Celoxis Erfahrungen

Guiding Celoxis Through Project Success

Kommentare: Overall, a lot of consumers like Celoxis because of its extensive feature set, adaptability, and integration potential.

Vorteile:

It emphasizes good collaboration between stakeholders and team members which helps to streamline their projects and resources. Our project completion rates have improved by 20% and we achieved more profit.

Nachteile:

Having a comprehensive view of all project operations is beneficial since it makes sure that nothing is missed and that we stay on track to achieve our strategic goals.

Excellent product for small consulting business

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Avaza, Airtable, monday.com, Asana und Smartsheet

Warum Celoxis gewählt wurde: BQE structure did not make any sense, and the project management capabilities were limited.

Zuvor genutzte Software: BQE CORE Suite

Gründe für den Wechsel zu 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.

Celoxis review

Kommentare: see above

Vorteile:

There are lots of customizations you can make, however it's not as useful as it could be because the AND logic in the database.

Nachteile:

1. The fact that the database filters use AND logic, this makes a lot of the filters useless as they filter out data you wouldn't expect to filter out. 2. you can't split peoples time on a task to not be uniform over the entire task, this means you need multiple lines, which is clunky 3. you can't add one person as a % of time to a task and another as #hrs 4. on a project that is 9 months long the schedule reads "at risk" because it's projected to go 22 hours over. The threshold should be larger! 5. because of the AND logic, I would NOT recommend this tool to a larger team 6. There isn't any customization around the expenses

How I transformed the way my compnay delivers projects

Kommentare: The new PPM has dramatically transformed the project delivery, making 4 tools redundant, bringing new visibility on the project portfolio, significantly improving the internal collaboration across 5 departments and accelerating the end-to-end delivery.

Vorteile:

All in one: all the same powerful functions as MS Project with the Project WBS & Gantt Chart, Agile task board with drag & drop, collaboration with the clients on issue register, colour-coded workload directly populated from the scheduling, simplicity yet sophisticated ways of entering time entries, cater for both fixed price and T&M, on the same project!

Nachteile:

Notifications are a bit messy, with duplicates and gaps at the same time. Not being able to paste from clipboard the image, i.e. you have to save it before. There used to be a limitation with setting up client as follower on issues, which was a bummer. Good news, the feature was released last week!

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Teamwork.com, Zoho Desk und monday.com

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Celoxis: Meets all Must-Have requirements, though some partially. Was recommended as 1st choice as it iswasthe only one meeting fully our time tracking & billing requirements, and its flexible offer could grow as we do

""Great workflow software for project management medium to large any company."

Kommentare: Wonderful software for creating big impact in terms of productivity and task management in a big team as well as small. It has been cut to cut very efficient for us and helps us present correct data reporting and scheduling as well.

Vorteile:

This is my experiential review on celoxis and as I have used it for over 8-9 months I think I believe I am qualified to give meaningful insights to new customers. It has been really easy to work with and its user-defined dashboard is also easily usable. It has been the greatest asset to our company for managing workflow in teams either big or small. The feature of data reporting is widely used by me for reporting analytics related to data of advertisements which is a very very necessary part of our process.I would say customer support helped us fairly with instructions and guides for initial setups.

Nachteile:

I will not say as dislike but as a suggestion for improvement about the data reporting it has still some bugs as I have checked in last usage.

One platform for entire project management

Kommentare: Nice software to track the project management progress

Vorteile:

Ease of use and tracks accurately each tasks associated with the project management

Nachteile:

It can be made bit more customisable for make more comfortable

Great tool with many features

Kommentare: My company started using it but never took advantage of it's full potential. People didn't adopt it well and we ended up giving up and moving to another product.

Vorteile:

It includes many features like: Task manager, Cost tracking, Resource Tracking. You can calculate allocation of resources, build reports etc.

Nachteile:

It's kind of complicated to learn how everything works at the beginning.

Celoxis - "streamlines project management"

Kommentare: I really like the user experience with celoxis being a consumer it has benefitted my organisation a lot in terms of productivity.
We are almost a daily user of tuskr and saw some significant changes in streamlining the management process.
So Thank You CELOXIS for this!

Vorteile:

I really like the dashboards offered by celoxis for streamlining the IT industry as well as i really like the use case of tuskr for test case management

Nachteile:

I didn't find anything about disliking celoxis

good project management tool - Celoxis

Kommentare: I use it everyday to log my time and view the projects progress

Vorteile:

the Gantt chart is very useful to track projects and to log activities

Nachteile:

the workload is slightly difficult to work around

"Use Celoxis to Enhance Project Efficiency"

Vorteile:

Project time tracking, resource and task management could be easily monitored by Celoxis.

Nachteile:

Celoxis offers only 30 days free trial which is not sufficient to explore the complete features efficiently.

Celoxis review - great application and support

Kommentare: So far it has been a learning experience and when I encounter issues the HD support has been very supportive and timely with their feedback. I do appreciate their overall response time to the matters raised.

Vorteile:

The robust reporting feature and the ease of use of the general application. I can also have custom reports built and shared with my various clients or emails by schedule

Nachteile:

I would like to be able to undo changes in the plan if I make a mistake a remove something that wasn't suppose to be removed example, tasks. I would also prefer that items closed on a task can be moved automatically to the bottom of the plan or If a filter can be created to just view items on the project plan that are still open. Some color coding on the plan itself will also be nice Also some more available options for the client portal so clients can access things like the RAID etc

So far, so good

Kommentare: Celoxis is our sole PM tool and we are able to see all our projects and time entries in one place. We have had minimal issues with it since going live and the responses from the support team have always been fast and efficient. For me as a PM, I would now struggle without Celoxis.

Vorteile:

The reports & charts are excellent, the built in timesheet is easy to use once you get used to it and is crucial for our business. To be able to view the team workload in one screen is also really useful for resource planning.

Nachteile:

Celoxis defaults fixed price projects time entries as non-billable. For us, as our projects are billable, it is inconvenient that in a billable vs non-billable report, most of our project time will display as NB because a project has a fixed price rather than T&M. Although there is a workaround, it is tricky to remember to apply it.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Wrike

Warum Celoxis gewählt wurde: We wanted one PM software to manage all projects, eliminating spreadsheets and manual work.

Zuvor genutzte Software: Microsoft Project und Azure DevOps Server

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Celoxis: Celoxis had more useful features such as RAID, change register & custom apps, and the price was much more competitive.

Try something else first

Kommentare: Fighting with it to do regular project activities.

Vorteile:

Gantt view is useful, calculations generally work

Nachteile:

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

Powerful, flexible platform with UX problems

Kommentare: Generally, and for a company of our size Celoxis was the best choice due to the varied work models we service. The ability to both work in hourly and fixed price models is a unique requirement and other platforms struggle to make it work.

Vorteile:

The standout feature is the flexibility of Celoxis which allows for a great deal of optional customisation. For example, custom formula fields let us do basic and complex math that can be displayed in reports and on projects. When comparing it to other solutions it does sport a few unique features not found in competitor products. Chiefly among them would be the semi intelligent schedule and budget prediction feature which gives a quick way to assess project status.

Nachteile:

The biggest issue is the UX/UI which has a bit of a learning curve and needs a strict process to utilize all areas effectively. The system seems to have some legacy features that make functionality redundant. An example would be 4 different ways to enter time into time-sheets in the UI, or 2 separate comment features that are nested into each other for no reason. Some very simple and common features, like checklists in tasks, seem to also be absent. While not difficult to work with, the usage-paths for all the functions have not been thoroughly tested it seems.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Jira, monday.com, Adobe Workfront, Wrike und Asana

Warum Celoxis gewählt wurde: Insufficient scheduling and reporting options and hard to work UI/UX

Zuvor genutzte Software: WorkflowMax

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Celoxis: Superior value for money in features at this size of company compared to the competition.

Good Project management software

Kommentare: Very good at project planning timelines and financial planning of income and expenditure

Vorteile:

Gantt charts and financials work well, we don't really use the resource and workload functions but they are good. Significant upgrade over Wrike for cost tracking and forecasting

Nachteile:

Uploads in CSV are ok but added functionality here would be good

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: monday.com und Wrike

Warum Celoxis gewählt wurde: Cost and Functionality

Zuvor genutzte Software: Wrike

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Celoxis: Helpful onboarding and customer service, better functionality for our needs

Easy to use

Vorteile:

Easy to use. Better than previous solution.

Nachteile:

Some filters just seem to disappear. Unsure how to save/keep filters.

Well Integrated Online PM Tool

Vorteile:

The integration of the Project tasks from the plan and how they drive the work teams need to perform.

Nachteile:

The inability to automatically scheduled work allocation based on the next available resource time availability.

Great support

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

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

Great Tool for P{project Collaboration

Kommentare: My Celoxis implementation is self hosted. That was a bit of a learning curve for me personally but the Tech support staff was pretty helpful in pointing me to the right solutions. Now that the system is up and running it is very stable. My principle issues were not with the core Celoxis application as much as the host system configuration such as installing SSL and positioning the system properly behind my firewall. It took cooperation among a number of vendors but I now have a robust application on a rock steady platform (Windows Server 2019) protected by a top-tier security system (SOPHOS). It was with the effort!

Vorteile:

Celoxis allows integration of planned work hours and resources with time card inputs to allow an integrated management solution that permits tracking of Planed vs. Actual labor hours and costs. Definitely a much tighter integration than I found in MS Project. However - and this is important to my clients - the ability to bidirectionally share data with Project is a significant plus as many of my clients rely on Project. Finally, I use Celoxis for multiple clients and the workspaces functionality allows me the ability to securely partition clients into their own environment thus permitting multiple clients to share the basic installation.

Nachteile:

There is a learning curve to climb - especially in the reporting function and I am still learning how to use the many features of the product. I would like to see more You Tube videos on how to perform advanced functions - especially with cost and resource reporting for users.

Best Portfolio Project Management Tool in today's market

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Clarity, monday.com, GanttPRO und Smartsheet

Comprehensive product but some shortfalls in the detail of the features

Kommentare: Celoxis has helped our business to bring the different business processes together into a single platform. It is central to our business and we are managing all billable projects through it. We wouldn't go back to what we had before, so overall our experience has been positive. If Celoxis continues to evolve and add features, it is likely we will remain on the platform for a long time. However, as our business grows we may end up outgrowing Celoxis.

Vorteile:

For our business, we are able to run our end-to-end project lifecycle in Celoxis which we have struggled to find in any other product. This means bringing together quoting for a Professional Services project, progressing that same quote into a live project, having resource management and financial management views on the same project, generating financial forecasts across our projects and resources through reports, and managing other project management aspects such as RAID logs and status reports directly in the Project. Our team manage their holidays and timesheet recording in Celoxis which drives our actuals and invoicing. So it covers the project lifecycle well.

Nachteile:

We've encountered some shortfalls in the details of the features. The resource scheduling which drives the financial forecasting is the shortfall that causes us the most rework or workarounds. The system does incorporate resource availability (available hours=working hours minus holidays/other absences) into the planning and timesheet recording, and it does warn you about resource scheduling conflicts across projects. The issue is that the resource management and financial forecasting being driven from the plan does not take into account actuals to show remaining effort and lost revenue. This requires some workarounds to achieve. The project baselining functionality is also really limited. There is no ability to undo actions on a plan. The audit log is helpful, but would be more helpful if you can actually step back through the changes made because the updates to plan always takes a few iterations.The fact that the product doesn't support multi-currency is really frustrating, although we've settled with our workarounds.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: monday.com

Warum Celoxis gewählt wurde: Our business processes were fragmented and we couldn't get a single view of our projects, resources and financial forecasts.

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Celoxis: Better user interface experience.

Great Cloud-based PM Tool

Kommentare: We shifted from MS Project to Celoxis and couldn't be happier. It's a very good and easy to use tool and there are many features that provide benefits internally and for our clients. The Support team is very helpful and responds fast to questions/concerns. My team reported one bug and this was picked up and resolved within 2-4 days.

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

Latest release made Celoxis even more valuable

Kommentare: After almost 2 years using it, it has only become better. I am the person most involved with Celoxis in the company, I do all the API integrations, and have done most of the dashboards and report customizations. I am very satisfied with how Celoxis has improved over time, and I am eager to see what it becomes in the future. I have also work a little with workflows, getting a lot of value from them, although I haven't got the time to do as much as I'd like. I reccomend Celoxis 100%. Before choosing it, I evaluated about 15 different platforms, in the end, the technical evaluation was very clear, Celoxis was the only viable option, unless I wanted to spend 10 or 15 times more money on something else.

Vorteile:

No doubt, I have 2 favorite features: everything related to the Gantt View, which is extremely customizable, and now suporting different baselines; and the REST API, which is a lot better documented than when I started using it. Also, not a feature about the software, but as important, Customer Support is excelent.

Nachteile:

So far, Celoxis hasn't turned into proper program and portfolio management.

Great Software for IT Projects

Kommentare: Overall, the product is stable and reliable. I only had one issue after an update a little over a year ago, where I had entered my time on my mobile device, and I had found that it wasn't there when I had logged onto my desktop version.

Vorteile:

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.

Nachteile:

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.

Easy to understand - does what it should!

Kommentare: It is a great tool to mange the projects. It is very intuitive and after a short time one can get work done. But to unleash the full efficiency it has to be personalized with big effort and every detail should be taken into account by the administrator. I also recommend taking part in extensive training on how to operate Celoxis properly.

Vorteile:

I liked the most that I was able to do what I wanted without any experience with the program. More precisely I wanted to create a Gantt chart. I didn't have any experience with Celoxis and just little experience with Gantt charts. After 3 hours the Gantt Chart for a 6 month project was finished in a satisfying and complet way. I had some little issues to enter the planned effort, but after a short chat with the support the problem was easily and efficiently solved.

Nachteile:

The export of the Gantt chart into an image is not very satisfying. I am not able to export the Gantt Chart as an image showing the complete project, or in separated but logic pieces. All I get is a section of the chart cut randomly.