Frontstep CIS (ProjectMate)

Since March, 2008 the staff of Frontstep CIS company began to keep time management means of the specialized Avicom ProjectMate 6 system.

System Selection

When choosing a system, first of all, the following criteria were considered: 1. Functional completeness of a system 2. Localization (support of Russian) 3. Existence of technical support in Russia and further development of a system (release of new versions) 4. Presence at supplier company of consulting experience (staff of professional advisors and developers, successfully completed projects, customer base of the ave.) 5. Friendly user interface 6. Simplicity of mastering and subsequent use of a system. 7. Support of remote access and so forth.

"We learned about ProjectMate, having carried out the purposeful overview of the market of programs of the class PSA (Professional Services Automation) and TMS (Time Management System), – Sergey Bespalov, the director of consulting of Frontstep CIS company notes. – As it became clear, the majority of the systems of this class are western developments and are poorly provided in Russia. The ProjectMate system is the only Russian development provided in a class of PSA systems. Probably, for this reason many consulting companies use own developments for the purposes of accounting of project time. Unlike them ProjectMate is the full market software product which incorporated experience of many companies rendering professional services. Besides, the ProjectMate system has the usual and friendly system interface executed in Microsoft Outlook style that significantly facilitates system learning by end users".

The last, not less important criterion connected with the choice of a system is a supplier company of services. "The Avikom company is the team of professionals capable to provide to the customer qualitative implementation services and support of a product, – Mikhail Makhson, the technical director of the company notes "Frontstep CIS" which also took active part in ProjectMate system implementation. – According to the results of system implementation in our company and start it in trial operation it is possible to draw a conclusion already today that we were not mistaken with the choice of the business partner".

Description

Using the ProjectMate 6 system having the special module of synchronization with Microsoft Project, "Frontstep CIS" is going to implement accounting of project time in the company. This work began since December, 2007 within the big internal project on implementation of budget project management. Thanks to a linking of ProjectMate and Microsoft Project the company expects to achieve not only possibilities of detailed management of project costs, but also to standardize planning process of projects, a bit later, the next step, to formalize process of maintaining the project documentation.

The reports existing in a system and also specially developed for "Frontstep CIS", will allow company management to analyze activities of departments for different criteria (project utilization of employees, observance of the internal cost budget on projects and so forth) and to make timely management decisions.