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100% willing to recommend
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April 2024
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Ken Shaurette
Easy to navigate and good for communications but needs better documentation
Anonymous User
Easy to understand with fair pricing and lots of unique features
RationalPlan has been very helpful in planning projects and resources through our shop and in communicating with clients on project timelines. It's... Read more →
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Pros
"The ability to network informally is great for communicating with colleagues.""The ease of use is valuable."

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"Support is top-notch whenever help is needed."

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Cons
"The solution could be more user-friendly.""The product isn't easy to use. It's not very intuitive."

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"We use the desktop version of RationalPlan, and It seems some desktop software has the ability to share a document as a web view. This would be a nice feature allowing us to share our plans with clients without needing additional software. This may be something that is offered in the RationalPlan cloud plan."

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What do you like most about Basecamp?
Top Answer:The ease of use is valuable.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Basecamp?
Top Answer:The licensing costs are approximately $900 annually. I rate the price a four out of ten, with one being cheap and ten being expensive.
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What needs improvement with Basecamp?
Top Answer:The recent update on the solution has made it a little bit complex. For example, to create a team and a project, there is a separate button that you need to click. Recently they updated it with only… more »
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What do you like most about RationalPlan?
Top Answer:Support is top-notch whenever help is needed.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for RationalPlan?
Top Answer:The solution offers extremely fair pricing for features similar to or better than many others.
What needs improvement with RationalPlan?
Top Answer:We use the desktop version of RationalPlan, and It seems some desktop software has the ability to share a document as a web view. This would be a nice feature allowing us to share our plans with… more »
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22nd
out of 101 in Project Management Software
Views
436
Comparisons
315
Reviews
1
Average Words per Review
349
Rating
9.0
20th
out of 101 in Project Management Software
Views
106
Comparisons
78
Reviews
1
Average Words per Review
625
Rating
10.0
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Overview
Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool developed by Basecamp and launched in 2004, with a new version being launched in 2012. Basecamp offers to-do lists, wiki-style web-based text documents, milestone management, file sharing, time tracking, and a messaging system. Basecamp Classic also offers integration with Basecamp's own Campfire product, and features APIs that are used by a host of web and mobile apps. Basecamp Classic's interface is available in different languages (e.g. Spanish, French, Italian, German, Finnish and Japanese). The newer version of Basecamp currently only supports English as the interface language.

RationalPlan is a project management software designed to help project managers and teams to manage projects by creating consistent project plans, allocating resources and analyzing workload, tracking work progress, estimating project costs and managing budgets.

It offers several deployment solutions to cover different needs. There are several On Premise products that get installed on the customers hardware architecture but RationalPlan can also be used as a Cloud service.

Enterprise companies means a big number of users with more or less knowledge about managing work, tasks, projects or resources. RationalPlan is well designed: easy to use and practical for the entry personnel but powerful for team leaders, managers and executives.

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Ashland Addison Florist Co., Victory Auto Wreckers, Ideal Box Co., Hollymatic Corp.
James Cook University, NASA, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Teleflex, Garmin, University of Missouri, BEA, Eurocoating, Adidas Group, Termoemcali, Solid Power
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Basecamp is ranked 22nd in Project Management Software with 3 reviews while RationalPlan is ranked 20th in Project Management Software with 1 review. Basecamp is rated 7.6, while RationalPlan is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Basecamp writes "Easy to navigate and good for communications but needs better documentation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RationalPlan writes "Easy to understand with fair pricing and lots of unique features". Basecamp is most compared with Planview Portfolios, Smartsheet, Jira and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas RationalPlan is most compared with .

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