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Forecast Overview

What is Forecast?

Forecast is a team scheduling and capacity analysis software that helps you plan staffing needs, schedule your team across projects, and optimize time to ensure project success and a happy team. With Forecast, you can make smarter scheduling decisions by visualizing your project pipeline, scheduling your team fluidly, and balancing workloads to improve utilization.

Forecast Details
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Product Description

Forecast is an application designed to offer a fast and simple way to schedule teams across projects.


Seller Details
Seller
Harvest
Year Founded
2006
HQ Location
New York
Twitter
@harvest
21,100 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
438 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Harvest is an industry-leading software company building tools that help businesses thrive. We believe companies succeed by using their time intentionally, and our products support our customers by helping them plan, track, and understand their teams’ time.Harvest was created in
006 by two small business owners who were looking for a way to manage and grow their web design agency in New York City. What started as a solution for their own company has since evolved into a business intelligence platform embraced by thousands of professional services firms across the world who share the same drive to grow thriving, sustainable businesses.Harvest is an independent, profitable company. We don’t have investors, shareholders, or a board of directors. Instead, our main drive is to serve the needs of our customers, so we put them at the forefront of every decision we make.All of this is made possible by the incredible Harvest team. Our small but mighty workforce sits across 9 countries and 11 time zones, resulting in a rich working environment where diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and opinions inform every discussion and decision. We value self-discipline, scrappiness and a genuine curiosity to learn from one another. Motivated by excellence and collaboration, our people are the engine that fuels our success.


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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
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I like Forecast because it helps manage projects easily. It has a clean design and is simple to use. The tool helps keep track of tasks and deadlin...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
0.5 out of 5
"On first glance, this tool appears to work..."
The layout is good and the visual view of capacity would be great if it worked.
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Gopinath M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Maintains all work completed and procured"
The programme provides the ability to create pipelines and workflow structures so that the task may be completed accurately. This platform's ti...
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Forecast Pros and Cons

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Verified User in Construction
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What do you like best about Forecast?

I like Forecast because it helps manage projects easily. It has a clean design and is simple to use. The tool helps keep track of tasks and deadlines. It also integrates with other tools like Google Drive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forecast?

Sometimes, Forecast can be slow. The learning curve is a bit steep for new users. Some features are only available in the paid version, which can be limiting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

Forecast helps by organizing projects and tasks in one place. It saves time by automating some tasks and provides real-time updates. This makes it easier to manage projects and keep everything on track. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Forecast?

The layout is good and the visual view of capacity would be great if it worked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forecast?

Forecast has some major failings, that only become apparent when you've been using the product for a while. Capacity management is the name of the game but unfortunately, we found that tasks do not automatically update when there is a change in an individual's capacity. i.e. if someone changes from 4 days a week to 5 days a week, Forecast doesn't view this as adding any additional capacity. To make it work you have to manually adjust every task assigned to that person.

There's also a strange bug whereby if you change the number of DAYS a person works (note, not the total number of hours a person works), this also messes up the capacity calculation.

There's other strange failings - it doesn't sync well with Harvest, even though they're linked apps. You can't view capacity by month, only by week.

Unfortunately these failings mean we'll be stopping using the product as soon as we can get an alternative solution in place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were trying to use it to solve capacity problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Forecast?

The programme provides the ability to create pipelines and workflow structures so that the task may be completed accurately.

This platform's time management features are excellent for processing and completing work on time.

This is a comprehensive working tool that may be used for financial report planning, project management, organisational tasks, and many other things.

It provides regular updates and prompts on the remaining time until the project deadline.

Fantastic extensions and features for extracting data from the UI.

You have complete control over this programme to see, evaluate, and monitor the status of your workers' projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forecast?

The inability to report completed tasks on a monthly basis would make detail tracking more efficient and less time-consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

The finest aspects that help us stay current and effectively find solutions to finish the task on time are the tracking and analysing capabilities.

We were able to finish everything on schedule because to this time management application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saju S.
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What do you like best about Forecast?

Project Management Software, Managing and Controlling project Scope, and resources ( cost and manpower), appropriate software for Agile and waterfall. Comparison Not as popular as MS Project and Primavera Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forecast?

the software is basically for IT projects or software development projects, not for construction projects (EPC ). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scheduling and resource allocation, duration estimation, resource allocation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Forecast?

What they promised, in theory, sounded really good. In practice, it is vapourware and doesn't actually do what it promises to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forecast?

The product is an early stage beta that has many fundamental flaws, but it is marketed and sold as a polished product. The Forecast team gets quite aggressive once you have realised the functionality just doesn't work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Forecast:

Avoid. It sounds too good to be true, and it is. If you find yourself finding gaps during the trial and are promised "it's in the pipeline," ask for a month-to-month contract to protect you from non-delivery. They will tell you they only do annual contracts because it affects the valuation for their investors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

It was supposed to help us quote, plan, deliver and invoice for consulting work. In practice, it doesn't work at all. There was no positive impact and significant negative impact to our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sabbir Minhaz S.
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What do you like best about Forecast?

Its features and interface are my favorite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forecast?

Sometimes the system is a bit slow or laggy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's solving my office problems and benefitting me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sarah S.
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Program Performance Campaign Manager
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What do you like best about Forecast?

Forecast is a professional project management software that helps users collaborate and assign tasks and their durations for big and small tasks alike. I personally love the auto scheduling feature that lets managers put employees on tasks based on their availability automatically and projects what the delivery date of different tasks will be based on various factors assigned within the workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forecast?

It is a little pricy compared to some competitors that have cheap or free options, but this may be a "you get what you pay for" type solution. I haven't seen a lot of other options that allow the machine learning capabilities, and that really made this product stand out for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Forecast:

It's a great tool that could easily be deemed worth the expense if all the functionalities are utilized by your organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

Organization within my team and other teams we collaborate with regularly is always a struggle, so having a planner board like this in place holds everyone accountable and allows easier communication to take place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek A.
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What do you like best about Forecast?

With the help of this, you can easily see your Project timelines, Deadlines, Plans, and team members. The project tracking feature is also good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forecast?

Not compatible with a mobile device and difficult to learn its features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Forecast:

Very good and in-budget software. You can try it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me to manage my schedule and deadlines. It also helps me with my team members to work on a project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Forecast?

I like the intuitiveness of Forecast as it requires almost no training and any member of the team can contribute with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forecast?

I dislike the limited functionality. It is simple enough for anyone to quickly learn, but so simple that it misses powerful functionality, such as project details and tasks to be assigned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problems solved: overview of project milestones and staff working on which days. Benefits realized: simple project planning that does not take time away from project doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Forecast?

This is one of the better project management softwares that allows you to take projects/opportunities through the marketing and sales funnels and seamlessly transition into project management using the same platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forecast?

Its newer so it is not without its kinks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forecast solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sales + Marketing cycles through Project Management in one platform. Its really customizable, but it takes time and isnt just plug and play. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.