RESOURCE PLANNING & FORECASTING
Increase Utilization
& Maximize Margin
See your team’s capacity and allocate resources to current and future projects.
Compare your plans to actuals, spot trends, and solve problems before they start.
What You Get with Parallax Resource
Management & Planning Software
Resource Planning
Get proactive with resource assignments using forecasts on incoming demand. Turn project planning into a science with auto-generated resource plans to streamline resource allocation. Maximize utilization for all team members by evaluating and adjusting workloads of your talent pools – in realtime. Finally say goodbye to the weekly spreadsheet resourcing scramble.
Resource Refinement
Shape resourcing to meet the needs of any project at any time. Search for specific team members, skills, or departments with available capacity to augment auto-generated plans. Quickly assign or remove team members from any upcoming or in-flight project. And assignments all happen in realtime, ensuring all team members have an accurate view on available capacity.
Realtime Utilization Insights
Maximize utilization from quote to cash. Get realtime insights for all team member’s utilization, compare to goals, and diagnose areas of improvement. Your entire team has the insights to ensure there are balanced workloads and early signs of utilization slippage to take action on. See projected utilization rates by team members and departments.
Project Health Tracking
See an executive summary of all active projects with alerts on projects that are over budget, past end dates, have unassigned roles + more. Drill down into each project and update resource plans to meet financial targets. Get insight into projected revenue and total project costs in realtime for any project. We have your margin’s back.
Sold to Actual Insight
Parallax takes a snapshot of the original deal you sold along with the original resource plan for the deal, giving you the insight you need to hone your pricing to meet financial goals. Every project completion is another input to your pricing and resourcing strategy to ensure profitability into the future.
Why Leading Agencies and Studios Choose Parallax
Conscious Minds
, Conscious Minds
“Parallax gives us the level of information we need to make the right decisions and then create new strategies to evolve old ones. Without Parallax, you’re just guessing, and anyone who wants to grow a business shouldn’t be guessing”
Kristen DiCamillo
, HUSH
“With Parallax, utilization information is right in front of me. I can forecast while also looking back at historical utilization. I have a lot of clarity about what’s going on with my team and whether we have the project work to support the staff that we have.”
Kristen DiCamillo
, HUSH
“My data is so much stronger with Parallax. I can confidently make decisions about the business.”
Kristen DiCamillo
, HUSH
“My data is so much stronger with Parallax. I can confidently make decisions about the business.”
Kristen DiCamillo
, HUSH
“My data is so much stronger with Parallax. I can confidently make decisions about the business.”
How It Works
Auto-generated resource plans
Once a deal is closed-won, Parallax creates an auto-generated resource plan based on skills needed and capacity of team members with those skills.
Auto-generated resource plans
Once a deal is closed-won, Parallax creates an auto-generated resource plan based on skills needed and capacity of team members with those skills.
Auto-generated resource plans
Once a deal is closed-won, Parallax creates an auto-generated resource plan based on skills needed and capacity of team members with those skills.
Auto-generated resource plans
Once a deal is closed-won, Parallax creates an auto-generated resource plan based on skills needed and capacity of team members with those skills.
Auto-generated resource plans
Once a deal is closed-won, Parallax creates an auto-generated resource plan based on skills needed and capacity of team members with those skills.
Auto-generated resource plans
Once a deal is closed-won, Parallax creates an auto-generated resource plan based on skills needed and capacity of team members with those skills.
Auto-generated resource plans
Once a deal is closed-won, Parallax creates an auto-generated resource plan based on skills needed and capacity of team members with those skills.
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