Epicflow vs Rapla

Epicflow is a multi-project resource and portfolio management solution for planning and controlling work across projects. Its Pipeline gives an overview of projects and milestones and helps teams assess feasibility and deadlines. Capacity planning forecasts resource demand and output, analyzes workload, and helps prevent bottlenecks; what-if simulations let users consider project changes. The listed capabilities include task dependencies, a Gantt view, resource management, time tracking, and AI priority recommendations. Ready-made integrations are listed for Microsoft Project, Jira, and Oracle Primavera, with custom integrations available for project, resource, or HRM systems. Epicflow says its DataGuard cloud service can analyze project information while company data stays on premises. Its security page states GDPR compliance, ISO 27001-certified data centres, and penetration testing to British MOD standards. Growth costs €22.50 per user per month, billed annually, or €25.00 per user per month, billed monthly; both options cover 20 to 50 users, up to 50 projects, and a maximum of 250 tasks. A 30-day trial is available, with unlimited users and a weekly 30-minute support call. Enterprise pricing is on request and its listed capacity starts at 50 users, with unlimited projects and 2000+ tasks.

Rapla is an open-source system for scheduling resources and planning events, including rooms, people, and equipment. Its calendars offer month, week, day, and specialized views, with repeating appointments and conflict checks before saving. Administrators can define resource, person, and event types, assign categories and attributes, and set fine-grained permissions. Rapla exports to PDF and iCal and can email users when a resource is allocated. Data can be stored in a file or in MySQL, PostgreSQL, or HSQLDB. Rapla 2 is labeled stable and can run as a standalone application or in client-server mode; its desktop client supports Linux, Windows, and macOS using Java and OpenWebStart. The interface is available in English and German, with translations of varying completeness in French, Dutch, Polish, Spanish, Finnish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Czech. Rapla 3 describes Exchange sync, a GraphQL API, OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, and sign-in with Microsoft, Google, or Keycloak. Its nightly builds are self-signed, untested, and not for production. The software is free under AGPL-3.0-or-later or Apache-2.0.