Forecast (and its partner Harvest) make for a powerful program that can assist in planning any work that requires team effort. The process is easy, the interface readily understandable.

Forecast is an easy to use application for project allocation.

Both Forecast and Harvest are good - but the integration is horrible.

Overall, it's a very helpful tool that keeps our business running. I think it's a great tool and would recommend to others.

Great UX, low learning curve. Visual representation of team members schedules, their projects, and tasks.

Moreover the integration to our Harvest itself (a time tracker) makes this much more powerful than a classic project management tool.

An early beta product that doesn’t work, with a premium product price and arrogant culture.

I love that you can zoom in and out between how granular data is. It is really easy to tell what is going with just one glance at the screen.

It works on mobile but not very well and basically shows you the desktop version.

Unfortunately, we are not usually able to use it for much beyond its visual representations of individual team schedules week-to-week because of the lack of reporting tools.

I liked that this was integrated with Harvest when we were using Harvest. It made it super easy to use.

I use this daily for scheduling projects and forecasting who will be available to work on what in the company. This is a great price of software...the subtle micro-interactions are a nice touch.

As a fan of Harvest, I find that working with Harvest forecast is just as easy to use. This is a great tool for anyone who doesn't have a forecaster built into their project management software.

Easy to use, simple interface. Clear colour coding allows for easy project scheduling.

Forecast was probably the best innovation from Harvest in recent years.

That also means we can prevent time collisions for project planning purposes and figure out where we went wrong if timelines are missed.

Being able to sort and filter by different criteria makes it super simple to like at Product teams, functional teams, offices, etc. the visibility we've gained with a Forecast has been a game changer.

Perfect for traffic management, not so great for creativity.

We use Forecast with Harvest to suck in projects and schedule the work our creatives will be working on. It serves as a pipeline so we know who's busy and who's got capacity.

The ability to quickly edit timelines and assignments is fast and easy.

It is reasonably priced and one of the best methods to properly forecast project-based work.

The product has many fundamental flaws. For example, if you charge a deposit for a project via Forecast, it doesn’t actually credit the deposit against completed work.

I really like how it connects together, when I am working on a task, I can just choose that specific tasks, without me writing it. Also I like that it is an app.

It's been awesome, and the added cost is nominal compared to the value it delivers.

The management of the applications is easy and intuitive, set up is quick and team management is as easy as clicking or dragging.

He is Ametican and uses Spike all the time. I like using it because you can chat as well as receiving emails so you can use Spike as an all in one  app which is very useful.

I really like the clear and clean interface, I love simple and non-confusing things. It has everything it takes to get into the toolbox of marketing.

The only negative at the moment is it is web based. Looking forward to having an App for my Mac in the future.

The learning curve has been very shallow (i.e. I've learned a lot / feel comfortable using Spike in a short time) and I'm really enjoying using the App.

It is quick and intuitive. I like seeing when others are responding to my messages too1.

But the reason I give this such a bad review is that what they did not tell me was that they remove my branding - my signatures and replace them with their advert.

I love how simple yet functional it is. It's very intuitive and has a lot of powerful tools for keeping your life and projects organized.

Unify different ways of interaction for a strong telecommunication tool.

The incredibly fast customer service - The CS team is really fast (and personable, and friendly and helpful) when I have an issue. And I feel super well-taken-care-of.

Work email accounts with @customname.com are not free. Charged per email account.

The integration was incredible and easy. You can switch from people to more traditional view and once you have used Spike for a couple of days it truly is remarkable.

The overall experience has been great. One of the very few email clients available for mac which comes with a conversation like email thread.

Not that if one person viewed it, I'll have the impression that everyone else did which is false and feels misleading.

Set up and integration was simple - it's great to have my google calendar right there to toggle over too without opening another app on my phone.

Great service to get my private URL emails on my phone.

The layout is quite interesting and smooth like texting.

I had a few issues when I set it up, but that could have easily been operator error.

It uses chat-like interface from mobile chat apps that we grow to love so much. It minimizes the clutters that we get from normal email conversations.

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Forecast is a fully integrated scheduling platform that gives you the ability to organize your team's schedule into visual plans that let you map out your upcoming projects and make smarter resourcing decisions.

With Forecast, you'll be able to:

 - View your team’s schedule in color-coded visual plans that make it easy to see how long a project is scheduled to take, who's working on what, and who's overbooked.

 - Assign people to projects and view your plans by project or people. Red bars indicate when an employee is overbooked, so you can move projects and deadlines around before they become burnt out. It's also easy to see when someone has the availability to take on a new project and exactly how much time they can devote to it. Share your plans with the entire team so everyone knows what they should be working on, and when.

- Integrate Forecast with its sister app Harvest to gain insight into project progress and improve your estimating and scheduling. 

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Employee Management

Forecasting

Access Controls/Permissions

Group Scheduling

Project Management

Gantt/Timeline View

Projections

Collaboration Tools

Data Import/Export

Capacity Management

Resource Scheduling

Utilization Reporting

Online Booking

Availability Management

Employee Scheduling

Drag & Drop

Project Planning

Task Management

Search/Filter

Email/Help Desk

FAQs/Forum

Knowledge Base

Phone Support

Chat

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11-50

51-200

201-500

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Spike is a modern email and messaging solution designed to help people and businesses communicate across multiple departments and locations via email, chat and notes on a unified inbox. The platform enables organizations to create, edit and share dynamic notes and receive notifications for modifications, feedback and other updates.


Spike includes task management functionality, which allows administrators to define and assign tasks and track status in real-time to ensure timely completion of projects. It offers a host of features such as message history, voice meetings, video conferencing, data encryption and more. Additionally, teams can add comments, view to-do lists, monitor updates and interact with stakeholders via a centralized inbox.


Spike supports integration with various cloud-storage applications like Dropbox, Drive, and OneDrive, enabling users to upload and share files with clients and colleagues. It is available for free and on monthly/annual subscriptions. Support is extended via email, FAQs and other online measures.



File Management

Commenting/Notes

Messaging

Softphone

Meeting Management

Mobile Alerts

Meeting Notes

Document Storage

Shared Inboxes

Activity/News Feed

Video Chat

Task Scheduling

Real Time Editing

Calendar/Reminder System

Task Planning

Real Time Synchronization

Communication Management

Brainstorming

Calendar Management

Email Templates

Contact Management

Audio Calls

Notes Management

Screen Sharing

Mobile Access

Transcripts/Chat History

Discussions/Forums

Encryption

Address Book

Real-Time Notifications

Real-Time Updates

Email Management

File Sharing

Alerts/Notifications

Task Editing

Reminders

Real-Time Chat

Color Codes/Icons

Chat/Messaging

Customizable Templates

Calendar Sync

Inbox Management

Event Calendar

Multi-Language

Spam Blocker

To-Do List

Conferencing

Recurring Tasks

Contact Database

Prioritization

Video Conferencing

Tagging

Task Progress Tracking

Archiving & Retention

Canned Responses

Live Chat

Document Management

@mentions

Scheduling

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Web browser (OS agnostic)

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Spike is free for any 2 email addresses. Connect your accounts and get a unified inbox, unlimited notes and tasks, unlimited group chat, 1:1 video calls- on all devices: ios, android, mac, pc and web!

Spike Pro offers professionals and small teams up to 3 email addresses on Spike for $5 a month. Students and educators get Spike Pro for **free**!

The Spike Guarantee: sell a service, NOT your data. Spike doesn’t show ads, sell or monetize on your data in any way. 

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