The right Saviom alternative depends on which job you bought Saviom for. If it is enterprise resource scheduling across hundreds of people, price it against Tempus Resource, Meisterplan and Planview. If it is professional services billing, compare a PSA. If the real question is which projects to fund with the people you have, a portfolio and capacity tool will cost far less than an enterprise resource suite.
Saviom is a resource management vendor first. That shapes everything about the comparison: the strongest alternatives are other resource-first tools, and the weakest fit is a general project tool that only shows workload bars.
Key takeaways
- Saviom Software is a privately held Sydney company founded in 1999. It sells resource management, workforce planning, PSA, PMO and portfolio modules.
- Saviom publishes no prices. The pricing page leads to a sales form, and every contract is quoted.
- Tempus Resource and Meisterplan are the closest resource-first alternatives; Planview is the enterprise suite option.
- If your real need is a ranked, funded portfolio that fits capacity by role, a focused portfolio workspace is the cheaper route.
What is Saviom used for?
Saviom is used to plan and schedule people across an organization: who is available, who is booked, which skills are short next quarter, and how much of the bench is billable. Its customers are mostly engineering, consulting, IT services and other project-based firms where the workforce is the product and idle time is lost revenue.
The product line has grown around that core. Saviom's own site now lists Resource Management, Workforce Planning, Professional Services Automation, a PMO module and Portfolio Management, plus AI-driven early warnings and recommendations. The company says it has more than 25 years of experience, which matches the 1999 founding date reported by GetApp and project-management.com. It can be deployed on premises or on hosted cloud servers, which still matters to some government and defense contractors.
How much does Saviom cost?
Saviom does not publish a price list. Every contract is quoted through its sales team, and the quote depends on the modules you take, the number of people being scheduled, how many users edit plans rather than view them, and whether you choose on premises or hosted deployment. Saviom offers a demo and a 60-day trial, so you can test it on your own data before you negotiate.
Third-party directories that print a Saviom number are guessing or out of date; one widely copied listing was last updated in 2022. Ask for the quote in writing and break it into the parts below, because that is how you compare it fairly with the alternatives.
| Cost driver | Why it moves the price | What to ask for |
|---|---|---|
| Modules | Resource management, workforce planning, PSA and portfolio are separate parts | The price of the modules you need now and the full set, side by side |
| Scheduled people | Enterprise resource tools usually scale with the workforce being planned | Whether contractors and part-time staff count as full resources |
| Editing users | Planners and resource managers cost more than viewers | How a project manager who only requests resources is licensed |
| Deployment | On premises adds infrastructure and upgrade work on your side | The hosted price and the on premises price, both for three years |
| Configuration | Skills taxonomies, rate cards and approval workflows are set up per customer | A services estimate in days with a written scope |
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What are the best Saviom alternatives?
The best Saviom alternatives are Tempus Resource for what-if capacity modeling at enterprise scale, Meisterplan for portfolio-level capacity planning that executives can read, Planview when resources must sit inside a full enterprise portfolio suite, and Epicflow for task-level multi-project prioritization. Lighter schedulers such as Runn and Float fit smaller services teams that want published per-person pricing.
| Alternative | Who owns it | What it is | How it is priced | Pick it over Saviom when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tempus Resource | ProSymmetry, Beachwood, Ohio | Enterprise resource management and capacity planning | Quoted | Your leadership asks "what happens to our people if we approve, delay or cancel this" every month |
| Meisterplan | itdesign GmbH, independent | Portfolio and capacity planning built around scenarios | Per schedulable resource, quoted | Capacity is a portfolio decision, not a daily booking exercise |
| Planview | Private, backed by TPG and TA Associates | Enterprise portfolio platforms with resource management modules | Quoted, usually with implementation services | Resources, financials, timesheets and governance must live in one estate |
| Epicflow | Independent | Multi-project resource management with task-level prioritization | Published per user tiers, Enterprise quoted | Many concurrent projects compete for the same specialists every week |
| Runn, Float | Independent | Visual team scheduling for agencies and services firms | Published per person tiers | You schedule fewer than a few hundred people and want a price you can read online |
| Portfolio Hub | Independent | A portfolio workspace: weighted scoring, ranking, funding line, capacity plan by role, gate packs | Per workspace, from $24.50 a month billed yearly | The decision you need is which projects to fund with the capacity you have |
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We sell the product in the last row, so read that row as our view. It is not a resource scheduler and it will not book named people onto tasks. It answers the question one level above: given the roles you have, which ranked list of projects fits, and what has to wait. Many firms that buy an enterprise resource suite for that question end up using a fraction of it.
Is Saviom a PSA or a PPM tool?
It is both, but it was built as resource management. Saviom's PSA module adds project profitability, billing, invoicing and revenue forecasting, and its portfolio module adds intake, prioritization and scenario planning. The center of gravity is still the resource plan, so firms that mainly need portfolio governance often find the PPM side thinner than a dedicated portfolio tool.
That distinction decides which alternatives belong on the shortlist. If billing and margin are the reason you are buying, compare PSA products and leave the PPM suites out. If the services side of your problem is less about scheduling and more about getting clients to pay on time, that is a different purchase again: firms in that position usually add accounts receivable automation next to their finance system rather than buying a bigger PSA.
Saviom vs Tempus Resource for enterprise capacity planning
Both are resource-first and both are quoted. Tempus Resource is built around what-if modeling: load a set of projects, change start dates or cancel one, and see the effect on each role by month. Saviom is broader across the workforce, with skills, bench management and services billing in the same product. Choose Tempus when the portfolio question drives the purchase and Saviom when daily scheduling across a large workforce does.
| Question | Saviom | Tempus Resource |
|---|---|---|
| Primary design | Organization-wide resource scheduling and workforce planning | Capacity modeling and scenario planning |
| Services billing | Available through the PSA module | Not the focus |
| Deployment | On premises or hosted cloud | Confirm current options with the vendor |
| Pricing | Quoted, 60-day trial offered | Quoted |
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What should you check before signing a Saviom quote?
Run every option, Saviom included, through the same test on your own data. Vendor demos use clean sample workforces; your plan has contractors, shared specialists and projects that were approved twice. A tool that handles those well in a two-week trial will still handle them in year two.
| Check | What to do | What a pass looks like |
|---|---|---|
| Real roles | Load your actual roles and the people in them | Shortfall by role by month for the approved list |
| A cancelled project | Cancel one project mid-plan | The released capacity shows up immediately where it can be reused |
| Shared specialists | Book one scarce person into three projects | The conflict is flagged before anyone commits dates |
| Export | Export plans and history to CSV or Excel | A complete file you could load into another tool |
| Three-year cost | Ask for years two and three in writing | One total with modules, users and services named |
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Before any of that, make sure the plan you are buying software for is sound. Our guide to resource capacity planning for project portfolios covers the role-level model most of these tools expect, and the resource capacity planning tool page shows how a funded list and a capacity plan sit on one screen. If contention between projects is the daily pain, read how to settle resource contention first; no tool fixes a contention rule nobody agreed.
Does Saviom have a free trial?
Yes. Saviom's website offers a 60-day free trial alongside a personalized demo. Use the trial to load a slice of your real workforce, not the sample data, and to run one cancellation and one new urgent project through it. Those two events show more about fit than any feature list.