We pioneered the web project management revolution more than 8 years ago and have been at the forefront of innovation ever since. If you're looking for a tool that goes beyond the management of to-do lists and need serious management capabilities, you have come to the right place. Celoxis has successfully been deployed in various industries like IT, Marketing/Advertising, Website/Graphics, Engineering, Manufacturing and much more. Celoxis has been to used to plan blockbuster Hollywood movies, manufacturing rocket engines, study the effect environmental changes on ocean currents, setting up of one of the largest Zinc mining sites in the world and many more mission critical projects. With over 200+ tools you need to look beyond the marketing hype to see the difference. Listed below are some of the key differences between Celoxis and the competition. Go through it and you'll see why Celoxis is a project manager's best friend.

 

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Feature

The Competition

Celoxis

Project Planning/Tracking
  • Task dates NOT auto-calc based on dependencies/resource allocation.
  • No error checking for cyclic dependencies.
  • Constraint dates not enforced.
  • No or paid client access.
  • Task dates auto-calc from dependencies, constraints, vacation, company holidays
  • Error-check for cyclic dependencies
  • FREE client access.
  • Managers are alerted of tasks that cannot proceed as planned
Resource Management
  • Mostly one resource per task
  • Cannot specify vacation time/company holidays.
  • All resources must have same work timings. No support for part time workers.
  • Cannot view/balance resource workload.
  • Multiple resources per task with individual assignments. e.g Joe works 5 hours and Jane works 50%
  • Assign tasks to job roles while planning and one-click replace before execution.
  • Work calendar for each resource
  • Find suitable resources based on skills, free time and fix over/under utilization.
Entering tasks
  • Slow, one-at-a-time screen.
  • Most of the editable Gantt charts simply don't scale beyond 10-20 tasks.
  • Spreadsheet style interface enables quick entry of hundreds of tasks.
  • Keyboard shortcuts for superfast editing.
  • Drag and drop to re-order, pick the columns you want
  • View resource conflicts
  • Easily scales to 1000+ tasks.
Microsoft Project™ Synchronization
  • Either no integration or one-way import.
  • Only imports task names and start/end dates.
  • Imports tasks and schedule, resources, dependencies, constraints etc.
  • Enables mapping of users between Microsoft Project™ and Celoxis.
  • Intelligently detects task name conflicts.
  • Export Celoxis plans to Microsoft Project.
Proactive email alerts
  • Alerts sent only when tasks are assigned.
Comprehensive & customizable email alerts:
  • 24 hour reminder to team before task start/task due.
  • Task overdue alert to project managers.
  • Alerts when new document, note, progress update, etc. are added
Custom (User Defined) Fields
  • Either lack the ability or only provide simple text fields
  • Limited in number
  • Cannot search using them
  • Cannot use them to filter reports
  • Single and Multi-line Text, Single and Multi-Select drop-downs, Date, File Attachment, Numeric, Currency and Formula fields.
  • Unlimited custom fields
  • Full text searchable
  • Custom fields can be selected in output columns and reports. Fields can be used to filter, sort and group reports.
  • You can define formula fields which can be used for custom calculations.
Bug/Issue tracking
  • Tracked independent of tasks.
  • No custom fields for custom information.
  • Cannot have dependency between issues.
  • Can be entered and tracked just as regular tasks.
  • Add custom fields per your requirements.
  • Special "State" option to indicate progress. For example, bugs can be "open", "fixed", "rejected". Customize them as per your requirements.
  • Set dependency, allocate resources, deadline etc. just like tasks.
Timesheets
  • Slow, one-at-a-time.
  • Gets cumbersome for 10+ tasks
  • No approval
  • Unique type-ahead approach lets you find the right task
  • While entering time, user is shown important information about the task like its hierarchy, allocated time, time already filled, etc.
  • Convenient Incomplete Timesheet functionality where you can find and remind users whose time sheets are incomplete.
  • Online approval
Billing/Costing
  • No ability to estimate cost
  • Cannot generate billing or compare actual vs. planned cost.
  • System auto-estimates cost based on schedule and resource cost.
  • Compare actual vs. planned in real-time.
Reports
  • Cannot create custom reports
  • Most do not provide grouping, sorting or even totals.
  • Create & Share custom reports
  • Multi-column sorting and grouping even with custom fields!
  • Groupwise and grand totals
  • Filters can be marked as "prompt" enabling users to choose them while running the report.
API
  • Either API is absent or there is a high learning curve
  • Language dependent
  • Inflexible
  • No sample code
  • Simple as it uses the same syntax as URLs. No learning WSDL, etc.
  • Language independent: use PHP, Java, C# or any other language
  • If you can do it in SQL, you can do it with Celoxis. It's that powerful
  • Sample PHP code available