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Platform for improving operational and financial performance

Last updated: March 2025

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Forecast - 2025 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2025

What is Forecast?

Forecast is a full suite solution that helps professional services organizations finetune operations and finances with the help of intelligent project automation. With a focus on increasing predictability and making projects profitable, Forecast provides functionalities to enhance productivity and planning with AI.

Intelligent features like Auto Schedule allow managers to plan projects and resources using machine learning to estimate task duration, allocate team members based on their availability, and predict delivery dates. Collaboration on projects is flexible and allows for multiple preferred working methods with real-time updates. Forecast has built-in features to manage workflows for Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, or a hybrid of methods. Custom workflows can be set up to align with business processes.

With a holistic overview of the entire portfolio of projects and resources, managers can easily spot capacity needs and adjust the workloads. Finance departments can benefit from solid financial reporting and finally see the profitability of each project in an instant, so there’s no need to spend time gathering bits and pieces of financial data.

Built for project-oriented companies, Forecast is highly recommended for professionals in IT consulting, software development and marketing businesses or internal departments with a focus on improving their operations and success rate.

Benefits of using Forecast

  • Resource management: Get a real-time overview of the workload and capacity of all your resources across a portfolio of projects, for easy planning and adjusting the workloads to prevent bottlenecks.
  • Project management: Optimize the internal processes around planning projects and scheduling people and make project planning on point. Benefit from Forecast’s AI that automatically estimates tasks, assigns resources, and sets a project delivery date.
  • Time management: Yield insights into how time is spent and if it’s spent the most optimal way possible. The AI helps users register time faster with a clear presentation of what they worked on and suggestions how much time they could have spent. The time entries propel reporting and help the entire platform to present users with accurate and actual data.
  • Finance & billing: Track financial goals and plug budget leaks. Get up-to-the-minute cost, revenue, and profit calculated for you automatically to ensure that projects are delivered on budget.
  • Team collaboration: Manage workflows and improve the collaboration with custom built-in dashboards for Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, or a mixture of project management methods. During projects, users can move tasks along the workflow to indicate which stage of the process they are in.
  • Business intelligence: Create custom status reports based off project, people, finance, and business insights recorded across the entire platform. Uncover financial trends and where projects and resources can be run more economically. Share reports with stakeholders in the view you prefer.
  • Integrations: Forecast bridges your disconnected systems to centralize all project data for AI modeling. With strong integrations with Jira, Google Drive, Azure DevOps, Zapier and many more, it's easy to get up to speed without the productivity loss of forcing a new interface and workflows onto your team.
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    Forecast's key features

    Most critical features, based on insights from Forecast users:

    Task Management
    Task Progress Tracking
    Task Editing
    Collaboration Tools
    Reporting/Project Tracking
    Task Scheduling

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    Features rating:

    Project Planning
    Prioritization
    Real-Time Notifications
    Milestone Tracking
    Kanban Board
    Issue Management
    Reporting & Statistics
    Reporting/Analytics
    Graphical Workflow Editor
    Resource Scheduling
    Due Date Tracking
    Document Management
    Skills Tracking
    Capacity Management
    Workflow Management
    To-Do List
    Access Controls/Permissions
    API
    Alerts/Notifications
    Activity Tracking
    Budget Management
    Client Portal
    Forecasting
    Gantt/Timeline View
    Calendar Management
    Billing & Invoicing
    Progress Tracking
    Real-Time Data
    Search/Filter
    Mobile Access
    Drag & Drop
    Recurring Tasks
    Utilization Reporting
    Release Planning
    Remote Access/Control
    Time Tracking
    Real-Time Updates
    Visualization
    Projections
    Project Workflow
    Project Tracking
    Project Time Tracking
    Project Templates
    Project Scheduling
    Project Planning/Scheduling
    Project Management
    Timeline Management
    Time & Expense Tracking
    Third-Party Integrations
    Team Management
    Task Tagging
    Task Planning
    Tagging
    Supports Scrum
    Sub-Task Management
    Status Tracking
    SSL Security
    Sprint Planning
    Single Sign On
    Timer
    Role-Based Permissions
    Roadmapping
    Timesheet Management
    Resource Management
    Resource Allocation & Planning
    Requirements Management
    Request Management
    Traditional Methodologies
    Project Accounting
    Document Storage
    Dependency Tracking
    Deadline Management
    Data Import/Export
    Dashboard
    Daily Reports
    Customizable Templates
    Customizable Reports
    Customizable Dashboard
    Cost-to-Completion Tracking
    Configurable Workflow
    Commenting/Notes
    Color Codes/Icons
    Change Management
    Bug Tracking
    Budgeting/Forecasting
    Billable Items Tracking
    Bar Chart
    Backlog Management
    Approval Process Control
    Agile Methodologies
    Activity Dashboard
    @mentions
    Progress Reports
    Product Roadmapping
    Portfolio Management
    Planning Tools
    Performance Metrics
    Percent-Complete Tracking
    Negative Feedback Management
    Multiple Projects
    Multi-Department/Project
    Monitoring
    Meeting Management
    KPI Monitoring
    Iteration Management
    Issue Tracking
    Invoice Management
    Idea Management
    For IT Project Management
    File Sharing
    File Management
    Expense Tracking
    Estimating
    Employee Activity Monitoring
    Email Management

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    Forecast integrations (41)

    Integrations rated by users

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    Integration rating: 1.0 (1)

    Clunky and ineffective, doesn't share information two ways or very dyanmically

    JC

    Jack Carey

    Operations Director

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    Jira

    Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

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    Aditya Saxena

    Test Engineer

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    Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

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    Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

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    Forecast support options

    Typical customers

    Freelancers
    Small businesses
    Mid size businesses
    Large enterprises

    Platforms supported

    Web
    Android
    iPhone/iPad

    Support options

    Knowledge Base
    FAQs/Forum
    Phone Support
    Email/Help Desk
    Chat

    Training options

    Videos
    Webinars
    Live Online
    In Person
    Documentation

    Forecast reviews

    Overall rating

    4.5

    /5

    82

    Positive reviews

    94

    %

    Rating breakdown
    • Value for money
    • Ease of use
    • Features
    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend8.5/10
    Rating distribution

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    2

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    26

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    Pros
    “I like how Forecast is intuitive, fast and most importantly, fun to use. When completing tasks, you get an avatar popping up telling you great job which is fund.”
    “I like that it is very easy to use and has helped me to organize better my time and have knowledge of where my hours are being allocated.”
    “Forecast's customer support is one of the best I have ever had to work with. Second would be the ease of use for staff to help plan out projects and timelines.”
    Cons
    “Not usable on mobile devices, and disappointed by the aggressive upselling and hidden cancellation terms.”
    “I think the feature that is missing the most is being able to see on the scheduler that the resource was already allocated with tasks in the projects.”
    “The budget pages are a bit confusing and it's a bit tedious to update task and time entries. It's quite expensive for a large team.”

    Forecast FAQs

    Q. Who are the typical users of Forecast?

    Forecast has the following typical customers:
    Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business

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    Q. What languages does Forecast support?

    Forecast supports the following languages:
    Spanish, Danish, English


    Q. Does Forecast support mobile devices?

    Forecast supports the following devices:
    Android, iPad, iPhone


    Q. Does Forecast offer an API?

    Yes, Forecast has an API available for use.


    Q. What other apps does Forecast integrate with?

    Forecast integrates with the following applications:
    GitHub, Microsoft Outlook, Dropbox Business, Jira, e-conomic, Zapier, Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Expensify, Personio, Trello, Google Drive, GoSimplo, Pipedrive, Unit4 ERP, Azure Active Directory, NetSuite, Microsoft Teams, GitLab, BambooHR, OneLogin, Harvest, Okta, Slack, Microsoft 365, TimeLog, Workato, Azure DevOps Services, monday.com, Google Calendar, Asana, Salesforce Platform, Xero, Reeport, HubSpot CRM, Toggl Track, Zendesk Suite, Microsoft Excel


    Q. What level of support does Forecast offer?

    Forecast offers the following support options:
    Knowledge Base, FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, Email/Help Desk, Chat

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