Celoxis vs. RationalPlan

Celoxis is great if you'd like to implement a project management tool to a company that hasn't had one in the past.

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It's got its shortcomings but is still the best PM tool in my opinion

• Project managements is great.
• Well packed features.
• Easy way to schedule reports.

Incentivized

• Runs on Linux and Windows.
• It Can read Microsoft Project files.
• Contains all functions needed for easy to use project planning

• It's GUI is not very useful on mobile devices
• Doesn't have program or portfolio management features, some can be tailored using custom attributes and workflow apps
• Some system catalogs (like customers) should be made available as custom fields

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• Duration at top level only in days (no options to change). Not so fun when running multi-year projects and trying to convert to weeks months on the fly in meetings
• Ability to customize built in reports (even if it was done outside and you had to use fields provided)
• Printing flexibility for reporting

I had to ask for support once and got a response immediately.

I used an evalaution matrix built with input of several stakeholders in the company. In the end the matrix included 100 features (non of them was price related). The matrix was heavily focused on waterfall project management, agile related features were only 5 out of 100 features. Features were labeled as mandatory, required or optional. Products which lacked a mandatory feature (like providing technical support) were disqualified. Then a price vs features evaluation was made and only the products with the best combination were seleced to continue: Celoxis, ITM Platform and Mission Control. A final technical evaluation was made comparing the full evaluation but also the evaluation of only the 40 required features. Overall, Celoxis was the better evaluated (76% vs 65% of the second place), for the 40 required features, Celoxis got 91% against 78% of number 2. In the end we chose Celoxis even when it had higher licensing cost.

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RationalPlan is cost-effective and allows most users to prepare and manage their schedule. The software lacks comprehensive reporting and duration changes at the top level of a project.

• Positive in most cases

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• Helps explain the target schedule and resource estimates for cost of the project

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