delivered. Day-one productivity for your team. Strategic decision-making for your leadership.

Planview provides centralized project and portfolio governance, strategic alignment frameworks, capacity planning across hundreds of resources, financial management with benefits tracking, and executive dashboards—capabilities that Microsoft Project never delivered and Planner’s architecture fundamentally cannot support.

Start with the Gantt charts, task structures, and navigation your team members rely on—ensuring immediate productivity—while connecting these familiar views to valuable portfolio-level intelligence Microsoft Project could never provide.

Organizations gain: Unified resource management, single-source-of-truth data, and enterprise-grade architecture that reduces tech debt while scaling.

Recognized by Gartner as a Leader in both the 2025 Magic Quadrants™ for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting and the Strategic Portfolio Management for the fourth consecutive year. This sustained analyst recognition validates Planview’s comprehensive PPM capabilities, covering all maturity levels, and continuous innovation in project portfolio management.

Trusted by global enterprises and mid-market teams across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, technology, and government—delivering project execution to portfolio strategy excellence at every maturity level.

You don’t have to abandon Microsoft tools to gain portfolio management capabilities.

Many organizations integrate Planview solutions with their Microsoft ecosystem, maintaining familiar tools (Teams, SharePoint, Azure DevOps, and even Planner) for execution while adding portfolio management for strategic planning and governance.

Planview supports bi-directional integration with:

• Microsoft 365 (Teams, Planner, SharePoint, Project Online)

• Azure DevOps, GitHub, and development tools

• 60+ Agile/work management platforms (Jira, ServiceNow, Rally)

• Financial and Enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle, Workday, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce)

• Your teams work where they’re productive, while PMO leaders gain visibility, resource intelligence, and strategic alignment that fragmented Microsoft tools cannot deliver. All this without forcing disruptive tool changes for delivery teams.

Microsoft Project appears cost-effective, as it is included with Microsoft 365 as a “throw-in” with no additional vendor costs. But what seems free at licensing becomes expensive at implementation. Some unexpected costs included, like:

• Premium licenses: Power BI Premium ($4,995/month), Power Automate Premium ($15/user/month)

• Microsoft partners or in-house IT resources to build the PPM ecosystem beyond basic capabilities

• Custom development for portfolio reporting and executive dashboard

• Ongoing maintenance requiring technical resources

Total first-year costs often exceed $200k with licensing, customization, and maintenance—Planview delivers configurable portfolio management, resource management, and financial tracking out-of-the-box with no add-ons required.

Microsoft Project provides basic project-level reporting but falls short in delivering the comprehensive analytics that modern enterprises need. Achieving portfolio-wide visibility requires Power BI Premium licensing, 3-6 months of development time, and dedicated BI resources.

Planview delivers self-serve reporting dashboards and analytics for projects, resources, financials, portfolios and more—all built-in with no additional tools or technical overhead. We partner with you to configure reporting that matches your needs today and grows as your organization matures.

We understand this transition represents more than changing project management software. It’s about how your team works. Rest easy knowing our Services team works alongside you through every phase: assessing your current setup, planning data migration, configuring reporting that fits your needs, and building analytics as you grow. You get a partner committed to your success, whether you start with project management or scale to portfolio strategy, not just a platform.