Best for
Best for engineering, consulting and IT teams that want a dedicated booking and utilisation tool alongside an existing project system, and want to pay only for the modules they use.
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Resource Planning Comparison
eResource Scheduler vs. Tempus Resource
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for enterprise PMOs forecasting capacity across a portfolio whose project plans already live in several different tools.
- Enterprise
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Full Comparison
| Criterion | eResource Scheduler | Tempus Resource |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $5 / resource / month Core Scheduling module on annual billing, $6.25 billed monthly. Timesheets, financials, forecasting and SSO are separate modules priced per resource on top. | Quote-based ProSymmetry states that pricing is tailored to planning needs, team size and implementation goals; no price list is published. |
| Free trial | 30-day trial, no credit card, extensions on request | 30-day free trial, covering Tempus Resource, Tempus Portfolio or both |
| API | Yes, an open REST API included in the core Scheduling module | Yes, a REST API included for all users at no additional cost |
| Hosting | Cloud, with a self-hosted build for organisations with on-premise requirements | Cloud or on-premises |
| Made in | India (Enbraun Technologies, Jaipur) | United States (ProSymmetry, Beachwood, Ohio) |
| Resource planning | Yes, one pool across roles, locations and departments covering people, equipment and rooms, with drag-and-drop scheduling, bulk edits, recurring bookings, per-resource working hours, shifts and time zones, and skill matching that ranks candidates by match score | Yes, capacity and demand planning from a central resource catalogue with custom attributes, heat maps for over- and under-allocation by role, department or skill, forecasting six to thirty-six months out, and What-If resequencing of the portfolio |
| Task planning | Bookings are made against projects rather than a task breakdown; the product schedules who works when, not how the work is split up | No task planning of its own; project plans come from connected tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira and Smartsheet |
| Time tracking | Yes, but as a separately priced Timesheets module that records actual hours against projects and sets them against what was planned | Yes, timesheets are part of the platform, so planned time can be compared against actual time spent |
| Reporting and controlling | Yes, live dashboards plus customisable reports on utilisation, availability, resource gaps and forecast demand, with cost, revenue and profit reporting in the separate Financial module | Yes, standard reporting plus the Insight+ module for dynamic dashboards, and audit logging that records the before and after of every change |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise |
| Support | Email helpdesk, Chat | Phone, Email helpdesk |
| Onboarding | more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials, Guided onboarding | Guided onboarding |
| Company size | more entries Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Integrations | Jira, Slack | more entries Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, Jira, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Excel, Smartsheet, Salesforce, PeopleSoft, Wolters Kluwer |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price eResource Scheduler From $5 / resource / month Tempus Resource Quote-based
- Free trial eResource Scheduler 30-day trial, no credit card, extensions on request Tempus Resource 30-day free trial, covering Tempus Resource, Tempus Portfolio or both
- Company size eResource Scheduler Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Tempus Resource Enterprise
- Hosting eResource Scheduler Cloud, with a self-hosted build for organisations with on-premise requirements Tempus Resource Cloud or on-premises
- Support eResource Scheduler Email helpdesk, Chat Tempus Resource Phone, Email helpdesk
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
eResource Scheduler
Strengths
- Billed per resource rather than per user, and archived resources drop out of the count
- Modules are bought individually, so a team that only needs the schedule does not pay for timesheets or financials
- Requests are matched to people by skill and ranked with a match score, with gap reporting on requested against assigned
Limitations
- No task breakdown; it books people to projects rather than to tasks
- Timesheets, financials, forecasting and single sign-on are all priced on top of the core module, so the entry price is not the running cost
- Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar and n8n integrations are announced as coming rather than shipped
Tempus Resource
Strengths
- What-If modelling resequences the whole portfolio by priority and availability, showing the effect of new work or a departure before it is committed
- Timesheets sit in the same platform as the plan, so planned and actual time are compared without a second system
- REST API included for all users at no extra cost, plus prebuilt connections to Workday, ServiceNow, Jira and Microsoft Project
- Available on-premises as well as in the cloud, which few tools in this category still offer
Limitations
- No task planning; it is a planning layer that expects project plans to come from elsewhere
- No published prices, so every quote comes from sales
- Aimed at enterprise PMOs, and the forecasting machinery is more than a small team needs
Plans
Pricing
eResource Scheduler
- Scheduling $5 / resource / month Annual billing, $6.25 billed monthly. The core module: timeline, filters, custom fields, utilisation and availability reports, open REST API.
- Scheduling Plus $2 / resource / month Annual billing, $3 billed monthly. Adds resource requests, match scores, multi time-zone support, gap reporting, capacity forecasting and third-party calendar integration.
- Timesheets $4 / resource / month Annual billing, $5 billed monthly.
- Financial $3 / resource / month Annual billing, $4 billed monthly.
- Authentication Plus $1.60 / resource / month Annual billing, $2 billed monthly.
Tempus Resource
- Quote-based Not stated ProSymmetry prices per quote, tailored to planning needs, team size and implementation goals.
What users say
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