Float Resource Management vs. Fathom by The Access Group

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Float Resource Management
Score 6.1 out of 10
N/A
Float is a resource management software that helps users to keep projects profitable, workloads sustainable, and distributed teams in sync. It offers a live view of a team’s capacity, utilization rates, and skills so that users can assign the best person for the job and keep project work on track.
$6
per month per user
Fathom by The Access Group
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Fathom is a management reporting, forecasting and financial analysis tool from the Access Group. It helps users to assess business performance, monitor trends and identify improvement opportunities. Fathom combines business planning with simple three-way cash flow forecasting.
$44
per month
Pricing
Float Resource ManagementFathom by The Access Group
Editions & Modules
Starter
$6
per month per user
Pro
$10
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Starter
$44
per month
Silver
$225
per month
Gold
$325
per month
Platinum
$575
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Float Resource ManagementFathom by The Access Group
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Float Resource ManagementFathom by The Access Group
Features
Float Resource ManagementFathom by The Access Group
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Float Resource Management
-
Ratings
Fathom by The Access Group
7.8
1 Ratings
16% below category average
Long-term financial planning00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Financial budgeting00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Forecasting00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Management reporting00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Float Resource Management
-
Ratings
Fathom by The Access Group
8.0
1 Ratings
2% below category average
KPIs00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Revenue Forecasting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Budgeting Tools
Comparison of Budgeting Tools features of Product A and Product B
Float Resource Management
-
Ratings
Fathom by The Access Group
6.5
1 Ratings
26% below category average
Financial Planning Collaboration00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Budget Customization00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Departmental Budgeting00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Import & Export Tools00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Float Resource ManagementFathom by The Access Group
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Float Resource ManagementFathom by The Access Group
Likelihood to Recommend
Pixel Paddock, LLC (Float)
I would definitely recommend everyone to use Float, It's easy and friendly to use. Performance-wise as well it is great. Really helps in streamline and scheduling resources and their utilization. Its reporting feature is great, Shows all projects for a particular resource or all resources for a particular project. It's a go-to tool for management.
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The Access Group
Report could be used in any industry but when it comes to functionality, it is more suitable businesses where there are not many division. I found it hard for Fathom to extract Xero tracking data and to represent it in the financials. If you would like to consolidate the financials, I also find it easy to do it via Fathom
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Pros
Pixel Paddock, LLC (Float)
  • Assigning task
  • Maintaining Holidays
  • Reports on Project or resource
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The Access Group
  • Consolidation and Eliminating Entries
  • Easy to use dashboards
  • Customizable Metrics and Targets
  • Customizable Dashboard
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Cons
Pixel Paddock, LLC (Float)
  • More mobile friendly
  • Scrolling through x and y dimension is bit confusing
  • I have been using Float for a long time and no more cons I can think of.
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The Access Group
  • If you have multiple divisions within the business, reporting/budgeting by division are not as good as induvial reports.
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Usability
Pixel Paddock, LLC (Float)
Float is great for Project management and resource management. It is helping us work more effectively. It's a great planning tool. Smooth to understand and start working on. It has great integration with Slack, Google calendar. It has made Assigning and scheduling very easy for future projects with time management. Reporting is very easy and data extraction is too. It is also good in monitoring weekly/monthly and quarterly allocation of resources
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The Access Group
Great dashboards and very easy to use.
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Support Rating
Pixel Paddock, LLC (Float)
Float helps in planning upcoming projects and helps in availability management for the resource to be able to assign. The creation of resources with roles helps in assigning and formulation a proper team for a project. It shows us the capacity and work hours of resources and helps us in leave management as well as scheduling time off. Teams utilization is been made very convenient by this tool.
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The Access Group
I have not used customer support.
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Alternatives Considered
Pixel Paddock, LLC (Float)
No answers on this topic
The Access Group
We also used Spotlight reporting before we tried out Fathom and we found Fathom much easier to navigate and Xero integration, consolidation are very strong feature of the product. Spotlight reporting is similar to Fathom however, Fathom is more flexible, there are better visual reports and grafts and we found it easier to customize the reports templates. You can also share the reports with multiple group of people online.
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Return on Investment
Pixel Paddock, LLC (Float)
  • Float supports many integration
  • Easy to assign and divide tasks
  • Great project planning tool
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The Access Group
  • it saved us few hours a month to prepare consolidated reports.
  • it made is easy to understand the financials with visuals
  • Integration with Xero also made it much accurate
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