Project Management Software
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The Celoxis Difference

Although most project management softwares claim to provide the features we offer, there are significant differences between our capabilities that will impact your ability to plan and manage real-world projects. Listed below are some of the key differences.

Feature

The Competition

Celoxis

Project Planning/Tracking

  • Task start/end dates NOT adjusted based on dependencies and resource allocation.
  • No auto-checking of errors in the plan. For example, although task A depends on B the start date of task A can be after task B.
  • Constraint dates not enforced.
  • No or paid client access.

  • Task dates auto-calculated based on dependecies and constraints
  • Auto-scheduling of tasks around user vacation/company holidays.
  • FREE client access.
  • Managers are alerted of tasks that cannot proceed as planned

Resource Management

  • Cannot assign tasks to individual members or atmost one per task
  • Cannot assign tasks to job roles while planning.
  • No ability to enter vacation time/company holidays.
  • Cannot view/balance resource workload.

  • Multiple users per task with individual assignments. e.g Joe works 5 hours and Jane works 50%.
  • Per resource work calendars and vacation scheduling. e.g Joe may be part-time worker that works from 9AM-1PM Mon-Fri.
  • View resource conflicts
  • Assign tasks to job roles while planning and replace later with free resource.
  • Find suitable free resources based on skills

Superfast Grid for entering tasks

  • Slow, one-at-a-time screen.
  • Most of the editable Gantt charts simply don't scale beyond 10-20 tasks.

  • Spreadhseet style interface ensures you can enter hundreds of tasks quickly.
  • Drag and drop to re-order, pick the columns you want
  • Keyboard shortcuts for superfast editing.
  • Easily scales to 1000+ tasks.

Microsoft Project Sync

  • Mostly one-way import.
  • Only imports task names and start/end dates.

  • Imports tasks and schedule, resources, dependencies, constraints etc.
  • Enables mapping of users between Microsoft Project™ and Celoxis.
  • Intelligently detects task name conflicts. Export Celoxis plans to Microsoft Project™.

Proactive email alerts

  • Alerts sent only when tasks are assigned.

  • Alerts when task is assigned
  • 24 hour reminder before task start/task due.
  • Alerts to managers on task slippages.

Customizable Bug/Issue tracking

  • Fixed/inflexible process.

  • Customize to suit your process, add custom fields, routing rules and more.

Timesheet

  • Slow, one-at-a-time.
  • Gets cumbersome for 10+ tasks

  • Unique type-ahead approach lets you find the right task
  • One-click task status update and time log

Billing/Costing

  • No ability to estimate cost
  • Cannot generate billing or compare actual vs. planned cost.

  • System auto-estimates cost based on schedule and resource cost.
  • Compare actual vs. planned in real-time.

Reports

  • Cannot create custom reports
  • Most do not provide grouping, sorting or even totals.

  • Multi-column sorting and grouping
  • Create custom reports
  • Share reports