MobilPro 3.0, a PDA and WEB based Time and Expense Entry Application for Professional Services Organizations

Client:
Lantium, USA.
Visionary Companies, USA.

Platform and Tools :
ASP .NET, COM, SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports 9.0, AppForge, IIS 5.0

Technology:
PDA and Multi tier web technology

Project Overview:
MobilPro, a Time and Expense Entry application that will enable employees of any professional services organization to log the time spent on customer projects remotely using a Palm Pilot or Pocket PC or Internet. It also facilitates Employees to enter the Expense incurred on different customer projects. Expenses can also be distributed across different projects and customers, which makes it easy for the organization to bill the customer. MobilPro captures important customer and project related information such as project, job, task, hourly rate, diary, expense category, expense items etc.

MobilPro allows the time entries made through PDAs from any location without connecting to the server in the office, which can be synchronized with the central time entry database through the Internet. MobilPro provides the accounting department a web based interface for time and expense entry review, edit and approval prior to transferring the time and expense entries to the billing system. A standard billing system export function and a number of inquiries and reports functions are also available. 

MobilPro 3.0 offers the following Benefits to Professional Organizations:

  Makes the whole time and expense entry process easier.

  Role based accessibility makes the application highly secured.

  Gives the option to enter time remotely either through the PDA or through the web, without connecting to the office network. 

  Since time and expense entries can be made as and when the work is performed, MobilPro takes out the guesswork in recording the time spent expense incurred on each customer projects and thus eliminates loss of billable time and any misunderstanding with customers. 

  Application is highly flexible and employees have the choice of entering time daily or weekly or as and when the work is performed. 

  Group leaders can track the activities of their group members at any given point of time. 

  Monthly calendar to view the total time spent on each day of a month.

  Highly flexible reports.

  Since the reports are generated using Crystal, users will have option to save the reports in Word or Excel format.

  Consolidated Monthly report that gives the clear picture of the time spent on each job by an employee.

  Weekly Expense sheet makes it easy to keep track of expense on each expense item by an employee

  Gives the manager and the accounting department the flexibility to administer the time and expense entries remotely through the Internet. 

  Speeds up the time and expense entry review, edit and approval process leading to faster billing of project related time.