Planisware

About Planisware

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Planisware

All products by Planisware reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

PlaniswareProject Management

Strategic portfolio management software for enterprise project decisions

From $45/mo7.2/10

Competitive Landscape

Who Planisware competes with, and how they differ.

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Planview

The closest like-for-like rival: a US, private-equity-owned PPM/strategic portfolio management suite selling to the same enterprise PMO, R&D and engineering buyers, and the only vendor that overlaps Planisware across its whole product line rather than one segment. Planview has consolidated the category through acquisition (Clarizen, Enrich, Sciforma), where Planisware has grown mostly organically from a single codebase and stayed profitable through the shift to SaaS.

ServiceNow8.1/10

ServiceNow sells Strategic Portfolio Management as a module on its IT service management platform, so it wins where the buyer already runs ServiceNow for ITSM and wants portfolio planning on the same data model. Planisware Horizon competes for that same IT governance budget but arrives as a standalone portfolio system with deeper cost, capacity and technical-debt modelling, and Planisware also serves R&D and engineering portfolios that ServiceNow does not address.

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Smartsheet Inc.7.9/10

Smartsheet competes against Planisware Orchestra in Gartner's Adaptive Project Management and Reporting category, but comes from the opposite direction: a spreadsheet-style work surface adopted bottom-up by teams and later rolled up into portfolio reporting. Planisware sells top-down to the PMO with governance, stage-gate and resource-capacity models built in, and prices as an enterprise subscription rather than per-seat self-serve.

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Wrike7.9/10

Wrike targets mid-market marketing, professional-services and operations teams with collaborative work management and light portfolio roll-up. It overlaps Planisware Orchestra at the PMO entry point, but does not reach the regulated R&D, aerospace and defence, and pharma stage-gate use cases that drive most of Planisware's revenue, nor Planisware's on-premises and sovereign-cloud delivery options.

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Atlassian8.1/10

Jira Align extends Jira upward into enterprise agile planning and portfolio roll-up, competing with Planisware for IT and digital-transformation portfolio budget. The overlap stops at software delivery: Atlassian's planning is anchored to development teams and Jira issue data, while Planisware models cross-functional portfolios spanning capex, resources, product development and engineering programmes outside of software.

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Company Timeline

Key milestones in Planisware's history, with sources.

1. Aug 6, 2026Milestone

   Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting

   Gartner placed Planisware in the Leaders quadrant of its 2026 Magic Quadrant for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting, the fifth consecutive year the company has been recognised as a Leader in that category.

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2. Jul 3, 2025Milestone

   Opens a Seoul office to expand in Asia

   Planisware opened an office in Seoul, adding South Korea to an APAC footprint that already covered Singapore and Japan, targeting electronics, chemicals, life sciences and industrial equipment customers.

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3. May 20, 2025Launch

   Launches Oscar, an agentic AI assistant for portfolio management

   Planisware introduced Oscar, an AI assistant embedded in its platform that answers project and portfolio questions in natural language, drafts schedules and surfaces the relevant customer-specific and Planisware documentation rather than requiring users to run reports across multiple screens.

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4. Apr 18, 2024Milestone

   IPO on Euronext Paris at EUR 16 per share (ticker PLNW)

   Planisware listed on Compartment A of Euronext Paris on 18 April 2024 and joined the Euronext Tech Leaders segment. The offering covered up to 15,085,000 shares for about EUR 241 million (up to EUR 278 million with full exercise of the over-allotment option) at EUR 16.00 per share, valuing the company at roughly EUR 1.1 billion. At listing the company had around 545 customers in over 30 countries and close to 700 employees across 12 offices; the founders retained a majority stake and Ardian partially exited, keeping about 5%.

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5. 2023Acquisition

   Japanese subsidiary IFT fully integrated into the group

   Planisware completed the integration of its Japanese entity IFT in 2023. Ardian cited the deal, alongside the 2018 NQI purchase, as the two pillars of Planisware's M&A strategy during its investment period.

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6. 2019Milestone

   Moves all SaaS operations onto its own cloud infrastructure

   Planisware transitioned all of its SaaS operations to infrastructure it owns and operates, the fully owned single-tenant cloud model it still runs today.

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7. Mar 27, 2018Acquisition

   Acquires NQI, adding the Orchestra PPM product line

   Planisware acquired French software publisher NQI, maker of Orchestra PPM, to extend its reach into mid-market and IT buyers alongside its enterprise NPD and engineering business. NQI brought a 250-customer base — 70% of them IT organisations — including Essilor International, CMA CGM and ArcelorMittal. Terms were not disclosed.

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8. 2013Partnership

   Joint venture in Japan with its exclusive distributor

   Planisware entered a joint venture in Japan with its exclusive local distributor, its first direct footing in the country and the basis of what became the group's APAC business.

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9. Jul 16, 2009Funding

   AXA Private Equity increases its equity stake

   AltAssets reported on 16 July 2009 that AXA Private Equity had increased its equity stake in Planisware. Terms of the transaction were not made public.

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10. 2003Funding

    AXA Private Equity (now Ardian) takes a minority stake

    Ardian's Growth team, then operating as AXA Private Equity, acquired a minority stake in Planisware in 2003, with the co-founders remaining majority shareholders. The holding ran for two decades and backed the company's transition to a SaaS model and its expansion in the United States.

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11. 1999Milestone

    First U.S. office opens in San Francisco

    Serving a growing number of customers in the United States, Planisware opened its first U.S. office in San Francisco. North America went on to become the group's second-largest region, at 44% of revenue in 2024.

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12. 1996Founded

    Planisware founded in France by a team from Thales Group

    Planisware was founded in 1996 by a team of engineers from Thales Group, the French aerospace and defence corporation, to build project and portfolio management software for R&D-intensive enterprises.

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