Celoxis Erfahrungen

Frequent updates and bug fixes
Inter-facility coordination
Seamless timeline creation and management
Hours tracking and analysis for large groups of people

I have no cons. In the past year, Celoxis has fixed all the problems I originally had with it (mainly bugs).

The standout feature is the flexibility of Celoxis which allows for a great deal of optional customisation.
For example, custom formula fields let us do basic and complex math that can be displayed in reports and on projects.

When comparing it to other solutions it does sport a few unique features not found in competitor products. Chiefly among them would be the semi intelligent schedule and budget prediction feature which gives a quick way to assess project status.

The biggest issue is the UX/UI which has a bit of a learning curve and needs a strict process to utilize all areas effectively. The system seems to have some legacy features that make functionality redundant.
An example would be 4 different ways to enter time into time-sheets in the UI, or 2 separate comment features that are nested into each other for no reason.

Some very simple and common features, like checklists in tasks, seem to also be absent.

While not difficult to work with, the usage-paths for all the functions have not been thoroughly tested it seems.

The reports & charts are excellent, the built in timesheet is easy to use once you get used to it and is crucial for our business. To be able to view the team workload in one screen is also really useful for resource planning.

Celoxis defaults fixed price projects time entries as non-billable. For us, as our projects are billable, it is inconvenient that in a billable vs non-billable report, most of our project time will display as NB because a project has a fixed price rather than T&M. Although there is a workaround, it is tricky to remember to apply it.

The robust reporting feature and the ease of use of the general application. I can also have custom reports built and shared with my various clients or emails by schedule

I would like to be able to undo changes in the plan if I make a mistake a remove something that wasn't suppose to be removed example, tasks.
I would also prefer that items closed on a task can be moved automatically to the bottom of the plan or If a filter can be created to just view items on the project plan that are still open.
Some color coding on the plan itself will also be nice
Also some more available options for the client portal so clients can access things like the RAID etc

Setup easyRoll out of project was simpleSufficient high-quality graphs and reportsVery customizable without making it complicated

Missing a few advanced features, like global colour changes to Gantt Chart, but development team evolves product regularly.

The power and customization behind it - adding new data fields, customizing the implementation, they have thought of everything. I am almost spoiled by thinking things are so customized and wanting to control everything!

I think the QB sync could be more robust to help align revenue in both places.

For our business, we are able to run our end-to-end project lifecycle in Celoxis which we have struggled to find in any other product. This means bringing together quoting for a Professional Services project, progressing that same quote into a live project, having resource management and financial management views on the same project, generating financial forecasts across our projects and resources through reports, and managing other project management aspects such as RAID logs and status reports directly in the Project. Our team manage their holidays and timesheet recording in Celoxis which drives our actuals and invoicing. So it covers the project lifecycle well.

We've encountered some shortfalls in the details of the features. The resource scheduling which drives the financial forecasting is the shortfall that causes us the most rework or workarounds. The system does incorporate resource availability (available hours=working hours minus holidays/other absences) into the planning and timesheet recording, and it does warn you about resource scheduling conflicts across projects. The issue is that the resource management and financial forecasting being driven from the plan does not take into account actuals to show remaining effort and lost revenue. This requires some workarounds to achieve. The project baselining functionality is also really limited. There is no ability to undo actions on a plan. The audit log is helpful, but would be more helpful if you can actually step back through the changes made because the updates to plan always takes a few iterations.The fact that the product doesn't support multi-currency is really frustrating, although we've settled with our workarounds.

Customizable screens (they call it widgets) that could be applied to teams/groups or individuals. It made everyone rather happy as they could make it their own.

We didn't use the any of the tools to tracks costs and financials, and it sometimes was creating confusion (we asked the Celoxis dev. team if we could fully remove this from our platform)

I am really impressed with the customer service. The team is really responsive and support you with the best solution possible. The support during the implementation was crucial and it was offered throughout the implementation lifecycle without any extra cost. Moreover I also like the software as it is simple yet powerful enough to provide with end to end Project management solution.

I would like to Celoxis to include more market standard feature in Project planning (Gantt plan). The current system doesn't allow you to revert back the changes, it is a crucial feature that comes in very handy in case if you are trialling a new plan or made an error by accident. The system also doesn't let you compare the baseline plan with the current plan.

In addition to its amazing project management feature, I love the flexibility that we can create a custom app and tweak the custom fields to automate formulas, processes and creates necessary report we need.

Limitation on graph feature but I think that the capability is enough for our needs. However, we're looking forward if Celoxis can add more features that could help us get use the most of it.

The great part of this software is the ability to update information in the Gantt chart as needed. It also gives you accurate percentage of project tasks per user and accurate percentages in what has been completed against the project deadline, which is very useful in Technical Services.

I still wish that once a task or project status is "completed", the timers would be deleted as well. In our company, we have many projects with many tasks, thus one can have multiple timers, and that adds up! It can take (waste) much time in deleting timers, so having the timers "go away" when a task is completed would be very useful.

1) Ease of Report Building 2) Flexible Dashboards for Key Metric Reporting 3) Time Logging Capability

1) Commercial Renewals Take Longer than Expected 2) Managing Multiple Currencies 3) Outlook Integration Capabilities

It's simple to use, well laid out, reporting functionality is very good. There's a lot of features: utilisation tracking, expenses management, risk and issue tracking.

Performance can be a touch sluggish. Project Management functionality is basic, this needs to be used in conjuction with MS Project or similar for anything but the simplest of projects.