Portfolio Management for Resource Constrained Businesses

Develop High Value and Achievable Portfolios

Agile Resource Planning

With ResourceFirst, Agile teams gain a unified forecast that integrates individual and team resource assignments. This comprehensive view allows for greater visibility into overall resource capacity, helping teams plan more effectively, optimize performance, and align resources to project needs as they evolve.

Project Accounting & Financials

ResourceFirst integrates project cost data, forecasts, and resource details into one unified platform. This centralization improves financial reporting, enhances collaboration among teams, and provides the financial clarity necessary to make informed decisions and drive successful project outcomes.

Strategic Resource Allocation

Whether working in Agile, traditional, or hybrid project environments, ResourceFirst streamlines strategic resource allocation. It aligns the right skills and budgets with project demands, helping prioritize high-value work and support more effective, long-term planning across the entire enterprise.

Resource Capacity Planning

ResourceFirst provides a clear, up-to-date view of resource capacity and utilization across the entire organization. By aligning work with actual resource availability, teams can better manage workloads, improve forecasting accuracy, enhance collaboration, and ensure smoother, more efficient project execution.

Resource Management

ResourceFirst helps you manage resources more effectively by aligning people, budgets, and priorities across all your projects. With real-time dashboards and built-in conflict resolution tools, you get full visibility and better decision-making across the enterprise. This ensures teams stay coordinated.

Cloud-based

Also offered as a thin client on-premise solution.

Intuitive

Easy to use for all the stakeholders in the organization.

Powerful

Built from Microsoft Azure with Qlik powered dashboards.

Integration

Designed for System Integration with open architecture & full API.

PRIORITIZED RESOURCE PLANNING

You align people with work priorities; our software takes care of the rest.

Managing your workloads and teams is challenging. That’s why so many projects fail, miss deadlines or go over budget.

When it comes to workforce planning and resource management, you need to start with the most important projects and workloads, and allocate resources according to business priorities.

ResourceFirst allocates resources to projects based on organizational goals and priorities

ResourceFirst by PDWare is proven to drive results:

5

Average number of weeks to production

5

Minimum number of users

∞

Maximum number of views and reports

100%

Percentage of clients that improve resource utilization

Why choose PDWare?

5 good reasons
to choose ResourceFirst

There are plenty of options for project and resource management software, so what makes our software solution the best choice for your organization?

We pioneered resource planning and created a purpose-built resource management solution to help ensure the most important work gets done, without undue stress for your most important resource – your people.

And we’ve been innovating in resource and workforce planning ever since.

We’re fast
Get up and running in days or weeks, not months. And we help you grow into our software over time.
We’re easy
A powerful cloud-based resource planning tool that’s as easy to use as Excel, with a simple and intuitive interface.
We’re innovative
As the first software company to base a workforce planning solution on a foundation of resource planning, we know the category inside out.
We’re knowledgeable
Our leadership team has decades of experience in resource planning and portfolio management best practices.
We’re committed
We’re with you all the way, and just a phone call or email away if you need us. Our success is measured by yours.

“I'd say the key feature is that PDWare is so simple to implement and use. The focus is never on the tool. This is really important to us. It has streamlined our processes.”

VP, R&D

“One of the main reasons we picked PDWare was that it didn’t try to solve a problem we didn’t have. We were within .05% of our budget at the end of the year.”

Sr. Director

“I can only praise PDWare. It requires so little effort. I maybe spend an hour a month updating everything. It’s light, intuitive, and keeps evolving with our needs.”

PMO Manager

“We use the process and PDWare to make decisions about projects, to approve, cancel, or re-scope as needed. This flexibility allows us to keep projects on track.”

VP, PMO

“Project prioritization at Respironics has improved since the inclusion of PDWare. The flexibility to make adjustments across the portfolio is very valuable.”

PMO

”Project development planning is not a day at the beach... but with PDWare, it doesn’t have to be that way. Our experience continues to improve with each release.”

Sr.Manager