We are the Digital Media group for Live Nation Merchandise. We provide engineering and marketing services for artist branded web sites. Our group totals 25 employees including merchandisers, marketing, engineers and web site producers. Everyone uses Celoxis to manage both projects, costs and to file support tickets for engineers. These are generic, unlicensed users that do not have a login and will not be able to access Celoxis directly. They can still participate in their projects (such as fill time, perform progress updates and join discussions) through email. You can have unlimited number of such users and they are free.

Axe Group specialises in providing software solutions to the Insurance Industry through its 'Axelerator Insurance Platform', and cross-industry application services focused on the software development lifecycle. Before implementing Celoxis, Axe captured staff time allocations through a time tracking system built in-house. We moved to Celoxis to track time by task and allow us to access information through the customisable reports. Celoxis is primarily used for time tracking however we also make use of the financials to track how the project is progressing against the budget. The API is a powerful feature which we call from with Excel macros to automatically generate timesheets using our standard customer template. Celoxis has become our primary tool for tracking time within the organisation and allows us to ensure that we are correctly billing for this time.

LRMG is a Performance Agency based in South Africa that empowers people to 'dream it ... believe it ... do it!' through management consulting, skills development, people technology and e-learning. Before Celoxis, project planning happened in MS Project and resource planning and scheduling in Excel. With completing on average over 110 developed products in a year this manual process became unsustainable. The issue was compounded by projects not being integrated and the resource dashboard being a standalone component. It was therefore impossible to (1) manage projects in an integrated way and (2) get meaningful data from in order to make informed decisions. We now have an integrated system allowing us to plan projects and resourcing in a live and integrated environment. We also have access to management information that is live and updated in a live environment. Integration of all project plans through the resource dashboard. Information that sits behind the plans, recorded in a Database. We can now measure our financial performance as we go through our daily operations. As we plan, we can literally see whether we are profitable or not. We have visibility of our capacity and profitability at our fingertips now.

I am the Technical Manager at Kesslers International responsible for the technical product development of retail displays and equipment which Kesslers design and manufacture, our customer base is wide and varied and includes many house hold brand names. Before adopting Celoxis we used a combination of our MRP system and manual tracking of projects using excel spreadsheets and task lists across our Design department. All live design project plans are now maintained in Celoxis and this is available to a team of over 30 design development staff 24 hrs a day. Most used features are the project planning & tasks lists - being able to quickly create projects from templates or for bespoke projects. Plans are of course immediately available to the team without the need to constantly update, people see as live as possible information on projects. Celoxis has improved the efficiency and accuracy of project information by allowing us to review the status of all our live projects and take action where required Product developers can see their projects and tasks and have a better understanding of priorities and what work is coming up. Celoxis helps us to manage a wider range of projects in shorter timescales, as well as this it is starting to aid us in understand what projects are using most of our designers time. There is no burden on our internal IT Department.

Drive Service is an Italian company that is a recognized leader in the Automotive Industry for the Fleet Management and Cost Optimization of large and small fleets of vehicles. It annual turnaround is more than 50 Mln. of Euros, with 120 FTEs and 2 main locations in Italy and a subsidiary in Spain. The company target market is made of privately owned companies, public company and a very important chunk of national Public Administration. The services provided go from fleet operative and administrative cost optimization till operative maintenance planning and execution with added services like vehicle substitution, vehicle towing and repair till car insurance advisory. Recently Drive Service has become part of a larger Group, Cobra Automotive Technologies, whose technological capabilities span from vehicle recognition and tracking to thief alarm and driver behavioral analysis. The IT is mainly a process lever but also an enabler and an important part the service delivery: from managing the planned maintenance processes till evaluating and managing the single ordinary and extraordinary maintenance, it usually allows the process to be carried out efficiently as well as to integrate information and tasks internally and externally as regarded to business processes; the most important challenge Drive Service is currently facing is to be capable to integrate its own processes and systems within the broader Supply Chains made of Supplier and Customers processes and ICT solutions. DS used a single project manager approach in planning and tracking projects; moreover, it was lacking a single coherent picture of what's going on in terms of activities as well as of managing external personnel. Another lack was the possibility to observe and allocate resources cross-project, especially true for external consultant and outsourcing developers. Right now having a single instrument that allows data to be visible and shared across multiple projects, supplier and Prj. Leader allows a better evaluation of time and schedule as well as budget vs. actual cost allocations while giving the main stakeholders a deeper understanding of ICT activities / projects and costs. External personnel can moreover have the possibility to commit tasks / efforts and advancements to items and projects as they are progressing toward the goals with the money / resources spent and results achieved. The time reporting and project advancement are very powerful, as well as the status reporting and cost reporting features. Being a web application, it is always on whatever site you are and ready for internal as well as external stakeholder; it is also possible to use the same platform to share news and reports with external customers without proliferating the means of communication while centrally managing the status reports what become integral part of the project management process and not an added effort from the parties involved. Being able to track cross-project advancements and expenses, having a coherent picture of status and projects issues, managing the whole project portfolio being able to share / move resources in a dynamic way evaluating the impact of the resource allocation and sharing it without multiple communications to be produced / managed. Moreover, the possibility to have on a single platform the internal personnel, the external resources and the Customers is a very powerful way to have a clear picture of the whole environment in a systemic way to be able to manage issue and ameliorate the performance of a given project and a deeper understanding of the causes of the mismatch between plans and effects.

We're a SME located in Vienna, Austria with 40 employees. We're specialized in Visualization, Control and Automation in the railway and renewable energy industry. We're developing safety relevant Hard- and Software in tight coordination with the technical inspection Authority. It was hard to get an overview of our projects and their status, as we didn't have any tool to support the controlling of projects. It was very time consuming to get information about projects and to determine the hours that where spent for each project. With Celoxis everything it is very convenient and it is fast to get the information needed. Specifically we like the Earned Value Analyses and the very easy to use reporting tools for all projects. These tools help our project managers to make decisions more easily. Another advantage of Celoxis is the fact, that it is an online tool and we're able to access it from all over the world. We're now more aware of the total time consumption of our projects and it is much easier for us to get a feeling of the utilization of our resources. Furthermore it is much easier for us to start new projects (through templates) and to track down the bottlenecks of each project.

Controlling hundreds of projects may turns out to be very difficult without the appropriate tool... With Celoxis, everything is so much easier; it is the most pragmatic solution I could find. It simply does an amazing job: no more doubt when I need a project status or projected date, no more headache to prepare exhaustive monthly reports. All this I can get it in a few clicks! My dashboard just gets me all I need ! Working in complex organization requires a very good coordination where all key players must have same level of information. Sharing documents, storing mails, Celoxis does it all and help anticipating better and communicating more transparently to our customers. Last but not least, by combining project with tailor made workflows, we could enhanced all our business critical processes, freezing roles and responsibilities, forcing mandatory inputs, measure lead times and SLAs.

The Hive is a small, tight knit group that designs, develops, and sells high end bicycle components. Engineering, Sales, and Development are spread out across three locations globally including two California facilities as well as one in Taiwan. We've been using Celoxis for several years now. Previously, we were using Basecamp which is a great communication tool but did not allow for issue tracking or true accountability for task completion. Since using Celoxis, we've improved our ability to track internal tasks and issues as well as improving and tracking document and purchase order submissions to suppliers. We definitely take most advantage of the customizable workflow processes. Not only has it improved our ability to track key business processes, but it forced us to better understand and enabled their improvement. Celoxis helps keep our teams on track with project and business directives and schedules. It also helps keep issues and tasks from slipping through the cracks. Celoxis has been an integral part of The Hive's refinement of internal communication for not only projects, but for day to day task and issues.