 Simple, Web-based Project Tracking Tool Enables Rare Method to Increase Profits While Delivering Projects on Time and on Budget!
Rare Method is a leader in strategic interactive marketing. We offer a full range of traditional and online marketing services, which include interactive marketing strategies, creative development, technology development, implementation of interactive marketing programs, and campaign optimization. Rare Method boasts an impressive client list, which includes Shell Canada, Science Alberta Foundation, Travel Alberta, Fedex, Verity, and the Alberta Securities Commission. In 2000, Rare Method became a public company. With over 70 full-time employees, we are predicting revenue of $5 million this year. Rare Method was also recently named one of the Fastest Growing Companies in Canada by PROFIT magazine. How does your company use Web TimeSheet? We use Web TimeSheet’s timesheet capabilities to accurately track our time spent against our projects. This enables us to optimize our project estimates and provide the most accurate proposals to our clients. This makes our estimates dependable for our clients, and ensures that our projects are profitable for us. In the near future, we plan to implement Replicon’s Web Resource, which will help us allocate our time internally. We also have plans to use Web TimeSheet’s integration with Microsoft Project. How has your business benefited from Web TimeSheet? Web TimeSheet makes us much more accountable for the time that is spent on projects – to our clients and to ourselves. The completion bar that displays on each user’s timesheet keeps the whole team aware and accountable for the projected budget. We have also benefited from the robust and detailed reports that Web TimeSheet provides us with. These reports are easy to customize and generate, allowing Account Managers to quickly access the information that they need. What challenges were you trying to overcome with an automated timesheet solution? Before implementing Web TimeSheet, we tracked our time using Microsoft Excel. This method was time consuming and made running reports difficult. Web TimeSheet allows us to streamline our time tracking process and has made our reporting much more accurate and detailed. In minutes, we can generate reports on estimated project completion times, total project hours, and project costs. Approving employee time entries is now a quick process for our timesheet administrator, whereas with Excel the approval process was manual and time-consuming. Rare Method has experienced a rapid growth this past year. Since September 2004, we have expanded our employee base by 40 people. Therefore, the company needed a time tracking tool that would support all of our new employees and that could grow with us. We were also concerned with our clients’ level of satisfaction. Web TimeSheet allows us to accurately estimate and ensure that we are delivering projects on budget. How have your employees reacted to Web TimeSheet? Our team is aware that timesheets are prevalent in our industry. We were already tracking our time with Excel spreadsheets, and everyone agreed that the benefits Web TimeSheet would provide would be extremely valuable. All of our employees have found Web TimeSheet extremely intuitive and easy to use. What features do you like most in Web TimeSheet? The flexibility of Web TimeSheet’s reporting is excellent, especially the ability to manipulate reports by exporting them to Excel. This allows the data to be formatted, or inserted into documents. Web TimeSheet is also extremely easy to use, especially if one has Windows-based knowledge. We are eager to implement Web Resource, Replicon’s resource scheduling tool, to help us further manage our projects by clearly planning our resource allocations. Begin using Web TimeSheet today! Easy, web-based time and project tracking Download a free evaluation Best regards, Replicon, Inc. (403) 262-6519 ext. 2 Toll Free North America: 1-877-662-2519 ext. 2 Toll Free Europe/New Zealand: 00 800 7375 4266 ext. 2 Toll Free Australia: 0011 800 7375 4266 ext. 2 E-mail: sales@replicon.com Website: www.replicon.com |
