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Celoxis

Score8.8 out of 10

7 Reviews and Ratings

What is Celoxis?

Celoxis is a Enterprise online project management solution for midsize to large businesses to help them plan and manage complex and diverse project portfolios. The collective suite includes modules for resource management, budgeting, revenue forecasting, time and expense tracking, reporting and team collaboration.
Celoxis includes features such as advanced scheduling, which combines real-world conditions, such as resource time off, multi-time zone, part-time resources, working weekends etc., into one schedule. Users can automatically send reports as an attachment in an email to a set of users as well as roll up data captured from custom fields to the sub tasks to summary tasks and projects. In addition, Celoxis’ interactive Gantt chart can handle 10,000 tasks linked from different projects.
Celoxis offers a choice of cloud-based or on-premise deployment. The solution is fully customizable and offers integrations with Excel, Outlook, and Salesforce.com. It also features a notification center that allows users to view all notifications right inside the application.

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Celoxis Dashboard
Gantt chart
Workload
Timesheet
Resource Management
Project Costs
Pie chart
Billable uutilization
Risk Assessment

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Top Performing Features

  • Support for Waterfall Methodology

    Waterfall methodology is a tradition development method that is linear and sequential.

    Category average: 8

  • Integration with accounting software

    Real-time, two-way sync with accounting or financial software to facilitate project and financial reporting

    Category average: 7.7

  • Task Management

    This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.

    Category average: 9

Areas for Improvement

  • Team Collaboration

    Team collaboration capabilities let team members work directly with each other and provide team updates.

    Category average: 8.8

  • Invoicing

    Ability to create, manage and send invoices to clients during or after completion of a project

    Category average: 7.7

  • Mobile Access

    Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.

    Category average: 7.8

Celoxis Review from HW

Pros

  • Project planning
  • Time log
  • Efforts analysis vs plan

Cons

  • Gantt view (dependencies)
  • Custom field usage
  • Graphs

Most Important Features

  • Project planning
  • Time log
  • Order management

Return on Investment

  • Positive in most cases

Alternatives Considered

monday.com

Other Software Used

Apache Subversion, Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft), Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Celoxis is a very powerful and affordable tool for project management

Pros

  • Provides a very useful Gantt view
  • Has a very customizable workflow module for developing custom applications
  • Includes a powerful REST API for integration with other technologies and processes
  • Has a very flexible, customizable dashboard designing capability
  • Provides out-of-the box project KPIs
  • Allows for managing project cost, both estimated and real

Cons

  • It's GUI is not very useful on mobile devices
  • Doesn't have program or portfolio management features, some can be tailored using custom attributes and workflow apps
  • Some system catalogs (like customers) should be made available as custom fields

Most Important Features

  • Gantt modeling
  • Project baselines and KPIS
  • REST API
  • Dashboards and reports
  • Cost management

Return on Investment

  • In less than 3 months we got a very clear view of real effort-related project costs
  • We were able to improve cost estimations for future projects
  • We also got view of project and individual performance which enabled a change on how we assign objectives and evaluate performance
  • After 6 months customer satisfaction saw an improvement since we were detecting anomalies in projects faster to take countermeasures

Alternatives Considered

ITM Platform, Asana, Forecast, monday.com and Microsoft Project

Other Software Used

Cherwell Service Management, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Power BI, CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection, SpamTitan Email Security

I would recommend Celoxis, it's helped us!

Pros

  • Gantt charts are a great, visual tool
  • Tagging other coworkers in different comments
  • Assigning deadlines

Cons

  • Having to-do lists as a feature

Most Important Features

  • Timelines
  • Tagging other individuals

Return on Investment

  • It has helped great with communication across departments

Powerful management platform

Pros

  • Project managements is great.
  • Well packed features.
  • Easy way to schedule reports.

Cons

  • Support is at times slow to respond.
  • Not new user-friendly.
  • Not able to pull in closer or zoom the interface.

Return on Investment

  • Management has been easier with little need to hire more help.
  • Accounting and tax returns.

Other Software Used

RackWare, Concord, E2Open Channel Shaping Intelligent Application Suite (formerly Zyme)