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Planview OpenSuite

Attain interoperability between your IT management environment and Planview portfolio management solutions

As the independent market leader in portfolio management, Planview is uniquely positioned to make integrated IT management a reality based on the way you do business today. Our answer? Planview OpenSuite — a suite of products that provides interoperability between our portfolio management solutions and the key management systems on which you rely every day.

The Planview OpenSuite vision, grounded in the customer-centric reality of heterogeneous IT environments, enables the integration Portfolio Management with Business Service Management, Application Lifecycle Management, Productivity solutions, and corporate financial and ERP applications.

Planview OpenSuite Integrated IT Management Vision

Figure 1. Planview OpenSuite Integrated IT Management Vision

Business Service Management

Planview has the most comprehensive set of integrations available for BMC Remedy users with integrations to Remedy Change Management, Service Desk, and the market-leading Atrium CMDB. Because of the growing significance of the CMDB, we also support the emerging CMDBf standard.

Planview OpenSuite for BMC Remedy Change Management, which allows you to seamlessly integrate Planview Enterprise with your third-party change management application for an efficient, ITIL-compatible approach to managing change requests.

Planview OpenSuite for Service Desks, an efficient, ITIL-compatible approach to service desk tickets, allows you to seamlessly integrate Planview Enterprise with your third-party service desk application for better demand management and assignment of resources.

Planview OpenSuite for BMC Atrium CMDB, which provides integration between Planview Enterprise — the system of record for work and resource management and BMC Atrium CMDB — the system of record for the IT infrastructure for up-to-date, ITIL-driven service portfolios.

Planview OpenSuite for CMDBf, which delivers the first Portfolio Management solution support for the emerging open CMDBf standard for real-time sharing of IT services infrastructure data between heterogeneous CMDB systems.

Application Lifecycle Management

Planview Enterprise drives changes into applications via Application Lifecycle Management. Integrations to third-party issue management and software change management applications are on the horizon.

Productivity

Planview Enterprise integrations with project tracking and content management systems help IT organizations be more productive.

Planview OpenSuite for Microsoft SharePoint, integrating Planview Enterprise with Microsoft SharePoint, to create a powerful and comprehensive portal for content management and collaboration around project management and strategic planning.

Planview OpenSuite for Microsoft Project, providing fast, easy, and complete integration with Microsoft Project for improved financial accountability, detailed audit trails, and enhanced centralized administration.

Planview OpenSuite for EMC Documentum, enabling you to store, access, and manage Planview Enterprise-related content in EMC Documentum's content management system.

Planview OpenSuite for EMC Documentum eRoom, enabling team members in different locations to develop, gather, track, and share many types of unstructured data ranging from internal meeting notes, text documents, and discussion strings to Web pages, charts, and presentations using EMC Documentum eRoom.

Corporate Financial and ERP Systems

Planview Enterprise integrates to critical third-party systems:

  • Financial applications such as Hyperion, SAP, Oracle, Lawson, Great Plains, and others. Planview offers a Financial Repository that is used to extract data from the Planview central repository to populate it into some of the invoicing, GL, HR, and asset tracking systems mentioned above.
  • Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and others