Project Management

Project Management Made Easy

QuickArrow’s Project Management tools act as the central repository for all project information – providing a single, detailed view into the operations of your entire services organization.

With QuickArrow’s Professional Services Automation solution, project planning, setup and tracking are easy. Project cloning and re-usable templates give services organizations valuable insight to essential information shared between similar engagements, greatly increasing project efficiency.

Benefits

• Gain 1-click insight into all professional services and project metrics
  
  
• Monitor and track projects in real-time
  
  
• Import and leverage best practices templates
  
  
• Simplify project planning, setup, scheduling, tracking, and invoicing
  
  
• Increase efficiency and predictability
  
  
• Integrate with existing enterprise systems

QuickArrow also features convenient two-way integration with Microsoft Project®, allowing consultants to update Microsoft Project plans directly through QuickArrow, or download current Microsoft Project plans from anywhere they have Internet access.

QuickArrow gives project managers access to real-time data including project completion percentages, gross margin, remaining engagement hours, budget vs. actual, and profitability analysis. Through this extensive visibility, services professionals gain a better understanding of the overall performance of their service organizations and are able to make faster and more effective strategic business decisions.

KEY FEATURES

Project Monitoring
QuickArrow’s Project Monitor provides one-click access and visibility into all project metrics.

• Fully customizable central dashboard that can be personalized with more than 60 project-related metrics including Backlog, Project Profitability, Effective Bill Rate, Billings to Date, and Revenue Forecast.
  
  
• Publish key project metrics to any level of the user's organization in real time.
  
  
• Approve time and expense at the project level or the activity level.
  
  
• Set thresholds on dollars, dates and hours and receive email notifications when thresholds are exceeded.

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Project Workspace
Using Project Workspace, QuickArrow’s Document and Issue Management System, Project Managers can store, manage, organize, search and retrieve all project-related materials, such as SOWs, IP documents, contracts, resumes, satisfaction surveys, project planning documents, best practices templates, issues, plans and discussion threads.

• Full-text search engine can take advantage of fuzzy and wildcard searches.
  
  
• 20 advanced filters to ensure complete search capability with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Visio, text and HTML files.
  
  
• Assign permissions based on four levels of security access.
  
  
• Configure Project Workspace with hierarchical subfolders.
  
  
• Track document history with versioning and check-in/check-out features.

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Knowledge Management
QuickArrow offers robust project management tools that enable data sharing at the practice or project level – best practices templates, documents, discussion threads, document approval routing, issues, plans – 100% accessible through the Internet.

• Document management offers easy contribution (email, drag-and-drop, or upload), approval routing, check-in/check-out, and version control.
  
  
• Powerful search capability includes key word search of any document type, including web pages.
  
  
• Increase project delivery capabilities with complete knowledge management solution – capturing project knowledge, creating templates, and re-using approaches on similar engagements.