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.

Trusted by the world’s leading engineering teams

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-winng 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

All of your software engineering data in one trusted platform

More advanced functionality

Plandek provides an advanced platform with the ability to drilldown 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, where as Swarmia is well-suited to those in smaller companies and start-ups.​

Plandek vs Swarmia
comparison table

Swarmia
Swarmia

8.3

8.3

9.2

9.2

9.1

9.1

9.0

9.0

7.4

7.4

8.61
8.61
8.61

Meets requirements

Meets requirements

Platform partner

Platform partner

Quality of support

Quality of support

Product direction

Product direction

Value stream management

Value stream management

Verdict

Verified user scoring from G2 — last updated November 2024

Plandek
Plandek

8.5

8.5

9.5

9.5

9.8

9.8

9.7

9.7

8.7

8.7

9.24
9.24
9.24

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

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

Help me deliver today — The day job

Help me improve over time (CI)

Leaders

Help me deliver today — “The day job”

Your virtual VP Delivery

Aggregate SmartViews

View risk by prioritized initiative

Leadership action items

Help me improve over time (CI)

North star metrics and targets: Alignment and Effectiveness

Stakeholder reporting

Managers

Help me deliver today — The day job

Your virtual Delivery Manager

Aggregate SmartViews

View risk by prioritized initiative

Leadership action items

Help me improve over time (CI)

My custom CI metrics manager level (North Star determinant metrics)

Targets

Teams

Help me deliver today — The day job

Your virtual Scrum Master

Aggregate SmartViews

View risk by prioritized initiative

Leadership action items

Help me improve over time (CI)

My custom CI metrics (team level)

Sprint/ Kanban metrics

Targets

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Reduction Time to Value

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Deployment Frequency

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Escaped Deffects

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Sprint Accuracy

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.”

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

5/5

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.”

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

5/5

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.”

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."

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."

5/5

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