Compare CMIS and MySmartPlans - Jul 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - CMIS or MySmartPlans?

CMIS is more expensive to implement (TCO) than MySmartPlans, and MySmartPlans is rated higher (81/100) than CMIS (75/100). CMIS offers users more features (9) than MySmartPlans (0).

Looking for the right Board Portal solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

Eclectus (ECL Software) Inc. Vs. Marathon Digital Services

Eclectus (ECL Software) Inc.: Eclectus, Inc. (dba ECL Software) develops award-winning risk mitigation solutions for all aspects of the Construction Industry. Incorporated in 1994 ECL has continued to provide solutions with a “Just Do It Once” approach. Having won awards for both it’s Contracting and Banking solutions, ECL has developed the reputation of quality, flexibility, a...

Marathon Digital Services: MySmartPlans was developed by a group of industry professionals that battled the status quo of trying to manage all of the project information needs with expensive and complicated software tools, unorganized SharePoint sites and paper. Lots of paper. Paper, emails, FTP sites, Planrooms, and complicated and expensive enterprise-wide solutions were n...

Who is more expensive? CMIS or MySmartPlans?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Board Portal software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for CMIS and MySmartPlans.

CMIS price starts at $3,500 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 CMIS is rated 8, which is higher than the average cost of Board Portal software. MySmartPlans accurate pricing info is available upon request (they don't share it publicly), however , On a scale between 1 to 10 CMIS is rated 8, which is higher than the average cost of Board Portal software.

Bottom line: CMIS is more expensive than MySmartPlans.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared CMIS Vs. MySmartPlans based on some of the most important and required Board Portal features.

CMIS: Accounting Management, Bidding, Contract Management, Cost Management, Document Management, Estimating, Project Management, Punch List.

MySmartPlans: We are still working to collect the list of features for MySmartPlans.

Target customer size

ECL Software CMIS is suitable for construction industries that are looking for a single solution to manage their projects, logs and contacts. and MySmartPlans's target customer size include: SMBs.