Celoxis Reviews

Reporting is great. It is well designed for standard PMBOK framework project management. The custom field feature is great and makes the tool more flexible. The Zapier integration is good and makes it easier to integrate with other application.

Look and design. Not a modern application. No mobile app. Not many notification options. Not good for collaboration with external customers.

Celoxis checks all the boxes for engineering project management for me. Prior to Celoxis, we used Microsoft Project: Celoxis incorporates the advanced features of Project in cloud-based tool that provides team collaboration and scheduling that we could not get with Project or most other cloud-based scheduling tools.

With great options can come a great (big) learning curve: there are so many features in Celoxis, setting up individuals, teams, groups, and roles is critical for a successful launch, and this can be a bit daunting at first glance. However, the Celoxis team did a great job pre-sales of walking us through the tool and it's features, as well as scheduling training for our team post-sales to get up and running in the tool.

the Open a Ticket feature:
- always respond really quickly
- sometimes even implementing recommendations when asking in an open ticket

the implementation. the matching between workspaces + job roles + permissions is not easy. even though the workspaces are really interesting and usefull, it is kind of difficult to get the right configuration.

You can manage projects, tasks, resources, risks, issues and collaboration from one solution with client who don't need to have licenses or desktop software installed.
The platform reporting tools with pre built project matrix report is a thumb up for this package.
What I love the most is the project tracking board.

While the web application is mobile responsive , a mobile app is desired.

It is easy to use and it has lots of helpful features to organize your projects as well as keep you on task.

There's a learning curve and seems to be a couple of ways to do the same thing.

There is good overall visibility on resources

It is not possible to make some fields mandatory

We have been using Celoxis for the last 5 months. Celoxis has helped us a lot in managing any task and collaborations with team members of our company. With its drag-and-drop button feature, we can easily integrate it with another features. We can view different tasks with the Gantt feature and manage tasks with the calendar view.

This is good software and we did not face any issues with it. Its customer support team has also cleared all our doubts.

Tracking budgets, time, and delivery progress. Tracking who has what and when it is due.

My only request for improving the tool at this time is for Celoxis to implement a currency conversion calculation in the tool so that our business can report on USD across all regions, the rest we can live with, or I will submit a support case for consideration.

Project and portfolio orientation
Flexible and powerful reporting offering many ways of customizing product, including dashboards
Simple yet useful script-based formulas usable in custom fields and thus in reporting
Privileges management and data easy segmentation
Very well structured and useful API
Global search
Very reactive and efficient support team

Custom fields configurability in GUI is very limitated
Navigation could be improved in some cases by adding more bridges between modules

The easy way to report your advances in tasks and projects.

I would adapt the tool to report small tasks, as my company uses in Agile projects

It was easy to set up and configurable to our needs
Liked that % complete could be independent from time logged
Great scheduling and resourcing
Client portal easy to use and gives us exactly what we needed

Would be good if we could add a custom field to a discussion for sorting purposes and also control the notifications that go to customers.
Suggested both to Celoxis and they have added as a feature request

Celoxis is a powerful project management software that is replacing MS Project in our organization, allowing us to get a portfolio view of many projects managed by multiple PMs. But best of all, our resources can enter their timesheets within Celoxis. This allows us to eliminate one piece of software and run analytics to learn about our performance and drive improvements.

It was tricky to setup. We needed the help of Celoxis to get the roles and access permissions setup correctly. The help guide was not comprehensive enough in this area to do it yourself.

In one word – Flexibility. Celoxis has really transformed the way we work as a business. It provides accurate monitoring and tracking of all our projects, giving us a bird’s-eye view of the project health. With Celoxis, we can proactively track our projects and know which ones are at risk or being delayed. We can quickly drilldown to see which tasks are putting the project at risk and quickly take remedial measures.

We would really like to see Celoxis seamlessly integrate with our ERP system.

Project managing of a project becomes very handy.

No 'undo', and 'pin' option in project programme. It would be great to have undo and pin option, because sometimes we accidentally moved a program in a project.

It provides one place to create the gantt for the project, resource plan, manage cost, and overall project documentation.

It takes training to understand all the features of the software and how to use them.

I felt Celoxis was quite easy to get started with - it certainly is simpler than other products such as MS Project which is a huge benefit to me since I personally found MS Project too complicated and I never used most of the functions. I can't think of anything I needed which MS Project could do that Celoxis cannot

By far the biggest issue is that the Critical Path feature doesn't work properly. We've managed to get it working on a small number of occasions and then a simple change broke it. Using the Help Desk has not resolved this so we guess it just simply doesn't work well - never had any issues in MS Project. The Autosave feature and the 4-6s latency behind it meant it was unusable (every single change would cause it to be inoked). Turning it off solved the problem but then you are at risk of losing changes if you don't remember to save or your browser crashes (as happened to be once). Also, it seems almost impossible to reliably have 2 people make changes to the project at the same time without the risk of massive issues.

There is a lot on offer for the management software.

It seems really confusing with all the different elements. I would appreciate a different view of the tasks as the tab near the top took me a while to realize that I could scroll to the side and see other tabs. It also seems that the only way to get answers would be to contact customer service, they have been great but that takes up unnecessary time. Making changes to a task would mean that the task would load for a few seconds afterward. If you have multiple tasks to change, this tasks a lot of time. :)

Contains almost all basic and some advanced features a Project Management Tool needs to have.

The biggest 2 drawbacks are
1. Tasks in a project cannot be assigned to clients. To achieve this very standard and normal requirement, clients are needed to be created as users as well.
2. Limiting the number of virtual users to a certain number. Typical Project Management Tools are primarily driven by Project/Program Managers. Project Schedules are updated by them and normally the human resources on the project are not authorized to update the task status and %age of completion to ensure completeness and accuracy of the project schedule. Multiple resources updating the project schedule means we are planning for failure. So, typical licensed users would be PMs while the entire project team resources would be virtual users. In the system, effectively they are just another field in a task record of the system just like maybe the Start Date, Finish Date, Task Name, Task ID, Predecessor, Duration, etc. etc.

Usability of the Celoxis system for PMs reduces if they are unable to have all their human resources in the system and making the entire tool ineffective.