About Forecast
Forecast is a full suite solution that helps professional services organizations finetune operations and finances with the help of intelligent project automation. With a focus on increasing predictability and making projects profitable, Forecast provides functionalities to enhance productivity and planning with AI.
Intelligent features like Auto Schedule allow managers to plan projects and resources using machine learning to estimate task duration, allocate team members based on their availability, and predict delivery dates. Collaboration on projects is flexible and allows for multiple preferred working methods with real-time updates. Forecast has built-in features to manage workflows for Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, or a hybrid of methods. Custom workflows can be set up to align with business processes.
With a holistic overview of the entire portfolio of projects and resources, managers can easily spot capacity needs and adjust the workloads. Finance departments can benefit from solid financial reporting and finally see the profitability of each project in an instant, so there’s no need to spend time gathering bits and pieces of financial data.
Who is Forecast for:
Built for project-oriented companies, Forecast is highly recommended for professionals in IT Consulting, Software Development & Marketing businesses or internal departments with a focus on improving their operations and success rate.
Key benefits of Forecast
Resource Management
Get a real-time overview of the workload and capacity of all your resources across a portfolio of projects, for easy planning and adjusting the workloads to prevent bottlenecks.
Project Management
Optimize the internal processes around planning projects and scheduling people and make project planning on point. Benefit from Forecast’s AI that automatically estimates tasks, assigns resources, and sets a project delivery date.
Time Management
Yield insights into how time is spent and if it’s spent the most optimal way possible. The AI helps users register time faster with a clear presentation of what they worked on and suggestions how much time they could have spent. The time entries propel reporting and help the entire platform to present users with accurate and actual data.
Finance & Billing
Track financial goals and plug budget leaks. Get up-to-the-minute cost, revenue, and profit calculated for you automatically to ensure that projects are delivered on budget.
Team Collaboration
Manage workflows and improve the collaboration with custom built-in dashboards for Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, or a mixture of project management methods. During projects, users can move tasks along the workflow to indicate which stage of the process they are in.
Business Intelligence
Create custom status reports based off project, people, finance, and business insights recorded across the entire platform. Uncover financial trends and where projects and resources can be run more economically. Share reports with stakeholders in the view you prefer.
Integrations
Forecast bridges your disconnected systems to centralize all project data for AI modeling. With strong integrations with Jira, Google Drive, Azure DevOps, Zapier and many more, it's easy to get up to speed without the productivity loss of forcing a new interface and workflows onto your team.
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- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
This platform has amazing features which helps in automating your services
Reviewed on 20/01/2022
We were looking for a platform for both resource management and project management in one and after...
We were looking for a platform for both resource management and project management in one and after a long research we founded this one which is amazing to use and solved our problems very well. Now our company can easily manages resources and projects with the help of one solution and it is better to purchase because the cost is reasonable and it is far better than its alternatives in terms of features because it has a lot more to serve to its customers.
Pros
It enables artificial intelligence work automation, project management, resource management, team collaboration, integrations, finance and billings and time and team collaborations. It gives free trail to use. Their support is amazing. it can be accessed from android or from iOS too. It enables Jira integration to use easily. The feature it provides does not have in its competitive software.
Cons
I do not find as much bugs in this software but sometimes some features do not work properly and later fixed quickly. The scheduling needs little improved only apart from all these the overall software is perfect to use to automate your almost every service.
- Industry: Industrial Automation
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great tool for complex business model
Reviewed on 11/11/2019
From day 1 the experience with the Forecast tool and the Forecast team has been excellent. Its...
From day 1 the experience with the Forecast tool and the Forecast team has been excellent. Its clear that this is by no means a finished product which gives us users the flexibility to request new features with the knowledge we will be listened to.
I look forward to a long relationship with the Forecast team
Pros
Constant and quick feature releases
Listen to feedback and make updates based on customers needs
Great performance
very easy to use
Jira integration is fantastic
Lots of work done to improve the cost tracking and financial/budget elements
Great communications and availability of Forecast team
Cons
Forecast initially catered for a very specific agency type business model that didn't fit with relayrs business model however through constant improvements and feedback the tool is getting closer to what is expected
Switched From
SmartsheetReasons for Switching to Forecast
It scored the highest against all the criteria in our RFP process- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10
Product remains immature, should pull back the aggressive sales
Reviewed on 06/02/2021
Overall the product is somewhat immature, not usable on mobile, their sales tactics are overly...
Overall the product is somewhat immature, not usable on mobile, their sales tactics are overly aggressive, and they make cancellation difficult.
Pros
Was good for budgeting and basic project tracking features.
Cons
Not usable on mobile devices, and disappointed by the aggressive upselling and hidden cancellation terms.
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Centreline Architecture Forecast Review
Reviewed on 13/11/2019
With Forecast we are easily able to plan our architectural projects and meet deadlines and stay...
With Forecast we are easily able to plan our architectural projects and meet deadlines and stay within the allotted budgets. Forecast is consistently updating with new features and addons.
Pros
Forecast's customer support is one of the best I have ever had to work with. Second would be the ease of use for staff to help plan out projects and timelines.
Cons
Sometimes parts don't work correctly but they are quick to fix the issues.
Reasons for Choosing Forecast
Other software did not meet the needs of our office.Switched From
WorkflowMaxReasons for Switching to Forecast
Ease of use and great value.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Steep Learning Curve
Reviewed on 11/06/2019
Timeline management.
One software for the internal and client-side view which provides a lot of...
Timeline management.
One software for the internal and client-side view which provides a lot of transparency to the project.
Pros
I can easily see my upcoming and past cards, deadlines, project timelines, milestone plans, team members.
I can easily change the status of the card from to-dos to in-progress to Done.
Cons
It's not very easy to use and has a long learning curve.
Forecast FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Forecast.Q. What type of pricing plans does Forecast offer?
Forecast offers the following pricing plans:
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- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
Lite plan: €27/seat/month billed annually Ideal for companies that want to manage projects & resources in one unified solution. Pro plan: €46/seat/month billed annually Ideal for companies that are interested in finetuning operations and finances to scale sustainably. Plus plan: Contact Forecast for plus pricing plans. Ideal for organizations that want to operate at maximum efficiency and build a sustainable future. Custom SLA
Q. Who are the typical users of Forecast?
Forecast has the following typical customers:
11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Forecast support?
Forecast supports the following languages:
Danish, English, Spanish
Q. Does Forecast support mobile devices?
Forecast supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Forecast integrate with?
Forecast integrates with the following applications:
Asana, Azure Active Directory, Azure DevOps Services, BambooHR, Dropbox Business, Expensify, GitHub, GitLab, GoSimplo, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Harvest, HubSpot CRM, Jira, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, NetSuite, Okta, OneLogin, Personio, Pipedrive, QuickBooks, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Reeport, Sage Intacct, Salesforce Platform, Slack, TimeLog, Toggl Track, Trello, UNIT4 ERP, Workato, Xero, Zapier, Zendesk Suite, e-conomic, monday.com
Q. What level of support does Forecast offer?
Forecast offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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