Resource Guru Reviews

Pros
That you can easily move jobs around if they need to change and can book off holiday time and meeting time so that you don't overbook yourself.

Cons
The waiting time bit could be better if time is overbooked - doesn't allow for different lengths of working days.

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Pros
The product is easy to use and allows the administrator to manage teams, plan and review previous activities. It can be used for recording or planning and gives a level of visibility that is lacking in a number of products. Although the team are constantly looking at ways to improve the product, it never strays away from its core and prime functionality. Many products try to grow into a bigger, wider space and lose the key elements that attracted customers to the product in the first place. A customer of ours was so impressed with the product that they too purchased it after seeing the value it afforded us.

Cons
It would be great if there was an App which could be opened rather than a web browser, although this is only a minor consideration with the number of browsers out there.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
The tool really makes time management easy and extremely visual. It does away with ugly excel spreadsheets and with a neat UX, it allows for easy time forecasting whilst also enabling you to easily keep on top of your time expenditure! I genuinely love this tool. Along with the tool, where there are areas for improvement, the development team are happy to listen and actually make changes based on feedback! I've provided feedback with a couple of times and both have been integrated into future updates - this is a company that listens and constantly develops for the users' needs.

Cons
Very difficult to outline any main cons, as like I said above, any issues I've had with the tool historically, they've been resolved! If I HAD to provide one, it'll be how the tool works across different devices. It's not especially mobile friendly...but that's me scraping the barrel for a con.

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Pros
It's online, live, easy to use and easy to update, GUI is nice, all information is easy in a GANTT style.

Cons
Not available on a phone!!! Needs an app, some copy paste/duplicate features could be added. Should sync better to iCal and be updatable from iCal to RG.

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Pros
Our use of Resource Guru is sort of out of the box. We use it for scheduling barn space in the Agriculture Industry. The support team has always stepped up to find ways to enable Resource Guru to fit with our unique needs. If it works this well for our out of the box use, imagine how well it works for it's intended purpose. For us, the reasonable price has been worth the gamble of using a software not meant for our intended use.

Cons
In our out of the box use, the biggest con - is the speed at which the software moves from page to page. However, this might not be Resource Guru's fault. It could be our internet capabilities, or the amount of data we plug in for our purpose. For our use, I'm looking a 15-17 week time frame, like most people look at a 8-10 hour work day. If you use the software as it's intended, this probably wouldn't be a problem.

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Likelihood to recommend: 8/10

Pros
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

Cons
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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Likelihood to recommend: 9/10

Pros
It allows my team to update resource use on their own schedule, and eliminates hours of my time in schedule and team management. I also love that I can archive resources when they are temporarily inactive, therefore saving money.

Cons
What I would like to see in the future: 1. Ability to get daily "Meeting Room" email or report of usage. (Ability to set the time that this occurs would also be helpful) 2. For events that an administrator assigns to a booker, it would be great if the booker could also edit the event. 3. Allow for same-day event schedule changes to notify the resource.

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Pros
Resource Guru has been fantastic to work with. They have always had excellent customer service, their product is easy to use, and the bills are on-time and consistent. At this point, Resource Guru is a staple program for our college TV station.

Cons
The only thing that I would change would be allowing for custom fields on resource checkouts as a standard. There is currently a large text box for any comments, but it would be great to have the ability to name and create one line text options if you use them for every checkout.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
Easy to use from anywhere and you can filter out the schedules you don't want to see. We no longer have issues figuring out vacation coverage for our people.

Cons
Would like to see an iPhone app and an Android app in the future instead of suing the web browser all the time.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
- online so you can view it remotely - clients can be color coded - you can set various permission levels - reporting is accurate - customer service is fast

Cons
- searching for a specific project can be a challenge with no search feature - nothing else, it works well.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
I love that Resource Guru allows anyone with an ID to create a booking. this helps our Production team keep tabs on equipment / what is being used and what is not being used in an efficient manner. Customer Service has been outstanding & prompt. Even around the holiday season. Thanks again Guru and crew, you have an outstanding product and a fabulous support team. Special shout out to Kat who helped us out in a tight spot recently.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
This software is very easy to use. I like the new option with assigning a Project IDs. The email notifications are great as well. I also like that we can schedule sick days and vacations days.

Cons
I really wish this software would have a UNDO option. Sometimes instead of a copy I would drag and move the item from one person to another. Also, I like the notifications, but I wish we could schedule them to arrive at different time, not at midnight.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

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Pros
Can set up clients and projects in multiple ways which support your business. Colour coding allowing provisional bookings to be easily identified. Reporting with output to xls format.

Cons
Would be useful to be able to add charge out rates to projects - at the moment export to xls and then combine with other data rather than being able to report in one go.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
I love using Resource Guru to schedule our team's time. It's so easy to learn and use. Being web-based, I can use it from anywhere, which is a major lpus.

Cons
I wish I could make tasks recurring, but that's not a major drawback. Also, it would be nice to be able to see more detail of each task without clicking into it. But in a way, it's simplicity is better than fancy functionality.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
The simplicity - it does calendars really well without forcing to use a huge CRM. Our team is substantially more organised because of it.

Cons
Google Calendar integration can be fiddly but it's not too bad. Other than that, we're really happy with the software.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
It is web based, easy to use, easy to deploy and maintain, extremely intuitive and practical, adding resources and projects is just a few clicks away. Visually representation of your staff weeks in advance is priceless.

Cons
If I had to mention something, on slower connections, it takes a couple of seconds to refresh, but that might not be entirely RG's fault.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
The software is easy to use and gives a good easy to view allocation of resources.

Cons
Scrolling, which I believe has been addressed in beta version.

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Likelihood to recommend: 9/10

Pros
After 4 years of trying to see 'at a glance' our resource pool and track time against projects, Resource Guru has become a valuable software asset

Cons
The pop up messages tend to be a nuisance and I would prefer it if they just faded away after a few minutes.

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Pros
It is simple to use and easy to input requirements. Colour codes make it easier to identify the jobs that are completed.

Cons
The layout is quite messy when the hours input for resource is on waiting. It is difficult to identify which is your booking.

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Likelihood to recommend: 6/10

Pros
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.

Cons
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.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
Resource GURU focus on resource management . It doesn't provide a ton of unnecessary gadgets just driving the cost and complexity up. In a small company of app. 20 engineers, the GURU makes an excellent overview for the daily and weekly planning, provides a good forecasts of utilization looking ahead, and the ability of synchronizing with outlook makes it very easy to inform about our expectations to our colleagues.

Cons
A nice feature to work on, would be an 'autofit' function, where a new project could be thrown into the bunch of existing projects and let GURU do the initial planning. A smooth looking app as other software provide would also be nice.

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10

Pros
Easy and attractive interface. Keep truck of the status of all the employees and resources in a glance. Saves time and resources. Interesting procedure to be apdated not boring at all.Οffers consistency in transactions and services. Multilingual. Supproted by both Windows and Mac.

Cons
Future and completed activities have an issue of sync. Reports are difficult to handle effectively. It is expensive when you what to intergrade it in your everyday school or business rutine.

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Likelihood to recommend: 8/10

Pros
Functionalities are up to date providing everything required to make everyone aware of what going on.

Cons
I think it should have a bit more security in terms of who can and cannot see what. Also Maybe navigation can be improved on by using side or top navigation colour coded bar

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Likelihood to recommend: 9/10

Pros
its easy to use , fantastic day by day tool , cant live without this now . makes you planning lot easier to manage

Cons
i thing need a bit of work on the settings to set up people , could me more simple but once you understand becomes a bit easier

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Likelihood to recommend: 10/10