Enterprise project and portfolio management software

Enterprise PPM software that
adapts to teams — not the other way around

cplace helps you plan, prioritize, and track all your projects in one place. It connects schedules, resources, risks, and budgets to give leadership a single source of truth for the whole portfolio, without locking every team into the same method.

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Your enterprise PPM tool says one thing. Excel says another

The official PPM tool is for stakeholders. The real plan lives in a maze of Excel sheets and shadow IT.

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Every team uses its own tool, so a portfolio-level view means days of manual consolidation.

Your best people spend days building status reports instead of doing actual work.

Dependencies between projects stay invisible until a date slips.

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When the auditors arrive, the record of who approved what and when is scattered across inboxes and spreadsheets.

Different teams see different numbers. No one’s sure which version is true.

The value of cplace enterprise PPM software

One source of truth, not a maze of spreadsheets. Each team keeps the method that works for it. Their plans roll up into one real-time picture. The status everyone sees is the status that’s actually true. Excel-style speed, enterprise-grade governance.

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Better decisions

Portfolio calls get made on live data, not last week’s spreadsheet.

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Fewer surprises

Cross-project risks and dependencies surface early, before a date quietly slips.

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Time back

Reporting goes from a Friday ritual to real-time. No more manual roll-ups.

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Speed to market

Less rework and reconciliation means development moves faster.

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No IT backlog

Teams adapt their own setup instead of waiting months on a change request.

Lower total cost of ownership

One platform replaces a sprawl of point tools and shadow-IT Excel.

Up to 50%

reduction in project management costs

10% fewer

budget overruns

25% less

time spent on reporting and approvals

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How cplace handles enterprise
project and portfolio management

One platform that works the way your enterprise actually runs

Every method, one picture: waterfall, agile, or a hybrid mix. Your teams work their own way, and it all rolls up into one real-time view.

No more IT tickets: Change your own setup on the fly with No-Code and Low-Code, as fast and flexible as Excel.

The whole picture, nothing lost: Connect dates, risks, documents, product, and process data in one model. Keep all the moving parts in view.

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Platform for R&D project and portfolio management in Automotive

AI that turns project data into
decisions

Built into the platform teams already use. Questions get answered in plain language; agents draft the status report, surface the risks, and rebalance the plan. Your data is never used to train AI models.

  • 70% less reporting effort
  • 80% less schedule planning
  • Plan risks surfaced up to 8 weeks earlier
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Project management with cplace AI

Made for the people who run
projects and portfolios

  • PMOs & EPMOs: steer the portfolio with one reliable, real-time picture.
  • R&D and engineering teams: create plans that fit how development actually works.
  • Regulated industries: Automotive, pharma, life sciences, and manufacturing, where governance has to hold up to audit.
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Target group for ppm

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
Head of Business Enabling, Oncology, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
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cplace vs. conventional enterprise PPM software

The enterprise PPM label is broad. The gap between platforms shows in how they handle real PMO work.

Conventional PPM software cplace

Methods

Standard methods, little room for flexibility

Waterfall, agile, hybrid, or a custom mix

Fit to the business

The company adapts to the tool

The tool adapts to the company

Changes

A new IT project and a long wait

Teams customize cplace themselves, live

Adoption

Complex and underused; work drifts back to Excel

User-first and intuitive

Data

Fragmented across silos and shadow spreadsheets

One source of truth across systems

Integration

Standard connectors with heavy customization

Configurable connectors, even cross-company

Scale

Scales in size, not in complexity

Scales for complex, regulated work

Architecture

A fixed PPM feature set for stable times

A modular platform for changing ones

AI

A generic chatbot with no project context

AI that reads the project, acts, and builds new workspaces

Connects with your enterprise ecosystem

aws
Azure
codebeamer
Google cloud
Jira
Office365
Power-BI
ptc
SAP
snowflake
tableau
teamcenter
Teams
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What powers cplace PPM?

Every cplace project and portfolio management solution is built from modular building blocks: ready-made apps and templates that snap together and can be tailored without code.

Enterprise Scheduling

Large-project Gantt across teams

Collaborative Scheduling

Decentralized plans, one master view

Hybrid Scheduling

Waterfall and agile on one timeline

Risk Manager

Project risk, tracked in context

Maturity & Gate Management

Stage gates and governance milestones

LOOMEO

Complexity and dependency management

Continuous Improvement

Lessons learned, captured, and reused

Computer System Validation

Validation for regulated industries

PRINCE2

A ready template for traditional project management

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Change tracking across the project

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Contextual comments where the work happens

Alerts & Messages

Deadline alerts and internal team communication

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Frequently asked questions

How long does it take to implement cplace?

cplace offers a library of pre-built solution components for portfolio management, resource planning, schedule management, and many more, so projects start from a working configuration, not a blank slate. Initial use cases typically go live within weeks, with broader rollouts following in phases. Live customization keeps the platform moving forward without lengthy rework.

How does cplace connect strategic priorities to project execution?

Strategic objectives, investment decisions, and live execution data share one data model in cplace. Portfolio reviews draw on live project data rather than last quarter’s status report, and cplace AI surfaces shifts in scope, risk, or resourcing as they emerge. The result is a closed loop between strategy and delivery, not two disconnected systems patched together with spreadsheets.

How does cplace stay adaptable without creating technical debt?

Changes typically happen through configuration of modular building blocks, not by writing custom code. New fields, workflows, and dashboards live at the configuration layer and travel with each platform upgrade. AI Builder takes this further by turning plain-language descriptions into working configurations, so PMO and IT teams stay in control of how the platform evolves.

 

Can cplace support multiple business units with different processes on one platform?

Yes. cplace runs as one platform with dedicated workspaces for each business unit, division, region, or team. Each unit configures its own methodology (waterfall, agile, hybrid, or SAFe) while shared portfolio data, resources, and reporting roll up to enterprise level. MTU Aero Engines, Roche, and Continental run cplace this way across multiple divisions.

Which systems does cplace integrate with?

cplace connects to the systems enterprise ITs already run, including Jira, Microsoft SharePoint, and SAP, with pre-built integrations and a REST API. The cplace MCP Server takes this further, giving AI agents in other tools governed access to cplace context. Custom integrations follow the same open architecture without requiring additional vendor services.