About Meisterplan
Meisterplan is a people-centric portfolio management and resource management solution that enables organizations to execute with confidence. Our lean, highly visual software solution facilitates portfolio-level decision-making on priorities, allocations, timing, and capacities, creating unparalleled visibility and alignment. Meisterplan puts people at the center of the portfolio and allows teams to maximize their productivity.
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About Hub Planner
Hub Planners Resource Scheduling software is designed for Project Managers and Teams who are looking for more transparency, clarity and visibility when planning projects.
Resource Scheduling
The Resource Scheduler presents insight into your project teams availability as well as making scheduling resources on projects a painless task. You no longer need to spend time in spreadsheets and let Hub Planner do the work
- A Bird’s Eye View of Team - Always have visibility into the companies resource schedule. Hub planner can plan in hours, days, weeks to months.
- Skills & Location Matching - Easily find resources based on any business logic you currently have such as a skills matrix or location / role tags.
- Resource Scheduling using Availability Heat Map The resource side of the scheduler has a built in dynamic Heat Map feature allowing you to quickly identify gaps in your production schedule and visualize your teams utilization
- Simple Drag & Drop Scheduler - With Hub Planners drag and drop interface you can simply schedule your teams on projects or events by dragging bookings on the scheduler.
- Create Teams of People - Use the sidebar to organize your resources into teams, departments, roles or whichever type of format suits you best.
Time Tracking with Timesheets
Hub Planner Timesheets gives you a full time-tracking module integrated right into your account, allowing your team report Actual Time on Projects and Events. The slickly designed Timesheets component extends the power of our Resource Planning Scheduling tool and Reports by giving you the full picture of scheduled time versus actual time. Watch your project plan go full circle.
Resource and Project Reports
Reports provide powerful instant insights into Projects, Resources, Team Utilization, Spend and Budgets. Real time report information allows for making smarter and strategic decisions in future planning and forecasting.
Encompassing over 70+ pre-formatted templates or custom build dynamic reports from the Report Builder. You really can delve into the nitty gritty of project data and how it affects so many different ways. From resource capacity, to finding out how much time you are spending on clients. What projects are you making most from. What booking category is taking the longest.
Project Planning Key Features
Project Planning within Hub Planner is tied directly into your scheduling. You can easily obtain a portfolio view of all projects on the schedule and see from a top level milestones, phases and special dates for the project. Every project in Hub Planner has a budget setting where you can create and maintain your budgets for all the work that is scheduled and time tracked making project planning a simple process.
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About Silverbucket
Silverbucket is a resource planning solution designed for project-driven firms to optimize team capacity and utilization rate. With Silverbucket, you can easily create resource plans and gain a clear view of your company’s resource allocations, including conflicts, workloads, and capacity levels. The heatmap feature provides a comprehensive view of the current state of resource allocations.
Notable features include competency management, which helps identify the right skills for your project team and pinpoint bottleneck skills at the company level. You can compare resource plans to actual hours to improve future planning. Additionally, you can create Gantt charts to visualize timelines, and resourcing requests offer a more formal way to request team members.
Silverbucket allows for quick changes to allocations using its drag-and-drop feature, making it easy to shift allocations from roles to individuals or vice versa. Allocation functions, such as the max function, help prevent overbooking by allowing you to reserve a person’s capacity in advance or distribute allocations over a specified period. Depending on your needs, you can choose to allocate at the person, role, or task level.
Silverbucket has a high recommendation rate, and over 50,000 users worldwide. It is especially suitable for expert organizations such as engineering consultancy firms, architectural firms, and IT consulting companies. The advantages of Silverbucket are easily verified by the time saved and the increase in the bottom line.
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Summary
Resource demand overview: Get a clear overview of your team's capacity, allocations and demands
Allocate resources confidently: Staff every important project with the best people available
Resolve resource conflicts: Collaborate with others to resolve resource conflicts quickly and easy
Make realiable commitments: Simulate what-if scenarios to ensure feasibility across the entire portfolio
Plan with just enough data: Staff based on roles for a rough plan or based on resources for more detail
Keep executives informed: Easily know and report on how capacity is used across your organization
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Summary
Resource Management, Team Scheduling & Project Planning Software
Timesheets Tracking & Approval
Vacation, Annual Leave, Sick Leave, Global Public Holiday Calendars, Training Days
Report Generation
Billing, Budgeting & Forecasting Management
Custom Fields & Tags
Request & Approval Workflow
Smart Groups for Teams & Projects
Unassigned Work
60 Day Free Trial | Free Online Demo
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Summary
Capacity management and optimization
Allocate resources easily and see updates in real-time.
Resourcing requests
Holiday and absence management
Allocate to people or roles. Task management included.
Tentative reservations to help with project planning.
Compare the actual results with the plans.
Silverbucket data flows can be automated by using Silverbucket's custom API's.
Gantt chart visualization
Time tracking and timesheets
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FAQs
Does this service integrate with any other apps?
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Meisterplan intergrates with many different tools such as
* Google Looker Studio
* Google SSO
* Microsoft Power BI
* Microsoft Power Automate
* Microsoft Azure
* Microsoft Excel
* Jira
* Clarity PPM
* ServiceNow
What are some applications this service is commonly used in tandem with?
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Tools that are usually used together with Meisterplan are Jira, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI and Tableau.
Does this service offer an API?
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Meisterplan offers the most important APIs such as REST API and Reporting API.
Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?
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Yes, Meisterplan can be used by multiple users to enable teams to work together in the most flexible manner. The software offers a comprehensive rights management to specify the user accesses.
What is this service generally used for?
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Meisterplan is best at resource management on the portfolio level. The software enables to easily manage resources across teams, projects and working modes.
What platforms does this service support?
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Meisterplan is a browser-based software. It is optimized for the following browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge. On request Meisterplan can be implemented as a on-premise solution.
Who are the main user groups of this service?
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Meisterplan’s main useres are portfolio managers, resource managers such as team leads or unit leads, project managers and product owners, as well as the teams themselves and executives. Meisterplan is used by teams across many different industries with on goal: efficiently and effectively coordinate teams across initiatives.
Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?
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Meisterplan offers an extensive help center with detailed instructions and video tutorials, as well as personal support from our experts and customer success managers.
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FAQs
Does this service integrate with any other apps?
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- Basecamp
- Slack
- Zapier
- iCal
- Google Login
- SSO Azure AD
- OneLogin
- Okta
- SAML
What are some applications this service is commonly used in tandem with?
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- Slack
- Jira
- Basecamp
- RocketChat
- Teams
Does this service offer an API?
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Even better, we have some integrated inline connections to Basecamp, Zapier, Slack and iCal. Also, we have a REST API installed via GitHub.
Who are the main user groups of this service?
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Everyone from a Start up to an Enterprise. Generally we find most users are from a Medium Enterprise.
What is this service generally used for?
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Team Scheduling, Project Planning, Time Tracking, Budget Tracking, Report Generation.
Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?
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Indeed it does. Teams are a very important component to Hub Planner. Make Resource Scheduling and Project Planning easier by creating Teams and Resource & Project Groups
Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?
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Absolutely, you have a free personalized 1 hour training session with Premium Plans and above. Request an online demo too.
Our Customer Support is always available too as well as access to the Hub Planner Knowledge Base.
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FAQs
What is this service generally used for?
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- Fast and visual resource planning
- Capacity forecasting
- Competency management
- Project Portfolio Overview
- Comprehensive reports
- Project budget tracking
- Soft booking
- Manage employee skills
- Compare actuals to planned hours
Does this service offer an API?
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Yes, we do.
Does this service integrate with any other apps?
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We have implemented a whole lot of integrations.
Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?
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Sure, we have a knowledge page, on-demand webinars, and videos to help you out.
What platforms does this service support?
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Silverbucket is a web application. All you need is a modern web browser.
Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?
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Silverbucket is a cloud-based web application and multiple users can use it at the same time and see updates in real-time.
What are some applications this service is commonly used in tandem with?
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Silverbucket works well alongside project management solutions and ERP systems.
Who are the main user groups of this service?
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Solution is especially suitable for the needs of expert companies such as engineering and IT consultancy companies and architectural groups.
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Other
Who uses Meisterplan
Desktop Platforms:
Languages:
German, English, Spanish
Regional Restrictions:
No restrictions.
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Other
Who uses Hub Planner
- Personal
- Freelance
- Startups
- SMEs
- Agencies
- Enterprises
Desktop Platforms:
- Web App
- Windows
- Macintosh
Mobile Platforms:
- iOS
- Android
- WinPhone
- Blackberry
Languages:
English
Regional Restrictions:
No restrictions.
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Other
Who uses Silverbucket
- Startups
- SMEs
- Enterprises
Desktop Platforms:
Languages:
English, Swedish, Finnish, German
Regional Restrictions:
No restrictions.
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