Projector PSA vs Replicon vs Parallax: Which will work for you?

Digital services companies have a lot of choices today regarding the solutions they leverage to operationalize their businesses. See why leaders are choosing Parallax — the solution that provides their teams accurate, real-time insights and forecasts that accelerate their growth, all with fewer disruptions to their workflows. 

Table of Contents:

• Platform comparison overview
• Overview of Parallax
• Overview of Projector PSA
• Overview of Replicon (Polaris PSA)
• Platform comparison table
• Parallax vs Projector PSA vs Replicon: Which is best?
• Feature Comparison Table
• Pricing Comparison Table
• Platform Advantages and Potential Drawbacks 
• Ready to take the next step?
• FAQs

Platform comparison overview

Overview of Parallax

Parallax was built specifically for digital services companies by top industry leaders who understand the unique complexities and objectives of these businesses. It’s a solution designed to support growth by solving operational challenges, empowering teams, and creating a shared view of performance and future demand. 

Parallax has native integrations with the best-in-class tools agencies and development shops already use to help avoid disruption and deliver value quickly. The solution enables tighter operations, streamlined resource planning, stronger performance, and more reliable forecasting, all of which ultimately lead to improved margins and fueled growth. Led by a dedicated team of experts who understand your challenges (because we’ve lived them, too), Parallax resolves common friction points and reduces gut-instinct decision-making by delivering shared, accurate visibility across the business. 

Digital services companies gain control and confidence in their operations by having access to powerful insights and curated data pulled together in one place to allow sales, delivery, finance, and management teams to scenario plan and make smarter, proactive decisions based on data rather than reactive, emotional decisions based on gut instincts. 

Overview of Projector PSA

BigTime Software’s Projector PSA is a cloud-based, best-of-breed professional services automation (PSA) solution for services organizations. It’s designed to manage and optimize operations for users, allowing them to experience improved project performance, optimized resourcing, and higher profits. Its foundation caters to various operational elements, including time and expense management, project budgeting, invoicing, subcontractor management, rate and revenue management, revenue recognition, financial reporting, and more. 

Overview of Replicon (Polaris PSA)

Replicon’s PSA tool, Polaris PSA, provides AI/ML-enabled intelligent resource and project management capabilities and intuitive dashboards that empower global professional services organizations. Focusing primarily on resource, project, and financial management, the platform leverages advanced technologies to self-manage resources, better account for schedules, time off, and other resourcing details, enable smart task management, eliminate revenue leakage, and much more. Through its dashboards, Polaris PSA brings scope and margin to the forefront of any project as well as greater clarity and ease of use while managing projects from beginning to end. 

Platform comparison table

Parallax vs Projector PSA vs Replicon: Which is best?

Project management, resource management, and forecasting tools are meant to streamline operations and deliver better visibility into how digital services organizations operate. Certain solutions – like Parallax 🤗 – are designed to help companies achieve next-level visibility by integrating with leading CRM and sales funnel software like HubSpot, Pipedrive, and Salesforce, which enables teams to quickly price deals and establish resource plans — but integrations stretch all the way through to project management, too. Altogether, companies gain more streamlined workflows and more accurate, forward-looking insights to help grow the business. 

Parallax empowers growth-minded organizations with greater transparency across the business by unlocking more potential from your tools and your people, all while leveraging the tools you’re already using. The solution delivers value quickly and locks in your price from the very beginning (we’re not a big fan of pricing surprises), even if you add more users along the way. 

Parallax is purpose-built for digital services companies, backed by a team that’s committed to driving adoption and implementation in 90 days or less, so users can experience the benefits of their investment quickly. 

Feature Comparison Table

Pricing Comparison Table

Digital services companies want solutions that work with them and for them – and that don’t result in unwanted, costly surprises just to experience the true value of the platform. We believe that pricing should be predictable and transparent, focused on value, and designed for integrations.

Platform Advantages and Potential Drawbacks

Today’s services companies need a solution that can grow as they grow. Platforms that make it difficult to add more users or coordinate different roles across multiple different projects don’t cut it for companies ready to embrace operational maturity. Fractured data and disconnected tools not only slow teams down but keep teams from seeing across the business. Not having access to all the features or functions needed to provide full visibility – and having to wait for those functions to be implemented – is something no one wants to deal with. 

These limitations are what makes running these companies feel especially challenging (we’ve been there, so we know the feeling). Leaders spend so much time focused on trying to gather and analyze data that they can’t focus on the craft, coaching their teams, or driving the evolution of their business. But we’ve since learned that forecasting and planning is a team sport that requires everyone’s involvement. Approaching it as a team ultimately helps everyone to level up (and have more fun! 😉). 

Parallax addresses these challenges head-on. It’s a solution designed to help leaders free up their time spent on cobbling together spreadsheets and analyzing data, so they can do what leaders should be doing: setting vision, delivering great work, inspiring their teams, and coaching them along the way. This is how you grow with confidence and intention, and it’s how you mature beyond heroic operations to strategic innovation.

Parallax Advantages

• Optimized operations: Parallax creates a bridge for disparate perspectives by aligning on what the organization’s operational cadence should be – and then implementing best practices so that it becomes a regular component of everyone’s schedule, helping to propel the business forward, faster.
• Improved margins: Parallax provides an accurate, forward-looking view for leaders so they can confidently adjust future project resources and confirm budgets and margin are within target. 
• Fueled growth: Parallax supports your pursuit of more value and insights out of the systems you already have by integrating them with our platform to create new insights, with all your data in one place, to power innovative growth. 

Ready to take the next step? 

It’s no secret that digital services companies have a plethora of options today when it comes to the tools and technologies they adopt for their teams and their business. Parallax utilizes the best parts of an existing tech stack to be a force multiplier for stronger operations — it provides companies with the workflows and information they need to level up their operations and move up the maturity scale — from operating as heroic organizations to businesses that are future-forward and strategic and teed up for steady, streamlined growth. 

Get in touch to learn more about the Parallax approach — we’re always game to chat.