Retain Cloud vs. ProjectManager

The Only Platform Built to Unify Resource Planning for Professional Services — Now with AI and Enhanced Skills Taxonomy Established in 1992, Retain is the world’s first platform built to give professional services firms and complex, multi-entity organisations one place to plan, schedule, and forecast across every department. No more spreadsheets. No more disconnected tools. Just a single, intuitive system that brings clarity and control to resourcing. With AI-powered insights, a governed skills taxonomy, and behavioural profiling, Retain goes beyond availability.

ProjectManager is project and portfolio management software with world-class project scheduling, native ERP integrations and AI integration with ChatGPT. Project managers, PMOs and operations leaders use it to plan, schedule, staff and track projects in one cloud platform. Project scheduling ProjectManager offers scheduling depth on par with desktop tools like Microsoft Project, with the real-time collaboration of the cloud. Teams build plans with interactive Gantt charts, task dependencies, lag, critical path and baselines, then track actual progress against the plan.