Epicflow vs. Forecast

At a glance

Best for

Best for engineering, defence and manufacturing organisations running many projects against one shared pool of specialists, where priorities have to be settled across the portfolio rather than inside a single plan.

Enterprise

Forecast

Best for

Best for services teams that want AI to combine resourcing, projects and financials.

Small and mid-sized
Enterprise

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Full Comparison

Criterion	Epicflow	Forecast
Starting price	From €22.50 / person / month Growth plan billed annually, €25 per person per month on monthly billing. Growth covers 20 to 50 users, up to 50 projects and a maximum of 250 tasks; licences are annual with monthly payment available.	Quote-based The vendor prices per quote.
Free trial	Free 30-day trial with unlimited user access, including a weekly 30-minute support call	Demo or trial
Hosting	Cloud, with a DataGuard option that keeps company data on the customer's own premises	Not stated
Made in	Netherlands (Glow Management Nederland BV, Amsterdam)	Denmark
Resource planning	Yes, resource groups and competence-based allocation with capacity planning, a Historical Load Graph of past utilisation, a Future Load Graph projecting demand, and what-if simulation of a change before it is committed	Yes, with AI auto-scheduling and predictive forecasting
Task planning	Yes, a pipeline view across projects and a Gantt chart with dependencies, with task priority recalculated automatically across the whole portfolio rather than per project	Yes, combined project, resource and financial management with retainer and portfolio views
Time tracking	Yes, timesheets that record what teams delivered over time and set it against the original estimates	Yes, including timesheets
Reporting and controlling	Yes, real-time dashboards on project health, burn-up charts of completed against remaining work, progress analysis and generated basic and advanced reports	Yes, predictive forecasting across projects and portfolios
AI features	Yes	Yes
Deployment	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support	Email helpdesk, Phone	Not stated
Onboarding	more entries Guided onboarding, Live online demos and webinars, Personal consulting	Guided onboarding
Company size	Enterprise	more entries Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations	Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project Server, Jira, Oracle Primavera, SAP	more entries Jira, Asana, Slack, QuickBooks, Xero, Salesforce

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The short version

Key Differences

Starting price Epicflow From €22.50 / person / month Forecast Quote-based
Free trial Epicflow Free 30-day trial with unlimited user access, including a weekly 30-minute support call Forecast Demo or trial
Company size Epicflow Enterprise Forecast Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Made in Epicflow Netherlands (Glow Management Nederland BV, Amsterdam) Forecast Denmark
Resource planning Epicflow Yes, resource groups and competence-based allocation with capacity planning, a Historical Load Graph of past utilisation, a Future Load Graph projecting demand, and what-if simulation of a change before it is committed Forecast Yes, with AI auto-scheduling and predictive forecasting

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Epicflow

Strengths

Priorities are recalculated across the entire portfolio, so a slip in one project reorders the queue everywhere it competes for the same people
What-if simulation and a forward load graph let a resourcing decision be tested before it is made
DataGuard keeps company data on the customer's own premises, which matters in defence, government and healthcare

Limitations

The Growth plan starts at 20 users and caps at 50 projects and 250 tasks, so small teams and large portfolios both fall outside it
Enterprise pricing is quoted rather than published
Integrations centre on heavyweight planning systems such as Microsoft Project, Primavera and SAP, and connector work is handled as part of implementation rather than through published API documentation

Forecast

Strengths

AI auto-scheduling
Combines project management, resourcing and financials
Good for professional-services automation

Limitations

Quote-based pricing is less transparent
Heavier than a simple scheduler

Plans

Pricing

Epicflow

Growth €22.50 / person / month Billed annually, €25 per person per month billed monthly. From 20 to 50 users, up to 50 projects, maximum 250 tasks.
Enterprise Not stated Quoted. From 50 users upwards, unlimited projects, 2000+ tasks, with cloud or DataGuard private virtual server.

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Forecast

Not stated Not stated Quote-based, ask the vendor.

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What users say

Review Scores · opens after launch

Epicflow

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Forecast

Ease of use: Not rated yet
User interface: Not rated yet
Onboarding: Not rated yet
Support and service: Not rated yet
Value for money: Not rated yet
Features: Not rated yet

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Where this comes from

Epicflow https://www.epicflow.com · no check date recorded yet

Forecast https://www.accelo.com/forecast · no check date recorded yet

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.