Forecast Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.8 out of 10

Score

8.8 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Forecast are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Efficient Organization and Project Management: Users appreciate the organization and project management features of Forecast, as it allows for easy planning, resource allocation, and financial tracking. This aspect has been praised by multiple users who find the integration of task tracking, time tracking, and resource allocation to be comprehensive and helpful in managing projects effectively.

User-friendly Interface and Intuitive Navigation: The user-friendly interface and intuitive navigation are highly valued by users. They have mentioned that creating tasks, tracking work progress, and attaching files seamlessly contribute to a smooth project management experience. Multiple reviewers have specifically highlighted the software's ability to provide a quick overview of projects and track time spent on tasks as highly valuable.

Exceptional Customer Service: The exceptional customer service provided by the Forecast team is highly appreciated by users. Multiple reviewers have mentioned their prompt response to support requests, willingness to implement user suggestions and bug fixes in a timely manner, which contributes to a positive user experience. The dedication shown by the team in making the product better and attentiveness towards user feedback has been regarded highly by customers.

Reviews

3 Reviews

Scam vapourware — avoid!

Rating: 1 out of 10

May 26, 2022

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

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited if you like being scammed and want to pay money for a product that doesn’t work. It is less appropriate if you need a tool that actually does what it advertises it will do.

Verified User

Director in Sales (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Forecast: easily schedule resources, teams, & departments

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 5, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Forecast is currently being used in my organization to track resources through a project or account lifecycle. Forecast provided a largest benefit in that it is being used across departments and provides a holistic view of company resources. It gives an opportunity to integrate with Harvest which provides additional project details that correspond to budget. The seamless integration allows for efficiency in project and resource planning. Forecast makes it easy to schedule team across upcoming projects which allows for visibility to ensure projects are fully staffed and identify areas to hire.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Forecast is well suited to track resources throughout a project or account lifecycle. The biggest benefit Forecast offers is the ease of scheduling resources across upcoming projects. This allows managers to confirm that projects are fully staffed or see which resources are over-allocated. This often will lead to department heads to analyze teams and determine whether more resources are required to be hired.

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Very powerful when used with Harvest

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

May 28, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Forecast is used company wide and is primarily driven by the project managers. This is used to manage agency projects and individual schedule to ensure that individuals are not severely under or overbooked. Forecast is used in combination with Harvest and Asana as a portion of our overall agency workflow.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Timothy King

Frontend Developer in Information Technology at Level Interactive (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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