Recensioni su Float

Keep Your Business Afloat

Commenti: Overall, I would recommend Float as a useful tool for managing cash flow and making financial decisions. Its intuitive interface, powerful scenario feature, and the ability to link to existing accounting software make it a helpful addition to any business’s financial toolkit. However, the cost may be a barrier for some businesses, so it’s important to carefully evaluate the pricing plans before committing to the software.

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Float is a cloud-based cash flow forecasting and management software designed for small and medium-sized businesses. As a user of Float, I find the software to be a helpful tool for managing cash flow and making financial decisions. One of the primary benefits of using Float is the ability to visualize future cash flow, which is useful for planning and forecasting. One of the key advantages of Float is its intuitive interface, which makes it easy to use and navigate. The software allows you to link to your existing accounting software, which means that data can be automatically imported into Float. This saves a lot of time and reduces the chance of errors, which is particularly important when dealing with financial data. Another benefit of Float is the ability to create multiple scenarios, which can be used to model different financial outcomes.

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One of the potential downsides of using Float is that the software can be expensive, particularly for small businesses. The pricing plans are based on the number of cash flow forecasts that you need to create, and this can add up quickly.

Great tool!

Commenti: Overall we love to use float. We especially like the time logging features.

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The interface has a great overview. Adding projects and tasks is intuitive and the colours make every tasks and project stand out. Logging time is really easy. We were not interested in a "log-per-minute" type of application but rather one where you can just log bigger blocks. Float helped us plan and log our time better.

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Planning a project is not super extensive. Float has some tools but the tools are a bit limited. The time tracking feature is the feature we use the most, it is a shame that is not available separately.

The best project management software

Commenti: Overall, Float is a powerful project management tool that offers many benefits for businesses looking to improve their project management processes. Its real-time project management capabilities, resource allocation features, drag-and-drop scheduling, and team collaboration tools make it a valuable tool for any team.Float offers a free trial, as well as several pricing plans based on the number of users and projects. Overall, it is a powerful tool for businesses looking to streamline their project management processes.

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Customizable Views: Float offers customizable views, including a resource calendar and various reports, so users can see project information in a way that works best for them. This can help improve project visibility and make it easier to identify potential issues or delays.Integrations: Float integrates with various third-party software, including Asana, Trello, and Slack. This enables users to streamline their workflows and integrate Float with other tools they use in their daily work.

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Cost: Float is a subscription-based software, and its pricing plans may be costly for small businesses or freelancers. While it offers a free trial, users may need to commit to a monthly or annual subscription to access all of its features.Learning Curve: While Float is designed to be user-friendly, it still takes some time to learn how to use it effectively. Users may need to invest some time in training and onboarding to get the most out of the software.

Great value. Lots of potential

Commenti: I've been using CETA scheduling software for the last 4 years in big VFX companies and I must say that Float is not there yet but is actually getting broadly comparable. In the last 4 months that I introduced it into my new team it's proved to be quite useful to keep track of the progression of our projects. During these months I've seen that it has already improved in many areas that I'm excited to see what comes next.
I can see it can become a really powerful software.

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There aren't may softwares that let you schedule a team in such an easy and organised way. I think most softwares nowadays are too complex and make you spend more time organising tasks than actually working on them. Float is so clear and simple you can actually use it to manage big projects without spending too much time on it.

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It's getting better, but it would be very useful if we could: - Right click on a pencil and be able to copy it over into a different person. - Book more than one person on the same project (for example if two workers are on the same project because one of them is doing a training but you don't want to charge twice for that time). - Lately when I try to schedule more than 1 project in one day on the same person I get a message saying I can't schedule anyone for more than 24 hours) even if I'm not exceeding the 8 normal working hours. It'd be great if that could be fixed. - It'd be good if milestones were more visible. - I think reports should be a bit less complicated and more visual. - It'd be really helpful if you could group projects up in folders when you go to the Projects tab as at the moment we have like... 45 different projects going on and although we color code them it's difficult to organise all of them. -I'd like to have more than only three types of view when looking at our schedules a part from 'Days, 'Weeks' and 'Months'. It'd be great if you could 'Archive' users as well as projects. So when a worker it's not working at the company anymore and you don't want to pay for it on Float you can kind of 'Archive' him (so you are not able to book him on anything but still you can see him on the boards so you don't loose what it's been scheduled on him.)

Float is your management tool for a good business.

Commenti: Monthly cost is very low, services are great, support is wonderful, interface is a wow.

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Sync. of Float with other calendars such as Outlook and google makes life easier to work. All the reminders sent are great.

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Could not find anything wrong with this software.

One of the better project management tools out there

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I like that you can split bookings and set different hours on different dates, rather than blanket booking a full resource.

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I dislike that you must click more than 2 times to add a new project. It's an extra step that I find a bit more cumbersome than other project tools.

Best In computer programming

Commenti: Overall, Float aims to provide users with a comprehensive solution for project planning, scheduling, resource management, task progress tracking, and workflow management, helping teams stay organized, efficient, and on track with their projects.

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Precise representation of decimal numbers: Floats allow for the representation of decimal numbers with fractional parts. This is useful when dealing with calculations or data that require a higher level of precision than integers. Floats provide a greater range of values and more flexibility in handling numbers with fractional components.Efficient use of memory: Floating-point numbers typically require fewer bits of memory compared to storing numbers as strings or using fixed-point representations. This makes them more memory-efficient, which is crucial when working with large datasets or resource-constrained environments.

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Performance considerations: Floating-point arithmetic operations can be slower compared to integer arithmetic, as they typically involve more complex calculations. While modern hardware and processors have optimizations for floating-point calculations, the performance difference can still be notable in certain scenarios, particularly when dealing with large datasets or computationally intensive tasks.

Efficient Project Management with Float

Commenti: Float is generally well-regarded as a user-friendly project management tool with excellent task management and scheduling features. Users appreciate its intuitive interface, ease of use, and the ability to manage multiple projects and teams in one place. However, some users have reported that the learning curve can be steep and that there is room for improvement in terms of reporting and mobile app functionality.

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I can tell you that Float's intuitive interface, flexible project planning features, and robust task management capabilities make it a great tool for businesses looking to improve their project management processes. The ability to track task progress, allocate resources, and optimize workflows in real-time can help teams increase their efficiency and productivity.

Aspetti negativi:

Float's advanced features can be steep, and that the reporting capabilities could be more customizable.

Float: Smooth Resource Planning and Scheduling for Efficient Team Management."

Commenti: Float simplified my team's scheduling and improved our project efficiency.

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Float offers intuitive resource planning and scheduling for teams, enhancing productivity and project management.

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Limited budgeting and financial tracking capabilities may require integration with additional tools.

Good to manage resources in medium/large sized businesses

Commenti: It is a great tool to understand what everyone in the business is busy doing and understand what projects need more or less resources. The user interface though could be improved.

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The user interface is very clean and simple and it's quite fast to grasp the concept of how it needs to be used by everyone in the company.

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Some functions unfortunately are not very intuitive. Very few people in our company understand how to input data for the whole week in one single click, so they end up going through inputting data for every single day of the week and getting quite frustrated.

Easy to use

Commenti: I have a team spread around the globe and this really highlights what work and projects are being carried out by the team and provides a good forecast of where resource shortfalls are.

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The software is easy to use and has many features that support resource planning in flexible ways.

Aspetti negativi:

There could be some work on the global settings where we can convert from a local currency (i.e. Euros, Pounds, Aussie dollars) into a default currency to see how projects compare with each other when normalised.

Minimal and polished UI, but not lacking in features

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As a developer it's easy to get sidetracked. That's why we have project managers and Float. Float helps me not only keep track of what I should be doing and when I should be doing it, but it also helps me keep track of what my colleagues are doing. Especially now, when working from home is the new normal, it's really easy to check if one of my colleagues is working and if they might have some time available for me. All that without having to add 20 filters and navigate a complex UI. Float has all the features in all the right places but still manages to keep a minimal looking UI.

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There are only minor annoyances I have with Float (they're more like nitpicks anyways). A filter to hide projects that aren't being worked on in the current week/month would be nice. Also, there's a lot of freedom when assigning colours to a project. Maybe some predefined colour palettes would work better and stop our our schedule from looking like a lego brick wall ;)

Best Scheduling Tool on the market

Commenti: It's fantastic to use :)

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So I hardly ever write Reviews, and even less on software - but Float is an exception. This tool really change the way our Agency works, especially in times of 100% home-office. It's amazingly simple to use, has a great overview of your team's schedule, and makes forecasting and reporting extremely easy. I'd give this tool 12 points if I could!

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There are a few minor glitches - but the customer service team including the devs are very helpful!

Great tool for day to day business!

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Float is very easy to use and makes you activities for the day very insight-full. As project manager it is possible to see all the activities for the team in a blink of an eye. The sorting functions are great; by project, by team and more. Also adding repetitive tasks and scheduled items is very easy. This tool improved our daily workflow greatly!

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For now we really don't have any dislikes at all. All our requirements for good planning/team management software are met in Float.

Flexible and responsive

Commenti: Float has given me the ability to schedule resources from a regional perspective and utilise cross project multi skilled resources.
I can easily search a resource skill and view their availability !

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Being able to make changes and have those changes reflect live on my teams phones is a HUGE benefit!

Aspetti negativi:

responsiveness of the website. Would be great to have local instance for a faster response when making changes

Great tool for visibility of projects

Commenti: Overall my experience as an active user of Float has been great, it is very simple to use, and allows management to keep projects organized.

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The bird's eye feature is a must, it allows for full visibility of the whole team, or segments of it, and allows managers to keep track of current, past, and upcoming projects.

Aspetti negativi:

Time report integration, we use Harvest and we have to use a different partner for this.

Integral part of our internal production process

Commenti: Float has honestly been a game changer for our studio and as a result, the wider business. The minute we first started using the platform, it transformed the way we visualise our busy schedules and communicated with the wider teams about our availability and timelines. It's made our lives easier and simplified the overall production process - taking a lot of guesswork and confusion out of the equation.

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The simplicity and immediacy of the timeline interface is massively important for digesting and understanding an often hectic and clogged schedule. Customisation of clients, projects and tasks means that we can see, at a glance, exactly what clients and projects we are working with - it takes a lot of the project management stress out of the process for teams like mine, who need to focus on their own tasks at hand.

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I think there could be more options to input information within the tasks in a schedule - although there is a notes section, it would be great to see more integration with other platforms like the Google suite (Drive, slides, docs) that could streamline our process even more.

Float Review

Commenti: We used to use a HUGE white board and dry erase markers for our schedule. We thought that this was the best way for us to tackle our job scheduling and Float was met with a bit of resistance once the boss said we were going to try it.
WOW, were we wrong. I would never look back now that we are using Float. One of the best tools we ever used. We are scheduling anywhere from 18 to 26 techs on this program and I fully encourage anyone even thinking of possibly trying out a program for scheduling to do your self a favor and try out Float. I'd be shocked if your not impressed by it.

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Kudos to you guys! I love the newer faster Float! You are making my job much easier & faster. Love the faster navigating/scrolling and the changing of a task’s time by scrolling on the schedule up or down beats the hell out of having to open the task and do it from there. Love the new feature that you can hover over the work task and the notes appear without having to open the task. Great job, keep it up!

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Would like to be able to move a task to the afternoon (or lower in the cell) for a day where it is not a full days worth of hours and there is nothing else for that employee that day. Example, I have a technician on a 4 hour training course and it is in the afternoon. He has nothing else scheduled that day but I can't move the task lower in the cell so it looks like it is scheduled for the morning. It would be nice if you could hover over the "Time off" cells and see the notes associated with it , like you can for a work task, without having to open the "time off" cell.

Great Visual Tool for Resource Management

Commenti: We've been able to better project planning times for business needs coming in. When we know how long something takes via Float, we're able to give clearer milestones to our clients and we can manage our internal deadlines better. When you're able to take a quick peak at Float and see what someone is working on for the next few days, it's a more efficient way to manage resourcing expectations internally and across business units internally.

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With Float, I love that you can make instant decisions on capacity management. I can assign someone a scheduled task and easily move the task back and forth between two team members if needed. It's a great visual tool to see how long people are spending in a certain area and to help plan ahead for the future. It gives a full visual picture of capacity and resource management, which can be hard to do. I love that you're able to assign color coding and different notes to each project, so you can monitor the health of the project properly and understand how many people are actually touching it.

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Sometimes, there are some small glitches that happen, where you make an update and it either disappears or adds additional time to someone's schedule (making them fully at capacity). There aren't many cons to this application other than that because sometimes it can just take a lot of refreshing and some rework because sometimes the refreshes can cause a loss in information inputted.

Program Manager using Float

Commenti: We are using Float in our organization to manage resource allocation and we have been using it for the last 3 years. It has been mostly great and enhanced our resource allocation amazingly and provided great visibility into resourcing across different programs and into the future. We use Float to track Holidays and vacation across all regions (worldwide), we use it to forecast allocation and revenue across the team per each project. Permissions are straightforward and allow us to control what we want. We can keep projects as tentative while awaiting for the contract and still allocate people to provide visibility into anticipated resourcing load. Overall Float has been great for us and I would recommend it to any organization providing services and focused around resourcing their team. Float has been constantly evolving and you can notice the difference and improvements rolled out weekly if not daily. Thank you for your work Float team!

Aspetti positivi:

- Easy of use - Performance - Interface - Good visibility into my resources and their load

Aspetti negativi:

- There were couple glitches and numerous updates in January but that is resolved now - Previously performance was not great, but there are great improvements recently on that part - Adding holidays could be easier - When grouped by project I'd like Float to show all assigned project for people, not only specified project

Review

Commenti: Very easy

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Easy of use, minimal UI, Non technical people can use it.

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You can't easily write on a task. You can't limit the hours of workers.

Scheduling application for groups

Commenti: I needed a place to make calendar entries and schedules visible to PMs and consultants without having to set and manage permissions in other popular email and calendaring applications. Float fits the bill giving my entire team access to their tasks and view others. It allows the PMs to see this information as well. It also provides mobile access through a dedicated appm

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I like the ability to see and control the schedules of my consultants at a glance. It's simple to use and create new entries for others. I can see where my resources are scheduled and their availability to be scheduled for additional tasks and projects. I like that I can move tasks around easily.

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I don't like that I have to create a new project and task for each entry. Mostly they are the same types of tasks, but one offs can be irksome at times. It's a small inconvenience since the application meets all of my other needs.

Float>>Super Scheduling Tool

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The ease of use, and visibility to my team's schedule is great.

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Had some issues logging in early on, but the Admin was able to take care of it.

Great Concept with Some Server issues

Commenti: Float helps us accurately manage our project life cycles and also individual workloads to ascertain useful information about performance rates and also account health.

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Float is visually very easy to read and allows users to be succinct but detailed at the same time.

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Float tends to not register all our changes and tends to not be completely "LIVE" as it requires multiple refreshes at times to attain the most updated information. This is mainly happens when there are multiple project managers. The export report is not as detailed as I would like it to be. It would be more beneficial to have monthly exports with breakdowns per job, per person and per week. I need to use the raw data more often than referring to the online report so it would be good to see some improvements on this.

Float Review - Digital Agency

Aspetti positivi:

I love how simple the interface is. Everything is clear and on one page, useful reports, labels and additional features such as tentitive work or team views make resourcing much easier. I really like using this tool, I use it everyday at my work. It is easy to manage the pipeline and resolve clashes easily.

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I love how simple the interface is. Everything is clear and on one page, useful reports, labels and additional features such as tentitive work or team views make resourcing much easier. I really like using this tool, I use it everyday at my work. It is easy to manage the pipeline and resolve clashes easily. It works well for a lower amount of people. As the buisness grows it is more effort to maintain. However for companies with less than 100 people this is a great solution. One negative is they removed the alt click drag to copy fundtion which I really found useful. Genreally it is a great tool!