Lytho Workflow vs. RationalPlan

It's a flexible program that can be molded to fit most businesses. It's geared towards agencies but we've been able to use it successfully as an in-house solution. It's pretty intuitive for the most part and is easy for new hires or clients to get up and running pretty quickly.

Incentivized

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.

• Project requests - can be tailored to fit your exact needs
• Project management - can assign tasks, track time, etc.
• Proofing - robust proofing environment that's easy for clients to learn

Incentivized

• 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.

• Some areas are rather clunky and repetitive when it comes to project management, like editing a template once applied.
• Once a review is live, it's very difficult to edit the reviewers unless a current tier is active.
• Pretty expensive compared to the competition.

Incentivized

• Milestones should be a primary option instead of 0h to create one.

Incentivized

I had to ask for support once and got a response immediately.

By consolidating the requests, project management, and proofing without features we didn't need like invoicing it was an easy fit for us. We were able to quickly develop a comprehensive workflow and the gains to efficiency were immediate. Pricing was competitive (at least at the time) and the implementation was very good as well.

Incentivized

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.

• Consolidation of project requests has been extremely helpful.
• The improvement of campus-wide communication is hard to put a price on.
• Our team knows what is due and when at all times. We're saving a lot of time previously spent in meetings.

Incentivized

• Helps explain the target schedule and resource estimates for cost of the project

Incentivized