Assessing the Return on your Planisware PPM Solution Investment

Assessing the Return on your Planisware PPM Solution Investment: A Guide to Calculating ROI is for PMO leaders, IT and portfolio executives, and anyone responsible for building the business case for an enterprise PPM investment.

Proving that a technology initiative is a clear win is rarely straightforward. Many ROI models are generic and disconnected from the capabilities that actually generate financial impact. This guide takes the opposite approach: it anchors the calculation in the operational drivers of value creation, so you can build a credible, defensible business case rather than a set of optimistic assumptions. 
In this guide we will:​

• Recommend a three-part business case structure covering portfolio value, delivery performance, and operational productivity, and explain why decision intelligence is articulated qualitatively rather than monetized, so your numbers stay defensible under scrutiny.
• Break down the ROI building blocks for PPM across benefits, costs, and risks, including the five core benefit levers, the improvement values the calculator applies by default, and the three controls that prevent those levers from double counting each other.
• Explain the role of AI as a force multiplier: why capabilities such as synthesizing portfolio information, generating reports, surfacing emerging risks, and executing multi-step work under approval controls amplify returns only when a centralized, governed system of record is already in place, and why applying AI to spreadsheets and standalone project plans will not deliver comparable results.
• Walk you through an ROI calculation using an illustrative IT PPM scenario, covering the scenario assumptions, the four inputs you provide, the assumptions the calculator supplies on your behalf, and the results it returns: three-year total benefit, three-year ROI, and payback period, along with a breakdown of where the return originates.
• Put ROI into perspective within a broader go/no-go framework, including how to mitigate implementation, adoption, and value realization risk through conservative estimates, multiple scenarios, and a clear line between hard savings and soft benefits.

The guide also serves as a companion to the Planisware ROI Calculator, with practical guidance on how to input assumptions, interpret outputs, and adapt the model to your own PMO structure and maturity level.