Plandek vs Swarmia

Interested in a Swarmia alternative? Plandek is an end-to-end software engineering intelligence (SEI) platform, suitable for all levels of the organization: teams, managers & leadership.

While Swarmia provides a great solution for small businesses looking for a SEI platform, Plandek is typically preferred by medium to large-sized enterprises that require more advanced or customizable features.

Why customers choose Plandek

• The flexibility of a BI tool, with easy OTB templates Plandek offers the flexibility of an advanced BI tool, plus out-of-the-box metrics and dashboards to use it with ease: the best of both worlds.

• 'Best in class' customer support by team of experts Support from our award-winning experts is not just for onboarding, but throughout your Plandek lifetime. We're voted #1 for our customer support on G2.

• Ease of setup & ongoing adoption support Our Customer Success team are able to help your teams adopt Plandek and learn how to make meaningful changes that drive real results.

• Daily AI insights to help teams deliver predictably Plandek SmartView is used by teams on a daily basis. It provides AI-powered delivery insights, risk scoring and predictive due dates to help teams deliver on time.

• Full library of highly-configurable metrics There's more metrics to choose from in Plandek, with over 50 DevOps and engineering metrics, including popular frameworks like DORA, Flow & SPACE.

• Better customization to build bespoke dashboards Build dashboards from scratch, conduct Root Cause Analysis or add third party data from HR, customers or finance for more custom insights.

Plandek is the go-to SEI platform for enterprise-level features

• More advanced functionality Plandek provides an advanced platform with the ability to drill down into more data, pull in third-party data sources and overlay for unlimited insights. You won't outgrow Plandek!

• Increased customization With the flexibility of a BI tool, and the ease of an OOTB platform, Plandek is the best of both worlds for engineering teams. Track the metrics that matter, and build bespoke dashboards around them.

• Better suited to mid-large sized Enterprises Plandek is the platform of choice for larger engineering teams, whereas Swarmia is well-suited to those in smaller companies and start-ups.

Plandek vs Swarmia comparison table

Plandek helps teams to deliver better today, and engineering leaders to improve performance over time

• Leaders

  • Aggregate SmartViews
  • View risk by prioritized initiative
  • Leadership action items
  • North star metrics and targets: Alignment and Effectiveness
  • Stakeholder reporting

• Managers

  • Aggregate SmartViews
  • View risk by prioritized initiative
  • Leadership action items
  • Custom CI metrics manager level
  • Targets

• Teams

  • Aggregate SmartViews
  • View risk by prioritized initiative
  • Leadership action items
  • Custom CI metrics
  • Sprint/Kanban metrics
  • Targets

Trusted by innovative CTOs and engineering leaders globally

Neil Sayer

Head of Technology, PEI
“We want to measure, so we have made Plandek our new norm for every team. It consistently provides us with high quality, up-to-date transparency into our processes.”
Rating: 5/5

Andrew Mulford

VP Head of Delivery, Preqin
"The Plandek team supported us when we needed to make customization and changes. It's a very quick and simple tool to use. We can create custom dashboards, which focus on specific teams, but it also enables us to scale."
Rating: 5/5

Jayr Motta

Head of Engineering
"After almost 2 years with Plandek, the conversation has shifted a lot among the leaders and many team members from 'why' to 'how'. Although we have already seen improvements in our metrics, we are just now feeling a shift in mindset which will bear fruit in the future."
Rating: 5/5

Stuart Pearce

Portfolio CTO, Hg Capital
"We are here to help our portfolio companies accelerate their value delivery. The effectiveness of their technology delivery - and the ROI of their R&D – is a key piece of that jigsaw. Plandek enables our portfolio companies to track and drive their R&D ROI, as part of their broader value creation approach."
Rating: 5/5

Giulio Folino

Head of Digital, MoJ
"At the MoJ, we believe that data is the best way to drive continual improvement and build an effective delivery culture. Plandek has enabled us to focus our organization on the delivery behaviors that drive the right outcomes, whilst providing our people with a robust tool to support coaching and learning opportunities."
Rating: 5/5

Eirik Pettersen

CTO, Secret Escapes
"It is early days with Plandek, but it is already making an important contribution to our collective effort to constantly improve our already world-class Agile engineering capability at Secret Escapes."
Rating: 5/5

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