Compare Float и Smartsheet

Benefits:

It is a very visual tool, I love the timeline graph where you can easily filter down the resources on both person and project tags.

Drawbacks:

It is rather simple and I would like some more options for tailoring the product to our specific needs, like setting monthly cost limits and includ... Read more

It is rather simple and I would like some more options for tailoring the product to our specific needs, like setting monthly cost limits and including more visual options on each project.

Summary:

Benefits:

The product is so intuitive, we didn't need a company meeting to explain how it works, we just started using it right away, and nobody experienced ... Read more

The product is so intuitive, we didn't need a company meeting to explain how it works, we just started using it right away, and nobody experienced problems on how to use the tool. Logging hours is so easy, specially when you have your hours already planned.

Drawbacks:

Not sure if there's a way to plan vacations from float, right now we have to use a separate tool for that, and would be great if we could do everyt... Read more

Not sure if there's a way to plan vacations from float, right now we have to use a separate tool for that, and would be great if we could do everything from just one place

Summary:

After using other 2 tools to log hours, I definitely choose float as my preferred one

Benefits:

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 mak... Read more

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.

Drawbacks:

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. - Boo... Read more

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.)

Summary:

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 getti... Read more

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.

Benefits:

The interface is very intuitive in planning your schedule. The schedule page is great for quickly seeing how the team scheduling is looking, with a... Read more

The interface is very intuitive in planning your schedule. The schedule page is great for quickly seeing how the team scheduling is looking, with any gaps and overflows quite easily visible.

Drawbacks:

The finance and budget components of the software I don't find as useful, as they don't offer reporting in as much detail as required.

Summary:

Float is a very useful and easy to use software that my team and I use everyday to manage our time.