Resource management & forecasting software from IRIS PROJECTminder

Deploy your own and third-party resources with optimum impact and accurately forecast work to complete.

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Careful scheduling and management of resources are central to the performance and profitability of your projects. It's hard to strike the right balance between under-utilising scarce or expensive resources and over-committing them.

Consolidated resource plans from all projects give you a true view of staff utilisation to identify those that have spare capacity.

By utilising data logged to similar projects, IRIS PROJECTminder enables you to more accurately plan the resources required to complete tasks, measure usage through timesheets and also forecast requirements to complete.

IRIS PROJECTminder calculates a user's holiday entitlement depending on the number of core hours worked each day. It monitors not only holiday entitlement and usage but also allows tracking of additional absence requests on top of holidays so it's even easier to keep an audit of staff absence requests and resource availability.

Gain greater clarity to build an agile business

Project specific resource cost and charge rates ensure that you have a clear, up-to-the-minute view of actual and forecast costs remaining against budgets and fees.

For each project, you can see which resources are booked, enabling you to better plan and prepare for future eventualities. You can also see work that is planned but not yet allocated or that is still awaiting final confirmation. In the event of sickness or project cancellations or delays and so on, this allows you to move fast to reorganise and reallocate resources at short notice.

Key benefits

• Review and adjust resource requirements against projects
• Identify critical path task duration through resource assignments
• See the forecast cost impact, based on resources assigned to your projects
• Ensure you have enough staff to fulfil your commitments
• Ensure user, department and company-wide staff target utilisations are achieved
• Track actual project time against initial forecasts - plan future project work better
• Comprehensive reports including resource utilisation vs target; revenue vs target; forecast and actual revenue vs costs; work-in-progress financial analysis
• Full integration with Projects, Budgets & Actuals, Contacts, Resource Forecasts, Billing Schedules, Invoicing and Reporting

Zero additional IT overheads, no capital costs - just a simple monthly licence.