TransformRadar instead of monday.com, Asana, Planisware and Microsoft Project

Including our own product in a list like this is awkward, and leaving it out would be its own kind of dishonesty. So here it is, held to the same standard as everything else — including the part where a competitor is already European and the part where you should not choose us.

What it is

An EU-hosted workspace for running transformations: portfolio and projects, a register for risks, issues, decisions, actions and changes, status reporting that draws on those registers rather than being retyped, value drivers and measures with baselines and readings, and steering-group material generated from the current picture.

Hosted in Paris on Clever Cloud, on European-owned infrastructure. No CLOUD Act exposure, and no customer data used to train foreign AI models.

The comparison, honestly

The four tools you named are not one category, and treating them as one is how organisations buy the wrong thing.

Two things follow from that table.

Against monday.com, Asana and Microsoft Project, there are two arguments: jurisdiction, and fit. They are general work-management and scheduling tools. They have no first-class notion of a decision with an owner and a date, no risk register feeding status, and no value realisation tracking. Organisations using them for programme governance end up maintaining a parallel spreadsheet layer for exactly those things — which is the problem they bought a tool to avoid.

Against Planisware, the sovereignty argument does not exist. Planisware is French. It is a genuine European option and a serious product. If a vendor tells you to leave Planisware for sovereignty reasons, they have not checked or they are hoping you will not.

The real difference there is weight. Planisware is enterprise PPM: deep resource management, financial planning, portfolio optimisation, and an implementation to match. If you have a large portfolio and the PMO capacity to run that, it may be the better answer and we will say so in the room.

TransformRadar is for the organisation running a significant transformation that needs governance to work now, without standing up a PPM programme first.

Why we built it

Because the alternative in practice was not another tool. It was spreadsheets, slide decks and email — which is how 50–70% of transformations end up underperforming.

The specific failure is that status has no single source. Every reporting cycle, someone reassembles the picture by hand from a dozen places. By the time it reaches the steering group it is a fortnight old and subtly wrong, and the meeting is spent reconciling numbers instead of making decisions.

The design follows from the practice described in transformation governance that people actually use: decisions are first-class objects with owners and dates, status is assembled from live registers, and the age of an open decision — the single most diagnostic governance measure and the one almost nobody tracks — is visible without anyone compiling it.

The honest case against

Applied to us with the same scrutiny as the vendor-viability warning in the Pitch entry, because exempting ourselves would make that warning worthless.

We are a small vendor. That is a concentration risk. Ask us the same questions: can you export everything in a usable format, what happens if we disappear, what are the exit terms? If we cannot answer those crisply, do not buy.

It is not a full PPM suite. Resource management and financial planning are not at Planisware's depth. If those are your core requirement, we are not your answer.

Tooling does not fix structural governance problems. If your steering group has no mandate to decide, no software changes that. We would rather do the advisory work to fix the structure than sell you a licence that papers over it.

The verdict

If you are running a transformation, need governance that works, and want it under European jurisdiction: worth an evaluation, and we would say that even if we had not built it.

If you have a large portfolio and PMO capacity: look at Planisware first. It is European, it is mature, and pretending otherwise would tell you more about us than about the software.