Compare Acuity PPM vs. BigPicture

Acuity PPM provides Project Management Teams (PMO's) with lightweight and easy-to-use software to manage the project portfolio. Acuity PPM provides a Work Intake module to support demand management and helps you create and evaluate new project requests through prioritization, financial planning and resource management (capacity planning). Once a request is approved, project teams can track project progress with centralized status reports, track key milestones, risks, issues, financial plans, decisions, lessons learned, project and portfolio roadmaps, and resource plans in Acuity PPM. This helps leadership teams select the right projects for the organization. Connect to common Project Management tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, Wrike, Monday.com, and others. PMO's don't need complicated and cumbersome software, which is too complex for most users to use. Our modular approach allows PMO's to add functionality as they need it, since most Project Management Offices are at maturity level 1 or 2. This allows you to pay only for what you use and not for what you don’t. That's fair.

The future of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) has arrived, bringing with it an extraordinary level of information clarity, support for agile, traditional, and hybrid methodologies, as well as ensuring strategic alignment across all organizational tiers. Your BigPicture capabilities are enhanced with additional features designed for intricate enterprises managing extensive initiative portfolios. Prepared for agile transformation, timelines are now reinvented, incorporating visualization of dependencies, straightforward milestone and critical path identification, automated scheduling, and seamless agile compatibility. You can construct any portfolio framework, encompassing sub-portfolios, programs, projects, phases, and SAFe® ARTs, with a simplified approach to requirements management. No matter the methodology you adopt, optimizing your efforts and monitoring progress can be achieved effortlessly at both macro and detailed levels. Explore customizable boxes—universal, multifunctional management spaces tailored for tasks, deliverables, resources, risks, and additional elements. These boxes allow you to systematically organize all aspects of your projects, programs, products, teams, or entire portfolios into various collections, enabling standardized tracking and management. In this way, you can ensure that every element of your organization operates efficiently and aligns with your overarching objectives.