Retain International
Retain International is a comprehensive resource management, planning, and scheduling software platform trusted by over 100 of the world's biggest companies including Deloitte, Grant Thornton, and Baker Tilly.
Overview
Retain International provides organizations with complete visibility into their workforce capacity and availability. The platform enables resource managers, operations teams, finance departments, and leadership to plan smarter and work better through intelligent resource allocation and scheduling.
Retain 2.0 – Skills+
The latest version introduces Skills+, an intelligence layer that helps organizations map, track, and optimize team capabilities. Powered by Lightcast data, Skills+ offers access to over 30,000 data-backed skills for building custom skills taxonomies.
Key Capabilities
The platform addresses common challenges in resource management including:
- Inefficient resource utilization - Overbooked or underutilized resources due to limited visibility
- Manual scheduling burden - Hours wasted managing schedules manually
- Lack of skills visibility - Difficulty matching the right people to the right tasks
Retain International solves these problems through live scheduling views, skills-aware recommendations, and comprehensive task tracking that keeps teams aligned and projects running smoothly.
Target Audience
Resource managers, operations managers, finance managers, human resource managers, and leadership teams in medium to large enterprises
Key Features
- Live availability tracking and capacity monitoring
- Skills+ with 30,000+ data-backed skills taxonomy via Lightcast
- Intelligent resource allocation and skills-aware recommendations
- Capacity forecasting and budget monitoring
- Flexible workforce scheduling with real-time reallocation
- Custom skills taxonomy building and management
- Certification, language, and skill expiry tracking
- Quarterly upskill recommendations to fill team gaps
- Department, division, and talent type filtering
- Live scheduling views and task tracking
Use Cases
- Resource management and workforce planning
- Project delivery and deadline management
- Capacity planning and forecasting
- Skills-based workforce optimization
- Team workload balancing and bottleneck prevention
- Budget monitoring and utilization tracking
- Cross-department resource coordination
Pros
- Trusted by major global companies like Deloitte and Grant Thornton
- Comprehensive skills management with 30,000+ data-backed skills
- Real-time visibility into team availability and capacity
- Intuitive all-in-one platform for resource and skills management
- Flexible scheduling that adapts to changing demands
- AI-powered skills-aware recommendations for better resource matching
Cons
- May require significant setup time for skills taxonomy configuration
- Enterprise-focused solution may be complex for smaller teams
Pricing
Enterprise pricing - contact sales for custom quotes
