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AceProject vs Planview Clarizen

AceProject
16 Ratings
Planview Clarizen
82 Ratings

AceProject

16 Ratings
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Score 8.3 out of 100

Based on 16 reviews and ratings

Planview Clarizen

82 Ratings
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Score 8.4 out of 100

Based on 82 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

    Project Management

    3.2

    AceProject

    32%

    Planview Clarizen

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    AceProject ranks higher in 14/14 features
    AceProject ranks higher in 14/14 features

    Task Management

    5.0
    50%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Resource Management

    6.0
    60%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Gantt Charts

    3.0
    30%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Scheduling

    4.0
    40%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Workflow Automation

    1.0
    10%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Team Collaboration

    5.0
    50%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Support for Agile Methodology

    1.0
    10%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Support for Waterfall Methodology

    1.0
    10%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Document Management

    1.0
    10%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Email integration

    2.0
    20%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Mobile Access

    1.0
    10%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Timesheet Tracking

    8.0
    80%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Change request and Case Management

    4.0
    40%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Budget and Expense Management

    3.0
    30%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Professional Services Automation

    2.0

    AceProject

    20%

    Planview Clarizen

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    AceProject ranks higher in 1/1 features
    AceProject ranks higher in 1/1 features

    Project & financial reporting

    2.0
    20%
    1 Rating
    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Attribute Ratings

    • Planview Clarizen is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

    Likelihood to Recommend

    5.0

    AceProject

    50%
    1 Rating
    8.5

    Planview Clarizen

    85%
    53 Ratings

    Likelihood to Renew

    AceProject

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    7.5

    Planview Clarizen

    75%
    27 Ratings

    Usability

    AceProject

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    7.3

    Planview Clarizen

    73%
    5 Ratings

    Availability

    AceProject

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.2

    Planview Clarizen

    82%
    6 Ratings

    Performance

    AceProject

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.1

    Planview Clarizen

    91%
    10 Ratings

    Support Rating

    AceProject

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.0

    Planview Clarizen

    80%
    12 Ratings

    In-Person Training

    AceProject

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.2

    Planview Clarizen

    82%
    2 Ratings

    Online Training

    AceProject

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    5.4

    Planview Clarizen

    54%
    5 Ratings

    Implementation Rating

    AceProject

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.2

    Planview Clarizen

    82%
    8 Ratings

    Likelihood to Recommend

    AceProject

    It is well suited if you have a specific work force or are working in a production or an assembly line style environment. It is also well suited if you have small teams that have to get out a certain amount of product in set periods of time. AceProjects is great for monitoring how long each individual spent on their specific task and subsequently how long the team took to complete their work.

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    Planview Clarizen

    Clarizen got the job done with time tracking and expense reports, but it didn't do enough to make our organization continue using it. We ended up switching because the key stakeholders (resource management) were unhappy with its offerings. This might be a good fit for smaller organizations that require less feature and capabilities. Instead, our company switched to OpenAir, which has more robust time tracking, expense reports, and PTO accrual and monitoring programs.

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    Pros

    AceProject

    • Time Tracking
    • Resource allocation
    • Easy to implement, small adoption curve.

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    Kyle Culpepper | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Planview Clarizen

    • Highly customizable, can develop organization specific workflows, modules, etc.
    • Interface (in most instances) is easy to use. Timesheets, project details, and report modules are fairly easy to navigate and understand.
    • Good comms tools like discussions, group pages, automatic reminders and notifications.

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    Cons

    AceProject

    • Expand on data tracking
    • Improve report generation
    • Break out from just being a time clock manager.

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    Kyle Culpepper | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Planview Clarizen

    • Export: I'm not wild about the export options. We created a custom project plan formatter to turn the ugly export in CSV to a customer facing color coded PDF. It's not super easy to give your customers something pretty to look at (although they do offer PPTs)
    • Gantt Charts: All I want in life is a nice little high level set of milestones to pop into a slide I'm showing to a steering committee. It's just not something the system does. I've just had to screen shot a hard to read gantt from the system or recreate in PPT or Visio. No fun
    • Speed: I am not sure what's going on here but Clarizen can be pretty slow to update small changes to project plans. It's rough when you have a laundry list of changes to make but the system is waiting

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    Sarah Meerschaert | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Pricing Details

    AceProject

    General

    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level set up fee?
    —

    Starting Price

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    Planview Clarizen

    General

    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    —
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level set up fee?
    No

    Starting Price

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    Likelihood to Renew

    AceProject

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Planview Clarizen

    Planview Clarizen 7.5
    Based on 27 answers
    I give my renewal of this product a 9. It's only because we never know what product may come out next and how other factors in our office political environment may cause impact upon this. If I always had my way, this is what we'd settle on as our de facto project management system.

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    Usability

    AceProject

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Planview Clarizen

    Planview Clarizen 7.3
    Based on 5 answers
    It is easy to configure, intuitive. The customization process is in some ways better than Salesforce.com. It has a great UI. It does however depend on how it's implemented.

    The design of it is generally fine, however the ability to data upload people from a spreadsheet is an obvious miss.

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    Reliability and Availability

    AceProject

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Planview Clarizen

    Planview Clarizen 8.2
    Based on 6 answers
    Sometimes it is slow when everyone is entering their time on Fridays or Mondays but other than that we rarely see downtime and maintenance notifications are well in advance.

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    Shel Hankley | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Shel Hankley
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    Performance

    AceProject

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Planview Clarizen

    Planview Clarizen 9.1
    Based on 10 answers
    Reports: Quick to Reasonable

    Most Ancillary Pages: Quick to Reasonable
    (By "ancillary" I mean lesser used/master data maintenance pages - e.g. People, Customers, Individual Tasks, Milestones, etc.)

    Work Plan (with 100 sub items): Reasonable to Slow

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    Jason Beamer | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Support Rating

    AceProject

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Planview Clarizen

    Planview Clarizen 8.0
    Based on 12 answers
    It's a good experience overall. Clarizen was useful when needed. It's mostly needed for advice on how to do more sophisticated actions or how to change something that was set up administratively. It's seldom used otherwise. The product consistently works, the documentation is acceptable, and the generally intuitive product is easy enough for most staff to pick up without much issue.

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    Mike Narumiya | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Mike Narumiya
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    In-Person Training

    AceProject

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Planview Clarizen

    Planview Clarizen 8.2
    Based on 2 answers
    • We worked with a Project Manager on their side. He was very good about developing a project plan to hit our goal. I think we had weekly or twice weekly calls – very steady cadence over 3 month period.
    • Their PM skills were great – kept us on task. For the last week, they sent 2 people on site and they did training for power users. After that a couple of them revisited here

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    Online Training

    AceProject

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Planview Clarizen

    Planview Clarizen 5.4
    Based on 5 answers
    Our trainer, Alex, is exceptional and knows the product really well. I swear he must have wrote the product himself! His manner with training is very easy going, gives you homework that is applicable to what you need to learn and stages it correctly for you. It was a pleasure to be trained by him.

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    Implementation Rating

    AceProject

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Planview Clarizen

    Planview Clarizen 8.2
    Based on 8 answers
    I performed the implementation with our Clarizen provide trainer, who knew the product 100% and it went quickly and without a problem. It was a pleasurable process without the problems other software implementation often encounter. Kudos to the Clarizen team for making this a worry free process for their clients because it is worry free.

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    Alternatives Considered

    AceProject

    Kyle Culpepper | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Kyle Culpepper
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    Planview Clarizen

    There were several others I reviewed that I can no longer remember but none of them compared to Clarizen when it came to flexibility. Many factors sold us on Clarizen but most importantly it was that Clarizen was capable of wrapping itself around our existing processes instead of us changing to to meet the software tool. With that said, we are now looking at changing some of our processes due to the fact that Clarizen is such a powerful tool!

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    Sean Woods, PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Return on Investment

    AceProject

    • We were able to track our production teams work and refine our methods to improve deliverable dates.
    • Once our staff reached a certain size the capability of the software began to lag. Diminishing returns.
    • The lack of reporting features made data regression and extrapolation difficult.

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    Kyle Culpepper | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Planview Clarizen

    • Great customer feedback related to real-time availabilty of project status. We could tailor gant charts to various customers within an organization fairly quickly.
    • Seeing real-time breakdown of costs and time for projects was great. The main page with summary charts was a great way to get information at a glance.
    • Clarizen use definitely helped us stream-line project planning and assisted with identifying bottlenecks.
    • We run many projects in parallel with similar timepoints (pre-, interim-, and post-). The software was pretty straight forward, permitting us to create one project outline then dupiclating it (as a template) for a number of others.

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    Carlos Chang | TrustRadius Reviewer
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