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Make the decisions that keep your capital projects on track.
Planisware Elevate is a capital project governance, controls and delivery solution for asset owners, built on the Planisware Unified Platform. It connects project definition, sanction readiness, integrated controls, contractor accountability and operational readiness in one governed environment from project request through handover – all in one AI-powered platform. 

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The future of Engineering & Construction is being decided now

Capital projects lose predictability when critical decisions are delayed, made with incomplete evidence or left unresolved.

Most systems help administer projects or report performance. Planisware Elevate helps owners govern the decisions that shape capital project outcomes.

Cost, schedule, risk, engineering, contracts and contractor progress often sit across different systems and reporting structures. This fragmentation makes it harder to assess whether a project is ready to advance, understand the full impact of change and maintain confidence in the forecast. Planisware Elevate combines proven capital-project practices, connected data and decision intelligence in one controlled project model.

Build realistic timelines, connect scope, resources and costs, and integrate the schedules your teams already use.
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Planisware Elevate structures how decisions are made across the lifecycle. From candidate-project prioritization and sanction readiness to execution assurance and handover, Planisware Elevate connects project maturity, readiness evidence, integrated baselines, contractor performance and delivery outcomes.

Identify exposure earlier. Govern change consistently. Turn project evidence into timely, defensible decisions.

Planisware Elevate – Define the right projects. Build credible plans. Maintain control. Align execution. Deliver operationally ready assets.

E&C Capital Projects Delivery

One platform connecting Portfolio decisioning, Project Planning, Controls, and Delivery Execution

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Portfolio Governance & Decisioning

  • Portfolio & Investment Management
  • Program Management
  • Front-End Planning
  • Stage-Gate Management
  • Risk & Compliance
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Project Planning & Controls

  • Project Scope & Deliverables
  • Planning & Scheduling
  • Resource Management
  • Cost Control
  • Performance Management
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Project Delivery Execution

  • Work Package Management
  • Contract Management
  • Documents & Correspondence
  • Field Execution
  • Quality Management
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Open Collaboration & Integration Layer

  • CDE
  • BIM
  • PLM
  • ERP

Planisware provides an open collaboration and integration layer to connect owners, EPCs, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and external stakeholders on a single collaborative platform with standardized workflows across the entire project ecosystem.

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The key challenges of delivering successful capital projects

Large capital projects require organizations to make critical funding, phase-gate, and execution decisions long before all uncertainties are resolved. Yet project readiness, costs, risks, engineering progress, and delivery performance are often fragmented across teams and systems, making it difficult to see the full picture.

Projects Are Approved Before They Are Ready

The challenge: Critical investment decisions are often made with incomplete scope definitions, insufficient engineering maturity, unresolved risks, and limited evidence that a project can be delivered successfully. Organizations lack a consistent way to assess project readiness before committing capital. 
Business impact:

  • Unrealistic budgets and schedules
  • Predictable overruns discovered too late
  • Rework, replanning, and scope instability
  • Reduced confidence in investment decisions


Key question: "Are we truly ready to move this project forward?"

 

Decisions Are Made Without a Complete View

The challenge Cost, schedule, risk, engineering, contracts, field execution, and financial performance are managed across disconnected systems and spreadsheets. Decision-makers spend more time reconciling information than understanding what it means. 

Business impact:

  • Multiple versions of the truth
  • Conflicting forecasts
  • Slow decision-making
  • Limited visibility into impacts and trade-offs
  • Difficult-to-defend governance decisions


Key question "Do we have enough evidence to make the right decision?"

 

Change Outpaces Governance

The challenge: Capital projects operate in a constantly changing environment. Scope evolves, risks materialize, engineering changes emerge, contractors face delays, and market conditions shift. Most organizations can detect change, but they struggle to understand its impact quickly enough to respond effectively. 

Business impact:

  • Loss of control over scope, cost, and schedule
  • Delayed approvals and slow responses
  • Inaccurate forecasts
  • Claims, disputes, and delivery uncertainty
  • Erosion of stakeholder confidence


Key question "Can we respond quickly and consistently when reality changes?"

Built to eliminate the friction slowing down 
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Built for how capital projects actually work

Five interconnected capabilities across the capital project lifecycle

Define and mature candidate capital projects

Planisware Elevate structures front-end planning to reduce ambiguity, strengthen project definition, and support defensible funding decisions before execution begins.

  • Scope definition and design maturity tracking
  • Gate reviews with structured scoring across FEL and stage-gate processes
  • Portfolio prioritization, investment optimization, scenario-based funding, sequencing, constraints, and traceable recommendations
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Planisware Elevate - Make defensible funding decisions before execution begins

Establish a credible integrated baseline

Planisware Elevate connects scope, maturity, work breakdown, sequencing, cost, schedule, and risk into a credible baseline for execution, forecasting, and performance measurement.

  • Integrated scope, cost, schedule, and risk planning
  • WBS/PBS, engineering and construction sequencing, and Advanced Work Packaging (EWP, CWP, PWP, IWP)
  • Quantitative and qualitative risk analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, probabilistic forecasting, and scenario simulations
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Build and advanced WBS and link it to requirements and deliverables to tie every item into a controlled baseline.

Control cost, schedule, risk and change

Planisware Elevate connects progress, change, cost, schedule, and risk management so teams can detect deviations early, understand impact, and take corrective action.

  • Integrated risk management across cost, schedule, execution, portfolio exposure, and systemic risk detection
  • Variations, change order management, structured impact analysis, approval workflows, and TCM alignment
  • Continuous reforecasting, cash-flow tracking, EVM, field reporting, productivity tracking, and predictive risk identification
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Control cost, risk and change through continuous reforecasting

Deliver Work Packages with Confidence

Planisware Elevate structures coordination around deliverables, work packages, workflows, approvals, and shared execution decisions across contractors, disciplines, and delivery teams.

  • Alignment between engineering deliverables, field execution, and Advanced Work Packaging (EWP, CWP, PWP, IWP)
  • Consolidated progress, productivity, and work-package performance monitoring
  • Cross-team coordination, project workflows, approvals, quality, compliance, shared decision context, and full traceability
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Screenshot text: Align engineering deliverables, field execution, and Advanced Work Packaging

Prepare for commissioning, handover and operation

Planisware Elevate structures commissioning, inspections, documentation, system readiness, acceptance, and turnover for a controlled transition to operational readiness.

  • Commissioning planning, sequencing, system readiness, and work-package readiness tracking
  • Inspections, testing, quality, compliance, completion documentation, final acceptance, and certification
  • Structured asset turnover, traceability of actions, approvals, readiness decisions, and shared stakeholder visibility
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Structure documentation, quality, and compliance, from commissioning to handover and operation
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Planisware Elevate - Make defensible funding decisions before execution begins
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Build and advanced WBS and link it to requirements and deliverables to tie every item into a controlled baseline.
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Control cost, risk and change through continuous reforecasting
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Screenshot text: Align engineering deliverables, field execution, and Advanced Work Packaging
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Structure documentation, quality, and compliance, from commissioning to handover and operation

Built for Capital projects across industries where decisions cannot be delayed

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Megaprojects & Large Scale Capital Programs –  Control complexity at the highest scale

Megaprojects & Large Scale Capital Programs – Control complexity at the highest scale

Megaprojects involve billions in CAPEX, multi-year timelines, and thousands of stakeholders across engineering, procurement, and construction.

These environments require rigorous front-end planning, integrated risk management, and absolute alignment between investment decisions and execution reality.

Planisware Elevate provides the governance, visibility, and decision intelligence needed to manage dependencies, anticipate risks, and ensure that every critical decision is structured, traceable, and defensible – from initial investment to final handover.

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Industrial & EPC Projects –  Deliver complex engineering projects with confidence

Industrial & EPC Projects – Deliver complex engineering projects with confidence

Industrial and EPC projects demand tight coordination between engineering maturity, procurement, contractors, and field execution – often under extreme cost and schedule pressure.

Planisware Elevate connects design, planning, and construction through structured work packaging, integrated cost control, and real-time execution visibility – ensuring that projects are not just planned, but fully executable.

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Infrastructure & Transportation Projects – Align multiple stakeholders in complex delivery environments

Infrastructure & Transportation Projects – Align multiple stakeholders in complex delivery environments

Infrastructure projects combine public and private stakeholders, regulatory constraints, and long delivery cycles with multiple contractors and interfaces.

Planisware Elevate structures coordination across all parties – aligning workflows, contracts, and schedules – and provides a shared decision framework that ensures transparency, governance, and predictable delivery at scale.

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tilities Programs – Manage large portfolios of distributed investments

Utilities Programs – Manage large portfolios of distributed investments

Utilities and network operators manage hundreds or thousands of concurrent projects across geographies, assets, and investment cycles.

Planisware Elevate provides portfolio-level visibility, prioritization, and funding control – enabling continuous optimization of investments, proactive capacity planning, and alignment between long-term strategy and day-to-day execution.

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Industrial Facilities – Balance growth, investment, and operational constraints

Industrial Facilities – Balance growth, investment, and operational constraints

Industrial facility projects often require expanding or modernizing assets while maintaining ongoing operations – with constant change and tight resource constraints.

Planisware Elevate enables teams to manage scope maturity, control changes in real time, and align engineering, planning, and execution – ensuring projects are delivered efficiently without disrupting production.

Built for every decision-maker in capital projects

From early investment decisions to final handover, Elevate supports each role with the tools, insights, and control they need to act with confidence.
Fund the right projects and steer strategic outcomes

Capital Project & Portfolio Leaders

Fund the right projects and steer strategic outcomes. Prioritize investments, evaluate scenarios, optimize capital allocation, and maintain visibility into value, risk, funding, and portfolio performance.

Turn strategy into coordinated delivery

PMO & Program Managers

Turn strategy into coordinated delivery. Standardize governance, align roadmaps, dependencies, and resources, and ensure projects and programs remain aligned with business objectives from planning through execution.

Maintain control of cost, schedule, risk, and financial performance

Project Controls & Finance Teams

Maintain control of cost, schedule, risk, and financial performance. Connect planning, forecasting, cost control, cash flow, and quantitative risk analysis to anticipate deviations early, evaluate scenarios, and support better project decisions.

Translate plans into executable work

Operations & Work Package Managers

Translate plans into executable work. Manage Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Commissioning Work Packages while connecting engineering readiness, constraints, field progress, productivity, quality, and safety to deliver reliable execution.

Deliver assets ready for operations

Commissioning & Delivery Partners

Deliver assets ready for operations. Coordinate correspondence, approvals, testing, compliance, system readiness, and structured handover processes with full traceability across stakeholders.

Planisware’s Long-standing Recognition by Gartner, Forrester, and Industry Analysts

Sustained Leadership, Trusted Recognition

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Planisware - Gartner's APMR Magic Quadrant Leader for five consecutive years
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AI Embedded across the capital project lifecycle

Planisware Elevate integrates AI directly into the workflows that drive capital project performance – not as a standalone tool, but as a layer embedded across planning, control, and execution.

AI Assistants & Automation

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AI assistants and automation

Simplify how teams interact with complex project data

  • Automatically read and structure project documents and requests
  • Generate summaries, explanations, and decision narratives
  • Support users with contextual insights and guided workflows
  • Accelerate onboarding and adoption across teams


From manual effort → augmented decision-making at scale

Decision Intelligence

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Decision intelligence

Turn data into clear, explainable decisions

  • Detect misalignment, cost anomalies, and emerging risks
  • Identify projects that are not ready for investment (maturity, risk, capacity)
  • Surface portfolio drift, contractor overload, and financial exposure
  • Provide explainable recommendations with full traceability


From fragmented signals → clear decisions you can defend

Predictive & Scenario Intelligence

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Predictive scenario intelligence

Understand outcomes before they happen

  • Run scenario simulations across cost, schedule, and risk
  • Generate rolling forecasts based on real project data
  • Provide probabilistic views (P50 / P80 / P90)
  • Anticipate delays, overruns, and execution bottlenecks


From reactive reporting → forward-looking control

Execution Intelligence

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Execution intelligence

Connect decisions to real-world project execution

  • Detect inconsistencies in estimates, schedules, and cost structures
  • Identify root causes of delays, variations, and productivity issues
  • Monitor execution performance in real time (field, work packages, contractors)
  • Enforce workflows and trigger actions based on thresholds


From insight → action across the project lifecycle

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