Let’s look at the facts
DISCLAIMER: The data compiled in the following report has been gathered from publicly available data and from our interaction with potential buyers. This means the comparison data can be outdated, incomplete or inaccurate. We advise you to do a personal evaluation of all tools before making a decision.
Project Planning
Celoxis accommodates real-world scheduling scenarios to give you reliable and accurate start and finish dates. You can create stable project plans based on working times, holidays, dependencies and task constraints. With project management tools like interative gantt chart, project templates, recurring tasks and baselines, you can plan with confidence.
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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Interactive Gantt chart | ||
Multiple resources per task | ||
Allocate resources in hours instead of % | ||
Advanced scheduling | ||
FS, FF, SF & SS predecessor types | ||
Inter-project dependencies | ||
Critical Path | ||
Recurring Tasks |
Project Tracking
Celoxis provides automatic visual indicators, planned vs actual variances, and billable vs non-billable activities. Celoxis also notifies you when tasks miss their deadline. Celoxis is one of the few Wrike alternatives that offer earned value analysis.
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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Tracking Dashboards | ||
Intelligent health indicators | ||
Request an update from resources in one click | ||
Track planned vs. actual - dates, hours and cost | ||
Baselines and EVA | ||
Change-request tracking | ||
Log time and updates via email | ||
Email alerts of important events |
Project Financials
Celoxis provides real-time financial management features that improve your project’s bottom line. You can track cost versus budget, billing vs costing and keep an eye on your project's profitability and margin with ease. Wrike does not provide any project financial capabilities.
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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Cost estimation | ||
Cost tracking & forecasting | ||
Revenue estimation | ||
Revenue tracking & forecasting | ||
Flexible billing models | ||
Milestone-based billing | ||
Track KPIs like cashflow, profit & margin |
Portfolio Management (PPM)
Celoxis enables you to get real-time insight into your project priorities and overall portfolio health and roadmap. Celoxis is one of the few Wrike competitors that offer comprehensive portfolio management tools. Celoxis helps businesses understand their projects based on value and resources consumed, distribute resources effectively, and improve overall portfolio performance.
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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Project request queue | ||
Project prioritization | ||
Demand management | ||
Portfolio analysis | ||
Portfolio dashboards |
Resource Management
With Celoxis you get a full service resource management system to plan for your today’s and tomorrow’s plan resource needs. It is probably the only Wrike alternative that offers a scheduling engine that work with different time zones. Celoxis offers comprehensive resource planning and tracking capabilities to eliminate common problems associated with poor resource planning, such as a lack of visibility of who is doing what and expensive resource conflicts.
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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Resources in different locations or shifts | ||
Holidays and exceptions | ||
Reporting manager | ||
Virtual users | ||
Support for external consultants | ||
Cross-project workload chart | ||
Planned vs. actual utilization | ||
Job roles | ||
Capacity planning |
Collaboration
With Celoxis your clients and teams have plenty of ways to communicate and stay informed. With our free client accounts, you can even create a portal for your clients were they can log in to view their projects, share files, engage in online discussions and even participate in business processes like issue tracking, change requests, etc. Wrike or Wrike competitors do not have this functionality.
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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@ mentions | ||
Comment on tasks, issues and other work items | ||
File attachments | ||
Version control | ||
Online discussions | ||
Client portal | ||
Participate via email |
Time Tracking
Celoxis outperforms Wrike in offering comprehensive time tracking capabilities like weekly timesheets, automatic reminders, and auto approvals.
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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Weekly timesheets | ||
Inbuilt timers | ||
Log time via email | ||
Log time for another user | ||
Incomplete timesheets automation | ||
Multi-level approval workflow | ||
Automatic approvals | ||
1-Click approvals |
Risk Management
Celoxis offers a flexible risk management application that can customized to your needs. You can add special fields, route it to different people, trigger time-outs and get amazing reports so you can manage risks the way you want.
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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Organization & project risk registers | ||
Qualify risks | ||
Custom risk parameters | ||
Risk assesment | ||
Escalation rules |
Issue & Bug Tracking
In Wrike, this can be handled through tasks and custom statuses and is available only in their high-end plans.
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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Customizable workflow | ||
Escalation rules | ||
Log time | ||
Kanban view |
Expense Tracking
Wrike and many Wrike alternatives do not have expense management capabilities but we believe it is a critical piece when you want to compare project costs or calculate true project profitability or margins.
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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Billable and non-billable expenses | ||
Custom expense codes | ||
Online approval | ||
File attachments to expenses (e.g. Receipts) | ||
Reimbursible flag |
Analytics & Reporting
Celoxis puts comprehensive, real-time project portfolio analytics including custom metrics within reach and provides all the insights and business intelligence you need at your fingertips. Wrike has basic reporting and some views are only available in their high-end plans. Celoxis has the best analytics engine in the market today and easily beats Wrike or Wrike equivalents.
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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Cross-project reporting | ||
Dynamic filters | ||
Drill-down charts | ||
Reporting on custom fields including formula fields. | ||
Trend charts | ||
Automatically email reports |
Integrations
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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Microsoft Project | ||
Microsoft Excel | ||
Zapier | ||
Google Drive | ||
Quick Books Online | ||
API | ||
Salesforce | ||
iCal | ||
LDAP | ||
Single Sign-On |
Security
Celoxis provides comprehensive role and project-based security, so you can exactly control what your users can see.
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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Workspace | ||
Role-based permissions | ||
Project-level overrides |
Deployment
Celoxis offers flexible deployment options to suit your businesses. Whether you are looking for a Cloud-Based or an On-Premise option, Celoxis provides solutions at the lowest TCO. You can always start with SaaS and then move to On-Premise. Wrike and many other Wrike equivalents and Wrike competitors do not support On-Premise.
Celoxis | Wrike | |
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Cloud (SaaS) | ||
On-Premise |
The number one change for us is that we no longer need to look for where a project is located and pick up on its trails. Celoxis is a great tool to manage projects, costs, resources, time and progress. It is feature-rich, easy to implement and highly customizable. It’s reporting capabilities are superb and it’s customer support is simply exceptional.
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