Celoxis vs Microsoft Project Comparison

Time tracking, milestone tracking. Email reminders

Performance over internet, slow response time. Would be better if linked to Microsoft Project

Celoxis checks all the boxes for engineering project management for me. Prior to Celoxis, we used Microsoft Project: Celoxis incorporates the advanced features of Project in cloud-based tool that provides team collaboration and scheduling that we could not get with Project or most other cloud-based scheduling tools.

With great options can come a great (big) learning curve: there are so many features in Celoxis, setting up individuals, teams, groups, and roles is critical for a successful launch, and this can be a bit daunting at first glance. However, the Celoxis team did a great job pre-sales of walking us through the tool and it's features, as well as scheduling training for our team post-sales to get up and running in the tool.

The ability of the product to seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Project to allow you to import MS Projects into the product as well as export back to Celoxis.

The ability for end-users to import their time entries via a CSV. At the moment this is limited to the System Administration role / area.

Very customizable, great Gant charts (almost every features from Microsoft Project), possibility to set different workspaces and grant different type of access for users, customizable workflows etc. Easy to use and friendly solution with clear documentation.

Despite new version, the design is a still considerable. There is only one group of users and one price for it. It's easy to operate but we would be happy to see cheap users licenses with restricted rights one day (for example, users who can see only their dashboard with tasks and ability to set % of completion and time spent)

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Easy of use of the Gantt and Work Load, even if some other things are not really UX friendly or intuitive...

Sometimes is not clear how to perform some tasks, Customer service is very straight and I feel they do not listen to the customer needs on specific issues, then they reply very plain.

I needed a tool that had the power of Microsoft Project with the ability to track budgets and capitalize labour costs. I was a software developer in a former life and wanted one tool to do it all. I hate islands of information. After trying to setup what I needed in the tools we had available... Project for the Web, Project Online, Project Power App, Asana, Jira. I came across Celoxis. I was immediately drawn to it because I could see it was designed to run the job of project management. Most other platforms are designed to have you run the rest of your project in excel. I didn't want that. Celoxis does it all and I can still publish MS Project files or excel spreadsheets if I need to publish data somewhere.

Our organization has already licenses for other Project managment tools. I could not get buy in for another project app. I would like a way for people to submit time and updates without having to use the email feature or buy a license. If I could request and update or time input and they click a link that takes them to an update page. I can't get buy in for 100 or so licenses so people can update a task.

Project Management phase to manage various phases of project from engagement till project closure

Not able to download reports/charts in CSV

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.

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.

Easy to use in plotting time entry and put some notes.

Filter in project date range has limitation.

Project managing of a project becomes very handy.

No 'undo', and 'pin' option in project programme. It would be great to have undo and pin option, because sometimes we accidentally moved a program in a project.

Ease of use, Reports capability, date is presented very accurately and clearly. By looking at the dashboard give a clear picture of the project

one time effort for setting up the project, wish it would be linked with MS project wish the reports can be exported to power point

Time sheets are fairly easy to use if projects tasks are well maintained.

Project timelines are cumbersome. Tasks need better controls

the easy way of use and the family feeling of the function

the easy way to schedule project and to assign resources.

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excellent user interface, durable solution, endless customization alows you to create any build almots any View or analysis you wish to see. excellent, fast, agile service!

out of the box integrations can be more suitable for the industry (such as: Salesforce, Jira integrations coverage).

It's simple to use, well laid out, reporting functionality is very good. There's a lot of features: utilisation tracking, expenses management, risk and issue tracking.

Performance can be a touch sluggish. Project Management functionality is basic, this needs to be used in conjuction with MS Project or similar for anything but the simplest of projects.

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

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).

A very good project management tool and the interesting feature is Celoxis can integrate with MS Project.

Would be better if there are option to customize the colors and themes.

- 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

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

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

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

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This software is excellent! it has everything you need to manage a project. It is easy to use and very streamlined. I really like the fact that it has bot a risk management areas and an issue tracking area. The reporting features and awesome too.

This software has it all. the only thing I would like to see is a mobile app for Android smart phones. This would complete an already great project management software.

Contains almost all basic and some advanced features a Project Management Tool needs to have.

The biggest 2 drawbacks are 1. Tasks in a project cannot be assigned to clients. To achieve this very standard and normal requirement, clients are needed to be created as users as well. 2. Limiting the number of virtual users to a certain number. Typical Project Management Tools are primarily driven by Project/Program Managers. Project Schedules are updated by them and normally the human resources...

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

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).