Case Study: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland achieves major time savings and centralized collaboration for a 100-person EU project with Planview ProjectPlace

VTT Technical Research Centre - Customer Case Study

VTT Technical Research Centre coordinated the EU-funded ManuVAR project — 100 people across 18 partner organisations in eight countries with a €9.7M budget — and needed a fast-to-deploy, web-based project management and collaboration system that would avoid conflicts with partner IT policies and reduce ongoing maintenance. To meet this challenge, VTT selected Planview ProjectPlace (Projectplace) as the vendor and platform to provide a cost-efficient, easy-to-learn online collaboration solution.

Planview ProjectPlace implemented its Projectplace web service with rapid setup, a dedicated customer manager and responsive technical support, and the ManuVAR team expanded storage and licenses within the first year. The solution centralized documents, eliminated email versioning problems, supported meeting scheduling and online conferencing, and delivered measurable time savings — Dr. Boris Krassi reported at least two weeks saved per project year — improving coordination across all 100 team members.

VTT Technical Research Centre

Boris Krassi

Senior Scientist, Project Coordinator