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I like that this product has a wide range of reports that can be exported into Excel.

Learning Clarizen was not intuitive. I also wish there were graphs of all projects.

project management, tracking, teamwork

accounting

The tool offers A LOT of functionality. As I'm not a system administrator, I am not aware of everything that Clarizen can do, but whenever our admins unleash a new feature, I'm always excited by it. The new Android app is super nice/handy to have, especially for logging time. The support is great: we have logged bugs before, and these are generally resolved very fast. I am not blocked for long whenever something like that happens.

The fact that there are so many features also has a downside. I feel like there is a lot more to discover, and sometimes, things are no consistent. For example, in some views, I can hide the right-hand vertical "space" (or menu) and in others, I can't. I also find that column resizing is quite burdensome, and I have to resize columns in multiple views (it doesn't propagate.)

Provides an organized work environment for all the Projects and activities in a company. It adapts to any size or kind of Projects.

Not so easy to track all the activities and Projects. Not everyone can afford it. The Price per user.

Very easy to track time and keep projects organized.

Does not have great options to export the timesheets into other formats.

I like how easy it is to manage projects, tasks, and the effects of their inter-dependencies. You can also create project templates for the very intricate recurring projects.

There could be more customization/flexibility, similar to what Salesforce provides for their products.

It is robust enough to manage many large projects and campaigns.

The complexity is too much for most small groups to adopt.

It is very each to enter time in for each individual project you are working on. With the ability to track and report time.

It is not easy to track the time of other people currently working on the same projects to ensure they don't go over their hours.

The system allows you to create a project that is as complex or as simple as you desire. They have the capability for very complex projects.

Support for custom project hierarchies based on users or their groups. This would allow separate business units to see project categories without seeing the projects within those categories.

I like the new social features. Being able to communicate easily across projects is awesome.

The ramp-up time in being fully comfortable to use the product and feel like you know what you're doing is steep. It took me a while to get used to Clarizen again, especially after the new version was rolled out.

Super easy to track and submit hours, including setting up as many projects as necessary.

Certain reports are only available to certain licenses, not allowing basic licenses to see things like time tracking reports for project management or PTO.

Easy to use. You can assign the resources for a project easily, see their advance and request progress report. With few clicks you can get a global stand point of a project and see risk point and define next steps to do. You can integrate it with outlook and get your contacts. You can access from any device.

There is not a desktop application, would be nice to count with that.

The user friendliness of Clarizen can not be beat. Recently, our company moved to Clarizen for project tracking and the transition couldn't have been easier. Employees rave about the ease of the system.

If i had to choose, the disconnect between Projects and tasks on the same view. It would be nice to have these without the need of workflows to integrate them.

I especially like their design of allowing Clarizen Projects to be linked to Opportunities, Accounts, and/or Campaigns.

Pricing a bit high

The ability to schedule and create task dependencies, view road maps of project progress, track time per individual project tasks, and report on a managers current work load.

The ability to learn and grasp concepts for project scheduling and schedule management. PRO TIP: Use templates and other built in task management features to effectively plan and project a projects plan.

it offers a very good platform to discuss specific tasks or projects between the project team and do resource allocation.

The interface was hard to navigate (e.g., you'd have to click multiple times to get to some of the screens you needed to use most).

Clarizen planning tools allow project managers to define the scope and size of projects and estimate resource and workforce requirements.

Seemed a bit expensive, and for our needs we found that any license except the most expensive was pretty useless. The levels of functionality in the lower licenses didn't help us at all. We ended up getting all licenses at the highest level.

The UI could be customized and shows a weekly view of the time you've put in for various tasks. It's simple enough and doesn't have any advanced capabilities.

The UI seems to be riddled with bugs. It randomly disappears columns and rows and comes back on page refresh. The Submit button doesn't do anything on the UI but seems to submit the timesheet.

This tool can be used for simple project management or complex projects. It can be used to do both simultaneously. Great tool!

It was intense to get started with the tool as there were so many options. Once you figure out what is best for you, then the tool is much easier to use.

Clarizen enabled our team to effectively manage the numerous projects we had while surfacing the insights we needed to make business decisions.

Like any software that is aimed at solving complex business problems, Clarizen had so many features that it became overwhelming to our team during implementation. When a business has to undergo major changes to their operations, it needs the transition to be as easy as possible. This is more of a critique for most large software solutions as opposed to just Clarizen.

- so many features/functionality - lots of ways to customize PM workflows - all the options needed for managing waterfall projects and some agile

- could use more work on agile features and especially the kanban board

The ability to customize Clarizen is one of it's strongest features. While not as advanced as some of the bigger SaaS players like Salesforce, it still provides a robust set of features to allow you to create custom business processes to accomplish your companies goals. They compete pretty well against other companies with much larger teams. Another great feature we use a lot is the expansive and complex WBSs you can have for projects. This allowed us to have a better sense of project flow and visibility to where our projects are at.

Our biggest struggle comes with the idea that a PSA should be a three legged stool (projects/task management, time tracking/resource management, and project financial management). We can only seem to make two work at a time with Clarizen. Our PMs want some pretty detailed project plans to really understand where tasks are and who is responsible, but when you implement that with time tracking it becomes...

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This software has excellent functions, is configured quickly and is very easy to use. You can reliably organize all the tasks inherent to any project you carry out. The truth, it is very helpful to have this software.

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Allows the incorporation of flow charts adapted working processes of the organization

Compared with other similar tools, the implementation cost is a bit high .

I like that it is web-based, and I can access my projects anywhere that I can log into a computer or even on my phone.

Being a Microsoft Project user as well, quickly editing and making changes to timelines, and seeing what is affected can be more challenging in Clarizen.