Resource Guru

Vorteile

The interface is simple to use and understand with respect to resource availability and conflict. It serves its purpose well.

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New feature rollout is buggy. When I switched between the "beta" ("new") experience back to the classic, I received a nagging email from the company telling me I had recently logged in using the "classic" experience and it would eventually be discontinued, and that I should try out the "new" experience. This product is basically a shared calendar, and while it offers reporting that is a hybrid somewhere between Microsoft Outlook and Project, it's a bit too pushy with respect to new features.

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The app is very user friendly and a majority of my staff are able to login and run Resource Guru without any issues. It is a streamline software for project management across multiple projects and departments.

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They actually just added what my con would be. The Milestone tool helps better manage project milestones. This is a tool that didn't exist before but was desperately needed. Thank you!

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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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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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Easy to read and navigate around software

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Would prefer in a spreadsheet format over a month no just weekly

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Easy to use, highly visual, quick to update.

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The utilization report doesn't seem to reflect available billable hours when taking PTO/OOO out of the equation. This results in our utilization typically looking lower than it is in reality.

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I like they developed a very good application which is easy to use and have the accuracy in it.

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Nothing overall it's good.if developer can add some colour in content so it's looks better.

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Relatively easy to use

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Can't do everything I want to, or if it can I can't find it.

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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.

Vorteile

Access to dates for my schedule aswell as other fellow employees

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Nothing in particular, everything has been an ease of us platform

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The best feature of Resource guru is the easy of scheduling

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There is not any con as such for resource guru

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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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Resource allocation, we were able to allocate resources and not clashing, also its necessary to see who is where and what is he doing.

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Not able to add sub tasksnot able to close a task when done or track if its been done

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It is easy to use and manage my work and my schedule and we can get the report base on your work you maintain on resource guru.

Nachteile

Here is everything is good and user friendly.

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It's easy to use and manage all information required. Nice UI and improved UX is one of the key things I get attracted to when using the system.

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I can't think of cons as of now since I'm loving the app.

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One of the aspects I liked most about Resource Guru was its user-friendly interface and intuitive scheduling features. The platform provided a seamless experience for managing and scheduling resources, allowing me to easily assign tasks, track availability, and monitor project timelines. The drag-and-drop functionality and clear visual representation of resource allocations made it simple to plan and allocate resources efficiently. Additionally, the real-time updates and notifications ensured that everyone on the team was well-informed and could adapt to any changes or conflicts quickly.

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While Resource Guru had many positive features, one thing I liked least was the limited integration options with other project management tools. Although the platform offered some integrations with popular tools, there were instances where I needed to manually transfer data or reconcile information between different systems. It would be beneficial to have more seamless integrations with a broader range of project management and collaboration tools to streamline workflows and avoid duplicating efforts.

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The Simple and intuitive UI allows far fast verifications and real-time modification to the scedule.

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Some users found it is yet another platform to integrate in their workflow.

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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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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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We can integrate resource guru with other tools like jira and zapier. This shows us the realtime information like the current resources of a specific project and it helped a lot a team to find the booked resources and their availability.

Nachteile

One downside is the price of the paid version which varying with the resource count.

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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.

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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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I like the appearance of the software - its clear, self explanatory, easy to navigate, see the bigger picture to jiggle schedule resource about, etc.

I like how easy and quickly the support team are there to assist when needed.

I like how it shows you who has booked what and the daily reminders via email of what is coming up, etc.

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It isn't a negative but I would like to have a scheduling log, to see at what time and date did someone book a slot onto the schedule. I manage the Creative Studio, depending how many campaigns and the urgency in hitting these deadlines, I need to keep track of the entire departments availability, knowing when i can move things around in order to deliver last min projects. Only myself should have booking access, but I currently share it with Creative Directors, so they can schedule in my absence, but I can't see when they have booked them in so i can keep track. Is this something you could implement, please? Thanks,

Vorteile

The software was very easy to implement and even easier to use. The reports page provides a great, visual presentation of our creative department's utilization for the week. Until we started using the software, we were unable to track enough data to inform a successful creative resource meeting. Now we have visibility into the upcoming weeks which has significantly decreased our dependence on freelance talent.

Nachteile

The waiting list and overtime feature can be a little confusing. The hours don't get added to resource bookings and increase the utilization percentage. It would be great if the overtime hours pushed the utilization percentage over 100% to clearly highlight over-allocated resources.

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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.

Nachteile

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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I love how easy it is to see a view of availability across multiple team members at the same time. I love the ability to color coordinate projects for an easy view of some major projects across multiple team members. Also easy to allow others permission to log in and see their utilization as well.

Nachteile

I have to manually enter in recurring meetings. I have not mastered an easy way to automate getting our clients and projects into the tool. would be good to multi select projects as well to get them closed or cleaned up.

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We like the easy to use approach and the overall visibility
Very important is the cooperation and management of a single resource with multiple people. To reduce the risk of double bookings or gaps...

Nachteile

There is very little what is not optimal. We are happy that overtime is possible now... but maybe a bit more reporting functionality would be good.. not as "extracts" more online!

and if I could whish for something, the integration into JIRA is something we would need!

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It impacts how we can properly manage our schedule, projects and people. We can easily track whose available for project assigning, whose on leave and what time our people is available.

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Maybe if RG can adopt holidays all over the world so we don't need to manually input them

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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)

Vorteile

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

Nachteile

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

Vorteile

- Ease of use
- Very pleasant UI
- Flexibility

Nachteile

- Lack of features. The application does the simple scheduling\tracking perfectly though.
- Copy\paste of resource tasks was not available at the time

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Vorteile

The ability to schedule out my work week. The ability to see what my other coworkers are working on. Keeps my time in check. I am 100% remote working so Resource Guru is my only channel to display what my work week will look like to my team and managers.

Nachteile

I found that trying to create bookings was a bit confusing at first. But once I practiced a little, I am now comfortable and do not find many impendences with the Resource Guru software.

Vorteile

Colour coding for different projects, profile pics to remind me of who is who, and I like that every day it shifts along the schedule so that today is to the far left.

Nachteile

Need more colours as we have many projects, also icons or stickers would be helpful. If we could upload a project logo that would be ideal.

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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.

Nachteile

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

Vorteile

Software is easy to use and provides easy scheduling.

Nachteile

Feature set is very basic and does not integrate with other applications being used.

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The ability to view resources and their skill set enabled us to forward plan projects for the coming years and align them to our medium term roadmap.

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When selecting multiple resources and assigning them to a project they are all linked. You cannot reduce the commitment of one resource without updating them all.

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The product is easy to use and very efficient.

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Perhaps the colours...but I think that is not determined so, it's ok!

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The product is Easy to use and frendly. The display is clear.

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The working hours for each resources seam to be link whit overtime and reports wich i dont need

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Vorteile

Very easy to use and easy to understand. This tool keep track of my work everytime and what's in list next tell everything. I enjoy this tool on regular basis. This tool tell me my schedule before one day. It has also a best and fast customer service. Split booking is very handy as well.

Nachteile

I never face any problem with this awsome tool.  Best tool of resoursing software. I want to add one thing that it has no undo button if I click booking wrongly otherwise everything great.

Vorteile

Very easy to add projects and shift them around, all members can adjust things on the calendar like vacation/projects/holidays/etc

Nachteile

Sometimes hit split when I mean to look at an item. Would like it to be easier to change booker or show project manager and engineer in one booking so engineers can see which manager they're working with

Vorteile

Helps effortlessly plan resource allocation and gives a great overview of the entire team's workload. It is easy for all to follow and keeps everyone in the loop.

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Would be good if it could integrate with other project management tools e.g. Trello.

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Scheduling, keeping up with my hours on the projects.

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When you receive an email notification, you need to click on the background in order to be directed to your profile, that seems contra intuitive.

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The user interface is excellent, and I can easily see projects I have been booked on with the number of hours I am supposed to work on them. Again I can easily see who has gone on leave and those who are about to leave. I can also see projects my colleagues are working on and how long they have been booked. I also get email notifications daily concerning my bookings on projects.

Nachteile

I really enjoy using resource guru, and I don't have any complaints about it. The team should look at adding more useful features that might increase its importance and efficiency

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1. Reports are great to work with
2. Dashboards

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1. UI is good but has a good scope of improvement

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All of the features that RG offers are in newer more UX focused tools. There's nothing in RG that really stands out about what I like the most.

Nachteile

The filtering, when I want to search for one of my projects, I only want to see that project. I don't want to see every person who's ever worked on that project in a list and show everything that they're working on at the moment.

Vorteile

visualizes and allows for future planning of time. Allows business wide visibility. Has made my life far easier with it. Is always part of the daily routine.

Nachteile

Lack of clear links to other platforms like outlook, google suite or trello. This would be the killer addition but as is it works really cleanly.

Vorteile

Easy to add projects, easy to add customers, easy to add team members. The email summary sent out to everyone is great and easy for users to gain access to be able to see their work for the day/week/months coming. The reporting functionality allows us to export the information cleanly and easily for internal reporting needs

Nachteile

Unable to track timesheets and then be able to compare how accurate bookings vs actuals will be.
Would love to be able to have Project Manager's be able to book their times through the site and then have it approved by Resource Manager.

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It helps to keep track of what you are doing everyday as well as being able to see everyone else's schedule.
Like the fact you can drag appointments to another employee on the same date and/or another date.

Nachteile

Do not like the fact a user can delete previous appointments, such as prior week, month, year, etc.
If an appointment needs to be deleted from previous week, month, year, etc., the administrator needs to be the only one that can delete it. Only the week of and future days will the user be allowed to delete or change appointments.

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It’s great and easy to use. Very self explanatory.

Nachteile

No complaints about this app. I will recommend it. I’m

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It is easy to use and I can readily associate hours worked with a particular project as well as drag hours around on the schedule across different days. It easily allows multiple users and multiple projects.

Nachteile

We are not quite using it as intended. Some of our team are using it to document hours worked, rather than book hours to be worked. Hence, we don't need reminders about overbooking. These are a little irritating.

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It's easy to use and even easier to explain to colleagues! It's something we use daily within our company to start the day we run through our lists and what's the priority.

Nachteile

Sometimes it can be overcrowded/ look messy- so a 'zoom' out feature would be great! Or a different viewing option going downwards for each person etc.