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Microsoft Excel vs RationalPlan

Microsoft Excel vs RationalPlan

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Overall Rating
4.4 (99)
Ease-of-Use
4.3 / 5
4.4 / 5
Value for Money
4.6 / 5
4.7 / 5
Customer Support
4.3 / 5
4.5 / 5
Functionality
4.7 / 5
4.3 / 5
Last Review Written
February 12, 2025
November 18, 2022
Pros/Cons
  • Pros

  • Microsoft excel is an amazing app that helps me to save the hassle of manually doing accounting. It helps me create tables and charts with ease.
  • Streamlining all the data is amazing and the ease of sharing the documents on the cloud is wonderful as well.
  • Excel's greatest value is its ability to be many things for many people. I would say 90% of the people I've seen use Excel only use about 10% of its capabilities, and it's great for that.
  • Cons

  • Sometimes when I've made a mistake in a formula that I've created, I have a hard time figuring out where the mistake is.
  • Just one thing what I dislike is, that amount of dates is limited. After 60000 numbers pivot does not work.
  • It does become a bit frustrating when updates come over and change the way you do a process. I hate to relearn something I have been doing over and over.
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  • Pros

  • It is excellent value for money and the updates just keep rolling in so that I always have the most current version. One of the best software purchases I have ever made - a great investment.
  • And for this great software, the price is really afordable. Super, thanks for your great work.
  • It was easy to use and provided the best results. Professor did help but everything seemed easy after this software was started to used in the class.
  • Cons

  • If I have a problem with MS project I can usually just google the problem and find something on a forum.
  • There are several additional and variable constraints that make capacity planning software consistently fail.
  • Some of the options are confusing (e.g. "always keep assignment units as set" and "try to keep the work when changing resources"...what do these mean.
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Deployments
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Desktop - Mac
Desktop - Windows
Desktop - Linux
Desktop - Chromebook
On-Premise - Windows
On-Premise - Linux
Mobile - Android
Mobile - iPhone
Mobile - iPad
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Desktop - Mac
Desktop - Windows
Desktop - Linux
Desktop - Chromebook
On-Premise - Windows
On-Premise - Linux
Mobile - Android
Mobile - iPhone
Mobile - iPad
Support and Training
Support
Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
Phone Support
24/7 (Live Rep)
Chat
Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
Phone Support
24/7 (Live Rep)
Chat
Training
In Person
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Videos
In Person
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Videos