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- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
very intuitive software. I really like the fact that it is used on an iphone app!
Reviewed on 2018/02/15
Saves time with data processing
Saves time with data processing
Pros
Great product for a reasonable price. The fact that it is an app on the iphone means I don't have to purchase an additional hand held data collector.
Cons
I wish I could save templates for common reports that I write. I have to paste data into excel spreadsheets every time I prepare reports
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Forest Metrix
Reviewed on 2023/11/17
I’ve had a great experience with Tig and the rest of the staff at Forest Metrix. They’re very...
I’ve had a great experience with Tig and the rest of the staff at Forest Metrix. They’re very responsive when any issues have come up. I’d highly recommend both them and the FM system to anybody!
Pros
The FM system and customer support is excellent.
Cons
Nothing! I’ve had a great experience with them.
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Promising from the beginning but has not improved in areas that present challenges for me...
Reviewed on 2017/10/31
Pros
Great charts and tables
A lot of options if you know how to use them
If you are technically savvy, then this is the way to go!
Cons
Keeping up with FileMaker and program updates that change the page layout and some of the formatting is a minor inconvenience.
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Best option for WYSIWYG
Reviewed on 2018/08/16
WYSIWYG coding is really tricky, and I think they still have plenty of bugs to work out. Overall...
WYSIWYG coding is really tricky, and I think they still have plenty of bugs to work out. Overall though, it's a good option for small nonprofits. I wouldn't use it if I had any budget to hire a real designer unless they knew how to go in there and code things so I could just use the user-friendly interface.
Pros
You can make really attractive, professional-looking websites without much design experience. They have some really good templates.
Cons
It's hard to make any changes to the templates, and it can be hard to figure out how the templates work and finagling them to make your site look as good as the demo. You can't change things like header photo size, which I want control over. And as you're making changes to your site with a new template, it publishes all of those changes to the current live site even though it says it won't.
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great features, easy to use, great quality, and customer support is excellent.
Reviewed on 2018/02/16
It has helped save time in the office. I can calculate everything right in the field with the tap...
It has helped save time in the office. I can calculate everything right in the field with the tap of a finger. Even estimated values of the timber.
Pros
So many features and functions, and after playing with it, to get to know the software, very easy to use. And you can use it on your ipad, which is great with mapping apps and built in gps.
Cons
It takes a few trial runs to get to know the software, which it does with any new piece of equipment. Some of the excel reports might scare you at first, but they can be customized to fit your needs.
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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This software has saved me a lot of time from woods to office. It has everything that I need.
Reviewed on 2018/02/16
Pros
It has everything you need in a forestry software and the fact that you can use it on a device like and iPad of iPhone that you can use outside of forestry makes it that much more useful. It is very simple to use and accomplish all of my goals and it is a very good program to use. Very nice user interface on a big screen.
Cons
The only downside is the gps capability. It is by no means bad, but I find I need to use another gps to accomplish everything I would need a gps to do. The gps functionality is limited to the inventory. I have had no issues getting gps data off of the software.
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
I've used Forest Metrix as. Consulting Forester for 4 years. I consider it an excellent...
Reviewed on 2018/02/08
Able to keep all timber cruising services in house. No need to farm out this service...regardless...
Able to keep all timber cruising services in house. No need to farm out this service...regardless of size of land base. 10 acres and up. Everything I need to setup a cruise is on my tablet (Ipad) no need to plan a cruise entirely in the office..can setup. software and cruise on the fly.
Pros
Ease of use for inclusion of graphs and tables into forest management plans. Excellent customer service. On the fly stats tell me when I've collected enough cruise points to satisfy requirements landowner or governing entities.
Cons
Any issues have been easilly rectified with customer service. Makes it hard when out in the field and experience an issue.
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Works Well On Apple Devices
Reviewed on 2018/04/21
Increased productivity.
Increased productivity.
Pros
I like its easy to use interface and display layout. The reports it is able to produce are also really useful and easy.
Cons
I don't like its lack of functionality outside of iPhones and iPads. It is fairly costly, but it does do what it purports to well.
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
I use Forest Metrix for a range of work- from sampling for forest management plans to tallying...
Reviewed on 2018/02/12
Pros
Simple, logical, straightforward interface. You can take pictures associated with plots. Moving plots between stands is easy.
Cons
It is currently difficult to collate non-tree data from sample points. Exporting photos is difficult and they aren't tagged by plot.
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Consulting forester working with smaller parcels
Reviewed on 2018/02/09
Works very well with the way I like to do things.
Works very well with the way I like to do things.
Pros
Ease of use in the field and customization for my own methodology. Very wide choice of features. The power of using an iPad and all of its compatibility.
Cons
Excel spreadsheet requires considerable knowledge of the software. Had a fairly steep learning curve, and it still takes more time in the office than I expected.
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Friendly and very knowledgeable support!
Reviewed on 2018/02/08
Customizable for specific application. Customizable reports. Easy to enter data in the field.
Customizable for specific application. Customizable reports. Easy to enter data in the field.
Pros
Runs on my smartphone, and generates the ability to really dig deep into the analysis of inventory data on the spreadsheet app.
Cons
The cost is rather steep, but I understand the limited market and massive development costs. I would like to see it priced more in the range per year.
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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I am old school so the software is capable of doing more than I probably need but still a...
Reviewed on 2018/02/15
Pros
I am able to use my old volume tables that I have been using for years. Donn actually customized the software to include my volume tables. Very nice.
Cons
Too many steps when setting up a new cruise in mixed stands. It would be nice to have tree species available in some form similar to what is found in ICruise Pro.
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Served my needs for forest inventory data collection.
Reviewed on 2018/02/09
Increased my production time in the field.
Increased my production time in the field.
Pros
Easy to input data. Easy to customize data collection. Excellent customer support. Field friendly.
Cons
Reports are bit too cumbersome but once you have used the software enough you can figure out what data you really need.
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Forest Metrix en deux mots
Reviewed on 2022/01/23
Pros
produit pour un prix raisonnable. Le fait qu'il s'agisse d'une application sur iPhone signifie que je n'ai pas besoin d'acheter un collecteur de données portable supplémentaire
Cons
Je dois coller des données dans des feuilles de calcul Excel chaque fois que je prépare des rapports