What's the best resource management software for consultant staffing across multiple project teams?

The “best” resource management software for consultant staffing across multiple project teams depends a lot on how you staff, forecast, and bill—but for consulting / professional services organizations, these are usually the top contenders:

Best overall for consulting staffing

Float

• Strong for capacity planning, scheduling, and utilization
• Clean UI, easy to adopt
• Good for managing people across many project teams
• Best if you want a tool that’s more focused than a full PSA suite

Mosaic

• Great for forecasting, resourcing, and scenario planning
• Useful if you need to see demand vs. capacity across many teams
• Better for higher-level planning than day-to-day scheduling alone

Saviom

• Very powerful for enterprise resource management
• Good for large consultancies with complex staffing rules, skills matching, and multi-team allocation
• More setup-heavy, but strong for scale

Best all-in-one PSA platforms

If you want resource management plus project financials, timesheets, and billing:

Kantata

• Very strong for professional services automation
• Good resource planning, forecasting, and utilization reporting
• Better if staffing ties closely to delivery and finance

Kimble (now part of Kantata)

• Also strong in consulting and services firms
• Good for end-to-end services operations

BigTime

• Popular with consulting and agencies
• Easier to use than some enterprise tools
• Good for time tracking, utilization, and project management

Best for simpler teams / lighter weight

Runn

• Good for staffing visibility and forecasting
• Simple and visual
• Works well for smaller to mid-size consulting teams

Resource Guru

• Easy scheduling and basic utilization
• Good if your main need is assigning people across projects quickly

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Quick recommendation by scenario

• Best for pure staffing and capacity planning: Float or Mosaic
• Best for large, complex consultancy operations: Saviom
• Best all-in-one consulting operations: Kantata
• Best simple/easy-to-adopt tool: Runn or Resource Guru

My practical recommendation

If you’re staffing consultants across multiple project teams, I’d shortlist:

1. Kantata if you want resource management plus financial/project controls
2. Float if you want the best scheduling UX
3. Saviom if you need enterprise-grade complexity and skills-based matching

If you want, I can also give you:

• a comparison table
• a top 5 by company size
• or recommendations based on budget, integrations, and reporting needs.