Lighthouse: Resource Management

Why Use Lighthouse to Manage Your Resources?

Lighthouse Resource Management lets you easily define your resources, assign specific roles and track their availability.

With Lighthouse Resource Management, you can instantly measure utilization rates, forecast availability for new projects, and measure overall productivity. Keeping resources challenged and busy (but not overworked) is essential for any software team or organization. Lighthouse makes it easy.

Compare Resource Management features within different Lighthouse editions:

  Free Edition Standard Edition Team Edition Enterprise Edition
Features        
Track different rates based on projectsEasily track your resource's internal and external billable rates. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Assign one or more rolesYour resources can have multiple roles per project. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Enable or Disable AccessYour resources can be enabled and disabled (and locked and unlocked). Yes Yes Yes Yes
Track resource experience and skillsKeep track of your resources' skills and experience as they work on different projects. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Pick the dashboards they have access toControl what your resources see and have access to when they log into your account and projects. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Collaboration        
Basic Roles (3 uneditable)Your users are assigned to roles which control access to your requirements. You can choose from 3 pre-defined roles. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Basic Roles (3 editable)Your users are assigned to roles which control access to your requirements. You can choose from (and modify) 3 pre-defined roles. - Yes Yes Yes
Unlimited RolesCreate as many roles as you want to control access to your Requirements and assign them to your users. Create some for your clients, executives, developers, QA engineers, and many more. - Yes Yes Yes
Basic NotificationsEvery time a requirement is added or updated, notifications are emailed to the requirement owner and the assignee. The owner is the one who originally entered the requirement. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Notifications (editable)Change the notification rule, message and distribution list. Easily add other users/roles to the distribution list. - Yes Yes Yes
Unlimited NotificationsCreate as many notification rules as you want to. At Artifact, we have 26! - No Yes Yes
My Assignments DashboardEasily see your requirements when you first log in to Lighthouse. - Yes Yes Yes
Project Activities DashboardSee real-time daily, weekly and monthly activity for all your requirements across all your projects. - No Yes Yes
Customization        
Custom FieldsAdd up to 30 fields to your Requirements. Many formats are supported includingtext boxes, combo boxes, pull-down lists, etc. Make the fields required and track their history. - No No Yes
Custom LayoutChange the location and layout of your custom fields. - No No Yes
Custom ReportsCreate any report you want. Requirements Traceability, Matrix and History reports are some of our more popular ones. Automatically email them to your peers. - No No Yes
Custom ColorsChange your Lighthouse Account colors. Choose from one of our defined templates or create your own. - No No Yes
Hide TabsHide Lighthouse tabs to control what your users can see and have access too. - No No Yes
Custom MethodologiesChange Lighthouse to support your methodology. Support for Agile, Waterfall, RUP and Hybrid methodologies are available. - No No Yes
Specs        
ProjectsEach edition provides a certain number of projects and users per project. 1 unlimited unlimited unlimited
SupportTwo levels of support are provided. Basic support is available via user forums, blogs and documentation. Premium support also includes email and phone, with guaranteed response time. basic premium premium premium
Hosted or On PremiseHosted Lighthouse means Lighthouse is accessible on our servers. On Premise means you can install a complete version of Lighthouse behind your firewall. hosted hosted hosted either
Annual Cost per User Free $99 $199 $299
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