# Page 2 | Planview AdaptiveWork Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is Planview AdaptiveWork the right Project Management solution for you? Explore 175 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/75768/Clarizen/reviews --- Planview AdaptiveWork 4.3 (175) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/75768/Clarizen/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of Planview AdaptiveWork ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 175 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use AA Angela A. Procurement Officer Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "'A Robust, Present-day, Web-based Collaborative Management Tool'" July 12, 2024 5.0 It sets me up very well for coordinated workflow management, workplace connection and collaboration. Ensuring seamless operations and streamlined activity. Pros Its very useful for workplace coordination, connecting staff and enabling real-time visibility in projects. A Robust Tool with useful functionalities that make work management and collaboration easy. Cons Reporting needs to be more intuitive. There's technical issues with its search functionality as well. Switched from [Adobe Workfront](https://www.capterra.com/p/268205/Adobe-Workfront/) Previous Platform had difficulties setting up, had a steep learning curve, challenges with notifications. Reason why. Review Source Marianela F. Water Treatment and Environmental Management Consultant Chemicals Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Planview AdaptiveWork, an efficient way to manage our project portfolio and increase visibility." April 16, 2023 5.0 Planview AdaptiveWork is robust and effectively scalable. It has features and implementations that distinguish the brand and is widely adopted in multiple organizations.It has multiple key functionalities for any organization, such as project portfolio planning, intelligent resource management, email interaction, and mobile collaboration, as well as being excellent for project financial management. In general, its use creates an immediate positive impact on organizations, which are favored by increasing visibility and optimizing the use and collaboration of company personnel. Pros Planview AdaptiveWork is an excellent platform for managing a large portfolio of projects without losing visibility into multitasking, making it ideal for fast-paced business environments. Additionally, we can quickly visualize those activities that require the most attention from project managers by quickly inspecting our Gantt charts or boards, and this follow-up can be related to the financial plan, resource management, or even registration and validation. of project milestones.With Planview AdaptiveWork we can make a comprehensive follow-up of our projects and reduce the costs associated with supervision since it guarantees efficient planning, execution, and control, in addition to the fact that it has the ability to make very complete reports for stakeholders. Cons Planview AdaptiveWork is a very complete tool, capable of giving us 360-degree visibility, and it is easy to use by experienced project managers and trained in this branch of knowledge, however, it may be for those who do not know the theory in detail. In project management, it is a bit laborious to familiarize yourself with capacity planning, versioning, API support, critical path, and more.That being said, it is a great platform, developed to manage both small projects and project portfolios, and allows collaborative work in the organization. Switched from [Planview ProjectPlace](https://www.capterra.com/p/125399/Projectplace/) Planview AdaptiveWork is widely used and recommended on the Web and by project management professionals. Review Source Jesus F. Controls Designer Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best tracking project system." May 16, 2021 5.0 It is an amazing project tracking system, has help us to improve the tracking of our projects and avoid delays. To add notes or comments to task and projects help to find issues and help us to increase the quality. Pros Easy to use. You can assign the resources for a project easily, see their advance and request progress report. With few clicks you can get a global stand point of a project and see risk point and define next steps to do. You can integrate it with outlook and get your contacts. You can access from any device. Cons There is not a desktop application, would be nice to count with that. Review Source JB John B. Senior Quantity Surveyor Construction Used the software for: 2+ years ### "We can manage time, and financial affairs and track project progress accurately." January 19, 2023 5.0 The high-quality automation provided by Planview AdaptiveWork helped us prepare schedules in detail, as well as when making updates, we can extract all the information that expresses the fact of project completion, and we can also find expected delivery dates, as well as we can calculate delays, and manage the financial affairs of the project efficiently. Pros with Planview AdaptiveWork, We can understand the project's actual situation and manage all our projects with high accuracy. Preparing time programs by Planview AdaptiveWorkis very organized and helps link activities and areas with correct relationships. Scheduling is done automatically to find the start and end dates for activities. It is excellent that Planview AdaptiveWork provides all the necessary contracting contracts and helps calculate the actual delay periods for claims. As for calculating the exact completion percentages and comparing them to the planned ones, Planview AdaptiveWork is excellent for this purpose. We can also follow up on the financial affairs efficiently, and the reports and charts that we prepare by Planview AdaptiveWork help to understand the project's financial situation properly. Cons It is not easy to use, as a planning and scheduling specialist needs to understand all the tools and how they work correctly. Anyone who wants to take advantage of Planview AdaptiveWork's potential should spend appropriate time learning and training. Review Source JO Jonathan O. Corporate Business Planner Automotive Used the software for: 2+ years ### "PM tool is not bad, but integrated time/expense/invoice processing did not work." May 9, 2018 1.0 We got very little benefit from this software, as it did not perform as expected. Pros Project management tool is comparable to MS Project. Users that are looking for a subscription PM product rather than purchasing MS Project may benefit from this software, but I am not sure if all PM features are available out-of-the-box at cheaper subscription levels. Cons Although the PM tool is comparable to MS Project, it also comes with a level of complication also comparable to MS Project. Full functionality of PM (i.e. including resource management) requires buy-in by all departments/users in the company, and this is difficult to acheive in large or diverse organizations. Our company implemeted this software with the goal of bringing project management together with time reporting, expense reporting, and invoice processing. The purpose of implementing Clarizen was to have a centralized system where we could report project status by including all relevant metrics on the project in a list or detailed view, e.g. planned time vs. actual time, planned cost vs. actual cost, and project manager comments/narrative on goal vs. result. This purpose was never realized. Clarizen underestimated the work effort to develop customizations, which resulted in the time module never being completed, the expense/invoice modules were cumbersome to use, the related approval workflows had many problems, and support from Clarizen management was almost non-existent. We are now taking a different approach. No longer do we believe that one system can handle all our needs, and so we have adopted different systems with some integration between them to try to bring together all project-related data. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Owner Management Consulting Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Finally one project management platform that got it all " November 2, 2017 5.0 Pros One single platform where both project information and customer information meet, thanks to the Salesforce.com integration. This enables salespeople to keep a real-time view on margins and project progress, without them needing to ask a project manager for a status update or a meeting. The information is right there, up to date and accurate. Cons You need to make a solid business case and build a real plan to get the budget approved. Most companies have a lot of tools and some work together with others and... but none beat Clarizen if you ask me - it is a "one-stop" to get all information. So do the math to show you can save money by centralizing the tools, and that you can lower the time spent on managing different solutions. It helps if you show dashboards: management likes dashboards (and numbers). Clarizen was not so easy to explain to the whole team, it is a very complete solution. So we decided to "drip-feed" it to the teams. Review Source JW Janet W. Project Manager Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 2+ years ### "PlanView Adaptive Work Works for me" November 17, 2023 4.0 I have used for several years now and it works for project planning and tracking. Pros I like that it is easy to mark a tasks progress and completion Cons It sometimes takes a long time to load and it can be slow. Review Source Sean F. Technical Project Manager III Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "A mostly positive experience." January 21, 2016 4.0 We are implementing Clarizen as a project management tool for the entire organization but starting in the Information Technology and Performance Improvement departments. Our goal is to capture all project requests and projects in one place for review, approval, management, and reporting. Clarizen has mostly met our expectations so far. Most of the items that have not met our expectations are minor. We are still early in our implementation so there are still lessons to learn in our journey. Pros 1\. Unlimited email-only users. Resources that infrequently or rarely work on projects can report progress via email without consuming an expensive license. 2. Email and/or API integration with work order systems. Clarizen doesn't charge an expensive license to integrate it with other systems. 3. A modern-looking user interface with an emphasis on social media-like collaboration. 4. Lots of options for charts and graphs for reporting. 5. Can import spreadsheets and MS Project workplans. 6. Lots of training and support webinars every week. 7. Pre-recorded online training via the Clarizen University. Cons 1\. Support seems slow to respond to support requests. 2. There is currently a bug they haven't fixed yet that requires you to keep resetting column widths in reports and dashboards. They don't stick. 3. Their online self-help knowledge base seems new and thin. 4. They don't have a feature I used in other project management software to identify the last (most recent) note, comment, etc. on an item. This can be worked around via user training or some custom workflow programming but it would be nice if they built it in as others have. Review Source Bryce V. Managing Member Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Everything we needed to take our team to the next level" December 12, 2018 4.0 We needed to evaluate how we could best deliver a quick first time to value for our customers on our implementation team. Pros Clarizen enabled our team to effectively manage the numerous projects we had while surfacing the insights we needed to make business decisions. Cons Like any software that is aimed at solving complex business problems, Clarizen had so many features that it became overwhelming to our team during implementation. When a business has to undergo major changes to their operations, it needs the transition to be as easy as possible. This is more of a critique for most large software solutions as opposed to just Clarizen. Review Source BC Bill C. Learning Technology Strategist Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Love Clarizen!" January 18, 2017 5.0 My organization selected Clarizen from a wide array of project management software options just over 2 years ago and we're very happy with our decision. We're a training organization, so slack built into most projects is used up before we get the handoff. This means we must be very efficient and well-coordinated. Clarizen gives us what we need all in a single application. Social, email, file attachment/link to work items... prevent us from checking multiple sources for information. We've customized Work Plans and documentation templates our project managers use to quickly execute tasks. The social functions have replace our Outlook email and we've found that makes projects much more transparent and eliminates hidden agendas that often hit projects. Clarizen support is phenomenal! We have a dedicated expert that currently meets with us every other week and I get quick resolution to any issue posted to their Support Request Center. The dedicated expert has been especially helpful as we're constantly customizing the system to the point that it will soon become the training department's operating system with schedules, timesheets, project plans... everything right in Clarizen. Pros All in one; Social, Work Plans, Scheduling... Cons The User Guide is useless. Review Source Brian B. Web Time Implementation Team Lead Human Resources Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Clarizen a great Project Management Tool" August 18, 2015 4.0 My team has used Clarizen for a little over a year now. I cannot say enough good things on how well it has done for my team and organizing the implementations of our Software. My team from an employee level up to management are able to use Clarizen to run their individual days and teams. We implement time and attendance software for clients and use Clarizen to organize our Projects with our specific timelines that we have. Clarizen makes it easy for employees to know exactly where they are at with all of their clients and allows management to easily track the progress of their teams. Pros Customization. I cannot say enough on how exceptional the Clarizen technical team is with taking our needs and making them happen in the system. One specific example is I formulated a scoring system for incoming clients that based upon how they were going to use our system would be given a "complexity" score so that I could assign higher level clients to my best employees and lower level clients to my lesser experienced employees. Clarizen took my request that I submitted and within a month had the entire scoring system automated and up and running giving me a fantastic tool to use daily. Cons Pricing. Clarizen needs to be able to add options on as fixed costs instead of raising the overall monthly rate. My team doesn't use every aspect of the program so when I need more of just one option in the system I shouldn't have to pay for a higher level across the board with more of all their options when I need just one. I am hoping that can change in the future to meet individual client needs. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Controller Market Research Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Robust project management system" January 2, 2021 4.0 Pros 1\. Easy to use and set up 2. Can integrate with CRM and accounting software 3. Open APIs 4. Large number of customizable features, including scheduling, costing, time cards, projects/tasks, etc. 5. Robust reporting Cons 1\. Syncing from/to Salesforce can be buggy sometimes 2. System can be slow or nonresponsive, especially when trying to view large amount of data 3. Expensive Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Community Manager (remote) Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "This tool helps me to manage my workflow and plan my activities appropriately." March 8, 2018 5.0 All in all, it is the best time-tracking solution that is quite scalable and flexible. If you're ready to work manually for the time being, it has flexible, scalable and can be implemented very quickly. If you are prepared to work with a few manual steps, for the time being (that hopefully will improve), it is a great value product. Pros It has a great interactive interphase and amazing functionality. Its easy to enter and track the time via this software. The planning tools allow me to plan and define my project, its functionality, its feasibility, and the resource available. Cons Bit expensive, the level of functionality for lower-amount licences is seemingly poor compared to advanced versions. Reports corresponding to calendar days require manual entry. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CEO Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Full featured - but huge code base" January 7, 2020 5.0 Good. It was a disaster switching to Redbooth, and it was a major upgrade from Basecamp. Maybe it was too big of a jump for a smaller organization. Pros It's like the rolls royce of project management systems. Super powerful and hard to really throw stones at the functionality. Cons The biggest learning curve because it has specific ways that it manages workflows. It's great. But you need a dedicated team member to just learn and train people on it. Switched from [Basecamp](https://www.capterra.com/p/56808/Basecamp/) Functionality Review Source Peter K. Independent Consultant/Contractor Used the software for: 2+ years ### "SAAS based project management platform, scalable, with team collaboration, great dash-boarding " January 11, 2018 5.0 Pros ease of use scalable Social Service and Support customizations Updates Adaptability Financial Management Cons Cost Agile framework needs attention Reporting Graphs are limited in selection limited amount of Graphs per report Scheduling options are limited to 24 reports , 1 per hour Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Customer Experience Manager Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A great SAAS tool to have for your Project Management teams" October 16, 2018 5.0 Pros Extremely easy to use Easily customizable Price points make sense per user Able to share information to all departments via email High level overview with charts for executives that need to big pictures Cons There are instances of downtime, but they communicate quickly and level set expectations Review Source VR Verified Reviewer EPMO Portfolio and Metrics Analyst II Retail Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great tool with tons of potential. Is simple and flexible to meet needs, but room for improvement" December 13, 2017 5.0 Pros Easy to use and manage. Using reports and dashboards to show major value and insight to senior leadership. End users are able to use the tool itself with little training. Interface is responsive, modern and clean. Cons Security model is strange at first, but can be made to work great with some patience and thinking differently. Reporting has some limitations that feel frustrating but can be solved with export to an enterprise data warehouse. Brought in external vendor as solution integrator, but has issues with them delivering over complicated customizations. Review Source Jeffrey D. Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Clarizen's deep set of tools" October 30, 2015 5.0 We've used Clarizen for a few years now, and it's made a huge difference. I came in with project management experience, but many of our managers were just winging it. We moved from a simple time-tracking application to Clarizen's full fledged Project Management. That was a bigger step than most were ready for, but it's come into its own. We have visibility to things we didn't have before, and can make data-driven decisions instead of gut-feeling our way along. I've been able to prove that instinct was not the correct choice in many cases. Clarizen won't tell you what to do, but whatever you want to do, you can probably do it with Clarizen. Other packages I've used gave you a methodology with their software, but Clarizen is flexible, nimble, and robust. Pros \-Lots of customization -SQL-like API calls -Detailed data -Does what it says on the tin Cons \-Lack of a canned process for organizations that don't know where to start -I wish it was cheaper :) Review Source SL Scott L. EPMO Partner Retail Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Very useful for getting everyone onto "one source of the truth"" September 8, 2017 3.0 Biggest benefit is "one source of truth". Pros The ease of use that comes from being a SaaS solution has been the strongest feature. In addition, because it is web-based, some of the configuration can be done using CSS, which does not take a lot of programmatic experience to implement. Cons As a PPM, there are still gaps (as of this writing) in some basic PPM functionality. The most glaring to me is the lack of Capacity Planning functionality. It can handle Resource Allocation, and Resource Loading, but if you are looking for a way to forecast out what your expected capacity for future work is, you can only do it through heavy configuration. As for configuration, it has pros and cons, but one of the more challenging limitations is in changing a custom field. If, for example, you decide that the data type on a field must be changed from string to number, you cannot simply change the data type. You must create a new field with the correct data type, find all the configuration instances where that field exists (in, for example, custom actions you've programmed Clarizen to take) and replace them, then delete the old field. It's a very clunky process. The last big con we have found is that there is no archiving of data. If you want to archive your data, you must dump everything out into a EDW of some sort. This is doubtlessly to keep the database slim, but that means that the system is always an "As Is" system, and you lose the ability to analyze trends. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CAE Systems Engineer Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "PM tool for any application" November 26, 2018 5.0 It makes us work collaboratively in a global organization. Pros Its capability to be applied for wide applications and the customer support Cons The customizations are little tricky even though the syntax are not so complicated Review Source JB Jonathan B. Project Manager Information Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Effective & Customisable Project Management Tool" September 30, 2016 5.0 Clarizen has moved us from spreadsheet based project management to collaborative, efficient portfolio management. Adopting Clarizen was straight-forward and it was quick to see the benefits. Managing many projects simultaneously across many customers and project types is now possible and manageable. Our development team have a much easier time of knowing what they should be working on in disparate cross-company project teams. The accompanying iPhone and Android apps help ensuring time-sheets are kept updated and communications are not missed. It is hugely customisable in regards to setting up simple forms, workflows with notifications and visual aids. We've been able to recreate our own methodologies in Clarizen. The only issue we have had is reaching the limit of custom fields possible without moving to the unlimited license model. Support has been excellent and dependable. Review Source DS David S. Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great project management system with good flexibility" August 22, 2016 4.0 Clarizen is a great platform for project management, workflow management and internal communication tracking. The reporting suite is also very good and there seems to be a keen drive to continually improve the product. Customer support throughout setup and launch was excellent with a product specialist available onsite, phone and web-conference to help train our team and customize our environment. Despite some challenging requests our support team and the flexibility of the system allowed to achieve near all our requirements thus far. Pros Flexibility/Customisation - the system is extremely adaptable and can be used for a number of functions beyond that which it was designed because of it. Reporting - The reporting suite is excellent but there is still room for improvement in terms of pivots and lining relevant data in reports. Cons Support - Although our setup support was great there can be a delay in resolving system bugs but no more than most software services. Caps on custom fields - There are caps on customisation depending on the package you choose and the price hike between them can be quite significant. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Director of Marketing Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great for time tracking and expense reports" February 4, 2019 4.0 We've used Clarizen for 10+ years and it is easy to create and manage projects for time tracking to better understand where our hours are spent, as well as for client billing. We also use it for Expense reports, which is nice to be able to do it all within one platform. Pros Super easy to track and submit hours, including setting up as many projects as necessary. Cons Certain reports are only available to certain licenses, not allowing basic licenses to see things like time tracking reports for project management or PTO. Review Source BM Bryan M. Manager, Engineering Services Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The "Swiss Army Knife" of Project Management" September 21, 2016 4.0 Working with Clarizen for a few years. Started before the rich reporting capability existed. Using it for Portfolio and Project Management in an Advanced Engineering Product Development team. Pros It is Microsoft Project Management on steroids. It gives you the same capability to manage a project but adds features to provide a complete solution. Easy customization to fit each department needs. Resource Management across of projects, Collaboration at all levels, robust reporting module... Cons The reporting module provides the capability to easily create dashboards. I have created dashboards for every level and function of the organization. However, it is difficult for a manager to see his staff's dashboard. Review Source Nagaraj B. Sr. Manager -Business Development Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Good Project Management Software" February 26, 2018 5.0 Pros Cloud based , good collaborative environment for project management activities like plan and workflow. Cost effective solution. Cons Tracking is not easy, need some improvements on functionality. 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