Comparison of TeamWorks PPM to Microsoft Project Server
Organisations evaluating iPlanWare TeamWorks PPM often consider Microsoft Project Server as an option. We felt it would be useful to provide a comparison of the two products and why we believe iPlanWare TeamWorks PPM is a better option for organisations that are serious about optimising their project management and resource management.
Single integrated solution
TeamWorks is a single integrated software package, not a complicated installation of various software components. A typical installation of TeamWorks takes around 1 hour. An upgrade will take around 15 minutes.
Just project management and resource management software
We are project and resource management software specialists. Period. 
Go and take a look at our site - that is all we do. Nothing else, just software to optimise your projects and resources.
Onsite or SaaS (software as a service)
We offer our software as an onsite (installed) or hosted solution. The software used by our hosted customers is the same software used by our customers who install TeamWorks onsite. So you can be assured it is scaleable.
Support services available from the people who built the software
Even though we have made TeamWorks easy to install and set up - some customers like assistance with some of the “heavy lifting”. Support services, consultancy and training are available direct from the people who built the software.
Releases three to four times a year
We passionately believe in giving customers new features and improvements to the software as often as possible. So we aim to ship upgrades and new features 3 to 4 times a year - not every 12 to 18 months.
Easier to set up and use
We work on a “sign to live” timeline of 30 days. Meaning that within 30 days of purchasing TeamWorks, a typical organisation has installed, set up, configured and started rolling out the software.
Well designed software should be easy to use and not require an army of consultants to set up and implement. In fact most TeamWorks customers adopt a self service approach to implementing the software using the online help, training and best practice guides that ship with the product.
Browser based software
Meaning the software is easier to rollout and manage going forward.
Team collaboration support
Projects are all about people and the collective effort and experience they bring together. Using TeamWorks your people can share and work together. Even sharing plans can all be done online without copies of MS Project being required.
Don’t waste any investment already made in MS Project
TeamWorks integrates with MS Project as we believe in giving you choices - and you only need to use MS Project Standard - not MS Project Professional which is a pre-requisite for MS Project Server.
More than just planning and scheduling
Yes - TeamWorks has extensive planning and scheduling capabilities. But TeamWorks delivers a whole host of other capabilities that enable you to better manage your projects and teams. Online project status reports, risk logs, action logs, issue logs, methodology and governance tools and more. We like to think of TeamWorks as a complete project environment.
Money
If all the reasons above are not reason enough, let’s consider money. Over a 3 year term a TeamWorks implementation is going to save you £££ when compared to a Project Server implementation. Run a slide rule past the numbers - remember to factor in license costs, implementation costs, support costs and upgrade costs (yes we do provide these free as part of our support and maintenance agreement).
That’s it….
So what are you waiting for?