cplace

What cplace does

cplace is the product brand of collaboration Factory GmbH, a privately held German software company headquartered in Munich and founded in 2014. The company develops and sells an adaptive enterprise software platform for Next-Generation Project and Portfolio Management (NGPPM), sold under the umbrella concept of combining proven project management methods with flexible solution building blocks and AI. Its target buyers are large enterprises — explicitly DAX-40 companies and global market leaders — with complex, cross-functional product development processes that are poorly served by rigid, one-size-fits-all PPM tools.

The platform is built around a shared data foundation, a configurable core, and a "mix-and-match" library of pre-built solution modules (PPM Toolkit / Lösungsbaukasten) that include Gantt charts, Kanban boards, maturity and risk management, collaborative schedule management, resource management, and enterprise governance. Customers and partners have shared-source access to the codebase. The cplace AI layer adds natural-language querying of project data, automated document summarization and translation, early risk detection, and data-based action recommendations, with cplace AI Companion positioned as an active AI team member and cplace Citizen AI extending these capabilities to non-technical users.

cplace generates revenue primarily through annual subscription licenses for its cloud or on-premise platform, supplemented by professional services for implementation and customization delivered by an internal consulting team and an external partner network (Objectivity, STAR COOPERATION, InfinitiBit, Dataciders, Accenture, Capgemini, EY, and others). Distribution is predominantly direct enterprise field sales with personalized live demos, with named customers spanning automotive (Volkswagen Group, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Daimler Truck, MAN, Continental, OSRAM), pharma and life sciences (Roche, Gerresheimer), aerospace and defense (MTU Aero Engines, TGE Marine), e-commerce (Zalando), and government (City of Munich). The company operates from offices in Munich, Hannover, Ludwigsburg, and Raleigh (USA), holds ISO 9001 certification (November 2023), and is pursuing TISAX and ISO 27001 alignment for regulated industries.

Name

cplace

Legal name

collaboration Factory GmbH

Website

https://cplace.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

cplace (collaboration Factory GmbH, Munich) is a private enterprise software vendor selling a configurable, AI-augmented Project and Portfolio Management platform to large enterprises — including DAX-40 companies and global market leaders — via direct enterprise sales and a partner network across automotive, life sciences, aerospace, and e-commerce verticals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Workflow & Case Management (Human-Centric BPM) (HDAEAHAA)

Keywords

• Project portfolio management
• Enterprise PPM software
• AI project management
• Resource management platform
• Collaborative scheduling software

Headquarters

HQ city

Munich

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Platform Subscription: cplace is offered as a cloud-based or on-premise software platform, likely with annual subscription pricing based on seats or enterprise agreements. The platform is positioned for large enterprises and the sales motion involves personalized demos and contracts.
2. Professional Services and Consulting: cplace provides consulting and professional services for implementation, solution development, and customization of the platform through its internal consulting team and partner network.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

cplace is an adaptive Next-Generation Project and Portfolio Management (NGPPM) software platform that combines modular solution building blocks (Gantt, Kanban, risk management, maturity management) with a built-in AI layer (cplace AI) to help large enterprises manage complex, cross-functional projects. The platform is offered as cloud-based or on-premise software with real-time customization capabilities and a shared-source ecosystem, supported by an internal consulting team and partner network for implementation and customization.

Product overview

cplace is a Next-Generation Project and Portfolio Management (NGPPM) software platform delivered by collaboration Factory GmbH. The platform combines a flexible, adaptive core platform with modular solution building blocks (PPM Toolkit/Lösungsbaukasten) that can be combined mix-and-match, including ready-to-use applications for Gantt diagrams, Kanban boards, maturity management, and risk management. The platform integrates cplace AI as its intelligent layer, featuring specialized AI assistants (including cplace AI Companion and cplace Citizen AI) for natural language project data querying, risk detection, document automation, and predictive analytics. Additional modules include Collaborative Schedule Management, Resource Management, and Enterprise Governance. The shared-source ecosystem enables customers and partners to access and extend the code base. The company offers professional services through consulting teams and maintains a partner network for implementation support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• cplace AI: AI-powered assistant for project and portfolio management that automates routine tasks, recognizes risks, and provides data-based recommendations
• cplace Citizen AI
• cplace AI Companion
• cplace Academy
• NGPPM (Next-Generation Project and Portfolio Management)
• Shared-Source Community

Quantifiable outcome

• Measurable efficiency gain of up to 40% through the combination of the cplace platform and AI
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• cplace Day 2025 Event Partners (Dataciders, EY, Tiba, Le Bihan Consulting, 2LForge, 4Soft, Demicon, EposCat, Accenture, Capgemini)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 30 October 2025cplace Day 2025 featured multiple event partners including consulting and technology firms: Dataciders (premium apps for modern collaboration), EY, Tiba Technologieberatung, Le Bihan Consulting, 2LForge, 4Soft, Demicon, EposCat, Accenture, and Capgemini. These partners participated in Europe's largest PPM conference as sponsors and exhibitors.
• DatacidersminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 January 2025Dataciders is a cplace partner that provides premium apps for modern collaboration, showcasing efficient data processing and clear visualization within the cplace environment at cplace Day 2025.
• InfinitiBit GmbHcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 22 January 2024InfinitiBit GmbH, backed by 15 years of software innovation and project expertise, joined the cplace partner network with a focus on Low- and No-Code digital transformation in ALM and PLM. Right from the start, the partnership showed success with a project proposal for a large automotive supplier focused on autonomous driving innovation management.
• Three New Partners (unspecified names)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 9 November 2023Three new partners joined the cplace network in November 2023, expanding the community ecosystem.
• STAR COOPERATIONcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 September 2023STAR COOPERATION complements the cplace community as a partner bringing specialized expertise in project management consulting and system integration services.
• cplace Partner Insights CommunitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 May 2023cplace Partner Insights is an annual event for the cplace partner community focusing on networking and exchange, under the theme 'The Power of Community'.
• ObjectivitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2022collaboration Factory formed a strategic partnership with Objectivity, an IT service provider specializing in custom software development, digital transformation, and IT consulting. The partnership focuses on the life sciences and healthcare sectors, with a joint design sprint planned to develop a solution template for the pharmaceutical industry. Objectivity brings in-depth industry knowledge and an international network including locations in the UK and Poland.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Smartsheet: Smartsheet is a collaborative work management platform used by enterprises for project and portfolio management, resource planning and automated workflows — a comparable enterprise-targeting PPM and work management vendor.
• Wrike: Wrike is an enterprise project management and collaborative work management platform owned by Citrix, serving large organizations with cross-functional program management — a comparable PPM/work management competitor.
• Sciforma: Sciforma is a PPM vendor historically strong in R&D-intensive and engineering-driven enterprises (aerospace, defense, life sciences) — directly comparable to cplace's aerospace, automotive and life sciences verticals.
• Planview: Planview is a leading enterprise platform for strategic portfolio, project, resource and product management — the most direct competitor to cplace in the adaptive PPM space, serving similarly large enterprises with a mix-and-match portfolio approach.
• Workfront (Adobe): Adobe Workfront is an enterprise work management and project management platform aimed at complex, cross-functional enterprise programs — overlapping directly with cplace's adaptive PPM positioning in marketing and product operations.
• Monday.com: Monday.com is a work operating system with a growing portfolio/project management offering that increasingly competes for the same enterprise budget as cplace for cross-functional project tracking and workflow automation.

Emerging players

• Celoxis: Celoxis is a PPM and project collaboration platform serving mid-to-large enterprises with portfolio, resource and workflow management — a partial-overlap emerging alternative in the same adaptive PPM category as cplace.

Broad incumbents

• ServiceNow Project Portfolio Management: ServiceNow's PPM module sits inside its broader enterprise platform and competes for IT, product and cross-functional portfolio management budget at large enterprises that are standardizing on the ServiceNow ecosystem.
• Broadcom (Clarity PPM and Rally): Broadcom owns Clarity PPM and Rally (formerly CA Agile Central), legacy enterprise PPM and agile delivery platforms that compete directly with cplace for IT and product development portfolio management at large enterprises.
• Microsoft Project: Microsoft Project (and the wider Planner/Dynamics 365 Project Operations suite) is the default incumbent PPM offering for Microsoft-anchored enterprises — the most common incumbent that cplace displaces or competes against in DAX-40 accounts.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@cplace-software
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cplace-software
• GitHubgithub.com/cplace

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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