Accelo vs ProjectLibre

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Charles Fashana, MBA

COO (Chief Operating Officer)

19 IDEASMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees

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You have to come in without bias and looking forward to embracing a new program. That sounds a bit biased myself, yes, but this program would have been perfect for the organization I consulted with. Absolutely perfect. But out of twelve individuals, only one had an open mind and wanted to explore the program. The remainder saw the program and said "Oh, it's like Excel, I'll just use that instead..." because they knew Excel. ProjectLibre is FUNCTION-centric, not pretty for the sake of being pretty. Once you get into it, you will fall in and love it. If you know marketing automation software, you will know how to use this program. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to manage their time visually, in a program that is built to be what they need and not just something that looks good on a second monitor when the boss walks in.

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Patrick Stephens

Consultant

ConsultingEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Accelo

ProjectLibre

Task Management

Resource Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Team Collaboration

Support for Agile Methodology

Support for Waterfall Methodology

Document Management

Email integration

Mobile Access

Timesheet Tracking

Change request and Case Management

Budget and Expense Management

Accelo

ProjectLibre

Quotes/estimates

Invoicing

Project & financial reporting

Integration with accounting software

Pros

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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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 employees

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It opens Microsoft Project files, therefore making it somewhat unrestricted in use or sharing files from MS Project.
It has a simple and familiar user interface.

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Verified User

General Manager in Other

Food & Beverages Company, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Cumbersome processes - feels like tasks take longer than they should.
We gave up on the Projects module, it was rather unintuitive. Switched to JIRA, which integrates with the Support module of Accelo.
Each email address requires a new contact. If one person uses multiple email addresses to contact you, that info will have to be spread across multiple contacts.

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Ryan Freeman

President

Strider Inc.Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Translation of some words.
Interface is not fast and fluid.
Problems saving the file sometimes. The program closes.

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Paula Gomez

IT-Support

General MotorsAutomotive, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Accelo 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Looking forward to seeing more refinement of features provided and upcoming features promised :)

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Brendon O'Sullivan

Managing Director

Bos Web SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Accelo 7.4

Based on 4 answers

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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Charles Fashana, MBA

COO (Chief Operating Officer)

19 IDEASMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees

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ProjectLibre 9.8

Based on 5 answers

There are a lot of discussions online about it, and a customer addition based manual. While that can lead to some confusion, I am not the kind of person who likes talking on the phone. So it is easier to go online with ProjectLibre!

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Patrick Stephens

Consultant

ConsultingEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We used Workfront prior to using Accelo, mainly for project management and retainer management. There is no comparison between the two as Accelo blows it away.

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Chris Osterhout

Vice President of Business Strategy

WSOLInternet, 11-50 employees

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Microsoft Project has a great interface and features. However, the cost of ProjectLibre overshadows anything that Microsoft can provide. The cost to benefits that ProjectLibre provides along with their similar features to Microsoft makes ProjectLibre a leader in the project management software category.

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Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development

Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

Helps with tracking prospects through the sales/marketing funnel
Has led some employees to stop using the tool and going back to spreadsheets. When trying to attach targets to tags you need to do so individually and if you upload a large list you need to do this manually, one by one, and requires a lot of time. So people have gone back to spreadsheets where they could simply just cut and paste new people in.

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Verified User

Professional in Marketing

Computer & Network Security Company, 51-200 employees

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No investment made, besides time, but definitely worthwhile in using it.

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David Thomas

IT Project Manager

All-in-1Staffing and Recruiting, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

* Per Installation

Accelo Editions & Modules

Edition

Projects (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$39¹
Sales (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$39¹
Retainers (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$39¹
Service (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$39¹
ServOps (Per Month on Annual Contract)	$79¹

per user

Additional Pricing Details

ServOps is the all-in-one solution which includes Projects, Retainers, Sales and Service together.

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

—

ProjectLibre Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

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Likelihood to Recommend

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Feature Rating Comparison

Task Management

Resource Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Team Collaboration

Support for Agile Methodology

Support for Waterfall Methodology

Document Management

Email integration

Mobile Access

Timesheet Tracking

Change request and Case Management

Budget and Expense Management

Quotes/estimates

Invoicing

Project & financial reporting

Integration with accounting software

Pros

Accelo

ProjectLibre

Cons

Accelo

ProjectLibre

Likelihood to Renew

Accelo

ProjectLibre

Support Rating

Accelo

ProjectLibre

Alternatives Considered

Accelo

ProjectLibre

Return on Investment

Accelo

ProjectLibre

Screenshots

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Accelo Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

ProjectLibre Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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