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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Accelo

    Score3 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Accelo is a Professional Services Automation (PSA) platform designed to provide visibility into operational risks for service-based organizations. While traditional tools often focus on historical data, Accelo is intended to surface real-time risks such as Project Overruns, Resource Overloading, and Scope Creep. The platform integrates the full client lifecycle, including CRM, Quoting, Project Delivery, Support Ticketing, Time and Expense Tracking, Retainer Management, and…N/A

    EPM Live

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AEPM Live is a PPM (project & portfolio management) platform based on Microsoft™ SharePoint. It offers project management and work collaboration to small and large enterprises. The focus is on helping deliver products successfully, optimize resource utilization, and select the right work. EPM Live is part of the Upland family of cloud-based project, portfolio, and work management software products.

    $21

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    Pricing
    AcceloEPM Live
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    Pricing Offerings
    AcceloEPM Live
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Features
    AcceloEPM Live
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Accelo and EPM Live
    Feature
    Accelo
    -
    Ratings
    EPM Live
    4.6
    1 Ratings
    50% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Accelo and EPM Live
    Feature
    Accelo
    -
    Ratings
    EPM Live
    3.0
    1 Ratings
    88% below category average
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AcceloEPM Live
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    1.5
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AcceloEPM Live
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Accelo
    Accelo is a system that can do it all. It's extremely sophisticated. Depending on the sophistication of your organization, or specifically the abilities of the people you put in charge of the implementation, it can almost be too sophisticated. It all just depends on your situation. The more you use it, the more data you give it, the more you'll be able to see and do. It's incredibly powerful. But it's definitely not a tool that would be appropriate for smaller boutique type organizations that have only basic needs.
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    IgniteTech
    I think EPM Live might be the right solution for a much smaller company, who does mainly business to business material sales. As a software company with a ramped subscription model and heavy use of Salesforce, it was not well suited to our business.
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    Pros
    Accelo
    • Timing Client Work: You are able to better manage your time on your clients.
    • Housing Client Info in one Area: You can view all you need for any given client in one area.
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    IgniteTech
    • Fantastic project management features
    • Cost and Resource management features more than paid for the software
    • Social Collaboration tools improve communication between departments
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    Cons
    Accelo
    • Accelo is excellent on the adaptation to its deep functionalities.
    • Managing multiple project is very challenging.
    • Not easy to collect multiple reports across platforms.
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    IgniteTech
    • This is a solid product. I do not have any suggested changes based on our experience. Cannot understand why there are any negative reviews here. The reviewer(s) must not have given the product a fair chance.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Accelo
    Looking forward to seeing more refinement of features provided and upcoming features promised :)
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    IgniteTech
    The product is just not fitting our needs so we are looking at other alternatives. The system has gone down 3 times in the last 6 months and was down for at least half a day, timesheets have duplicate tasks, and it takes too long to save and submit. When trying to process updates it randomly changes our dates so we have to go back and fix them, sometimes tasks are lost and the system is just very confusing and hard to manipulate
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    Support Rating
    Accelo
    From the beginning the Accelo team has been very invested in ensuring our success and overall happiness with the platform. The initial implementation specialists and trainers did a fairly good job of learning our company and needs, and tried to tailor the trainings accordingly. However, once we made the formal switch to the platform, meaning we no longer were using our legacy systems, we found that we had a lot of questions....and a lot of ideas and recommendations. The support team is extremely responsive and seemingly happy to receive our continual feedback. And if we encounter an issue that seems to be a system issue, they work diligently to fix it (we've actually had an engineer join a call with us to learn of the issue - and subsequently fix it)
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    IgniteTech
    We get support when needed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Accelo
    Accelo doesn't really exceed any competitors in any one area of their product, but in 2015 when we made the move this was the best option that included all the tools we wanted. However, user adoption was low in some areas due to the UI, so we scaled back Accelo and added other tools.
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    IgniteTech
    EPM was easier to use, with better and simpler UI. The product was also a great combination of price and functionality compared to other tools
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    Return on Investment
    Accelo
    • It substantially reduced the number of systems we use to run our business.
    • It reduced the need to train our staff on a variety of platforms.
    • It gave us the ability to have a client-facing portal that directly integrates with our backend systems.
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    IgniteTech
    • We had to pay EPM for a solution that was, for our business, unusable
    • We gained much needed experience in working with third party software vendors
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    ScreenShots

    Accelo Screenshots

    Screenshot of project analytics. Accelo keeps projects on track with templates, task management, Gantt charts, AI-predicted completion dates, portfolio views, and built-in client approvals.Screenshot of the scheduling interface. Accelo matches work to the right person by skill, workload, and availability — with utilization reports, capacity forecasting, and dynamic allocations that keep delivery and pipeline aligned.Screenshot of the revenue dashboard. Revenue leakage hides in unbilled hours, missed scope, and late invoices. Accelo captures time automatically, tracks budget and margin live, automates invoicing end-to-end, and manages retainers and scope creep before the damage is done.Screenshot of an overview of capacity. Most firms make decisions on data that's already a month old. Accelo delivers real-time reporting across utilization, profitability, and project financials — with custom dashboards that give every role the signal they need to act.