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Last updated: December 2025

PDWare overview

What is PDWare?

PDWare® has been innovating the resource management and workforce planning industry for over 20 years.

Headquartered in New York City, with customers all over the world, PDWare’s ResourceFirst™ resource management software aligns teams and their work with business priorities, improves portfolio management decision-making, and facilitates strategy execution. ResourceFirst is designed for organizations that require quick response to constantly changing priorities, staff and schedules.

ResourceFirst offers dynamic features like scenario planning and waterline analysis, that are powerful, yet simple to implement and use. First-line managers and executives can strategically allocate resources and teams, plan capacity, and report performance against both FTE and Financial targets. ResourceFirst emphasizes prioritization, feasibility analysis and financial labor costing as the foundation of PMO (Program Management Office) excellence. ResourceFirst is an open platform designed for systems integration with PPM, ERP, HR, Agile, PPM and BI Reporting applications.

Key benefits of using PDWare

ResourceFirst offers dynamic features like scenario planning and waterline analysis, that are powerful, yet simple to implement and use. First-line managers and executives can strategically allocate resources and teams, plan capacity, and report performance against both FTE and Financial targets. ResourceFirst emphasizes prioritization, feasibility analysis and financial labor costing as the foundation of PMO (Program Management Office) excellence. ResourceFirst is an open platform designed for systems integration with PPM, ERP, HR, Agile, PPM and BI Reporting applications.

Starting price

50000per user

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PDWare’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

PDWare reviews

Overall rating

4.1

/5

11

Positive reviews

64

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.55/10
Rating distribution

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Pros
“The reporting capability out of the web interface also provides some excellent dashboard capability to enable improved visibility across the organization.”
MZ

Mark Z.

Project Portfolio Manager

“Simply put, PDWare combines robust functionality, configurable design, and outstanding customer partnership.”
OV

Oleg V.

Sr. Principal Engineer-Project Controls -PMO Lead

“The system helps us analyze what we need to accomplish our projects as well as how much time was spent in order to make good business decisions on future projects.”
CC

Christina C.

Senior Business System Analyst

Cons
“There have been a lot of other features that do not work or have issues. Struggling through these issues at time with the technical staff at PDW is very frustrating.”
DH

Debra H.

IS Technical Services Cnslt/Admin

“They have some canned reports that are similar to what we have but I cannot go deeper. Will need to either pay for additional training or pay for custom reports.”
DS

Deborah S.

Project Coordinator

Who uses PDWare?

Based on 11 verified user reviews.

Company size

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Small Businesses

Top industries

Hospital & Health Care
Biotechnology
Computer Software
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Others

Use cases

Project Portfolio Management
Resource Management

PDWare's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from PDWare users:

Portfolio management
Time & expense tracking
Project planning
Capacity management
Dashboard
Drag & drop

All PDWare features

Features rating:

Budgeting/Forecasting
Skills tracking
Forecasting
Prioritization
Project management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting/Project tracking
Resource management
Utilization reporting
Task management
Search/Filter
Resource scheduling
Requirements management
Milestone tracking
Collaboration tools
Change management
API

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Value for money rating:

Starting from

50000

/user

One-time payment

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Subscription
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User opinions about PDWare price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of PDWare's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“The reporting capability out of the web interface also provides some excellent dashboard capability to enable improved visibility across the organization.”
MZ

Mark Z.

Project Portfolio Manager

“Simply put, PDWare combines robust functionality, configurable design, and outstanding customer partnership.”
OV

Oleg V.

Sr. Principal Engineer-Project Controls -PMO Lead

PDWare support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
Phone Support

Training options

Live Online
In Person
Documentation
Webinars

PDWare FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does PDWare offer?

PDWare has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $50000.00
Pricing model: One Time License

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Q. Who are the typical users of PDWare?

PDWare has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business


Q. What languages does PDWare support?

PDWare supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does PDWare offer an API?

Yes, PDWare has an API available for use.


Q. What level of support does PDWare offer?

PDWare offers the following support options:
FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support

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