4me.com vs. RationalPlan

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
4me.com
Score 10.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Next-Generation Enterprise Service Management Built for the world’s most demanding enterprises. 4me® combines ITSM with ESM and SIAM capabilities making it possible for all internal departments, such as IT, HR and Facilities, to work seamlessly with each other, as well as with external managed service providers. The vendor describes…
$0
per user per month
RationalPlan
Score 7.7 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
RationalPlan is project management software that has been designed to help project managers keep their projects on time and within budget. The main goal of this software is to make the process of planning projects as short and as straightforward as possible and to guide novice project managers through each step but offer enough tools to those who are more experienced.
$0
per month per user
Pricing
4me.comRationalPlan
Editions & Modules
4me.com Freemium
$0
per user per month
4me Premium
on Request
per month per user
Free
$0
Beginner
$4
per user
Master
$12
per user
Production
$19
per user
Stakeholder
$64 USD
Lifetime License per Seat
Single
$145 USD
Lifetime License per Seat
Multi
$288 USD
Lifetime License per Seat
Server
$668 USD
Lifetime License per Seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
4me.comRationalPlan
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
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Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
4me.com
8.7
1 Ratings
6% above category average
RationalPlan
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Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Service restoration6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-service tools10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM reports and dashboards7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM asset management
Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Product A and Product B
4me.com
8.3
1 Ratings
1% above category average
RationalPlan
-
Ratings
Configuration mangement8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset management dashboard10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Policy and contract enforcement7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Change management
Comparison of Change management features of Product A and Product B
4me.com
10.0
1 Ratings
17% above category average
RationalPlan
-
Ratings
Change requests repository10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Change calendar10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Service-level management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
4me.com
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Ratings
RationalPlan
6.6
4 Ratings
14% below category average
Task Management00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings6.84 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings6.44 Ratings
Team Collaboration00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Document Management00 Ratings3.63 Ratings
Email integration00 Ratings6.43 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings6.43 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
4me.com
-
Ratings
RationalPlan
4.5
1 Ratings
50% below category average
Invoicing00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
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User Ratings
4me.comRationalPlan
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.7
(4 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
4me.com
Great visibility of asset assignment to user but not so good if you track also assignment of user rights through CI for users. It would be nice if you can group types of assets/configuration items to user not to show everything mixed up. There is great options to adopt product to your particular needs, there are options for adding some special fields in process automation to help to have tailored process from enduser fill in forms to complex workflow which utilises various specialists
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Stand By Soft
Appropriate as a great alternative to MS Project. RationalPlan provides most of the features needed to develop and maintain mid-level complex schedules. Less Appropriate for large complex schedules of long duration. These can be a challenge due to Duration at top-level. It is also a challenge to generate reports for management - reporting feature is limited.
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Pros
4me.com
  • IT processes automation
  • Responsive GUI
  • Weekly updates which pinpoint some difficulties in daily usage
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Stand By Soft
  • Portfolio view is great to get a feel for how your programme is running at a glance and which areas possibly might require attention. The fact that you can customise your view by adding your own columns is another plus.
  • All project information in one tool is a big plus for me considering the amount of projects we run with. This really improves efficiency and saves me time. You have the ability to add documents to tasks, manage risks, email resources tasks due for projects they are assigned to(might need some refinement depending on your requirements), material db with costing etc.
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Cons
4me.com
  • It is easy to do first deployment in wrong direction - maybe there should be better guidance how to setup services/service instances to properly work at the end.
  • Reporting is based on predefined templates - to get most of them you have to properly implement services in IT - it is not an easy process
  • Integration with O365 for out of office would be helpfull
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Stand By Soft
  • Milestones should be a primary option instead of 0h to create one.
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Usability
4me.com
Tool has built-in automation module which helps to more precisely define user requests or workflow condition. This from one hand gives end-user easy and understandable forms to fill in, and from other had it ensure all needed information has been fulfilled for further steps in workflow. Once you follow service principle which is base for that tool it will help you to track in detail your business and your partners
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Stand By Soft
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
4me.com
No answers on this topic
Stand By Soft
I had to ask for support once and got a response immediately.
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Alternatives Considered
4me.com
No answers on this topic
Stand By Soft
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.
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Return on Investment
4me.com
  • As we are finance institution we are strictly regulated so this product helps us in many fields to satisfy regulatory requests through easy workflow management setup.
  • Product is easy to implement, easy to adopt so we use it in different segments of business (central purchase department, security office, IT department) for tracking and standardising various processes in each niche.
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Stand By Soft
  • Helps explain the target schedule and resource estimates for cost of the project
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ScreenShots

4me.com Screenshots

Screenshot of Portfolio ManagementScreenshot of Change Calendar showing possible conflicts of changesScreenshot of Customer SLA Reports: after defining a SLA the report is automatically thereScreenshot of Waterline Portfolio Management analysisScreenshot of Agile Project ManagementScreenshot of Enterprise Resource planning with 4me

RationalPlan Screenshots

Screenshot of Project infoScreenshot of Notes and linksScreenshot of Working calendarsScreenshot of Gantt chartsScreenshot of Resource levelingScreenshot of Baseline management