Celoxis is a very powerful and affordable tool for project management
Rating: 10 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Celoxis for managing projects in our managed services operations areas (customer-facing projects sometimes but mostly internal projects: training, infrastructure, process improvement, etc) and information security consulting. We were able to integrate Celoxis into a legacy web portal where users enter their daily timesheets. Integration was easy using Celoxis REST API. There are about 60 members of our different teams using Celoxis only through this API-enabled front-end and 10 more who actually have licenses and manage projects from Celoxis itself.
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
Likelihood to Recommend
Celoxis is a great option if you are looking for an affordable, easy to use, easy to integrate project manegement solution. It is very powerful for waterfall project management. I evaluated more than 15 platforms and could not find any with a close evaluation in terms of cost-benefit to Celoxis. Of course there are more powerfull tools, for 10 times the price. So far, for project management, there hasn't been a requirement I haven't been able to solve with some work.
It really lacks features for Agile methodologies, even if it provides a Kanban view, so far it doesn't provide and additional agile artifacts. If an organization has already reached a very mature project management practice and needs to improve on program and portfolio management, Celoxis won't provide any useful feature. If the organization has the resources (skills and time mostly) to develop some workflows and customization, it might work but with a limit. Hopefully Celoxis addresses these features in the near future.
It really lacks features for Agile methodologies, even if it provides a Kanban view, so far it doesn't provide and additional agile artifacts. If an organization has already reached a very mature project management practice and needs to improve on program and portfolio management, Celoxis won't provide any useful feature. If the organization has the resources (skills and time mostly) to develop some workflows and customization, it might work but with a limit. Hopefully Celoxis addresses these features in the near future.
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4 years of experience