Silverbucket

Silverbucket is an excellent resourcing software

Commenti: Excellent.

Aspetti positivi:

Very easy to use resourcing software that provides more visibility to us

Aspetti negativi:

We could use some additional features, and I am confident that those will be added to software in the future

Resource Management Tool

Aspetti positivi:

Easy to use, graphs to see the forecast, easy view of allocation

Aspetti negativi:

Manage authorizations, manage the competences, separate billable/non-billable hours

Easy to work with

Commenti: Good understand how to use it. We use Silverbucket more as our Daschboard to our other systems. So Silverbucket does not own any data its only getting data.

Aspetti positivi:

Easy to get information and jump to different views

Aspetti negativi:

Integrations problems and would like to see more detail in projects.

Alternative considerate: Microsoft SharePoint e Microsoft Excel

Perché passare a Silverbucket: The where integration partner with MillNet

Silverbucket review

Commenti: Generally great and it has given us more reliable data to be able to manage our business and enable global resource planning possibilities in the future

Aspetti positivi:

Main areas that we particularly like is the capacity planning/ ease of use and how easily is integrates withe our ERP system. The competency area in Silverbucket has given us an amazing insight into the skills of 1000's of consultants, allowing us to source the right person for our projects

Aspetti negativi:

Resource requesting - this isn't adequate for the volume of requests or managing the stages of each request. We start the request in SilverBucket but then use Service now to monitor status and progress of the request Auditing of actions could be improved -there are often times we need to understand who/why a booking has changed been moved but we can't see this

SilverBucket Usage Review

Commenti: Excellent

Aspetti positivi:

Easy navigation, Simplified features , Good Overview

Aspetti negativi:

Some more options for customizations should be available

Critical tool in our toolbelt.

Aspetti positivi:

We use SilverBucket to manage and deploy our resources for installation projects. The ablity to quickly look at a timeframe and a set up projects allows us to confidently move resources to area of need. It has helped us to adjust quickly to changing customer projects and communicate to all stakeholders.

Aspetti negativi:

The area I think could use some attention is the reporting section. Making it more configurable and have the ability to auto generate reports on a timed basis.

More features

Commenti: I liked the older version, it was handy but Silverbucket guys know this feedback. The new version is ok but when you are working with laptop, the scrolling is very annoying... when you are a heavyuser, it is better to work with screens to be effective. For our line of business Silverbucket is great and it gives answers to the questions we need and the helpdesk is always very helpful and people in Silverbucket are great.

Aspetti positivi:

It gives excellent view to personnel workload and its timing, very useful in many cases

Aspetti negativi:

It lacks the overall dashboard with one view. If you think about directors, they just do NOT want to click anything to see their people's allocation. This software is planned for resourcing and for that it is excellent but to gain next level it should have better features to management reporting. New BI tool is not an answer to that.

Multi project resource planning

Commenti: It´s really good. Customers service is super fast and overall easy to use is most important for us

Aspetti positivi:

Easy to use while meetings and planning how we use our human resources

Aspetti negativi:

No possibility to take additional functions away from user interface (the user interface has several extra tabs and functions)

Intuitive user interface, but more features needed

Commenti: Overall, we've been happy with the tool.

Aspetti positivi:

The user interface is really intuitive as soon as you have had a 1-2 hour basic training. It is also a quite flexible system that can be configured into different processes. If your business does not have the processes for maintaining resourcing in place yet, do not underestimate the time needed to put those in place. The tool does not guide you to maintain the process (who adds or maintains what and how often), but that needs to set up. But as said, the flexibility of the system allows you to build that process as you with. The implementation was fairly straightforward and did not require too much training or special setups. SSO works perfectly with our credentials. Overall, SB helped us to gain insight into our current workloads, upcoming projects and services and helped us make more data-driven decisions e.g. in recruiting. A huge shout-out to SB's Support - they are really friendly and typically can solve issues very efficiently. I really like working with them.

Aspetti negativi:

- Task level allocations or planning. There should be a possibility to do more granular level planning and then aggregate that into a higher level. You can still report the hours on a task level even though plans are done on a project level. - More analytics that is user-modifiable. You have a lot of data in SB, but sometimes it feels that you won't get all the insight out of the system.

Columbus A/S feedback

Commenti: Good experience, easy to collaborate with and overall we had a quite painless implementation

Aspetti positivi:

Very intuitive and not overly complex, almost and online version of our current visuals

Aspetti negativi:

There are some issues with booking on team level. this is a challenge for our Service teams

Silverbucket-resource planning tool

Commenti: Overall the experience has been very pleasant. Very minor problem with accessibility during one year. Support has been quick, flexible and professional.
Silverbucket-tool reports and filtered searches can support our big organization (+1000) in many ways.

Aspetti positivi:

1) It (SB) has be integrated to our (many) current systems. Integrations advantage is to have same information in many places with only one input. 2) Basic usage is very easy to use and view is same for everyone with full user rigths. 3) Only one software version for all the customers

Aspetti negativi:

Pros and Cons are always hand in hand. It is good that it can be configured according to the customer own needs but some times it is difficult to find rigth filters to find needed info.

Very easy to use

Aspetti positivi:

Very easy and fast to use comparing to other tools in the market.

Aspetti negativi:

SSO is missing. It can be customized but we still dont have it.

Ease of resourcing

Aspetti positivi:

Silverbucket is very easy to use, the graphics and colours of the user interface help you see the overall status of resourcing very fast. We are fairly new users of the software and are not utilizing all of the features, but even with the features we are using, we feel that we have a modern and easy to learn-software helping us to resource our people.

Aspetti negativi:

There are some minor things we might want to use differently, for example to name more users to be the project manager, as in our company there might be the owner and the project manager who need to do and update the bookings.

Great tool for resource planning

Commenti: It enables us to make fact based decisions on project when to start i.e. when do we have required resources available (expecting that previous commitments hold)

Aspetti positivi:

It is a tool that is designed for planning resources in multi-project organization. It enables us to make clear resource plans and resource forecast covering all our resource needs.

Aspetti negativi:

There is learning curve especially to resource planning. I have not been able to convince all my colleagues to deploy the tool into their organization.

Zoosh Group review

Commenti: Happy to use it, however we just restructured our organization so we might come across additional challenges to cover our operation in SB.

Aspetti positivi:

Utilization report, People allocation, Timesheet

Aspetti negativi:

Utilization rate report is missing the individual person selection, Utilization rate report does not calculate Total in case the person did not work for the full selected period (for example a year)

Good software, but does not fit to our needs

Commenti: Resource allocation challenges, bottlenecks of the resources, future planning of activities.

Aspetti positivi:

Silverbucket is easy to use, and it visualizes the resources well.

Aspetti negativi:

A little bit complicated to show the allocation of resources in individual sections. The section heads considered maintaining the resource allocation forecasets somewhat complex and time consuming, which eventually resulted in a more simple approach of the resource planning and not using Silverbucket anymore.

Easy to use tool for resourcing

Commenti: The tool was easy to deploy, and we use it weekly in our team meetings. The overhead that is required to maintain the data is very small, which is the key thing for us.

Aspetti positivi:

Ease of use - the tool has low threshold for the whole team to keep their data updated, which is the most important thing, and updating of the data takes only few minutes.

Aspetti negativi:

The resource allocation view could have more options for entering the data, in addition to the current options.

Easy to use tool for project resource planning

Commenti: First 6 months with Silver bucket have been really smooth and we have gotten the benefits out of the system that we were aiming for.

Aspetti positivi:

Project resource planning and forecasting are key functions for us. These are really easy to use and the implementation of the software was quick.

Aspetti negativi:

UI of the system is not the most modern. On the other hand the UI is simple and easy to use.

SB more customizable tool

Aspetti positivi:

easy to use intuitive ease of resource allocation

Aspetti negativi:

little customizable there is no revenue management

Professional aid for resource management

Aspetti positivi:

New useful features are implemented in short time

Aspetti negativi:

In the beginning it was hard to understand the logic between certain parameters and their impact to software.

In between the decissions

Commenti: Silverbucket is in a tough situatiation at the moment. The mother company restricts the data. Users need to manually fill a lot of information. The board is not made up the mind with whitch direction to go.

Aspetti positivi:

Simple to use in a small scale. Web based and easily accessed.

Aspetti negativi:

Needs a lot of information from different users to see the big picture.

Alternative considerate: Zoho People

Perché passare a Silverbucket: Decission process ongoing.