Hub Planner

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Easy to use, cost effective, and great product overall.

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Useful for businesses who are starting up and scaling up.

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Before this software, my company used to use an excel sheet which had to be filled in at the end of the week every week. It was very tedious and I used to forget to do it quite often. We also didn't have a formal way of requesting vacation leave and checking exactly our leave balances. We now use Hub Planner to do both of these things. Additionally, our head of department assigns tasks and there are hours allocated for each task which really helps with resourcing and balancing the workload.

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A real-time tracker would be nice. Something like a button that you click on when you start on a specific task and then click again to stop it. I would also like to have it as an app on my phone. I am not sure whether it exists already and it's something the company has not informed us about. Correcting mistakes is always difficult as well. I have to contact the administrator every time I input data in a wrong field.

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It is good, that you have a tool where you can track the time you need to work on several projects and generate reports from it. Integrating it with other tools is also a nice feature (such as invoicing tools).

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There are several small things that could be done much better, just to mention a few:
- Include easy to use categories within one project, so that you can track time on task level
- To make tracking time even easier include a start/stop timer function
- When approving time cards for my employees and finding a mistake: In order to change the mistake, I need to deny the timecard, change the screen, go into editing mode for my employee and then edit, approve (on behalf of employee), change screen again to finally approve the timecard. Why not edit/approve the timecard directly on the approval screen for admins?
- Decimal numbers of time tracking are screwed when exporting them to excel

Vorteile

It's affordable, extensible, good to look at, and easy to use.

Nachteile

There aren't really any detractors to this one. Perhaps it's not a high-powered analysis tool, but the dashboards it does supply are quite thorough out of the box, and more than likely to meet all the needs of the vast majority of companies.

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There are a wide range of features and it is very customisable to suit our needs.

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There are some limitations as it is not 100% customisable, but these are mainly small things, for example our working hours divide to be 7.25 a day (and 7 on Fridays) but it doesn't allow us to allocate smaller than 1 hour or half an hour.
Also, on a laptop screen, it doesn't have a great view. Everything is quite chunky which makes it hard to view a few people's schedules at the same time.
It would be easier if the customer support team shared individual email addresses rather than a generic one for the whole team so that you can continue conversations with a specific person.

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Integration with the business was easy and the stand-out feature was the resource planning calendar. Easy to schedule projects across our internal and external teams.

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The reporting has lots of options but it's not the easiest to use.

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Vorteile

Ability to see forecast vs reported, Dashboard & Reporting feature

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Inability to adjust dates on the dashboard, and set 'line-managers' to approve time-sheets, rather than projects managers as it currently stands.

Would also be ideal to have more support through calls, rather than by email which can be frustrating at times.

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Vorteile

I get a quick overview of the projects/tasks that have been assigned to me.
What's also good, is that I can use my company account to log into the site and don't need a separate account.
I can also view the assignment of my teammates which all helps us if we need to shuffle some things arround.

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To get informatino of an entry, I have to hover it with the mouse, to wait for the tooltip which takes a few seconds. I would prefer if there was another way to quickly view the details of an entry (maybe there is, but I couldn't find one).

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We use the timesheets tool everyday and is vital to our company

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Development of new features can be slow

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Hub Planner is a great visual tool to easily plan your capacity and make quick decisions. The user-interface is extremely well-designed and easy to use. The search (filter bar) capabilities to sort through your resource pool and look for specific set of skills is my all-time favorite! The custom reports section is also what makes Hub Planner great as you can really pick and choose the exact information you need. Finally, if something is missing or if you need assistance the support team in AMAZING! I can't tell them enough how impressed I am with their customer service every time I have a question or simple feedback!

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It's hard to find something that I don't like about Hub Planner. Of course, there is always room for improvement and as a user you can participate by voting on features you would like to see them implement next. Although I hear the API works great, (I'm not a programmer) my dream feature to automate my report needs and some other tasks would be a way to connect directly to the database. Otherwise, Hub Planner is almost perfect :)

Vorteile

- Hour based capacity planning
- Selectable Business hours and days
- A lot of possibility to personalize
- API
- Fast and effective support

Nachteile

- nothing special, sometimes there were some bugs, but they were solved in hours and days or weeks

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I really like the scheduling tool on this software, it is great to be able to move the allocated projects around with easy as ur schedules are always changing.

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I find it complicated to work out who sees what

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I like what it looks like. The black background and colour scheme is quite nice.

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I can't seam to find what I look for without clicking a billion times. There are way too many options and most of them are useless to me.

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Easi to have an overview of a sub team, of a project. Easy for planning.

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Software is a little bit slow. It takes some time before it refreshes after a change.

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Its easy to use in terms of planning how much time should i spend on each project daily. Easy to report how many hours have I spent on a project.

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I think that integrations with other systems like GitHub or GitLab would be awesome feature.

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The software was very easy to use and intuitive. It takes very little time to understand the basics, so you can get up running with it quickly. It is also possible to do quite a bit of customization to fit your organization when it comes to resource profiles, types of projects/activities/work, etc. Hubplanner is relatively quick to implement new functionality based on user demand.

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The ticket system for customer service is logical and queries are answered quickly, but it would be improved UX to have an account manager to call for very quick action/support.

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It has all the elements needed to do tracking, etc

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UI is way outdated compared to the competition.

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Easy to use and powerful. You have access to different areas related to resources and projects with 1 click.

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Hard to get global reports based on hours booked per project against total time spent.

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Super user friendly product and relatively simply to integration via API.

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Reporting capabilities improved a lot over the years, but we never really took advantage.

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We use it to log pre-sales requests so that they are dealt with in a timely manner and in the order of which they come in, it is truly helpful as well as a quick way to log these requests.
I/we also for booking holidays (vacations) and as well as being super-quick it is also easy to see how many days you have used in the year and when they were/are.

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I haven't experienced any 'Cons' whilst using Hub Planner in the capacity I use it.

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holiday management is quick and easy, approving time and holidays

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timesheet management - hours recorded in a strange way

Vorteile

- easy to use, and straight forward in handling
- nice design

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- it is not possible to delete a TC entry once a time is selected

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Hub Planner is powerful tool for projects planning and resource management. It provides great features and powerful UI.

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I used only projects planning and resource management features, for that i didn't get any issues.

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It allows me to easily see what is coming up on my project list.

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No complaints, but I'm only an end user, so I don't use that many features.

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Very user-friendly; quick to use; intuitive

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A little harder to retrieve & analyze past stats

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It was easy to use and track time effectively

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It needs more project and task management features; better integration with other softwares

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Easy and intuitive to use, enables seeing all the experts and their availability with one glance, easy to integrate to other systems via the provided rest api, support hour rates, daily working hours, vacations, etc.

Nachteile

The product has a lot more features than I actually use. I mostly use the scheduling view and there the small bugs are perhaps the most significant annoyance to me. Still it's the best UI I've seen so far in this type of apps.

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As we reached a certain size, it was clear we required a resource management Tool. The IT PMO approached this as part of our annual 'Hack Day', we researched and trialled numerous offerings and ultimately settled on Hubplanner. We had it set up and active within a day. It also has significantly reduced the time and people involvement in our fortnightly resource planning sessions.

Nachteile

We really only use the Resource Management aspect of the software. There are numerous features thatw e already have a working solution in place for. A pro/rata rate for selecting only the services you need would be a great win.,

Vorteile

We chose Hub Planner to get serious about resource planning and to move away from spreadsheets and emails.
It was very easy to set up to suit our needs. Grouping and filtering resources proved very handy.
It integrated our timesheet system which is now much more precise and user-friendly.
The recent annual leave feature replaced our previous system and is very easy to manage.
The reports are detailed (or not) as we choose and quick to generate.
The software is intuitive and nicely customisable so we can see exactly the information we need without any unnecessary clutter.
I personally have to command the customer service which is quick, reliable and personable. There are not always quick solutions (like in life!) but there always seems to be a workaround.
The product seems to be going from strength to strength with new features and upgrades/updates regularly which is good to see.
Overall, we are very happy with the product and can definitely recommend it.

Nachteile

Since this software is still in development, there are features that we would like to have and are not available (yet) - but of course we realise these things take some time. However, we are very happy with the progress and new features added over the course of our use (about 2 years). There are the occasional intermittent issues but the CS team is very quick to sort these out.

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The ease with which you can create resources and plan them on projects. Timewise, PMs get to save a lot of time to visualize their resource planning and in a snap can decide who to move and where, whenever needed

Nachteile

I cannot track time on individual developments. I need to use Categories for this and with the number of ongoing projects, the length of the pull down is getting longer, day by day and getting unmanageable.

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know what to do on my Sprint without the needed to contact my Delivery Lead

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Sending emails all the time when we do a change, I think is not necessary

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Ease of planning and resource assignment

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Limited capabilities and reporting options

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I like being able to see my weeks layed out and being able to add the times on the timesheet to be able to keep track of how long I have spent on a project.

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It would be great if it had a section to create your own to do list/ task list as right now only the administrator can add tasks onto a booking in my schedule

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The main reason we chose this platform over others is the ability to plan employee capacity into the future.

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I don't like the project display system. I don't like that multiple projects can have the same name. I don't like that if a project is deleted all of that time entered goes with it and there is no record or notification. The dashboard isn't super usable

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Like the colour coding, helps me see in advance what I'm working on.After the refresh the font is modern.

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The hover state tends to be oversensitive.If I refresh the page I have to add in filters again which can take time.When requesting time I can't add notes to explain to project managers what the time is for so I have to send separate messages on Slack.

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Easy planning features that can be viewed through project, resource group or other lenses is powerful. Integrating this to Hub-Planner timesheet functionality was equally simple and reduces the effort users have to do to complete their timesheets due to the pre-population. Data extraction & the ability to build customer reports is straightforward. The help guides are detailed & comprehensive, but if they don't provide the answers, the support team are fantastic & responsive, providing a fast & efficient resolution to any problems or questions.

Nachteile

There are a lot of things you can configure within Hub Planner, but if you want a fully customized solution then Hub Planner may not work for you.

Vorteile

Is easy to use and have a lot functions.

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I would like to have more options to personalize how the information is presented in my schedule.

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The display of each task on days and set up of calendar

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the inability to expand on each task bubble to see more information of task assigned

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It is easy to see an view of your whole teams activity and is easy to switch around individuals from task to task and see the impact this will make.

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The reporting can be quite fiddly to customise if the standard reports (of which there are plenty) don't exactly fulfill your requirements.

Vorteile

Great to have an overview on the team availabilities - if they take time to fill their planning out.

Nachteile

As a user, it's not so easy to deal with if you have many different projects in the same week. For time management of IT teams who are fully dedicated to a project, that's greats, but it can be frustrating with PM with multiple projects

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It's interface and experience design are extremely intuitive and fluid. It is easy to toggle back and forth from reviewing a user to a group.

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It had nothing to do with the software and more limitations on how our systems would integrate so we did not get to use the project management side of the software as much as we would have liked.

Vorteile

Holiday and resource planning + overviewing with just one click

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the initial startscreen shows up complete company and you need to choose your team to show only...

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The platform is user friendly and easy for capturing time and scheduling time.

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I would like to see an outlook integration for this platform.

Vorteile

- allows a fast overview of your and your teams jobs
- makes it easy to stay updated
- allows better planning

Nachteile

Not that much here. Would be helpful, if the timesheet of the person logging in would pop out always on top without typing in your name.

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Very easy to plan everyone's work and to see what people are working on very quickly

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Hubplanner looks terrible on my mobile, I can't "click" on an event to see what notes there are or anything.

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The ability to all team members to schedule their own work and give the whole team visibility into resource capacity. We also leverage the time sheet to generate data on time spent per project time and improve our understanding of the resource-cost per project.

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Our team works on 100+ projects at once, while an individual may only work on ~10 projects. There isn't a simple way for individuals to view only a list of projects they work on. Even setting up folders for each team members or using tags still requires scrolling through a large amount of projects to find "your list."

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Ability to add notes to ongoing work and utilise the planned hours.

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lack of notifications on approval of timesheets.

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I like the ease of use and the ability to navigate multiple functionalities and reporting features quickly.

Nachteile

Include time-charging as a baseline feature. The ability to show actual recorded hours for weeks past.

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Personalised planner , calendar for planning in advance and features which enable my seniors and my colleagues to assign and track where exactly i am working or beforehand check the schedule of the resource before sending the requisition for an assignment in spite of working in different cities all across the world map

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i am pretty new to the whole concept of hub planner and still exploring the broader benefits instead of just time booking . its a very user friendly product so i would need more time to rate the cons factor

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Navigation around the system is pretty simple and easy to use.

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Small quick view boxes, which don't hold much information