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cplace - AI-powered PPM Software for enterprises

Run your portfolios with AI. Build your solutions with AI.

cplace is the AI Platform for PPM for large organizations in Europe and worldwide. Your experts describe how they plan and steer projects. The AI Builder turns that description into a working cplace solution within days, and every change runs inside the permissions and audit trail your IT already controls.

Used by industry leaders across Europe and beyond

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Buy standard PPM software or build your own? You no longer have to choose.

A custom build fits, but only after months of specification. A standard product starts sooner, yet every deviation turns into a customizing project. Generic AI app builders are fast, but they know nothing about portfolios and sit outside your IT’s rules.

cplace gives you proven PPM depth and the fit of a custom build. With governance from the first change.

Buy standard PPM software or build your own? You no longer have to choose.

This is Frontier PPM.

Enterprise PPM and a governed AI Builder on one platform. PPM suites lack the builder, AI app builders lack the depth. cplace has both.

Enterprise PPM and a governed AI Builder on one platform.

Proven PPM for complex portfolios

Building blocks and best practices from some of the most demanding portfolios in industry. Your teams adapt them with No-Code and Low-Code, and changes are live in seconds.

From requirements to a running solution in days

Upload an Excel tracker or describe your process. The AI Builder turns it into a complete cplace application, while your experts make the decisions. Everything it builds stays inside your permission model and leaves a full audit trail.

Organizations that switch to cplace see a positive ROI within 12 months.

Up to 50%

lower project management costs

93%

recommendation rate on Gartner Peer Insights

Week 8

first part of your solution in productive use with cplace Accelerate

An AI Builder your IT can approve

Generating software with AI is becoming easy. Running it under control is the hard part. The AI Builder creates what your teams need, from a single new field to a complete application for a new portfolio. Your domain experts make the decisions, and every step stays within the guardrails your IT has set. It builds natively in cplace, so there is no shadow tool and no code to secure afterwards.

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An AI Builder your IT can approve

Connected with your enterprise ecosystem

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Azure
codebeamer
Google cloud
Jira
Office365
Power-BI
ptc
SAP
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tableau
teamcenter
Teams
windchill

Governance and data sovereignty for everything built with AI

Every AI action in cplace runs in your permission model and is logged in full.

  • Your keys, your models: Bring your own key and choose your AI model freely.
  • Hosted in Europe: cplace Cloud in Germany and Finland, or on your own infrastructure.
  • Full audit trail: Every generated change is versioned and can be rolled back.
  • Certified company: collaboration Factory GmbH is ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified and TISAX-assessed.
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What our customers say about us

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cplace is more than an innovative PPM platform for Roche – it also introduces a new way of working – agile, lean, collaborative, and speedy. cplace offers customized solutions for all types of users, not only for the PPM experts.

Dr. Manfred Schwaiger, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
Head of Business Enabling, Oncology

cplace has excelled as a user-friendly, streamlined, and flexible solution. We definitely didn’t want to be dependent on a provider that offers proprietary development in a black box and restricts our own flexibility. In that regard, cplace is a positive exception.

Uwe Höpner
Service Owner cplace IT Competence Center R&D Tire
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In addition to the ability to create and utilize applications for a wide range of business requirements using a central, database-based tool, the decision to choose cplace was also driven by affinity. We collaborate with a highly innovative team.

Heidrun Blankenhagen
Project Manager
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The project was professionally supervised and any problems that arose were solved quickly and in a solution-oriented manner. The finished product is immediately usable without further training due to its intuitive operation, the comprehensible description of functions and processes as well as the clear menu navigation and structure.

Daniel Wolf
Project Manager, Civil Engineering Department
City of Munich

    Questions we often hear from European organizations

    What is cplace?

    cplace is the AI Platform for PPM for large organizations. It combines enterprise project and portfolio management with an AI Builder that creates tailored PPM solutions in days, based on best practices from projects at major international companies. Every solution and every change stays within the guardrails of your IT. cplace is a brand of collaboration Factory GmbH, based in Munich, Germany.

    What does Frontier PPM mean?

    Frontier PPM is a term coined by cplace. It describes the combination of enterprise PPM depth with an AI Builder that works inside the rules of your IT. Traditional PPM suites have no builder. AI app builders have neither portfolio depth nor governance. cplace brings both onto one platform.

    What is the AI Builder?

    The AI Builder creates complete cplace applications from descriptions, Excel files or requirements documents, including data model, workflows, business logic and dashboards. Your domain experts make the design decisions, and a cplace expert reviews the application before go-live.

    Where is cplace hosted, and is it GDPR-compliant?

    cplace is GDPR-compliant. You can run it in the cplace Cloud with data centers in Germany and Finland, or operate it yourself in a private cloud or on premises. collaboration Factory GmbH, the company behind cplace, is certified to ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 and has passed a TISAX assessment.

    Is our data used to train AI models?

    No. Your data is never used to train AI models. With bring your own key (BYOK), you use your own AI provider credentials and keep control of data flows and costs. You can also choose and change the model you work with.

    Can we roll out cplace across several countries and business units?

    Yes. cplace holds projects of every method on one data basis, from classic stage-gate to agile. Business units can keep their own methods while management sees one consistent portfolio.

    We are only starting with AI. Is cplace still a fit?

    Yes. Many customers begin with classic project and portfolio management and use AI in daily work first, for reports or risk analysis. They add the AI Builder when it makes sense for them.

    How long does it take to introduce cplace?

    With cplace Accelerate, there is no long specification phase. After two weeks, the target picture and roadmap are in place. From week 8, the first part of your solution is in productive use, and new functions follow in two-week loops at a fixed price.

    Wherever your organization stands with AI, we’ll go the next step together.

    cplace AI powered PPM Software