This comparison of French project steering software sets four French portfolio steering vendors side by side, Project Monitor (Virage group), SuitePro-G (IQar), z0 Gravity (GLOBALSI) and Planisware, and pylotik. The first four are PPM tools: they serve project management, the PMO and the IT department first. pylotik also steers the portfolio, and adds the client, contracts, maintenance, staffing and team time entries.
Steering software is chosen for what it has to hold, not for the length of its feature list.
If it is management, the PMO and internal project managers, a PPM is built for them: demand, trade-offs, capacity, consolidation. If your client has to follow its projects and validate what is submitted to it, you need a tool where it has its own access, and none of the four PPM tools in this comparison documents client access.
A portfolio budget and priorities, or commitments to a client: a fixed-price or time-and-materials contract, a maintenance contract with its volume of days, teams to staff from one week to the next. The French PPM tools document the first; the second is the ground of pylotik.
Each presentation draws on the vendor's public documentation, checked on the date shown under the table.
Project portfolio management software: demand, multi-project schedule with dependencies and critical path, resources, time, budget from forecast to landing, and equipped project and portfolio reviews. It targets large private and public organizations, deploys as SaaS or on-premises, with hosting in France announced, and interfaces with financial software. It remains the better choice for portfolio committees backed by the budget tracking of a large organization.
PPM software: workload plan, budget tracking, timesheets, strategic scoring, risk register, decisions and actions, with an artificial intelligence assistant hosted by the vendor. It is hosted in France on the Ciril Group cloud, with an on-premises option, and listed with UGAP (the French public purchasing agency). It remains the better choice for a PMO that wants a PPM with public pricing and a decision and action register, with no client projects to steer.
Project management software and PPM tool, presented as usable without training: multi-project, Gantt, resources and workload, budgets, risks, dashboards and mobile apps. It is hosted in France on the vendor's servers, with an option on an infrastructure qualified by ANSSI (the French national cybersecurity agency), and listed with UGAP. It remains the better choice for a public buyer or a sensitive organization that requires this infrastructure qualification.
French PPM vendor, with Enterprise for large-scale transformations and Orchestra, preconfigured for PMOs: advanced planning, portfolio trade-offs by scenario, capacity, single-tenant cloud with a choice of data region. It remains the better choice for large organizations that arbitrate a strategic portfolio, in particular with Stage-Gate. The pylotik vs Planisware comparison details these points.
"Not documented" means the vendor's public documentation does not mention it, not that the tool does not do it.
| Feature | pylotik | Project Monitor | SuitePro-G | z0 Gravity | Planisware |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European sovereignty | France | France | France | France | France |
| Project management (tasks, milestones, schedule) | YesWork packages, tasks, phases, milestones, Gantt | YesInteractive Gantt, typed milestones, task dependencies and critical path; task management | YesGantt, Mindmap and Kanban views; Gantt charts generated automatically by the Matt assistant | YesTasks, "interactive Gantt chart and planning"; milestones not mentioned | YesGantt, PERT, WBS, milestones, Stage-Gate, agile; Orchestra covers waterfall, agile, hybrid and phase-gate |
| Multi-project steering | YesPortfolio steering and arbitration | YesSteering of projects and portfolios, several projects in the same Gantt, demand management | YesProject portfolio management and governance, strategic scoring and prioritization | Yes"Multi-project and project portfolio management (PPM)" | YesCore of the offer: portfolios, scenarios, consolidation |
| Dependencies between projects | Via moduleMonitored, without recalculating dates | PartialDependencies and critical path documented at task level; dependencies between projects not described | Not documented | Partial"DEPENDENCIES" label among the functions, with no description or detail on dependencies between tasks or between projects | PartialAgile dependencies at team level and PERT network documented; dependencies between projects not explicitly described |
| Resources and assignments | Yes | Yes | Yes"Resource management and workload plan" | Yes"Human resources and workload management" | Yes |
| Workload plan | Yes | YesWorkload, availability, overload detection, skill requirements | Yes"Resource management and workload plan" | Yes"WORKLOAD PLAN" label | YesSupply / demand / capacity views, over-allocations, what-if |
| Time entry | YesWeekly, on web and mobile | YesSingle timesheet pre-filled according to the assigned projects, entry by hour or by day, automatic reminders | YesTimesheets, comparison of forecast and actual | Not documented | YesPre-filled timesheets, mobile entry, Jira sync |
| Client contracts | YesA contract for each project | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Maintenance contracts | YesVolume, catalogue, committee | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Fixed-price projects | YesPayment schedule on milestones | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Financial tracking and margin | YesOrdered, invoiced, paid, margin | YesPlanned, committed and actual costs, costs by daily rate, margin tracking, from forecast to landing | Partial"Budget steering"; margin tracking not documented | Yes"Budget, cost and profitability management"; on the public-sector side, investment budget, operating budget, multi-year investment plan (PPI) | YesBudgets, forecasts, consolidated costs, P&L, NPV |
| Meetings and minutes | YesAgenda, minutes | YesPreparation of committees and reviews, minutes generated, shared and archived | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Decision log | Yes | PartialDecisions compiled with the review minutes; no dedicated log described | Yes"Risks, decisions, actions", decision and action log (RIDA) | Not documented | Not documented |
| Action tracking | Yes | PartialActions compiled in reviews and assigned tasks; no action log described | Yes"Risks, decisions, actions", decision and action log (RIDA) | Not documented | PartialWorkbox, social feed and "issues" listed under collaboration; no RAID register described |
| Risk register | YesShared or internal | PartialRisks in the project sheet and among the common indicators; no detailed register | Yes"Risk management, RIDA and KPIs"; risks recalculated by the Matt assistant | Yes"Risk and opportunity management": identify, assess and mitigate the risks of each project | PartialRisk indicators in the workflow templates; a third-party review (PeerSpot) describes risks tied to tasks or the WBS |
| Client access | Yes | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Client access without a license | YesExternal client organizations | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Client validation | YesMinutes, amendments, interventions | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Mobile app | YesInstallable web app | Not documented | Not documented | YesiOS and Android apps (publisher Globalsi SAS); the App Store lists English as the app language | YesPlanisware Enterprise iOS app: workbox, workflow actions, time entry, projects |
Information checked in October 2026, against the vendors' public documentation. It changes: see the sources. The flag shows the vendor's country; the Cloud Act badge flags a vendor under US law, or owned by a US group, subject to the CLOUD Act; Non-EU, a vendor established outside the European Union.
pylotik is an operational commitment management software: it holds the portfolio, and what the portfolio is built on.
To arbitrate the portfolio of a large organization, look at Planisware, Project Monitor or SuitePro-G; for an infrastructure qualification requirement, z0 Gravity. If your projects are run with clients, with contracts, maintenance and teams to staff, pylotik is built for that case.
The public documentation of Project Monitor, SuitePro-G, z0 Gravity and Planisware describes no client access and no client validation. In pylotik, client access is free on every tier, and the client validates minutes, interventions and amendments.
No. The ERP keeps invoicing and accounting. pylotik sends it the invoicing orders, through a connector built to your needs. The detail is in ERP or steering software.
In France, with a host under French law and no US parent company, with backups at a second French provider. The publisher, the host and the backup provider are companies under French law: the Cloud Act does not target them on that basis.
A demo on a filled-in data set: the portfolio, a fixed-price project, a maintenance contract, a team's staffing, and what the client reads of it.