Project management software covers planning and scheduling, task boards, issue tracking, roadmaps, time registration and the wikis and knowledge bases that accompany them. Software teams, agencies, public bodies and operations departments use it to coordinate work, assign responsibility and report progress.
A project tool becomes the record of how decisions were made. Tickets, comments, attachments and linked documents build up a history that is hard to reproduce, and integrations with code repositories, chat and calendars make the tool a hub. Exports often lose relations between items, comment threads, workflow states and permissions, which makes a later migration expensive. Guest access for clients and suppliers is another point to control, since it opens parts of the workspace to people outside your organisation, and the vendor then forms part of your supply chain.
When choosing a European option, check whether the tool can be self-hosted or run in a dedicated EU environment, how permissions work for external guests, whether a complete API and export exist, and whether the vendor offers audit logs and single sign-on. Compare the data model with your way of working, because a tool that forces your process into its structure costs more than the licence fee. Jira is a common reference point for features.