Clearview InFocus vs Forecast

Likelihood to Recommend

Compared to other accounting software, I think InFocus offers more functionalities and it's very user friendly. It's a cloud based solution you can easily access remotely, and the connection speed is quite fast. It integrates project management data and financial data, which is important for an engineering company like us.

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Administrator in Finance and Accounting

Civil Engineering Company, 201-500 employees

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Forecast is well suited for tracking schedules, especially if it is only being controlled by a single department. When it comes to using Forecast in a larger ecosystem with more "cooks in the kitchen" it would be helpful to have the software more easily integrated with other software.

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Timothy King

Frontend Developer

Level InteractiveMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Clearview InFocus

Forecast

Task Management

Resource Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Timesheet Tracking

Change request and Case Management

Budget and Expense Management

Clearview InFocus

Forecast

Quotes/estimates

Invoicing

Project & financial reporting

Integration with accounting software

Pros

Functionality - compared to some other software, it's a breeze to make modifications in InFocus.
Integration - it's a pretty smooth implementation from our legacy system Deltek.
User friendly - it's cloud based, easy to access from anywhere, connection speed is fast.

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Administrator in Finance and Accounting

Civil Engineering Company, 201-500 employees

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

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Director in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

The report module can include more canned reports.

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Administrator in Finance and Accounting

Civil Engineering Company, 201-500 employees

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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.

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Timothy King

Frontend Developer

Level InteractiveMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Forecast 10.0

Based on 2 answers

I have not needed support for Forecast.

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Director in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I prefer InFocus over other products.

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Administrator in Finance and Accounting

Civil Engineering Company, 201-500 employees

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I have not used any other scheduling software other than Forecast. The company selected Forecast because it is used in conjunction with Harvest. The pair of web apps can be used to pull detailed data. This is very important to our agency, and making data-driven decisions is exceptionally important to our agency mission.

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Timothy King

Frontend Developer

Level InteractiveMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Improves efficiency.
Increases productivity.

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Administrator in Finance and Accounting

Civil Engineering Company, 201-500 employees

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

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Director in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Clearview InFocus Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Forecast Editions & Modules

Edition

Lite (Annual subscription)	$29¹
Enterprise	Call us
Pro (Annual subscription)	$49³

per seat (billed annually)
none
per seat (billed anually)

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Rating Summary

Clearview InFocus

Forecast

Clearview InFocus

Forecast