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Comparison Planner Basic, Planner Premium, Jira Standard, Jira Premium and Altus PPM

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Comparison Planner Basic, Planner Premium, Jira Standard, Jira Premium and Altus PPM

How do Microsoft Planner, Atlassian Jira, and the Microsoft 365 PPM solution Altus differ, and how can Altus close the gap between Jira and Planner for organization-wide project and portfolio management? Below is an overview of the different capabilities of each product and of how they work together, including their suitability as a replacement for Project Online.

How do Jira, Planner, and Altus PPM work together?

How Project, Planner, Jira, Microsoft and SAP integrate and work together

What range of features do Jira, Planner, and Altus PPM offer?

Planner, Jira and Microsoft project management and portfolio management features

How do Planner Basic, Premium, Jira Standard, Premium, and Microsoft PPM Altus differ?

Business process	Planner Basic	Planner Premium	Jira Standard	Jira Premium	Altus PPM

Idea and requirements management
Capturing challenges and ideas	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Capturing requirements incl. resource and financial needs	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Evaluating requirements against strategic goals	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅

Project management
Task planning in a list	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Planning on a Kanban board	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Graphical scheduling based on dependencies	❌	✅	❌	❌	✅
Graphical baseline comparison	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Custom fields per project	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅
Cross-project custom fields	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅

Resource management
Effort estimation at task level with named resources, e.g. with people	❌	✅	❌	✅	✅
Effort estimation with generic resources, e.g. with departments	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Effort estimation at project level by period, e.g. by month	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
Display of cross-project resource conflicts	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Submitting resource requests to team leads	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Fulfilling requests by team leads/resource managers with people	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Heatmap for resource utilization	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅

Program and portfolio management
Standalone program and portfolio planning	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Managing dependencies between projects	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Scenario planning by costs and resources as well as strategic goals	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅

Permission model and licensing
Role-based permission model by project and organizational unit	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅
Permission control down to field level	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Read access for external users to list or board possible without a license	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Read access for external users to the schedule possible without a license	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Read access for external users to the schedule possible with a license	❌	✅	❌	❌	✅

IT security and integrations
Data storage in Microsoft 365 incl. M365 governance features	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅
Use of standard integrations, incl. for Jira and SAP	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅

Automation and AI
Integration with Power Automate	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Use with Copilot	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅

Reporting
Built-in reports and charts	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Built-in Power BI reports for project, program, portfolio, resource, and strategy management	❌	✅	❌	❌	✅

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