QuickArrow, Inc. Implements Significant Project Management Upgrades to Professional Services Automation Software
Enhancements Provide One-Click Access to All Project-Related Metrics and Materials
Austin, TX – December 13, 2005...QuickArrow, Inc., a worldwide leader in automation and management software for Billable Services Organizations, has made substantial upgrades to the Project Monitor and Project Workspace modules in its Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution. These enhancements provide Professional Service Organizations increased insight into project metrics and quick retrieval and assessment of all project-related documents and issues.
“With this release, Professional Service Organizations can view and report on project data at any level,” said Elizabeth Davis, CEO and founder of QuickArrow. “Our new Project Monitor allows users to publish key project metrics to any level of the organization in real time, and all project-related documents, SOWs and IP material are readily accessible for each project.”
QuickArrow's Project Monitor provides one-click access and visibility into all project metrics. This fully customizable central dashboard can be personalized with more than 60 project-related metrics – including Backlog, Project Profitability, Effective Bill Rate, Billings to Date and Revenue Forecast.
“QuickArrow's dashboard centralization makes it possible for us to focus on helping our clients meet their Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) goals instead of putting our time into manually pulling reports and searching for metrics,” said Janice McKim, CFO at Environmental & Occupational Risk Management (EORM). “I now have one-click access to reports I need – from one central location.”
Using Project Monitor, Project Managers can approve time and expense – at the project level or the activity level. They can even set thresholds on dollars, dates and hours to stay informed of the health of all projects and receive email notifications when thresholds are exceeded.
“A key driver for our clients is to gain more visibility into their businesses; a core component of this is reporting,” said Louise K. Allen, Vice President of Product Strategy. “With this enhanced version of Project Monitor, we have added a powerful project-metric-driven reporting engine that gives our users unprecedented access to vital information with one click.”
Project Workspace, QuickArrow's Document and Issue Management System, allows Project Managers to store, manage, organize, search and retrieve all project-related materials, such as statements of work (SOWs), intellectual property (IP) documents, contracts, résumés, satisfaction surveys, project plans, templates, and more.
Additionally, the module enables Project Managers to:
- Configure Project Workspace with hierarchical subfolders
- Assign permissions based on four levels of security access
- Track document history with versioning and check-in/check-out features
Project Workspace's full-text search engine can take advantage of fuzzy and wildcard searches, along with 20 advanced filters to ensure complete search capability with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Visio, text and HTML files.
QuickArrow, including Project Monitor and Project Workspace, focuses exclusively on Professional Services Management (PSM) and provides all of the functionality Billable Services Organizations need – all in a single, comprehensive PSA solution.
About QuickArrow
QuickArrow is the leading provider of automation and management software for Billable Services Organizations. It offers the first and only Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution specifically designed to streamline operations and provide visibility into all key operational metrics for Billable Services Organizations.
QuickArrow has more than 225 clients and 18,500 users worldwide, including IT services, software, hardware, environmental consulting entities, as well as management consulting, health care consulting and business services organizations. Clients include Borland Software, Macromedia, Inc., Salesforce.com and SPSS Inc. QuickArrow is headquartered in Austin, Texas. www.quickarrow.com.
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