Resource Guru
About Resource Guru
Resource Guru is a comprehensive resource management, planning, and scheduling solution designed to help organizations streamline day-to-day operations and optimize resource utilization. With its user-friendly interface and intuitive features, Resource Guru empowers teams to master time and achieve blissful simplicity in resource management.
The platform offers a set of scheduling capabilities, including resource scheduling, resource management, leave management, project scheduling, equipment management, and meeting room booking. These features enable organizations to keep track of their teams, equipment, and other resources, ensuring efficient allocation and minimizing the risk of over-allocation. The planning features, such as capacity planning and project forecasting reports, provide valuable insights to help businesses make informed decisions and achieve successful project outcomes.
Resource Guru also includes time tracking functionality through its timesheet module, allowing organizations to monitor resource utilization rates, billable vs. non-billable time, overtime, and time off. The platform's integration capabilities seamlessly connect it with other tools, ensuring a harmonious workflow across the organization.
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- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Great tool for resource planning
Reviewed on 13/2/2022
Overall, RG was a game-changer for us. Since we have implemented it, we got a better overview of...
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.
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We wanted something specific for resource planning, not for task management, and the others we considered were more leaning toward task management.- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great team management solution
Reviewed on 9/5/2024
Very positive. The product is great, but its my personality to always give feedback (solicited or...
Very positive. The product is great, but its my personality to always give feedback (solicited or not) and they always accept it graciously. Their reps are awesome and give prompt, helpful responses.
Pros
Beauty of the UI and ease of adding projects and bookings and moving them around.
Cons
There are lots of notification options which is great, but last I checked, there was know what was deleted if someone accidentally deletes a booking. Our solution is to restrict who can make edits.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
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Great product but no development
Reviewed on 30/11/2015
Whilst it Guru is a promising, flexible and easy to use product it really is just bare bones at the...
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.
Response from Resource Guru
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.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great and intuitive hassle free tool for planning and time tracking
Reviewed on 11/9/2024
Great, easy, intuitive, hassle free, has got all you need.
Great, easy, intuitive, hassle free, has got all you need.
Pros
Resource Guru is a very easy to use and intuitive tool, nice UI, easy filtering, able to see both planned and actually spent time on projects with easy reports on billable utilization. Everything a small to mid, even greater teams in number need for a hassle free planning and reporting on projects.
Cons
nothing so far. The tool has delivered up to team's expectations so far.
- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
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Reviewed on 7/10/2024
Honestly, despite being a work tool, sometimes it felt like a game and it is incredibly satisfying...
Honestly, despite being a work tool, sometimes it felt like a game and it is incredibly satisfying to use it. Very feel softwares feel that intimate or that nice to use.
Pros
Fore forecasting tools offered by Resource Guru are fantastic. It is easy to use and it is very interactive.
Cons
It just gets to a point where if the business grows too much, it feels like Resource Guru isn't able to handle it as well as some of the competitors. The Scalability they offer could be better.
Resource Guru FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Resource Guru.Q. What type of pricing plans does Resource Guru offer?
Resource Guru offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$4.16/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
30-day free trial, no credit card required. Grasshopper: $5/user/month (billed monthly) or $4.16/user/month (billed annually). Blackbelt: $8/user/month (billed monthly) or $6.65/user/month (billed annually). Master: $12/user/month (billed monthly) or $10/user/month (billed annually).
Q. Who are the typical users of Resource Guru?
Resource Guru has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Resource Guru support?
Resource Guru supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Resource Guru support mobile devices?
Resource Guru supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Resource Guru integrate with?
Resource Guru integrates with the following applications:
Calendly, Fantastical, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Zapier
Q. What level of support does Resource Guru offer?
Resource Guru offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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