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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CloudBlue PSA

    Score9.2 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    CloudBlue PSA (formerly HarmonyPSA) provides full visibility of projects, customers and profitability in a single pane of glass, along with automation of sales, finance and operational processes. Ingram Micro acquired Harmony Business Systems and HarmonyPSA in April 2021.

    $65

    per month (billed annually)

    LiquidPlanner

    Score8.3 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    LiquidPlanner is a cloud based predictive project management solution. Some key features include: Dynamic Timeline View, Workload View, and Real-Time Activity Stream.

    $0

    per month per user

    Pricing
    CloudBlue PSALiquidPlanner
    Editions & Modules
    Annual SaaS
    $65.00
    per month (billed annually)
    Monthly SaaS
    Contact Sales
    Annual On-Premise
    Contact Sales
    Free
    $0
    per month per user
    Essentials
    $15.00
    per month per user
    Professional
    $25
    per month per user
    Ultimate
    $35
    per month per user
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    CloudBlue PSALiquidPlanner
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CloudBlue PSALiquidPlanner
    Considered Both Products
    Ingram Micro
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    86%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    CloudBlue PSALiquidPlanner
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of CloudBlue PSA and LiquidPlanner
    Feature
    CloudBlue PSA
    -
    Ratings
    LiquidPlanner
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.711 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings8.69 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings8.68 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings8.810 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.47 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings8.911 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings7.76 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings7.914 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings4.89 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.210 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings7.66 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of CloudBlue PSA and LiquidPlanner
    Feature
    CloudBlue PSA
    -
    Ratings
    LiquidPlanner
    8.3
    5 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings8.45 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CloudBlue PSALiquidPlanner
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.4
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CloudBlue PSALiquidPlanner
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ingram Micro
    For organizations with 10+ employees, I think it is suitable. Smaller shops might find it overly complex.
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    LiquidPlanner
    LiquidPlanner is amazing for any time of project management scenario where you have to manage several teams and details. Running a project through LiquidPlanner is so easy because it lets you break down the project into sections and folders and small tasks that you can assign to specific people. With a small to medium size team-- LiquidPlanner is amazing for organizing and tracking details. If you have a huge team or not a ton of details to track LiquidPlanner might not be right for you because it is a software that requires some good training to learn and has tons of functions that can be utilized so it seems better suited to be used by a smaller group looking to coordinate or for people who have lots of details that can be difficult to track.
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    Pros
    Ingram Micro
    • The help desk ticket system is robust and modern.
    • Billing & invoicing from Harmony meets all our needs and is easy to use.
    • Project management and scheduling features help us stay organized and on schedule.
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    LiquidPlanner
    • Priority based planning. Every other planning software we've used relies on dates and therefore needs constant attention. Priority based planning means that the plan is always up to date.
    • Ease of use. LiquidPlanner has a very short learning curve. This is critical to getting team members to use it.
    • Forecasting. LiquidPlanner makes it very easy to run scenarios by simply dragging and dropping projects and reassigning resources.
    • Awesome Support. I get personal responses very fast. Usually within a couple hours. And, they listen and ask for more information.
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    Cons
    Ingram Micro
    • Training resources are still a work in progress.
    • As a software engineer, I'd like to see a more extensive API
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    LiquidPlanner
    • The interface is messy and cluttered. The best way to find things and see what you actually want to see is the main Projects view which is also the most cluttered and hardest to maneuver in.
    • Clicking an external link someone posted in a comment or task description doesn't open in a new window by default, so we are constantly having to go back to get to LiquidPlanner again.
    • The way that the interface saves your state globally (rather than per tab instance) means that if you click a link from someone else to a task that's not yours, then it adjusts your filters on the Projects page. Then if you refresh another LiquidPlanner window where you were on the Projects tab, suddenly all of its filters are updated and what you were looking at may no longer be there.
    • It might just be the way that we use the system, but the Home and My Work tabs are fairly useless for us. They typically don't show the tasks we're actually looking for.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Ingram Micro
    No answers on this topic
    LiquidPlanner
    We may not renew LiquidPlanner's contract, but only because my company has recently been acquired and we'll be adopting some of the software that they're using to standardize process. LiquidPlanner's development team releases new features pretty often, so it seems like the gaps and inefficiencies are slowly getting smaller/less frequent
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    Usability
    Ingram Micro
    No answers on this topic
    LiquidPlanner
    Easy to learn and utilize. Can export charts and reports for sharing with colleagues.
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    Support Rating
    Ingram Micro
    No answers on this topic
    LiquidPlanner
    They have been great in trying to come up with creative solutions to help us do what we want to do with the platform. I would say their support has been exceptional because we have hit them with some complex requests.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ingram Micro
    Connectwise was the 600 pound gorilla with lots of features, but it was also the titantic, too big to get out of its own way. We found it too complex to use and too archaic to integrate with. As powerful as it was, it was missing a few key features that a modern PSA like CloudBlue had as a matter of course. CloudBlue feels like the new generation, and so far it's only gotten better as they grow.
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    LiquidPlanner
    Miro is a more versatile tool, but not quite made for planning and organizing. LiquidPlanner is very intuitive, fast to learn and easy to communicate. The added value of prioritizing tasks, personalized boards and gantt charts are really important during the planning and design thinking in the business. LiquidPlanner is simplified yet more helpful.
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    Return on Investment
    Ingram Micro
    • It's allowed us to migrate away from home grown solutions to adhere to industry standards and better utilize our engineer's time.
    • Quoting new projects and hardware is easier to delegate and vastly more efficient than our previous methods.
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    LiquidPlanner
    • LiquidPlanner really forces you to map out your workflow. For me, honing into a template that I can later adjust as needed has been huge, as there is less time at the beginning of a project trying to assign and figure out what needs to happen when usually it never changes.
    • Communication between employees, especially ones not immediately available in the office has been very welcomed. It helps having conversations documented in a public, logical place that is easy to find and refer to as the project continues.
    • Our productivity has definitely skyrocketed as we've really gotten a feel and committed to using LiquidPlanner daily. As we move forward, we continually try to add more and more ways for us to use the service.
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    ScreenShots

    CloudBlue PSA Screenshots

    Screenshot of Customised dashboard with key business metricsScreenshot of Auto generated invoicing ensures nothing gets forgottenScreenshot of Keep on top of projectsScreenshot of Fully integrated and configurable ticketingScreenshot of Conversion of leads to prospects to customers is seamless, with no re-keying

    LiquidPlanner Screenshots

    Screenshot of Project Dashboards allow users to build high-level views that help visualize data.Screenshot of Workload Views allow users to see an entire team's workload at once and make resource adjustments in stride.Screenshot of Time Sheets keep track of hours per task and automatically update project estimates.Screenshot of Project View allows users to view any project in detail, assign tasks, set their priority, and access schedule risk.Screenshot of My Work View is a personalized view of all work to always know what to work on next.