Resource Guru

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It is a great resource management tool, with a user-friendly interface, It has a lot of powerful tools and is easy to learn and use. A big positive of this software is its capability to easily integrate with other tools. It helps to easily and remotely track and manage modules, projects and even workflows.

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A few times, connectivity issues are being encountered while remote access. Also, customer support can be enhanced. Otherwise, it is a good tool to use.

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Perfect for companies with multiple projects or employees that need to be seen by others.

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at the moment there is nothing I would change about it's functionality.

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Easy to use and user friendly interface user can see everything on the same page

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I like every thing only find difficulty to check the resource utilization

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It's intuitive, so it's very quick to pick up and use

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I haven't been able to take a snapshot or download a schedule... but that is probably because i am not on a higher level payment scheme

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This is the most intuitive and helpful scheduling manager that I have used. It puts everyone on the same page. It does exactly what it should.

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Can't think of any cons honestly. Perhaps, the ability to link this to a windows calendar would be a helpful feature.

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Ease of resource management and colour coding.

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Probably a feature that I am unaware of but, it would be good to filter and schedule time spent versus original allocation?

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the dashboard design and interface. Its incredibly user-friendly and provides a great overview.

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The limited number of colours for projects/clients

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It's quick to learn and has powerful tools, is simple to use and integrated quickly into our existing work practices. All our staff are adept at using it and it helps us keep on top of resources, projects and workflow. It is good value for money.

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No complaints, we have been using Resource Guru for about two years and are very happy with it.

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It's a great tool Great tool and handy to make scheduling

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Missing to indicate the jobs that are ready are ready.

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Easy to use, organised, detailed, flexible, and thinks of all possible options to help with the efficiency of planning accurately across a small or large team.

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The only thing we would rate negatively is that Resource Guru doesn't give you the option to tick off completed tasks.

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Visually appealing, Ease of Use and affordability.

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We did not have a way to see projects that may have been accidentally deleted. We ended up building a program that would track this. As of 2024, Resource Guru has made this programming change to their system. I'm excited to see how this will work.

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Ease of use and very descriptive and great

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Nothing is bad about resource guru.hope to see new improvements

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It's easy, the training is great and it works!

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You need to have the paid version to get the best but that is the same with most.

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Easy to set up, use and implement. Great value for money and super customer support. Integrates with outlook.

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Mobile solution could be better. It works fine, but could be improved.

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Easy to use, everyone has access, good overview

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Limited options for handling (for example no return button)

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Ability to access my roster and jobs, with the relevant information to complete my job.

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I have no issues with Guru the information provided allow me to access information to complete my job

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You can block out your time for projects and it shows your capacity level, so you don't get assigned more tasks. We can also use it to allocate platforms and licenses for software, so that you know what takes priority.

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Synching calendar to it can be a bit fiddly and end up with overall tasks cluttering up your calendar.

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Ease of use and simple , effective visualization of scheduled resources

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Needed to integrate with Harvest to get full picture of time actually spent on projects rather than just time scheduled

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The software is very easy to configure and use. It can also be integrated with other tools.

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It does not provide mobile phone app services

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C'est tres bon logiciel qui permet de fair la gestion des Ressource human.

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Je recommande ce tres bon logiciel au utilisateur. Tres sécurisé

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Easy to see where my team are working at a glance and helps with budgeting time and workloads.

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No problems so far for our administration and team.

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functionality, ease of use, visibility and the way we're able to allow access to certain functions

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would be nice to have a search function to look up past and future information

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Simplicity and focus. Resource Guru solves one problem, a problem that is key to our business - which is project resource assignment and scheduling. It does it quickly, and easily. Our prior tool required us to understand a complex CRM system with multiple interrelated functions. Resource Guru gives us the availability, assignment and schedule tools we need to deliver our projects without needless overhead.

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I would like more user defined fields when we assign a resource to a project. We assign a project sales phase type to each project, and we assign an individual billing rate to each resource, which can be different for each day of the project. We currently do that using a strict taxonomy in the "Notes" field and them use an Excel macro to parse that information out for sales and revue forecasting. While this doe take a bit of management and programming magic - it is still orders fo magnitude less complicated that it was previously when we managed this data in our CRM system. Having those filed would just make our lives all that much simpler.

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Colour-coded projects, ability to mark projects as confirmed or tentative, able to sync the software to individual calendars, easy to customise reports, everything on one screen, easy to add and customise new resources. I could go on but, this software has grown with our company over the past 4 years and we are all very happy with it.

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The new features that are added are not always in the order we want. For example, it took 4 years for the confirmed/tentative option to be added - a very useful feature for us but I understand that the Resource Guru Team needs to prioritise features based on the overall needs of their customers.

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The best part about Resource Guru is the reporting system. Given how fuss-free the management tools are to use, the reporting system is the proverbial icing on the cake, as it aggregates all your available data in one easy to use panel. Not to mention, it is so intuitive to use and has such a remarkably low barrier to entry, that I onboarded all my team managers in a single day, and have never looked back.

Nachteile

Some parts of the UI look a bit dated, like the "adding resources" panel, but it's honestly not a big deal because you only use it once when adding your resources, and hardly touch it ever again.

Other than that, changing the default working hours is a bit tedious, but again - do it once and you never need to adjust it again.

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This software is intuitive and easy to use. The colour coding makes is simple to make sense of what we are looking at - what resources are available and not.

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The software has everything that we need for our purposes. I think we would benefit from using more of its features, but the majority of our team prefers to keep it simple as a way to save time and energy that we put into scheduling.

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UX is awesome
Simplicity of the solution.

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The one-side only integration with Google Calendar. If we plan meeting in people's calendar, ideally it populates ResourceGuru (and would place it in queue in case of conflict/overtime).

The integration with other software, like Harvest, is inexistent, isn't it?

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The software is intuitive and very useful for scheduling people to travel on projects, indicate time off, and let people know where you are each day.

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I don't like that you can't organize your resources on your own. They are all alphabetical so we have to put the same letter at the beginning of each person in a group so they are grouped together on the schedule. Not a huge deal but seems a little odd for that the be the default and can't change it.

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The ability to schedule out months at a time. Small projects do not get lost in the shuffle of construction projects that go on months at a time where we are constantly pulling on and off of. It is so easy to use and customize. Field staff caught on intuitively and almost immediately.

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I cant think of anything I don't love about RG. I do not use many of the advanced features because we have project management software that gives us reporting.

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I love how eay it is to book. The reperating of project work and consulntans has made it so much easier.

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It needs mor colurs to choose from, as I sometimes end up with duplicates.
Extracting of reports, would prefer to just extract one specifc report at a time.

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It's easy to use. Everyone can see what's on the schedule or what they are supposed to be working on. I can see how long a project is in our production queue to ascertain when we'll be finished. I can schedule vacations so others know which resources are available on which date.

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The times are sometimes not correct. It seems to think a work day is twelve hours long, instead of eight. It's hard to schedule several projects in the same day. It's easiest to assign a project for the whole day.

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The ease of use. It's helped me create buy-in among other departments internally with regards to schedule-driven process, whilst enabling everyone to maintain a proactive view on our resourcing capabilities (which ultimately informs everything else from our commercial functions, employment plans, etc).

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I'd maybe tidy-up the 'Project' and 'Clients' tabs a little bit. Maybe introduce some filters to help you search for groups of each? That's about my only complaint, and it's not a big one by any means.

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I've been using Resource Guru since 2013 and it's constantly improving which is good to see. It's easy to use and provides decent reporting.

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I'd like to see public holidays auto populated according to a country of choice and ability to limit daily bookable hours just by a number (e.g. 7.5h) without setting a rigid start / end / lunch break.

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Our teams really enjoy the ability to visualize our projects and move them at ease. Our schedules are continuously changing and being able to adjust our schedule just as fast make our jobs more efficient.

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I think it would be great if the dashboard view for a person who doesn't have access to view the entire schedule could view more than a week at a time. Having access to view their month would be better. Additionally, the reports don't work for our team when we pull them. (This could be due to how we are using the software but I'm not sure at this point.)

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Software is relatively easy to use. It is not truly designed for a service type industry but with a little manipulation of the way fields are used, we have been able to make it a good resource for us to schedule our installation crews. It is much easier than many other programs I have looked at and our entire front office uses it to see daily schedules, schedule openings, future bookings as well as monitor backlog.

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Program could use better co-ordination between bookings and scheduling as well as easier means to divide resources (employees) into groups (we did find a work around for this)

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flexibilityeasy of usefast overview about capacity

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I would like a more powerful project overview on the scheduling page (for example sum of all hours planned for a specific project, wihout going to reports)

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Ease of use. Simplicity and transparency.

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Calendar integration would be great (two-way for mac). Filters show all people booked on a job/project but don't show just those bookings.

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+ flexible scheduling features
+ clear and easily readable UI

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- if a day has 8h30m available, and 8h15m are scheduled, and another task is added with a 30m length, it shows up as "30m on waiting list and 15m free" - in my opinion, it would make more sense to show up as "15m on waiting list and 0m free"

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one place that all can see to plan work and its simple

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it would be nice to be able to search a particular job and see everywhere that it is booked in, even if listed. it would also be awesome to be able to break a job down in to all its component parts with times, then allocate to people in different departments - ie 1 hours design, 15 mins ordering product, 2 hours making, 4 hours fitting - they could all be one job, but using different people (resources)

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My company chose Resource Guru because of the web based interface. We've stayed for the ease of use and robust reporting functionality. We are able to extract daily, monthly, and yearly (or custom) reports and easily create Excel pivot tables for internal analyzing. This feature alone is extremely beneficial to our company.

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No dark theme. It's only a minor thing but would really like to see the quality of life feature added to future versions.

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Guru is super easy to use and there are many options, which makes it the perfect tool for team scheduling.

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Guru is not very mobile friendly to access the team schedule from a phone.

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It is easy to get started and it is easy to use

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Reporting part. We need to be able to redraw a nice report of the hours used daily/weekly/monthly/yearly for each project with the hours and comment for each person pr day to support our invoicing

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It’s super easy to plot your work and manage time against individual projects and resource

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I would like to add multiple bookers, like you can with People and resource
Unable to highlight the name when you are putting in New Project, you have backspace.
No Need for project code - would be nice to deselect this.

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The interface is intuitive and easy to adopt into our daily routine. Our company has a collection of instruments that were being double booked or under utilized, because our previous scheduling method was murky and unclear. Now, we've avoided double bookings and can complete client work more efficiently.

The most exciting thing about this software is that we keep finding ways to enhance our understanding of our operations (materials and labor costs, in particular) as we use the software. This will help us not only get client work done on time, but give us a more accurate representation of overall project costs.

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I would like a feature that allows us to upload a protocol or document to the booking.

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Really easy to use and UX friendly. Intuitive functionality and transparent scheduling. Constantly updating and developing functions which is great. Great customer service

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No negatives to be honest it’s a better piece of resourcing software than I’ve ever used

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Ease-of-use. Its very easy for new staff to pick up the software.

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Viewing it on the phone gets difficult with viewing long project names and notes.

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great platform for planning and resource scheduling. It is clear and easy to use.

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There isn't anything I do not like but I need to say that I just use it for resource bookings and this works great

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Ease of use, clarity on screen of schedule, block leave allows future planning very easy.

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Would love an actual app rather than interface and daily reminder email to be sent earlier.

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integration process was easy and it is utilized more than any other platform we have in use for our business. it makes project reporting so fast and thorough.

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nothing truly, once we start using for payroll we will have implemented it fully.