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What do you like best about Precursive?

I am pleasantly surprised that this tool has a pretty solid integration with SFDC. I've used many time tracking tools in the past, and they usually freeze up in SFDC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Precursive?

OBX boards are not a bidirectional sync with the timecard, which makes time tracking even more tedious. I thought our team training was not catered to our use case, so my team and I had to do a lot of self-learning in our own time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Precursive:

Always ensure you allow your consultants to pilot the tool first to see if they like the UI/UX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We finally have data for how long our projects are consuming time! This is huge as we are growing our PS team. I definitely like knowing how much time I have spent at the end of the week, especially when I need to report on which accounts are taking up most of my time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Precursive Overview

What is Precursive?

Precursive is a fast and flexible professional services automation solution that is 100% native to the Salesforce platform. We believe the best companies keep their value promises leading to customers for life. Precursive helps fast growing SaaS, computer software and professional services teams to improve customer onboarding, project management and services delivery, all in Salesforce. Trusted by Agilisys, Cognite, DealerTrack (COX Automotive), Condeco, GoCardless, Mitel, Patsnap, Roadster, SES, and Vidyard. HOW WE HELP SALES - SERVICES HANDOVERS Create smooth transitions between sales, services and customer success by automating project creation from opportunities in Salesforce with the relevant staffing requirements and project plans ready to go! CUSTOMER ONBOARDING Precursive combines award-winning customer onboarding & project management functionality with the leading capacity planning & resource management tool. AGILE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Agile resourcing tool with capacity planning, utilization monitoring & simple scheduling. Easy-to-use planner so when projects shift, you can react. Gantt view & skill seeker so the right person & knowledge is found. HIGH-VELOCITY SERVICES DELIVERY Improve time-to-value with smooth services delivery. Close a new customer, launch them quickly and seamlessly transition to services delivery with project templates, Kanban boards, task allocation and easy-to-use time tracking. PROJECT ACCOUNTING Track project performance: see budgets, costings, profit & margin in clear dashboards. Forecast and recognise services revenues across all people & projects. Get rollups of all your key KPIs including billings, margins and revenues. TIMESHEET, EXPENSES & BILLING Pre-populate timesheets for billable & non-billable time + expenses. Accurate time tracking & billing reduces revenue leakage. Improve cashflow with on-time accurate invoicing. Workforce management incl. staff profiles. REPORTING & DASHBOARDS Make better decisions about your team, projects and customers across professional services. Get real-time information on capacity, demand, margins, project health, services revenues, and utilization. CUSTOMER SUCCESS Examples of how we have helped our customers include: Patsnap | IP Protection SaaS Platform + 25% faster deployment of their world leading IP platform. + 30% improvement in capacity planning across services team. Signicat | Identity Management SaaS + Time-to-value reduced from 90 days to less than 60 days. + Faster payments with a 14 day improvement in time-to-money. SES | Enterprise Communications + Reduced average delivery time to less than 90 days from 120 days. + $60M in additional recognised revenue as a result on faster go-lives.

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Product Description

Precursive is a nimble resource management app that anybody can use, combining scheduling, timesheeting and reporting in one easy-to-use space.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Our software is simple, beautiful, and easy to use. We make scheduling clear and easy, because we focus on answering the two most important questions - Who is available? And when? We provide other capabilities (timesheets, financial reporting etc.) in-app, and integrate with other apps for related PSA/ERP functionalities such as generating invoices, but our main focus is and always will be making it easy to maximise utilisation by making scheduling a breeze.


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Year Founded
2011
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Recent Precursive Reviews

Alex F.
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Alex F.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great tool for fast moving SaaS companies"
Single visibility of resourcing aligned with opportunity forecasts in the same system really drives business impact. I like the ability extend and...
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4.0 out of 5
"Interesting"
The upside is definitly the way it integrates with Salesforce, yet has a different look and feel from Salesforce. I've also found the supoort, when...
Piyush W.
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Piyush W.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Project Management Made Efficient"
The tool integrates with SalesForce, which we use as a repository for customer information. Easy collaboration with Sales and Support has made it e...
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Precursive Demo - Precursive Impact for Customers
What We Do - Services Implementation | Project Management | Capacity Planning | PSA
Precursive Demo - Capacity & Resource Management
Find white spaces and avoid crunches with resource and demand forecasting
Precursive Demo - Project and Services Delivery
Improve quality and velocity of project delivery with Project Templates that align to service offerings
Precursive Demo - Real-time Project Accounting
Real-time project margins & increase profitability, efficiency and operational performance for your business
Precursive Demo - Professional Services Maturity Model
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Precursive Demo - SES Satellites
Average project delivery time reduced by 40% | 1000+ resources requests filled | $65M additional revenue recognized
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What do you like best about Precursive?

The Precursive boards are integrated with Tableau and Salesforce. It has been a great tool in helping us generate necessary reports to track our projects book to the bill. There are projects with outdated delay reasons, unconfirmed contracts, projected revenues, and more. Regularly updating the Precursive will allow project managers like me to be on track with their project's timeline and make sure that everyone is updated with the status of our projects. This will also decrease any possible risks and issues moving forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Precursive?

At first, some tasks were time-consuming and seemed unnecessary, but I love the flexibility and regular improvement as they have removed those tasks. We were also required to add customers on the board before, and we were unable to fix it. Hence, we just needed to tell the customer to disregard the notification sent when we added them to the board, which could be annoying on the customer's end. Also, if the account does have multiple locations, we do not have a way o mirror the dates on same task, and it's time-consuming to add the start and end dates for all locations manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Precursive:

Have patience in adding the dates as it will benefit you at the end. This way, you can easily track the progress of your projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Regularly updating the Precursive will allow project managers like me to be on track with their project's timeline and make sure that everyone is updated with the status of our projects. This will also decrease any possible risks and issues moving forward. Time management is vital to our success as project managers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Piyush W.
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What do you like best about Precursive?

The tool integrates with SalesForce, which we use as a repository for customer information. Easy collaboration with Sales and Support has made it efficient. The efficiency we look forward to planning the project and collaborating with technical teams easily is definitely at its best. Undoubtedly this has helped us thinking less about project management, more about improvements in different space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Precursive?

Customer interaction could have been improved as there is always a need for customer communication; emails are ineffective when you want to keep details. Sharing read-only helps the customer to keep track, but adding comments would have helped in improving efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Project Management has made easy, which has helped us get rid of unwanted excel sheets and other tools that were required to be used separately. We are leveraging our resources to manage the project is transparent and accessible, and we are focussing more on customer interaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Precursive?

This tool is a huge help for organizing my projects. As a project manager, it is so helpful to have all required tasks in one place and a huge time saver when it comes to creating tickets for other teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Precursive?

Sometimes I have unique partners that don't fit the mold of my precursive board perfectly. It isn't hard to move tasks that are not needed but I wish there were templates for frequently added tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I think this is a great product. I have even thought about going back to my previous company to tell them about the benefits because I think it is such a value add. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

For sure organization, It helps significantly to ensure nothing is left behind. It is also a very easy way for leadership to track the progress of a project without the time commitment of meeting to review Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Precursive?

Great layout using lists and tasks showing progress at a quick glance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Precursive?

Involved setup requiring lots of custom settings leading to a longer than expected implementation. Program also runs with some error messages even after setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Precursive:

Ensure your requirements are clear and that testing is done before going to Production to ensure all expectations are met without bugs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Precursive has allowed me to stay organized by keeping all projects in one place. It helps me visualize where my next priorities are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Precursive?

I have visibility into PS schedules and commitments. It is embedded in Salesforce, where I spend most of my time, so no need to move between two platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Precursive?

Not yet intuitive enough to pick up on the fly, especially as someone who wasn't part of the initial implementation/training. I'm not sure we have the full feature set, and there may be some obstacles purely due to how our teams are using the software so far. For example, we have four teams that touch the customer during the implementation process and other PS projects. The only notes in the systems are from our PS Ops team, but PS notes (the people performing the work with the customer) have notes scattered in email and chat; it would be best if all notes where maintained here, but it could get confused between them and the other teams that touch the customer during implementation and other PS projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Accounting management for purchased PS time. We have a much easier time keeping track of and viewing how much time a customer has purchased and what has already been used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Precursive?

I used to use Trello to keep track of my projects and the tasks completed. I appreciate being able to use the precursive OBX boards to keep track of tasks and the timeline of projects. I'm a visual person and the UX for the boards has been nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Precursive?

As an IC, I must log my time against specific tasks within each OBX board/project. Right now, that task feels quite cumbersome as there is no bi-directional sync between "My Precursive" and the OBX boards, which is important for my team. We have to log our external-facing time on each board/related task, and then also navigate to "My Precursive" to log our internal time. It is a lot of back and forth, which can be time-consuming. I understand this type of enhancement for precursive is on its way, so I am very much looking forward to that feature release. That will be a game-changer for my team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

My team has visibility now to not only help with capacity planning/staffing but also leverage the data we capture from logging time and use that as a benchmark for how long it takes us to complete projects. My team will be able to use this data to help improve our processes and expand our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Precursive?

Management of tasks on the OBX boards is clear and easy to perform. I like that I am able to see all of the boards at once, so that I can reduce the amount of clicks needed to mark off work on multiple accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Precursive?

I should be able to write to OBX boards from my precursive timesheet. This would reduce the amount of back and forth needed to submit a time sheet. Currently this can add several hours of work to your week. Also, as we email customers back and forth, that activity should relate back to the time board. That way I don't need to remember the activities done that week. Precursive sees them related to the board and I can stamp the time spent on them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Precursive gives me an idea of where I am with my projects. It allows us to see how much time is needed to staff customer projects. It has yet to provide an increase in performance, however. I need more connectivity to my email/ call activity and agility for this to truly give me time back in my day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Precursive?

The ease of use. It helps give me a visual of where I am at in a workflow process. It gives my team visibility into where my clients are at in their beginning lifecycle. I can write notes in the boxes as well to detail differences in standard workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Precursive?

It's standard and basic and best used for high-level tasks or processes. I am sure there's a way that this could be flushed out more by whoever is setting up the board otherwise, functionality is simple (which isn't a bad thing, but it doesn't allow for more intricate workflows).

Also, I'm not too fond of tasks defaulting to being out of order, I cannot put tasks in the order of when they need to be completed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Project management. I stay more on track with my partners, who are all at different stages of their process. My managers and leadership have more visibility into where we're all at. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Precursive?

Top of my "like list" is the ease in which new task templates can be created, edited and launched. Whilst some of the functionality within Precusrive does require Salesforce admin knowledge, it is simple to create new automated process flows and boards. The layout of boards is clean and easy to follow and Precusrive allows for 3 different board views, the board and plan views being 2 which really provide great and clear oversight of my projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Precursive?

Precursive can be slow to load within accounts and can their customer views could be better, specifically the look and feel and ability to have clients interact with boards. Precursive support team can be slow to respond to queries and do not always come back with the best responses but their help centre is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Precursive:

Ensure that the statement of work created fully meets all of your requirements, there is little to no room for extra support from the team once agreed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Prior to Precursive we found salesforce clunky and cumbersome when it came to onboarding clients, specifically the process flows, triggers and tasks that we were able to create. Precursive saves our team on average 2 hours per day through the use of pre-defined tasks lists and automated board creation. On top of huge time savings, having a clear overview of all onboardings and projects in one place is invaluable. We can now log time against all tasks and projects, helping us to understand what tasks take time and where time savings can be made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.