Float – Bewertungsseite 5

Vorteile

Float displays information clearly and is easy to read/schedule with othersUse of custom colours for tasks is very good

Nachteile

Outlook integration could be better with setting tasks as custom colours etc

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Task and project creation and allocation allows me to easily track critical work.

Nachteile

Unable to simply edit a task, instead if I need to amend, I have to create a new task.

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This software program is simple and easy to use to plan your projects and allows you to better manage your time and that of your work team. You can also use it as a manager, it is very effective in this area too

Nachteile

This software has disadvantages but they are minimal and its price also seems fair to me.

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I like that it's easy to use and you can see the bigger picture

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it's not the most intuitive to use, it looks busy.

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clear, intuitive interfacethe changes are also effective, flexible and well thought-out

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the ability to add parts to the project (.jpg etc.)

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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.

Nachteile

Could not find anything wrong with this software.

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monday.com

Warum Float gewählt wurde

Found more options in Float, it exactly has what our company needs.

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Float

After analyzing how it works we found that it does not contain all the features we are looking for.

Vorteile

A very important feature is the ability to run detailed reports such as the budget report that allows management to ensure that costs are on budget. Float is simple to use, but requires time to explore and manage all your resources.

Nachteile

It is suitable for managing small to medium-sized projects, but not for large ones. This is due to the fact that a large project requires multiple tasks in the same project and some of them in the long term, a disadvantage that Float sometimes does not manage.

Vorteile

Simple design, easy to see what my team is up to

Nachteile

Eh not anything i really dislike about it.

Vorteile

Float is one of the best tools in the market to handle project budgets and workforce. It also has a very intuitive UI.

Nachteile

Sometimes it is very slow for few minutes.

Vorteile

- Less complex than large scope management tools (e.g. JIRA)- Great visibility of capacities and overbookings- Easy management of different teams and projects

Nachteile

- Drag & Drop functionality tends to be a bit buggy in Safari on Mac

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Mi e' piaciuto questo strumento perche' e' molto facile da usare.Distinti saluti.Dr.ssa Emanuela Coreno.

Nachteile

Non mi piace il discorso della funzionalita' breve del servizio.Distinti saluti.Dr.ssa Emanuela Coreno.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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.

Vorteile

The usability of the interface to log the hours of the projects

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I don't have a notification event to log the hours

Vorteile

I really like how scheduling appointments and keeping them altogether

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There was no reminder alert/ notification

Vorteile

It does all the things that it is meant to do

Nachteile

As I said in the title, UX is not so good and mobile version is worst than web

Vorteile

The fact that it can be linked to other apps like QuickBooks to create a money flow forecast

Nachteile

Float is expensive interns of monthly subscription

Vorteile

A very nice platform. Easy to use and navigate.

Nachteile

Sometimes it lags on start up like it doesn't want to open,but not always.

Vorteile

it can easily integrate with other tools,has customization options.

Nachteile

pricing is to high and compare to other products it has limited features.

Vorteile

J'ai beaucoup aimé l'interaction du logiciel, c'est un meilleur gestionnaire sans doute, un coût très abordable que je recommande à tous d'essayer

Nachteile

Les méthodes locaux manquent dans ce logiciel qui pénalise certains payement

Vorteile

Float is a project management application that is very easy to use. In particular, I find the resource management features very useful, allowing us to manage the workload of the team.

Nachteile

I personally miss a mobile app which would make it easier to work out of the office. Otherwise I use Float only for basic project management tasks and I didn't miss any features.

Vorteile

Lo que más me gusta de Float es su capacidad para ayudar a los equipos a coordinar sus horarios y asignar tareas de manera eficiente. Float tiene una interfaz intuitiva que facilita la asignación de tareas y la colaboración en tiempo real, lo que aumenta la productividad y la eficiencia. Además, Float proporciona informes detallados y visualizaciones que ayudan a los equipos a comprender mejor cómo están utilizando su tiempo y dónde pueden hacer mejoras. En general, Float es una excelente herramienta para aquellos que buscan una solución de gestión de tiempos y proyectos.

Nachteile

Lo que menos me gusta de Float es que existen ciertas dificultades para integrarse con otras herramientas o sistemas

Vorteile

make this app alot of services to HR and many fields to easy his work daily

Nachteile

no command on this app it's very ease to use it

Vorteile

Float has made managing my team's workload a breeze. The drag-and-drop interface is intuitive and the real-time updates keep everyone on the same page. Highly recommend!

Nachteile

While Float has a lot of great features, the mobile app could use some improvement. It's not very user-friendly and often crashes.

Vorteile

Its graphic layout is clear and easy to navigate. Being able to track my time easily for timesheet reporting has made this task one that I dreaded into something I don't even think about. And it's always updated and accurate which means no more returned timesheets.

Nachteile

So far it's all been positive. I don't use a lot of features Float delivers but I am very happy with the ones I do use.

Vorteile

How easy it is to use. It's easy to jump in and also complicated enough that you can really use some advanced features.

Nachteile

There are of course small issues here and there but none worth mentioning at all. It's truly a great product and really helpful.

Vorteile

Zapier integration, user interface/layout, ability for others to view the schedule without being a billed user, flexibility, detailed reporting function, contstant improvements and updates.

Nachteile

I'd like to have employee birthdays displayed on the schedule somehow, other calendars use suitable icons e.g. cake with candles. There's really nothing else important I'd ask for.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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.)

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monday.com und Asana

Warum Float gewählt wurde

Monday has too many tools that you don't really get to use when scheduling. It also doesn't have an overview of projects as clear as the one Float has.

Zuvor genutzte Software

monday.com

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Float

Its the closes to CETA software that we could find. It's good value for the price it offers and it's very intuitive and flexible.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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.

Vorteile

Our mid-size organization loves Float for an easy-to-use depiction of future capacity. Managers like the ability to change their direct reports' assignments quickly, and folks enjoy referring to Float to fill out their own time sheets in our finance system.

Nachteile

Multiple Float environments can't be combined nor can SSO be implemented for an organization that has multiple Float environments (without having to choose just one URL). Also, support tickets can linger and it takes a long time to get a direct question answered effectively.

Vorteile

Float has a user-friendly, "card"-based, grid interface where you can schedule your tasks for the day and see what you are scheduled to work on days (or weeks) in advance. My job is project-focused where we have a large team who are all working on different projects and Float keeps everything running smooth by showing who is on which project and tracking all the utilization all the while. Also it's very easy to update your Float Card and log your time each day.

Nachteile

Sometimes Float can be dense especially when you first start using it, there's a lot of different options and bells and whistles, but once you get the hang of it, it is very easy to update your calendar and tasks.

Vorteile

The platform is incredibly user-friendly, making it easy to create and adjust schedules, assign tasks, and track progress. The drag-and-drop interface allows us to quickly make changes to our resource allocation as needed.

Nachteile

the pricing can be quite steep, especially for smaller teams or businesses. Secondly, the platform can be slow to load and refresh at times, which can be frustrating when trying to make quick changes.

Vorteile

The ease of use as a one stop shop, browser based to allow all the development team (and subsiduary but linked teams) to see important dates like dev complete, bug fix windows, cert windows and release dates.

The ability to quickly block out time for features and projects.
The ability to add notes and details to tasks.
Fully fleshed out holiday and time off structure.
Robust financial reports possible with very high degree of accuracy for budget per project, per quarter, per annum.

We used to get by with using Excel, we invested in Float and it has taken the companies' project planning to the next step. I would recommend Float for small to mid sized companies definitely, it is a great product boost and good way of reporting and seeing issues early.

Nachteile

it does not allow you to easily move a bunch of small tasks along in the timeline, that's my only main gripe, you can't band box select you have to shift select. Everything else is intuitive and easy.

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monday.com

Warum Float gewählt wurde

Excel was clunky and out schedule was increasing in ambition and scope.

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Float

the website and videos showing features were clear and clean and one of my peers had previous experience and good reviews of the product and we were given a gratis time period to try things out, this helped us alot in making sure Float was the product for us.

Vorteile

It's straightforward to add, archive, and customize your space. I love that you can give people various accesses. I love that I can look at a glance and see where everyone is at. In the last week or so, Float did a significant upgrade, and visually it's so much better.

Nachteile

Float can be a bit slow sometimes. I don't know if it's because it needs more bandwidth or what, but you need to be patient with it some days.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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.

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Slack, monday.com und Asana

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Float

Cost, ease, user experience

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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.

Vorteile

I like the ease of project scheduling and management for my teammates. There are multiple people on my team who do scheduling, so we can all easily view which resources are available with Float.

Nachteile

The only feature that needs improvement is the dragging of project dates. It skews the dates of the project, and can work a little better.

Vorteile

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

Nachteile

- 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

Vorteile

Float's user interface and logic are inspirational. They have made the activity of coordinating multiple resources on multiple projects about as easy as it can be. They have paid a lot of attention to usability, efficient use of screen real estate and simple navigation. However the killer feature is the intuitive yet clever way that searching and data navigation work. All searching and filtering is done using a single search field, which offers indexed word search on pretty much everything including tags. There is also a well-worked out protocol for handling union and intersect searches.

Nachteile

The only real bugbear is that any user that can enter data into the system can define new values for any field. It isn't possible to centrally control lists such as task names, clients, job descriptions etc. This means that if you have more than one person using the system, very quickly you get different versions of the same thing being defined (e.g. job roles being slightly different) which makes it difficult to analyse across records. Not a dealbreaker, but I do think it should be possible to lock down lists of values. Also it would be good if you could zoom out the view a little more - if you're dealing with more than a dozen resources/projects.

Vorteile

As a busy audio and visuals studio the biggest advantage we have seen with using Float is the scheduling feature. This allows us to schedule when projects and tasks need to take place, and who is working on and responsible for each project and task. As we have a number of people on our team and often numerous projects on the go at one time, Float has allowed us to better coordinate everything and has become vital in ensuring that projects and tasks are completed on time by each individual team member. As a team we can view the overall workload and time frames involved, while as an individual you can keep track of what tasks or projects you are working on and what projects you can or can not take on due to scheduling.

Nachteile

Sometimes the administrator /account owner has certain scheduling permissions and can add projects for individual team members int he scheduling feature. This is great but when these scheduled tasks or projects need to be changed or reshuffled it can only be done by the admin person / account owner and not the individual. There have been times when the admin person has not been available and I have needed to change the scheduled projects created by the admin person but have not been able to and have had to wait for the admin person to do it. This is the only downside so far that I have experienced using Float.

Vorteile

The simple usability of the software. How quick it is to add jobs, extend and move jobs around to different people. Flexible scrolling through the weeks. So easy to set someone up and get started with very minimal training. Report system very useful for monthly reports. For top line project management this is the perfect tool.

Nachteile

The search bar sometimes doesnt work or show particular jobs on occasion. Search seems to only work within the month you are viewing, rather then showing a job from a previous month. This is intermittent and sometimes works to find what you are looking for when refreshed. Still need to test this after the software update to see if it has been resolved.

Doesn't refresh for designers, so we have updated and moved jobs around and they aren't aware as their float has remained the same, unless they manually refresh the window.

Would be great to see more in depth project management potential, such as uploading briefs, designs and signing them off all on this software.

Vorteile

Web based software, easy to use, good user interface, detailed timesheet records and reporting.

Nachteile

Improving some features can make Float a robust alternative. Filtering features can be improved to show resources on an easy way, also create and save custom report templates can help to final users.

Vorteile

The presentation of all the features makes use of the software easy for technical and non-technical users alike. That reduces time spent in training users.

Nachteile

I guess the need to log in is a very mild pain point, but a necessary one.

Vorteile

Easy in editing projects. The paid version is good because is make the software accessible to everyone. It allows me manage the work schedules of employees by assigning them specific tasks.

Nachteile

So far, i',m happy with float's service . No cons found so far on float software. But the free version don't have different with paid version

Vorteile

Integration with our business was very straightforward, and there are very few problems that arise when using float on the daily. The schedule updates immediately and its very easy to keep track of an entire teams workload at a glance.

Nachteile

Sometimes I have issues adding in new tasks to the system, but this is quite rare.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

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

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Trello

Warum Float gewählt wurde

Brid's eye view feature

Zuvor genutzte Software

Favro

Vorteile

Float is a very easy system to jump into. My favorite aspects of Float are the real-time scheduling, and the calendar. My company has many projects going on at once, and it is easy to keep track of mine and others' schedules with the calendar function, such as dragging and moving projects around if there are conflicts.

Nachteile

I have not quite found a good way of managing all of my projects in one place. Difference project managers name projects in a different way than I would, so there is no stream-lined system to that.

Vorteile

I love the ability to analyse utilisation and schedule resources at multiple levels - for an individual, a project team, a department, and even the whole company. This allows an immediate way of getting feedback once changes are made. It also allows me to see profitability immediately based on resource actual and scheduled utilisation.

Nachteile

No cons in my experience. The worst we've had is a slow loading website.

Vorteile

It is great that float offers, in a very intuitive way, a tool that combines everything we need: project management, capacity planning, an overview of the spend budget, a good overview of all deadlines, and hour tracking.

Nachteile

When you log your hours you cannot see the notes that were added to a task while planning the task.

Vorteile

I find that the features already present are exactly what I need for my start up: the possibility to call each other via Chrome browser is a plus.
The mobile application is really very useful and makes Float easier to use. Not only does it allow me to continue to follow the threads of conversation wherever I am (in a meeting, on the road, anywhere), but also to send attachments (images, records, etc.).

The integration with other applications is very ergonomic: I use Jira and Confluence a lot and the widgets in Float are very responsible as soon as I import a link for my collaborators.

Nachteile

I'm a fan of it, I find that it is not lacking in functionality, but if I ever change my mind, I know that the customer service department will welcome my remarks and suggestions with kindness and professionalism.
However, I do find that the possibility of not having to change browsers and make or receive calls from Mozilla would be great.