Die 10 besten Resourcenmanagment-Softwares & Tools 2024

monday.com is a flexible work platform to help teams communicate in context and get a big picture of outstanding projects, available resources, and projected timelines.

Why I picked monday.com: I chose monday.com primarily for its smart design and straightforward interface. In my opinion, even team members who are lacking resource management experience can quickly get started planning timelines, assigning project ownership, and managing projects. The monday.com app also gives you the flexibility and power to run your team on the go, which I think is a great feature for busy managers. You can organize your daily work, projects, and teams as well as establish workflow automations, share documents, and create Gantt charts for further clarity.

monday.com Standout Features & Integrations

Features that I think really set monday.com apart from the crowd include their 5+ views so you can see your project information the way you want to. For example, with the workload view, you can easily see who’s able to take on more work and who’s not. It's easy to visually gain insight into your team’s work capacity and make adjustments to timelines or ownership accordingly, and in real-time.

Integrations include apps like Slack, Google Calendar, Jira, GitHub, Excel, Google Drive, Gmail, Trello, Dropbox, Typeform, and thousands more accessible via Zapier.

Kantata is a well-rounded tool that bridges the core planning, execution, project accounting, and analysis systems in a single operating environment. It has modules for project management, accounting, resource management, business intelligence, and team collaboration for services teams and agencies.

Why I picked Kantata: What appeals to me about Kantata is their system of dashboards, live time and expense tracking features, and their great documenting system. The resource management module offers real-time utilization and margins at the project and even the task level. From what I've seen, Kantata truly offers a comprehensive RM suite that even includes accounting tools like project costing, budget management, and invoicing. Despite requiring time to really master, Kantata has been widely recognized as being easy to use and learn and I believe that Kantata's benefits are worth the time.

Kantata Standout Features & Integrations

Features that are particularly impressive include Kantata's professional services. The platform makes its Kantata BI Consultants available to users, meaning you have access to a team who can build reports specifically for your business and provide training to your resources to help mitigate the risks and costs of implementation. Further worthwhile features include resource forecasting, capacity management, skills management, scenario planning, and role-based planning.

Integrations include pre-built integrations with tools like Expensify, G Suite, Netsuite, Jira, Hubspot, Xero, Salesforce, Slack, Concur, Qualtrics, Dynamics 365, and Quickbooks. They also provide an integration platform called M-Bridge to help you build your own integrations.

Parallax is a resource planning and forecasting solution that is designed to help increase utilization and is natively built for integrations. In my opinion, it is best suited for marketing agencies, digital services firms, and software development teams looking to take full advantage of modern predictive resourcing and active forecasting to discover measured growth, higher revenue rates, and stronger margins.

Why I picked Parallax: Parallax gained a spot on my list because it does such a great job facilitating resource optimization for digital services companies. The tool gives you the ability to balance workloads, analyze utilization, and match the best available resources to the most suitable projects. I believe that this approach can definitely help optimize team performance and improve overall productivity. Extensive integration capabilities can further extend the platform's functionality.

Parallax Standout Features & Integrations

Features that differentiate Parallax from the other tools on this list include the predictive resource management functionality. The tool has been purpose-built for project and resource managers, providing you with the tools you need to efficiently evaluate and optimize supply and demand. With better resource optimization, you should be able to keep teams happy and satisfied, your projects and resources on track, and everyone in the team and the organization perfectly aligned on common goals. Other notable features include skills tags with an advanced database search of employees, customizable billing models, real-time project P+L reporting, and project accounting.

Integrations include Hubspot, Slack, Tempo, Salesforce, Jira, Harvest, Microsoft Teams, Asana, and Oracle NetSuite. The integrations approach of the platform ensures you can aggregate the best features of each tool in your current tech stack under one roof.

Scoro is a resource management software that provides a suite of tools to assist businesses in managing their projects, finances, and resources within a single system.

Why I picked Scoro: I like the platform's robust features that allow users to plan and prioritize work, distribute tasks with a drag-and-drop planner or Kanban task board, and manage time with shared calendars, timesheets, and a built-in time tracker. Scoro also enables monitoring of billable and non-billable hours and ensures accountability for time spent on client work.

Furthermore, the platform has comprehensive forecasting tools that allow managers to gain a clearer view of current capacity levels, shortages, deadlines, and planned events and vacations. This foresight helps avoid over- or under-utilization of staff, leading to better workload balance and increased employee satisfaction.

Scoro Standout Features & Integrations

Features include resource planning tools, project management tools, CRM capabilities, invoicing, financial tools, and real-time reporting and dashboards.

Integrations include Google Calendar, Microsoft Exchange, Xero, QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, Expensify, Stripe, Jira, Slack, Asana, Dropbox, PayPal, and more.

Wrike is an award-winning, easy-to-use resource management software trusted by 20,000+ organizations worldwide. It's suitable for teams with anywhere from five members to an unlimited number of team members, making it easily scalable. It’s highly configurable and allows users to customize workflows, dashboards, reports, request forms, and more.

Why I picked Wrike: Wrike has earned a spot on this list because of its easy-to-use, intuitive interface and navigation with distinct spaces, folders, and tasks. You can toggle quickly between the home screen and timesheets, dashboards, calendars, reports, and a stream for notifications and messages. Wrike has a dedicated help center with interactive training, videos, a ‘Getting Started’ guide, and a thriving community where users can pick up helpful tips and grow their skills.

Wrike Standout Features & Integrations

Features that set Wrike apart from the competition include it's ability to switch between Kanban boards, interactive drag-and-drop Gantt charts, and traditional workload views to get a bird’s eye view of real-time resource management. You can unlock advanced insights with performance reporting, resource management and allocation, and time tracking. Further valuable features include project management, task scheduling/tracking, resource management, expense tracking, API, budgeting, marketing automations, collaboration support, and reporting.

Integrations include 400+ pre-built native integrations, including integrations with the most popular file management software from Microsoft, Google, and Dropbox, along with sales and marketing software from Salesforce and Marketo.

Runn is a real-time resource, demand, and capacity planning tool with integrated time tracking and powerful forecasting capabilities. I think it is a great tool for getting a bird’s-eye view of all projects and people to instantly spot over-bookings and identify resourcing patterns.

Why I picked Runn: I chose Runn for this list because of how easy it is to create project phases and allocations. You can drag and drop assets, as well as toggle between monthly, quarterly, and 6-month views to plan for the short and long term. If you don’t have the right person at the right time, you can use placeholders instead, which I think is an excellent way to visualize when projects or teams will need to scale up and hire more team members to meet workload requirements. Planning out tentative projects also allows you to see how your resourcing plans might change if the work gets confirmed.

Runn Standout Features & Integrations

Features that make Runn stand out include its impressive visualizations of capacity, workload, availability, and billable and non-billable utilization. You can drill into different roles, teams and tags to compare trends and understand which groups are overbooked. Runn lets you track projects, view forecasts, utilization, project variance, and overall financial performance. And its built-in timesheets will help you understand how much time was worked compared to what was planned.

Integrations include apps like Harvest, WorkflowMax, and Clockify for importing project, client, and people data and syncing time entries. With Runn’s API, you can build your own integration to send data across your favorite tools.

Float is a resource management, planning, and scheduling software that helps teams manage shared work schedules.

Why I picked Float: Float deserves its spot on my list because its scheduling functionality is so easy and intuitive. You can create new projects quickly, and assign them to your team within seconds. The schedule view gives you an accurate, high-level overview of your team’s availability and capacity, and you can drill down deeper using Float’s search and filter functionality. I especially love that you can set custom work hours, import and assign public holidays, schedule time off, assign custom tags like location and skills to your people and projects, and set a scheduled status to let everyone know when you’re working from home or remotely, or what you’re up to on a particular day.

Float Standout Features and Integrations

Features that elevate Float's offering include time tracking functionality. When added, you can access pre-filled timesheets and compare your team’s scheduled hours with the actual time spent on tasks to maximize future resource allocation. Real-time reporting lets you track your resource utilization, monitor project budgets, and forecast your team’s capacity. Further features that I think are notable include right-click menus for splitting tasks, an activity timeline to track changes, capacity management, multi-project planning, forecasting, and reports.

Integrations include Jira, Asana, Teamwork, Trello, Google calendar, Outlook Calendar, Slack, and thousands more through Zapier.

Resource Guru is a dedicated resource management software that aims to make resource management user-friendly with quick scheduling tools.

Why I picked Resource Guru: I chose Resource Guru for this list because of its conflict resolution capabilities. Resource management and team collaboration are built in to make resource booking more straightforward, with clash management, leave management, and a waiting list to prevent over-booking. It helps project managers make bookings simultaneously with no chance of stepping on each other’s toes. Clashes are automatically prevented, which I hope will save you a huge headache.

Resource Guru Standout Features & Integrations

Features that really stand out to me for Resource Guru include individual resource dashboards that allow each staff member to log in and know exactly what they should be working on. To monitor business performance, powerful reports help identify which projects and clients are being over-serviced and assist you with monitoring team utilization and future capacity planning. Other notable features include drag-and-drop scheduling, equipment management, meeting room booking, capacity planning, and forecasting reports.

Integrations include calendar apps like Outlook calendar, Calendly, and Google calendar. Thousands of additional apps are accessible through Zapier.

MRPeasy is a cloud-based MRP software tailored to the unique demands of smaller manufacturers. It offers an all-in-one solution for managing various aspects of production, including inventory oversight, customer relationship management, procurement, and financial workflows.

Why I picked MRPeasy: I chose MRPeasy as the resource management software because of its comprehensive capabilities, which include precise production planning, real-time inventory overview, and seamless integration with various platforms. These features allow you to manage and plan resources months in advance, including materials, equipment, and human resources required. With a customizable central dashboard, you can access a clear view of where you're spending your resources and how you can optimize workflows for production.

MRPeasy Standout Features & Integrations

Features that make MRPeasy stand out include tools for estimating costs and lead times to help plan resources more effectively. The platform also offers customer relationship management (CRM) and sales tracking to allow you to manage customer interactions, orders, and quotations. Additionally, real-time shop floor reporting allows for live insights into the entire production process.

Integrations include Amazon, BigCommerce, Crossfire, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, HubSpot, QuickBooks, ShipStation, Salesforce, Shopify, Zapier, and more.

Hub Planner is a resource management software with a full suite of scheduling, time entry, and reporting features. The core feature that caught my attention is the simple and usable Scheduler, which allows for project and resource planning and visualization. Users can drag and drop to plan projects and schedule resources. The tool also offers a multi-function menu, powerful filtering, and a dynamic team capacity bar. I particularly like how Hub Planner's multiple view modes allow for both high-level birds-eye views and granular views of projects.

Hub Planner has a powerful reporting engine with 70+ pre-formatted templates that I think is a great resource for teams. If you can't find what you're looking for in a template, you can create reports from scratch.

Hub Planner also has a number of inline workflows for timesheets, requesting vacation time, and a slick resource requesting & approval option. Their Unassigned Work feature is great for scheduling and forecasting ahead of the pipeline, and users can create custom fields at the resource or project level. Users can also customize schedule notifications and reminders.

They've taken a modular approach so you have the option to add or remove extensions to the base product, allowing teams to increase functionality or turn off bits they don't need. Inline integrations with Basecamp, Slack, iCal, REst API, and Zapier are available.

Hub Planner offers a 14-day free trial with everything included. There is an extensive knowledge base with tutorial videos, and their customer support is excellent.

Licenses begin at $7 per month, per resource with annual discounts available.