PPM Software

If you look for PPM software at the internet, you will easily find 300+
systems. Taking a closer look at the systems, you will realise that the
perception of “PPM system” varies a lot, depending on the producer of
the system. This, of course, reflects a similar varying perception on the
user-side. To assist companies in finding the right PPM software, we
have written two articles which, hopefully, can provide some
inspiration:

• PPM Software at the market
• How to choose PPM software

The website www.g2crowd.com has been of great help for us during our
analysis of the PPM software market. You simply browse for PPM and
choose Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Then you will get a list of
approx. 280 software systems. The systems are evaluated from a number
of criteries, and additionally you will find user-comments. G2crowd is a
very serious website, providing you with a huge amount of information,
which, however, must be critically evaluated by the user. For instance,
only 44 of the systems are capable of showing a time schedule
grphically.

Links

To gain overview of the PPM software at the market is quite challenging
– the websites we have benefitted from are:

• www.G2Crowd.com – as mentioned, this site contains a huge
  amount of information about software, not only PPM software.
• www.planningplanet.com – is a user-portal covering project
  management in the construction business and comprising user-
  fora for the most common software systems.
• www.gartner.com – Gartner is a Technology Research company
  and thus, their services are not for free. However, some PPM
  software suppliers provide free access to Gartner investigations on
  their own websites.