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What Is Resource Guru?

Resource Guru is the blissfully simple resource management software that helps busy teams keep projects on track.

Get a clear view of team availability and time off and find the perfect person for every job. Create schedules at speed, keep workloads realistic, and ensure everyone is aligned on upcoming work. Track your team’s time for insights on forecast and actual hours. Dig deeper with customizable reports on utilization across projects and clients.

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Who Uses Resource Guru?

Any team working on projects where time and resources are limited. Resource Guru helps agencies, consultants, IT teams, construction, and more to balance competing priorities and deliver work on time.

Resource Guru Software - Master your team’s time. Track capacity in real-time and create perfectly balanced team schedules.
Resource Guru Software - Assign work and avoid overallocation. Book meetings and schedule project work, while keeping workloads realistic.
Resource Guru Software - Find the right person for every job. Catalog key information and search by skills, location, and more.
Resource Guru Software - Understand how your team is spending its time. Get insights from quick-log timesheets and compare forecast with actuals.
Resource Guru Software - Monitor the metrics that matter. Track utilization rates, overtime, and billable hours for more accurate forecasting.

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Reviews of Resource Guru

Average score

Overall
4.7
Ease of Use
4.7
Customer Service
4.7
Features
4.4
Value for Money
4.6

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001

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5
69%
4
28%
3
3%
1
0%
Marina
Marina
COO in Croatia
Verified LinkedIn User
Marketing & Advertising, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Great tool for resource planning

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: Overall, RG was a game-changer for us. Since we have implemented it, we got a better overview of our projects and became able to plan ahead and more long-term.

Pros:

The product is very easy to use, intuitive, and fast. We love the ability to zoom in and out and have different views of our timeline.

Cons:

What I (currently) miss most is the ability to quickly update the schedule. For example, to select multiple "tasks" for one employee and move them 1 or more days forward, in other words, to shift or postpone someone's entire schedule. We change schedules quite frequently so it would be easier for us to have this enabled. But I've heard that this would be possible down the road.

Bill
CTO in US
Oil & Energy, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Simple and to the point - Resource Gu does the one thing we need most, and it does it extremely well

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: It has been a significant enhancement o our workflow. Our prior use of our CRM system to do what Resource Guru does was costing us at least a full day per week. Now we get it all done in an hour our tow.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

Jitendra
Technical Service Representative in Canada
Medical Devices, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Nice scheduling tool!

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Happy to use it.

Pros:

Whole team's activities visible at a glance, user friendly and easy to browse around (past and future dates). Thanks.

Cons:

Does not work so well on my phone's browser.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Great product but no development

3.0 9 years ago

Comments: Whilst it Guru is a promising, flexible and easy to use product it really is just bare bones at the moment and they have failed to deliver any additional functionality since launch despite increasing pricing. The forums are filled with requests and suggestions for highly useful add-ons and improvements that always receive the same answer "It's on the road map but we are working on other aspects of development". However, there have been no new releases and even the highly anticipated Vacation and Leave function slated for October 2015 has not actually been delivered. In fact the only thing that has changed is a change in pricing model that has upped the cost of the product. So, to conclude, even though Resource Guru has great potential the increased cost combined with a complete lack of development and capacity for integration make it a waste of time and money. Sad really because conceptually it is a fantastic product.

Resource Guru Response

9 years ago

Thanks for the review Ossian! While I understand your frustration at the low frequency of new feature releases recently I'd like to correct you on a few things. It's not true that we have failed to deliver anything since launch—for more information on our product updates you can go to the "Product Updates" section of our blog http://blog.resourceguruapp.com/category/product-updates/. We are sorry that our leave management feature is not yet live but it is a large and complex upgrade to Resource Guru and we want to ensure it is all perfect before we release it. We hate the idea of our users doing our testing for us. Although we haven't directly integrated with any apps yet, we have developed webhooks (found in your account settings) which deliver realtime updates enabling you to create many DIY integrations using services like Zapier. We also have an advanced API (more details can be found at https://developers.resourceguruapp.com/). We want to wait until the product is slightly more evolved before we start working on integrations and the work we've done to date will put us in a very good position to do so when the time comes. Lastly, I noticed that you only gave our customer support 2 stars. We pride ourselves on giving excellent customer support to all our customers and the team will be very disappointed to hear this. Apart from reading comments about features being on the roadmap (while you may find this frustrating, we are only trying to be honest and not make promises we can't keep), was there anything else about our customer service that you found inadequate? Once again, thanks for the review and I hope we can bring a smile to your face in the future as we release more features.

Isabella
Traffic coordinator in UK
Marketing & Advertising, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

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Extremely handy software, easy to use, visibly appealing, great to manage and schedule.

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: Positive, I do enjoy managing RG for our company. My company want us to migrate and start using the schedule planned for Office 365, but I had to push back and explain that this software is up to date, already does everything we need it too and Office 365 still has a long way to go before we can use it for what we want. It's safe to stick with RG that we know how to work, we know what it does and what i can't do and it works, no need to change something that isnt broken.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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,

Resource Guru Response

5 years ago

Hi Isabella Thanks for the great review - I'm so pleased to hear that you're enjoying Resource Guru :) I'm pleased to say that an activity log is very firmly on our roadmap, and I've made a note to contact you as soon as this is available. You can also keep up to date with new features by signing up to our Newsletter at the bottom of our homepage - https://resourceguruapp.com/ I hope this helps but please don't hesitate to reach out if there's ever anything we can do for you :) Happy scheduling! Kat