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Comparison Planner, Jira, Altus PPM, Projectum xPM, Asana, Monday, Wrike, Meisterplan, Celoxis, Planview ProjectAdvantage

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Comparison Planner, Jira, Altus PPM, Projectum xPM, Asana, Monday, Wrike, Meisterplan, Celoxis, Planview ProjectAdvantage

How do Microsoft Planner, Atlassian Jira, and the Microsoft 365 PPM solutions Altus and xPM compare with Asana, Monday, Wrike, Celoxis, Meisterplan, and Planview ProjectAdvantage? Below is an overview of the different capabilities of each product

Business process	Planner Basic	Planner Premium	Jira Standard	Jira Premium	Altus PPM	Projectum xPM	Asana Enterprise	Monday.com Enterprise	Meisterplan	Celoxis	Wrike Enterprise	Planview ProjectAdvantage
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	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	⚠️	⚠️	✅
Transfer of effort estimates from task level to project level	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
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	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅
Cost and financial management
Cost planning by cost type and structure (forecast/budget)	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅	✅
Actual, remaining, and total cost calculation (ETC/EAC)	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	⚠️	✅
ERP integration without proprietary interfaces (incl. SAP, Dynamics 365) for actual costs, budgets, and forecasts	❌	❌	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️
Cost monitoring with KPIs and traffic-light indicators	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅	✅
Automatic versioning of cost plans	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	⚠️	❌	⚠️
Time tracking
Native time tracking per task/project	❌	❌	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅	✅
Planned vs. actual hours comparison at project level	❌	❌	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅	⚠️	❌	⚠️	✅	✅	✅
Approval workflow for timesheets	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	⚠️
Risk management
Structured risk register (identification, assessment, owner, status)	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	⚠️	✅
Risk assessment by probability and impact (risk matrix)	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	⚠️	✅
Mitigation and countermeasures with tracking and due dates	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	⚠️	✅
AI support for identifying, assessing, and determining mitigation/countermeasures	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	⚠️	❌
Stakeholder management
Capturing stakeholders and roles (register with influence, interest, communication needs)	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	⚠️
AI-supported, stakeholder-specific status communication	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	⚠️	❌	❌	❌	⚠️	❌
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 (list/board) 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	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Integration with Microsoft Planner	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	⚠️	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Integration with Microsoft Project	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	⚠️	❌	❌	⚠️
Integration with Azure DevOps	❌	❌	⚠️	⚠️	✅	⚠️	❌	⚠️	✅	❌	✅	⚠️
Integration with Jira	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
Integration with HR systems (incl. SAP HR / SuccessFactors, Workday)	⚠️	⚠️	❌	❌	⚠️	⚠️	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	⚠️
Integration with ERP systems (incl. SAP FICO, PS, PM)	⚠️	⚠️	❌	❌	⚠️	⚠️	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	⚠️
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	❌	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	⚠️	⚠️
Scalability and administration
Multi-tenant support (multiple organizational units in one instance)	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	⚠️	✅	✅	✅
User scalability without architecture changes	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Central administration and configuration (tenant-wide settings, governance)	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Role-based permissions at tenant level (global roles for PMO, admin, viewer)	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
REST API availability for automation and third-party integration	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Operations monitoring, central logging, and auditability	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅
Microsoft 365 integration
Teams & SharePoint integration	✅	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅	⚠️	⚠️	❌	❌	⚠️	⚠️
Outlook calendar synchronization	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️
Single Sign-On via Entra ID/Azure AD	✅	✅	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Easy customization of fields, forms, workflows, and tables by the user – including via AI voice command (“vibe coding”)	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Customer-specific customizations are preserved across version upgrades	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	⚠️	⚠️	✅
Existing M365 knowledge (Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform) directly usable for operation and day-to-day use	⚠️	⚠️	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Implementation and operations
Automatic data migration from Project Online	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Support for international languages incl. German (user interface)	✅	✅	✅	✅	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Support from a German-speaking implementation partner	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	⚠️	⚠️	✅	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️
Operation in a data center in Germany/Austria/Switzerland by the vendor (selectable data residency)	✅	✅	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅	❌	❌	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️	⚠️
Operation under full local data sovereignty (own data center / BSI IT-Grundschutz / suitable for VS-NfD classified data)	❌	❌	⚠️	⚠️	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	⚠️	❌	⚠️

Legend: ✅ = fully supported | ❌ = not supported | ⚠️ = limited / only available in certain plans

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