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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LoadSpring

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ALoadSpring is a project management solution built specifically for IT teams.N/A

    Planview AdaptiveWork

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/APlanview AdaptiveWork is a web-based collaborative work management software. Planview AdaptiveWork enables users to connect employees and partners and create documents, reports and specialized workflow automation. Planview AdaptiveWork is designed to work across multiple teams to enable cross-company task, project, and resource management.N/A
    Pricing
    LoadSpringPlanview AdaptiveWork
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LoadSpringPlanview AdaptiveWork
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    LoadSpringPlanview AdaptiveWork
    Considered Both Products
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
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    Planview
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    84%
    Implementation went as expected
    16 Answers
    Features
    LoadSpringPlanview AdaptiveWork
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of LoadSpring and Planview AdaptiveWork
    Feature
    LoadSpring
    7.4
    1 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Planview AdaptiveWork
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of LoadSpring and Planview AdaptiveWork
    Feature
    LoadSpring
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Planview AdaptiveWork
    -
    Ratings
    Quotes/estimates8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score7.9 out of 10
    Workday Professional Services Automation
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LoadSpringPlanview AdaptiveWork
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (78 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (26 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.4
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LoadSpringPlanview AdaptiveWork
    Likelihood to Recommend
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    LoadSpring is great for managing licenses so that a user who hasn't been utilizing the software can be placed inactive so the license isn't being occupied. Managing services and applications is great. You can easily change access through the management portion of the service. Uptime is also very good.
    Incentivized
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    Planview
    I've been an AdaptiveWork (Clarizen) admin for the past 14 years, so I've seen much improvement since I started working with the product. I'm very happy we can utilize the hybrid mode by using the cards, I think this was long overdue but it works very well.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    • Management of sessions.
    • Account/license management.
    • Reliability.
    Incentivized
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    Planview
    • Many ways to acclimate to the system; documentation, videos, community, and contacts.
    • Planview provides scalable customization options tailored to the unique needs of each business unit or department. Easily add or remove fields in the system. As the admin, it was easy to learn how to configure.
    • Offers flexibility to adapt to existing systems and align with organizational workflows and processes. There are multiple ways to customize each part of the system to meet our needs.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    • Self-service account reactivation.
    • Integration of instructions on a per application level.
    • Built in linked help for companies using the software.
    Incentivized
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    Planview
    • When it comes to reports, it would be great if there was an easy way to roll-up the results instead of having to create configurations to summarize data.
    • The consultant experience has not been great when it comes to more advanced needs for configurations. The consultants are in a different timezone which limits hours to work together and it seems hours are spent trying to determine what the requirement is and when the initial thought is that the configuration is possible, it may result in not being able to assist.
    • Charts in the reports section are not able to be exported
    • When pulling a report together, you need to make sure you pull from the right "item" or level. If you decide you need data that resides in another "item" or level, you need to re-do the report from the beginning.
    • Because the system is so configurable and I imagine different clients use the system differently, when you need something automated in your account, where you need to pull a consultant or SME in, the person doesn't necessarily understand your configurations and how things work so they are unable to give recommendations on how to solve problems that don't impact other configurations you already have set up in the system.
    • Templates cannot be updated unless they are pulled into a project and then re-saved. In the templates module, you are not able to open a template and edit to re-save. Therefore, making updates to a template can be very time consuming having to find a project to use to pull it in, make updates, re-save and then pull out. It would be great if the templates module allowed you to edit the templates and re-save.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Planview
    I give my renewal of this product a 9. It's only because we never know what product may come out next and how other factors in our office political environment may cause impact upon this. If I always had my way, this is what we'd settle on as our de facto project management system.
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    Usability
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Planview
    It is easy to configure, intuitive. The customization process is in some ways better than Salesforce.com. It has a great UI. It does however depend on how it's implemented.

    The design of it is generally fine, however the ability to data upload people from a spreadsheet is an obvious miss.
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    Reliability and Availability
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Planview
    Sometimes it is slow when everyone is entering their time on Fridays or Mondays but other than that we rarely see downtime and maintenance notifications are well in advance.
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    Performance
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Planview
    Reports: Quick to Reasonable

    Most Ancillary Pages: Quick to Reasonable
    (By "ancillary" I mean lesser used/master data maintenance pages - e.g. People, Customers, Individual Tasks, Milestones, etc.)

    Work Plan (with 100 sub items): Reasonable to Slow
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    Support Rating
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    LoadSpring support is very quick to respond. They have self-service for support which is great for quick fixes on the end-user side of things. They will respond with a good solution and if they need further assistance from an administrator, and they email them so they can assist the end-user with their issue.
    Incentivized
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    Planview
    It's a good experience overall. Clarizen was useful when needed. It's mostly needed for advice on how to do more sophisticated actions or how to change something that was set up administratively. It's seldom used otherwise. The product consistently works, the documentation is acceptable, and the generally intuitive product is easy enough for most staff to pick up without much issue.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Planview
    • We worked with a Project Manager on their side. He was very good about developing a project plan to hit our goal. I think we had weekly or twice weekly calls – very steady cadence over 3 month period.
    • Their PM skills were great – kept us on task. For the last week, they sent 2 people on site and they did training for power users. After that a couple of them revisited here
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    Online Training
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Planview
    Our trainer, Alex, is exceptional and knows the product really well. I swear he must have wrote the product himself! His manner with training is very easy going, gives you homework that is applicable to what you need to learn and stages it correctly for you. It was a pleasure to be trained by him.
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    Implementation Rating
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Planview
    We have been able to implement AdaptiveWork pretty easily but it requires updating of resource availability and continuous training as roles change and new people join the company. Other documentation is used such as spreadsheets for longer range planning and project approval
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    Alternatives Considered
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    LoadSpring has a great up-time compared to our old hosting service. We haven't had many outages and very few issues while running our concurrent sessions. Automated license management has been great so our active licenses stay very low. I wasn't involved with the purchase and migration but I feel this was the better option.
    Incentivized
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    Planview
    Planview AdaptiveWork was the right size, at the right price point that fit our customization and integration flexibility. It is intuitive to use but allowed us to add complexity as our needs grew
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
    • Great license manager.
    • Has great up-time for hosting our application.
    • Self service account management is non-existent.
    Incentivized
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    Planview
    • By implementing Planview AdaptiveWork on a company-wide level, we have been able to remove the other project management tools we have been using and consolidate our costs for technology down to a single tool
    • The ability to incorporate cross-departmental work and communication has streamlined our project management processes to a point where we can work seamlessly together without interruption trying to consider the gaps between tools
    • Reporting capabilities from the unified tool has given our leadership insight and the ability to make strategic business decisions more effectively than ever
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Planview AdaptiveWork Screenshots

    Screenshot of AdaptiveWork's Portfolio ManagementScreenshot of Integration Through an Array of AppsScreenshot of Real-Time Project ManagementScreenshot of Social Collaboration - From Ideation to Project Delivery