Celoxis

Avantages

Easy to create custom feilds and apps, copy and paste function and import of tasks speeds up creation of large project plans. Abiltiy to utiise custom project templates for repeatable simialar projects.

Inconvénients

Use of whitespace could be improved, fiddly double scroll bars.

Alternatives envisagées 

Teamwork.com, Basecamp, monday.comOpens in a new tab et WrikeOpens in a new tab

Pourquoi choisir Celoxis 

Internal employer discussion to reduce disparate systems

Logiciel antérieur 

NetSuiteOpens in a new tab

Pourquoi passer à Celoxis

Ease of set up, functionality available for internal and external users. No cost for virtual users

Avantages

I like celoxis obvious user interface with basic functionality.

Inconvénients

I don't like not having admin rights. As an engineer that feature really just shouldn't exist.

Avantages

All in one! Project management, invoicing, contracts, finances. You can customize it to be used for all these functions.

Inconvénients

Once you delete something (except a project) it's gone forever. Hasn't been a big issue though, especially since we can recover deleted projects.

Alternatives envisagées 

Airtable, monday.comOpens in a new tab, Asana et Smartsheet

Pourquoi choisir Celoxis 

BQE structure did not make any sense, and the project management capabilities were limited.

Pourquoi passer à Celoxis

It was the most versatile in terms of being able to handle multiple functions, and very flexible in terms of being able to visualize and use the data to help guide company strategy.

Avantages

Setup easyRoll out of project was simpleSufficient high-quality graphs and reportsVery customizable without making it complicated

Inconvénients

Missing a few advanced features, like global colour changes to Gantt Chart, but development team evolves product regularly.

Alternatives envisagées 

Oracle Primavera Cloud

Pourquoi choisir Celoxis 

Ease of use

Pourquoi passer à Celoxis

Again, ease of integration, ease of use and good graphical portfolio dashboards.

Avantages

It's difficult to find a single PPM tool that has end-to-end functionality for program/portfolio management, day-to-day project management, resource workforce management, budget vs actuals reporting, and dashboard reporting. I've researched for the past 3-4 years and whilst there are companies out there that have been around for decades or may have more API integrations, Celoxis is by far the most intuitive, customizable PPM tool that does all of the above functions at a competitive cost and with a very modern user interface. The Gantt chart mimics the look and feel of MS Project which allowed the learning curve for our PMs to be seamless as they simply imported their Project CSV files. The resource workforce reporting is also automated and easily shows those under/over allocated. One of the best functions of this tool is the dashboard reporting - it is incredibly customizable allowing the user to select position, width, charts, filters, custom fields etc which again mimics what you'd be able to do in MS PowerPoint but in an automated fashion. I've used PPM tools customised for enterprise organisations with 50,000+ employees which cost $5m+ in licensing costs yet did not function as well as Celoxis.

Inconvénients

There's always room for improvement in every software/company. I would like to see the support for Celoxis increase from 24x5 to 24x7. If they can bring some of their support onshore with a phone capability as well, that would be fantastic. Some minor enhancements on their dashboard reporting capabilities would also be helpful.

Alternatives envisagées 

monday.comOpens in a new tab, GanttPRO et Smartsheet

Avantages

As well as the standard ability to plan project, Celoxis allows you to bug track, resource plan, and create a wealth of reports. Not only that but you have unlimited client access for clientst to be able to log and view their own bugs as well as track the progress of their project, granting specific permissions and allowing full transparency.
I also like the ability to customise reports and fields, import project and export reports in csv, pdf and msproject formats.
The support team are incredibly responsive in addition to the articles and forums within the help centre.
On a daily basis I use it to plan projects, allocating estimated hours per task, check progress of a project, check the resource availability, and calculate risks.

Inconvénients

With each release improvements are made, but whenever there is a release the system can be a little buggy, but is usually resolved very quickly and tickets are dealt with promptly.

Avantages

I like that the interface is very user friendly. I also like that the reports are customizable. We have been able to integrate a lot of reporting into Celoxis that was previously done using Excel or a similar program. Celoxis is able to collect all of our data and organize it effectively, thus ensuring we don't have to go to a lot of extra work to manipulate the data into the reports we want to see.

Inconvénients

The new interface isn't as useful for me as the previous one. It works better for my resources, but as an admin, it seems less friendly than before. Namely, the drop downs and options available under Reports and other areas are not as customizable. I liked having my full list of starred reports available previously, whereas now I find myself accessing the full 'All Reports' page more frequently to navigate. I mainly use reports in the system to it was more convenient to have only my preferred ones all listed in one place.

Avantages

1) Ease of Report Building 2) Flexible Dashboards for Key Metric Reporting 3) Time Logging Capability

Inconvénients

1) Commercial Renewals Take Longer than Expected 2) Managing Multiple Currencies 3) Outlook Integration Capabilities

Avantages

Tracking budgets, time, and delivery progress. Tracking who has what and when it is due.

Inconvénients

My only request for improving the tool at this time is for Celoxis to implement a currency conversion calculation in the tool so that our business can report on USD across all regions, the rest we can live with, or I will submit a support case for consideration.

Alternatives envisagées 

Workday HCM

Pourquoi passer à Celoxis

Price, API integration capabilities, less time to implement (cloud offering with features available day 1)

Avantages

It provides one place to create the gantt for the project, resource plan, manage cost, and overall project documentation.

Inconvénients

It takes training to understand all the features of the software and how to use them.

Avantages

As centralized server solution, this software enables us to plan, manage and control whole portfolio and every project individually. As comprehensive solution this software is used by our employees, management, associates and clients. Everybody can see state of their projects/tasks with one click on their mobile phones or computers.

Inconvénients

Software could be better with improvements in cashflow department of the project. Also as project is set of activities performed by all Project participants, it could be helpful to implement Client tasks and other stakeholders tasks.

Alternatives envisagées 

Cerri ProjectOpens in a new tab, Redmine, Trello, Planview AdaptiveWork, Microsoft Project, Basecamp, Asana et RationalPlanOpens in a new tab

Pourquoi choisir Celoxis 

As organization we've outgrown software that we used. Our old software enabled us only to record hours on specific projects and not to tasks. this was our only option. This can give you information on project costs, but you can not collaborate through comprehensive solution as fully featured PM software.

Logiciel antérieur 

Cerri ProjectOpens in a new tab, Redmine, Trello, Planview AdaptiveWork, Microsoft Project, Basecamp, Asana et RationalPlanOpens in a new tab

Pourquoi passer à Celoxis

We probably evaluated 50 alternatives, abovementioned are only few major candidates, but only Microsoft project (server edition), Genius Project and Celoxis satisfied fully our needs. After evaluation, we decided to go with Celoxis as it was best tailored to our needs.

Avantages

Very easy to use and learn.
Access from anywhere as cloud based.
Good options for internal reporting and client sharing (PDF, excel, MS Project file, etc.).
Well thought through and covers most aspects on PM software needed.

Inconvénients

There are some bugs here and there which causes performance issues and lagness.
Additional/advanced PM software features are missing and hope those are added to the pipeline soon.

Avantages

The great part of this software is the ability to update information in the Gantt chart as needed. It also gives you accurate percentage of project tasks per user and accurate percentages in what has been completed against the project deadline, which is very useful in Technical Services.

Inconvénients

I still wish that once a task or project status is "completed", the timers would be deleted as well. In our company, we have many projects with many tasks, thus one can have multiple timers, and that adds up! It can take (waste) much time in deleting timers, so having the timers "go away" when a task is completed would be very useful.

Avantages

Gantt view is useful, calculations generally work

Inconvénients

Difficult to use, most commonly used features are hard to find, effectively an opinionated spreadsheet.

Avantages

Customizable dashboard, Ease of time Entry, Great reporting features/graph views

Avantages

- ease of use
- feature rich for project management
- external users and client login option for client view
- integrations with salesforce and rest api for other apps if required
- integrated time entry and approval
- single-sign-on capability with various IDP's

Inconvénients

- mobility options are limited
- client cannot be assigned tasks in the Project

Alternatives envisagées 

JiraOpens in a new tab, Microsoft Project et Smartsheet

Pourquoi choisir Celoxis 

Ease of use and availability of integrated time entry and approval with project/task management.

Logiciel antérieur 

JiraOpens in a new tab, Microsoft Project et Smartsheet

Pourquoi passer à Celoxis

above mentioned features as well as pricing was an all out win for us

Avantages

Fast, customizable, no-nonsense interface, wide variety of reports, custom apps

Inconvénients

Weak in communication tools, does not have an email editor, only notifications can be sent out through commenting in apps, can't attach files to those or send to multiple client officials. Discussions at Project level allow those but not at app level.

Avantages

Easy to keep control of a project, easy to personalise items and easy to share a project/information among the organisation.

Inconvénients

The lack of graphics and reports options. Graphics and reports customisation is everything nowadays. Users should be capable to customise the projects reports and have the possibility to see project/status evolution within a time frame.
The graphics are limited as well, the way we show information sometimes is more important than the information itself. This subject should be also improved.
The way how we share the project with external users should be also improved: add external watchers and export the project Gantt. (It isn't possible to share project status, for example).

Avantages

Customizable screens (they call it widgets) that could be applied to teams/groups or individuals. It made everyone rather happy as they could make it their own.

Inconvénients

We didn't use the any of the tools to tracks costs and financials, and it sometimes was creating confusion (we asked the Celoxis dev. team if we could fully remove this from our platform)

Avantages

Product is very easy to use and it get integrated with other tools that we use (Salesforce, Zendask etc…)

Inconvénients

Time logging and resource planning is not automated.

Avantages

Very reliable, good product.The online interface makes it easier to coordinate team members in different part of the world.Pretty good time tracking tools.

Inconvénients

Should allow more programming and query featuresShould be able to group multiple projects as master and subs

Avantages

The reporting functions are good and very flexible, extremely easy to use and create new reports.
I like the ease of creating a project, adding tasks and moving them into different areas of the project - extremely simple and straight forward.
Copying from other projects function is very easy to use.

Inconvénients

I wish there was an option to remove resources when copying over project tasks. If I don't have the same resources on my new project this is time consuming to remove each one.
Still confused about how CPI is calculated in regards to the time billed to each task vs. overall budget. This may be a training issue for myself.

Avantages

This software produces and manages the tasks in the Gantt really well and is very easy to update the view with progress, resources and durations. Can also add custom columns to the view.

Inconvénients

I don't always like the way the screen real estate is being used and feel that there are elements on the screen that I don't need to see all the time and that is making my work-space smaller. It is especially evident when projecting at a lower resolution. Am also not a fan of the fact that one cannot ju8st copy the URL of a view and send on to someone else.

Avantages

The celoxis support is very quick and able to solve any issues in very short time.

Inconvénients

Maybe the task management should be improved and also the integration of Kanban technique and relevant metrics.

Avantages

Web based tool, Gantt Charting feature, custom workflow creation, scales well (we have a lot of projects in there).

Inconvénients

Can be a little laggy at times (we host our own server, so that could be part of it). Interface changes have been confusing at times. For the custom workflows, it would be better to have a graphical representation (i.e. flowchart format).