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Forecast

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What is Forecast?

Forecast.it is a project portfolio management solution built around features such as resource planning and time tracking, budget estimating, and analytics and reporting, with key third-party integrations.

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Screenshot of Easily plan and adjust workloads across the entire resource pool to prevent bottlenecks.
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Forecast Reviews

What users are saying about Forecast.
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Scam vapourware — avoid!

Verified User
Director in Sales (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I wasn’t convinced the product would do what they said, so I asked for a month-to-month payment (instead of an annual commitment). They said this was not possible due to the valuation by their investors. I spent >$10k USD then found out that all the problems I thought were there, were 100% present and it is just vapourware. They disappear once they have your money and the scam is complete. Beware!

Pros

  • Scam you
  • Lie
  • Send invoices
  • Pad figures for their investors

Cons

  • Not be vapourware
  • Deliver what they promise
  • Focus on users rather than investors

Most Important Features

  • Scamming my competitors too, hopefully
  • Lying about its capabilities
  • Arguing with customers

Return on Investment

  • Minus $10k USD for the fee
  • Many, many thousands in lost revenue
  • Many, many thousands in wasted time

Very powerful when used with Harvest

Incentivized
Timothy KingView profile
Frontend Developer in Information Technology at Level Interactive (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Schedule visualization. Harvest makes it very easy to see how many hours of work are being assigned to each individual.
  • When used with Harvest it makes for a powerful tool for determining how much time was spent on projects in comparison to their estimates.
  • Data can easily be pulled to make future decisions on project estimates, as well as individual strengths and weaknesses.

Cons

  • Not as intuitive as its companion software, Harvest. This software takes longer to learn when on-boarding new staff. It is also difficult to view time notes without needing to physically open them up. This could be improved by expanding the "on hover" functionality. Personally, having spent as little time in workflow software is really important, as it gives me more time to code.
  • Because we use this software to plan schedules, items often fall through the cracks. I would like to see some more sophisticated syncing with not only Harvest but also with Asana.
  • Lack of integration with Asana. It would be nice to pull data from forecast and display it in Asana. This would be helpful for understanding how much time I have to spend on a project rather than bounce back and forth between web apps.

Return on Investment

  • Forecast does not integrate with other software in our workflow, and it makes it an entire extra step when it doesn't necessarily need to be. This takes extra time away from my actual job.
  • Forecast is powerful when used with Harvest, and allows for powerful data-driven decisions in hiring and project estimates. The more informed we are when making decisions and scoping, the more profitable the company can be.
  • It takes some time to onboard new Employees which can take time away from a profitability or other training.

Other Software Used

Built for Teams, Harvest, Marketo, MailChimp

Forecast: easily schedule resources, teams, & departments

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Assign and allocate resources.
  • Identify lean departments and identify areas to increase headcount.
  • Manage agile teams.
  • Identify bottlenecks in departments or resourcing.

Cons

  • More variation for resource-edge cases such as contractors.

Return on Investment

  • Allow departments to run efficiently.
  • Quickly identify whether departments need to hire.
  • Easily visualize project gaps in resources.

Other Software Used

Pipedrive, Harvest, Veeva Vault, Redmine, Zoom Video Webinar, Skype for Business (formerly Lync)

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