ServiceNow

ServiceNow is self-described as an ITSM (IT services management) platform that provides IT teams with ticketing, project management and workflow automation for assigning tasks.

When compared with Tempus Resource, here is where we find Tempus Resource is a better choice for IT teams:

• Resource Management: Tempus Resource provides a seamless interaction between project allocations and resource capacity, giving end users the ability to directly compare demand with supply. Additionally, Tempus Resource has a robust skills management capability that aligns the needs of the project with the people who have the skills, experience and availability to get it done. Tempus Resource focuses on resource management and ensuring portfolio success, down to the person who contributes to it. Tempus Resource empowers IT PMO teams to start resource capacity planning and forecasting from day one.
• Forecasting What-If Situations with Models and Scenario Planning: Tempus excels in its longstanding feature of what-if modeling and resource and financial scenario planning, allowing organizations to simulate project and resource allocation scenarios before making decisions. Tempus Resource What-If mitigates portfolio risks before they happen, giving you a higher project success rate and delivering on business goals and objectives on time. This is a functionality that is not native to a ITSM-focused platform.
• Customer Implementation and Experience: Both users and admins have a better experience implementing, adopting and using Tempus Resource long-term due to a more focused user interface, personalized success plans and fast and relevant support ticket resolution. Tempus Resource does not require complex project teams for implementation or cumbersome maintenance of the platform. Organizations have the power to configure and set up Tempus Resource the way they need without waiting for customization of a solution they already purchased. ProSymmetry’s expert Implementation Consultants and Customer Success team members will guide and train organizations on the best practices for their needs both in Tempus Resource and for resource management. Tempus Resource’s support team members are true SME’s (subject matter experts) with deep knowledge of Tempus Resource functionalities. Support tickets are addressed within hours, leaving no doubt if your question or issue is heard.
• Real-time Data and Analytics: Tempus Resource gives insight into project plans and resource allocation changes in real-time. When organizations need to pivot due to a change in priorities or market conditions, they can make the changes directly in Tempus Resource and see the results as soon as they click save. With heatmaps and net availability views, you see right away which teams, roles and people are going to be impacted by the changes.
• Integrations with Enterprise Tools: Tempus Resource provides an open REST API that organizations can use from day one. Current users of Tempus Resource connect their project planning, task management, financial solutions and other relevant tools directly to Tempus Resource to keep data aligned and relevant to leadership. Tempus Resource can even connect with ServiceNow (as many of our IT PMO customers do) to get the full picture of their resource plan from the start.
• Scalability for Mid-Size to Enterprise Deployment: Tempus Resource is scalable for all organizations, as seen by many of our customers who have grown and expanded their use of Tempus Resource across business departments. Tempus Resource also scales for resource management maturity. When customers first implement Tempus Resource, they may not be ready for What-If modeling and scenario planning, or using Team Resources for Agile capacity planning. Over time, Tempus Resource easily expands and grows with the organization to support enterprise-wide resource management. Tempus Resource is also flexible enough to fit to your needs, which means the only change management needs is the change to positively impact your organization, not the other way around.
• ROI for Resource Management: Tempus Resource is often the most cost-effective option for resource planning because it does not require the overhead costs of a solution like ServiceNow. With Tempus Resource, you get more capability for cost, meaning there is no additional cost at every corner. Tempus Resource allows you to grow without going over budget.

Back to Top

Planview

Planview has multiple, yet separate solutions for strategic portfolio management, product and project management, and Agile planning.

• Resource Management: Planview is a project and portfolio management tool with some resource management features. Tempus Resource is a resource management solution that drives project and portfolio success. With a resource planning-first approach, organizations get to see when their people will be overallocated, project financials are over budget and overall project status in the same platform that allows them to make changes to mitigate risks. Additionally, Tempus Resource provides the capability to track resource skills to make sure the most skilled, experienced and available person is on the project.
• Forecasting What-If Situations with Models and Scenario Planning: Tempus Resource’s What-If scenario planning and modeling capability gives PMO leaders the ability to make educated decisions on project timelines and financial impacts based on resource availability and gaps. A tool like Planview focuses on the current project and portfolio plan which leaves little room for real-life scenarios like planning for priority and market changes.
• Customer Implementation and Experience: ProSymmetry’s expert Implementation Consultants and Customer Success team members work directly with you to make sure your implementation, adoption and continued use of Tempus Resource is successful, even as your organization grows. Tempus Resource’s SMEs (subject matter experts in both Tempus and resource management) get to know your needs, the decisions you need to make to stay competitive and provide solutions and real-life examples to get you there. When compared to Planview, Tempus Resource’s user interface is easier to use and the implementation and adoption is much quicker. Tempus Resource reduces the amount of complexities to get to your goal by focusing on the resource data you need. You are never alone in your resource management journey with Tempus Resource.
• Real-time Data and Analytics: Tempus Resource’s reporting structure gives you real-time access to your data, in whatever way you need it. Building reports can be done within seconds. Tempus provides real-time visibility into resource utilization, project demands and future capacity – both what you have and what you will need. This instant access to your own data and action insights allows for quicker decision making and better, more educated resource allocation.
• Integrations with Enterprise Tools: Tempus Resource’s open REST API is available to use from day one with little to no limitations. Organizations can connect their task management tools, their legacy project and portfolio management tools, even their finance tools directly to Tempus Resource for data alignment and efficient resource planning. Organizations find that Tempus Resource’s resource management-first approach is a better fit with their existing platforms, reducing the effort for change management activities.
• Scalability for Mid-Size to Enterprise Deployment: Tempus Resource simplifies resource management. It brings the focus to your people and their ability and availability to accomplish the work that drives success. Because Tempus Resource is a resource-first solution, it is able to scale with your organization as you look to align more teams and roles for standardized, actionable reporting to leadership. Tools like Planview are scalable for specific portfolio management needs but lack the ability to scale with your resource management maturity and requirements. Tempus Resource optimizes your resource capacity planning and forecasting whether you are managing 500 resources or 5,000 resources.
• ROI for Resource Management: With Tempus Resource, you get more capability for a better cost, meaning you are actually getting a return on investment from day one. With tools like Planivew, to expand to fit your needs you are often paying more for additional functionality at each turn. Tempus Resource provides all resource planning functionality at the start, allowing you to use what you need, when you need.

Back to Top

Planisware

Planisware products focus on project and portfolio management, strategic portfolio management, and have Agile solutions, but one thing is clear – it is not solely focused on resource management, but it’s a side capability worked into their other solutions.

• Resource Management: Tempus Resource is a resource management solution that drives portfolio success, while Planisware is best known for their investments in traditional PPM capabilities. Tempus Resource aligns people, roles, skills and experience with their capacity and project demands. Tools like Planisware focus on the portfolio from the top down, losing critical insight into how the portfolio will be successful. Planisware can align portfolio work with the organization’s goals and KPIs (key performance indicators), but it does not account for the realities of successfully delivering on those projects.
• Forecasting What-If Situations with Models and Scenario Planning: Tempus Resource’s What-If scenario planning and modeling capability gives PMO leaders the ability to make educated decisions on project timelines and financial impacts based on resource availability and gaps. A tool like Planisware focuses on the current project and portfolio plan, leaving little room for real-life scenarios like planning for priority and market changes. Tempus Resource provides the ability to answer key what-if questions where the outcome of those can lead the organization down a path of successful delivery.
• Customer Implementation and Experience: ProSymmetry’s expert Implementation Consultants and Customer Success team members work directly with you to make sure your implementation, adoption and continued use of Tempus Resource is successful, even as your organization grows. Tempus Resource’s SMEs (subject matter experts in both Tempus Resource and resource management) get to know your needs, the decisions you need to make to stay competitive and provide solutions and real-life examples to get you there. When compared to Planisware, Tempus Resource’s user interface is easier to use and the implementation and adoption is much quicker. Tempus Resource reduces the number of complexities to get to your goal by focusing on the resource data you need. You are never alone in your resource management journey with Tempus Resource.
• Real-time Data and Analytics: Tempus Resource’s reporting structure gives you real-time access to your data, in whatever way you need it. Building reports can be done within seconds. Tempus Resource provides real-time visibility into resource utilization, project demands and future capacity – both what you have and what you will need. This instant access to your own data and action insights allows for quicker decision making and better, more educated resource allocation.
• Integrations with Enterprise Tools: Tempus Resource’s open REST API is available to use from day one with little to no limitations. Organizations can connect their task management tools, their legacy project and portfolio management tools, even their finance tools directly to Tempus Resource for data alignment and efficient resource planning. Organizations find that Tempus Resource’s resource planning-first approach is a better fit with their existing platforms, reducing the effort for change management activities.
• Scalability for Mid-Size to Enterprise Deployment: Tempus Resource simplifies resource management. It brings the focus to your people and their ability and availability to accomplish the work that drives your success. Because Tempus Resource is a resource-first solution, it can scale with your organization as you look to align more teams and roles for standardized, actionable reporting to leadership. Tools like Planisware are harder to expand on (without more cost) and require more work than it may be worth. Tempus Resource optimizes your resource capacity planning and forecasting whether you are managing 500 resources or 5,000 resources.
• ROI for Resource Management: With Tempus Resource, you get more capability for a better cost, meaning you are actually getting a return on your investment from day one. With tools like Planisware, to expand to fit your needs you are often paying more for additional functionality at each turn. Tempus Resource provides all resource planning functionality at the start, allowing you to use what you need, when you need.

Back to Top

Meisterplan

While Meisterplan is another company that caters to businesses around the globe like ProSymmetry, customer care with Meisterplan costs money. ProSymmetry will always take care of our customers throughout their use and implementation of Tempus Resource.

• Resource Management: Tempus Resource is built for large-scale, enterprise resource capacity planning, forecasting and managing, while Meisterplan is best for smaller teams looking to manage their own projects, without a view into allocations that span the organizations. Tempus Resource allows Resource Managers to leverage generic-role or skill-based assignments that is then compared to the capacity of those individuals to see where overutilization risks will come before they happen. Tempus Resource users then use Tempus What-If modeling to play out each scenario that leads to portfolio success.
• Forecasting What-If Situations with Models and Scenario Planning: Tempus Resource’s What-If scenario planning and modeling capability gives PMO leaders the ability to make educated decisions on project timelines and financial impacts based on resource availability and risks. A tool like Meisterplan focuses on the current project and portfolio plan, which leaves little room for real-life, future thinking scenarios like planning for priority and market changes. Tempus Resource provides the ability to answer key what-if questions where the outcome of those can lead the organization down a path of successful delivery.
• Customer Implementation and Experience: ProSymmetry’s expert Implementation Consultants and Customer Success team members work directly with you to make sure your implementation, adoption and continued use of Tempus Resource is successful – even as your organization grows. Tempus’s SMEs (subject matter experts in both Tempus Resource and resource management) get to know your needs, the decisions you need to make to stay competitive, and provide solutions and real-life examples to get you there. When compared to Meisterplan, Tempus’s user interface is easier to use and the implementation and adoption is much quicker. Tempus Resource reduces the number of complexities to get to your goal by focusing on the resource data you need. You are never alone in your resource management journey with Tempus Resource.
• Real-time Data and Analytics: As project and resource managers work in Tempus Resource to plan future projects and manage current assignments and resource capacity, all users see changes in real-time with detailed insights into how those changes impact the project and resources. Tempus Resource improves operational efficiency and organization-wide decision-making.
• Integrations with Enterprise Tools: Tempus Resource’s open REST API is available to use from day one with little to no limitations. Organizations can connect their task management tools, their legacy project and portfolio management tools, even their finance tools directly to Tempus Resource for data alignment and efficient resource planning. Organizations find that Tempus Resource’s resource-first approach is a better fit with their existing platforms, reducing the effort for change management activities.
• Scalability for Mid-Size to Enterprise Deployment: Tempus Resource simplifies resource management. It brings the focus to your people and their ability and availability to accomplish the work that drives your success. Because Tempus Resource is a resource-first solution, it can scale with your organization as you look to align more teams and roles for standardized, actionable reporting to leadership. Tools like Meisterplan are adequate for small to mid-size teams, but it may struggle to scale effectively for a larger enterprise with global resource planning needs. Tempus Resource optimizes your resource capacity planning and forecasting, whether you are managing 500 resources or 5,000 resources.
• ROI for Resource Management: For a large organization, the limitations of Meisterplan could result in inefficiencies, requiring manual workarounds or additional tools to fill in the gaps in resource planning. Tempus Resource, on the other hand, provides a more comprehensive and efficient platform, reducing the need for additional tools or manual processes. Over time, this can lead to significant cost savings by streamlining resource management and improving forecasting accuracy.

Back to Top

JIRA Align

Jira Align focuses on the core areas of portfolio management, product management and program management, but there is no core focus on your company’s resource management efforts like Tempus Resource.

• Resource Management: Tempus Resource is specifically designed for resource management, capacity planning, and forecasting, which provides an edge for organizations with complex resource allocation challenges. Jira Align focuses on scaling Agile practices, making it great for coordinating work at a strategic level but less effective in managing detailed resource utilization and forecasting needs across multiple project methodologies.
• Forecasting What-If Situations with Models and Scenario Planning: Tempus Resource’s What-If scenario planning and modeling capability shows the impact of changing priorities and market conditions on your people and project financials right away. Because Tempus Resource is resource-first, you are able to focus on the availability of your people, what needs to be de-prioritized or start at a different time based on the reality of your people, their skills and experience and capacity, both now and in the future, regardless of project methodology. JIRA Align lacks the ability to demonstrate changes in your plan without changing your current assignments.
• Customer Implementation and Experience: ProSymmetry’s expert Implementation Consultants and Customer Success team members work directly with you to make sure your implementation, adoption and continued use of Tempus Resource is successful, even as your organization grows. Tempus Resource’s SMEs (subject matter experts in both Tempus Resource and resource management) get to know your needs, the decisions you need to make to stay competitive and provide solutions and real-life examples to get you there. Our experts understand the realities of business and not every organization is Agile-only. Tempus Resource reduces the amount of complexities to get to your goal by focusing on the resource data you need with whatever the project methodology it is that you are planning against.
• Real-time Data and Analytics: Because Tempus Resource is built for resource planning, it can report on all project demands, not just those that fit into the Agile method. In Tempus Resource, stakeholders can see the impact of their projects and sprints based on allocations to both individual people and Agile teams. This level of insight is crucial to making educated, actionable decisions across the enterprise, not in a silo caused by project management methods.
• Integrations with Enterprise Tools: Tempus Resource’s open REST API is available to use from day one with little to no limitations. Organizations can connect their task management tools, even JIRA, their legacy project and portfolio management tools, and their finance tools directly to Tempus for data alignment and efficient resource planning. Organizations find that Tempus Resource’s resource planning-first approach is a better fit with their existing platforms, reducing the effort for change management activities.
• Scalability for Mid-Size to Enterprise Deployment: Tempus Resource is flexible in its capabilities to manage and handle multiple project methodologies, whereas JIRA Align is focused on Agile operations only. Tempus Resource simplifies resource management to allow resource allocation by what makes the most sense to all PMOs, not just those that are more traditional or Agile-only. Tempus Resource scales with your organization as it grows in complexity and understands that the needs of your organization is not just one-size fits all.
• ROI for Resource Management: With Tempus Resource, you get more capability for a better cost, meaning you are getting a return on your investment from day one. With tools like JIRA Align, to expand to fit your needs you are often forced to look at a different tool, meaning you are now paying for (and implementing) multiple tools for the same purpose. Tempus Resource provides all resource planning functionality at the start, allowing you to use what you need, when you need.

Back to Top

Smartsheet

Smartsheet’s focus is on work management. The resource management module is an additional charge, and not built into the core platform like Tempus Resource.

• Resource Management: Tempus Resource is built for resource management, capacity planning and forecasting for the entire organization, not just one team. For organizations that need to forecast hundreds or thousands of resources with complexities around skills, experience and roles, Tempus Resource is a better fit. Smartsheet’s resource management add-in is best for smaller teams where tracking workload is associated with tasks. With Tempus Resource, project and resource managers can immediately see the impact of their demand (project allocation) on their supply (resource capacity) via heatmaps, net availability grids, roll-ups by role, manager, project or portfolio – whatever is necessary. Tempus Resource is built for large, complex teams with cross-functional projects.
• Forecasting What-If Situations with Models and Scenario Planning: Tempus Resource’s What-If scenario planning and modeling capability shows the impact of changing priorities and market conditions on your people and project financials right away. Because Tempus Resource is resource-first, you are able to focus on the availability of your people, what needs to be de-prioritized or start at a different time based on the reality of your people, their skills and experience and capacity – both now and in the future, regardless of project methodology. Smartsheet’s resource management add-in does not allow for this predictive planning and modeling.
• Customer Implementation and Experience: ProSymmetry’s expert Implementation Consultants and Customer Success team members work directly with you to make sure your implementation, adoption and continued use of Tempus Resource is successful, even as your organization grows. Tempus Resource’s SMEs (subject matter experts in both Tempus Resource and resource management) get to know your needs, the decisions you need to make to stay competitive, and provide solutions and real-life examples to get you there. Our experts understand the realities of business and how important change management is to a successful implementation. Tempus Resource reduces the amount of complexities to get to your goal by focusing on the resource data you need.
• Real-time Data and Analytics: Because Tempus Resource is built for resource planning, it can report on all project demands, including named, team and generic placeholder resources. Tempus Resource offers detailed, easy to use reporting and analytics on resource utilization, availability, and capacity. For a PMO that is managing hundreds or thousands of resources, these insights are crucial to understanding where resources are being under or over-utilized, how efficiently teams are working, and where adjustments are needed. Smartsheet’s reporting is functional for smaller teams but does not provide the same depth of resource-centric analysis, making it hard to see a full picture of resource performance at every level.
• Integrations with Enterprise Tools: Leverage the Smartsheet data connector in Tempus Resource (at no cost) to sync relevant project and resource data to Tempus Resource for alignment on your resource planning. Additionally, Tempus Resource’s open REST API is available to use from day one with little to no limitations. Organizations can connect their task management and project workflow tools, legacy project and portfolio management tools, and finance tools directly to Tempus Resource for data alignment and efficient resource planning. Organizations find that Tempus Resource’s resource-first approach is a better fit with their existing platforms, reducing the effort for change management activities.
• Scalability for Mid-Size to Enterprise Deployment: Smartsheet is ideal for smaller teams, but proves to be a challenge to implement organization and enterprise-wide. Tempus Resource is flexible in its capabilities to manage and handle multiple project methodologies with departments from the entire organization following the same process to create and manage their resource plans. Tempus Resource simplifies resource management by allowing resource allocation by what makes the most sense to all project management teams. Tempus Resource scales with your organization as it grows in complexity and understands that the needs of your organization is not just one-size fits all.
• ROI for Resource Management: While Smartsheet offers cheap user-per-month subscriptions, organizations quickly learn they need more functionality to be effective. Effectiveness and efficiency should not result in breaking the budget. With Tempus Resource, all resource planning features are included in your subscription allowing you to grow and mature your resource management practices as you need.

Back to Top

Monday.com, Asana & ClickUp

Tools like Monday.com, Asana and ClickUp excel at project management and tracking projects, deadlines, and task assignments, but do not meet the needs of resource managers looking for a comprehensive solution for resource forecasting, capacity planning and scenario planning like Tempus Resource.

• Resource Management: Tempus Resource is built for resource management, capacity planning and forecasting, which makes it the most efficient and effective solution for organizations who are focused on resource capacity planning and forecasting. Monday.com and tools like Asana, ClickUp and JIRA focus on general work and task management, approaching projects with a task-first perspective. These tools break down what is needed to complete a project by the tasks that must get done, not the availability of the people who are doing that work. These tools lack the depth needed for managing complex resource plans across teams, departments and the enterprise.
• Forecasting What-If Situations with Models and Scenario Planning: Tempus Resource’s What-If scenario planning and modeling capability allows organizations to simulate project, resource and financial outcomes and plan for future scenarios without changing your live data. Task management tools lack the ability to interpret changes in plans or to simulate possibilities with the future plan. These tools allow for what is happening, not what could happen.
• Customer Implementation and Experience: ProSymmetry’s expert Implementation Consultants and Customer Success team members work directly with you to make sure your implementation, adoption and continued use of Tempus Resource is successful, even as your organization grows. Unlike these task management tools, you will work with a Tempus Resource expert from day one who will guide and train you to use Tempus Resource the way that you need. If your organization is new to a resource management process, they will provide best practices and real-life examples from similar, successful organizations. You are never alone in your resource management journey with Tempus Resource.
• Real-time Data and Analytics: While task management tools are nimble enough to respond to changes in tasks and timelines, compiling the data in a meaningful way to leadership and the enterprise organization proves to be complex. Often, this data is spread among several task management tools, with their own data structures and processes. With Tempus Resource, all resource data is in one system, aligned how the organization needs and is accessible to all stakeholders when it’s needed.
• Integrations with Enterprise Tools: Tempus Resource’s open REST API is available to use from day one with little to no limitations. Organizations can connect their task management tools, their legacy project and portfolio management tools, even their finance tools directly to Tempus Resource for data alignment and efficient resource planning. Task management tools have many connections available to them, but they are often more focused on productivity tools rather than enterprise data sources.
• Scalability for Mid-Size to Enterprise Deployment: Tempus Resource provides alignment for enterprise-wide needs, not just individual team needs. Our solution better aligns with and scales with the requirements of large-scale and complex implementations with multiple organizations and project teams using Tempus Resource for their own resource planning. Task management tools are easy to use but lack the ability to scale with enterprise resource planning requirements.
• ROI for Resource Management: While task management tools like Monday.com and ClickUp offer “free-mium” plans, organizations quickly run into the paywall. Plus, as more and more people and data are required to manage project plans and task assignments, the cost to operate in these tools grows substantially. With Tempus Resource, all resource planning features are included in your subscription allowing you to grow and mature your resource management practices as you need.

Back to Top