Tempus Resource
Purpose-built resource forecasting and capacity planning, with what-if modelling at its centre.
- Starting price
- Quote-based
- Free trial
- 30-day free trial, covering Tempus Resource, Tempus Portfolio or both
- API
- Yes, a REST API included for all users at no additional cost
Overview
Tempus Resource is resource forecasting and capacity planning software from ProSymmetry, an Ohio vendor founded in 2007. It is built for the supply-and-demand question rather than for running projects: a central catalogue holds resource data, heat maps show over- and under-allocation, and forecasts project what roles and skills will be needed six to thirty-six months out. The What-If feature is the core of it, letting a portfolio be resequenced so the effect of new work arriving mid-plan can be seen before it is committed. Timesheets sit in the same platform.
Our take
Narrow on purpose, and that narrowness is the point: it sits over the tools where work already happens rather than replacing them, so it can be dropped over a landscape where Microsoft Project, Jira and Smartsheet already coexist. The trial is unusual in this corner of the market, where the norm is a sales call before you see anything, and thirty days is enough to load real data and find out whether the forecasts hold up. Whether it is affordable is still a conversation, and without a PMO to run the modelling you will not get the money back out of it.
Key Facts
| Category | |
|---|---|
| Starting price | 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 free trial, covering Tempus Resource, Tempus Portfolio or both |
| API | Yes, a REST API included for all users at no additional cost |
| Hosting | Cloud or on-premises |
| Made in | United States (ProSymmetry, Beachwood, Ohio) |
Features
- Resource planning
- 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
- No task planning of its own; project plans come from connected tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira and Smartsheet
- Time tracking
- Yes, timesheets are part of the platform, so planned time can be compared against actual time spent
- Reporting and controlling
- Yes, standard reporting plus the Insight+ module for dynamic dashboards, and audit logging that records the before and after of every change
Integrations
- Workday
- SAP SuccessFactors
- SAP
- Oracle
- ServiceNow
- Jira
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Microsoft Azure DevOps
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Smartsheet
- Salesforce
- PeopleSoft
- Wolters Kluwer
Deployment and Support
- Deployment
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- Cloud (SaaS)
- Browser-based
- On-premise
- Support
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- Phone
- Email helpdesk
- Onboarding
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- Guided onboarding
- Company size
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- Enterprise
Pros and Cons
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
Pricing
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Quote-based
Not stated
ProSymmetry prices per quote, tailored to planning needs, team size and implementation goals.
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