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Jacobson Consulting Improves Client Retention, Revenue And Budgets Using Journyx Timesheet

Company Streamlines Project Management and Time Tracking, Better Serving its Non-Profit Clients

AUSTIN, TEXAS (August 15, 2006) — Jacobson Consulting Applications, Inc. (JCA) – an independent consulting firm serving the non-profit sector – is using Journyx® Timesheet™ software to monitor project budgets and business unit performance. Additionally, JCA uses Journyx to measure corporate key performance indicators, including consultant utilization, client retention, business unit revenue, and actual billing compared to budget. JCA grew its staff by more than 35 percent and, by using Journyx, saw no increase in operating overhead and experienced a dramatic improvement in the quality of the time-tracking and project management data.

Journyx – the first company to provide Web-based time-tracking and project accounting solutions that guide customers to per-person, per-project profitability – provides the solution that JCA needs by servicing JCA's core time-tracking needs and simultaneously offering a powerful project management framework at an affordable cost.

"Journyx serves a number of mission critical purposes for JCA. Primarily, JCA consultants use Timesheet to track their time, however we make extensive use of the security settings to ensure that staff can only access the correct projects and rates, eliminating most data entry errors," said Steven Birnbaum, Chief Operating Officer of JCA. "Journyx feeds into our internal data warehouse, where we monitor project budgets, consultant utilization and the effectiveness of different business units. Data from Journyx serves as the foundation for all of the project management, budgeting and performance metrics within the company."

Managers at JCA use Journyx to keep track of employee time and projects, and characterize the work in a way the client will understand. Journyx interfaces directly with Quickbooks, so when managers approve the timesheets, the data goes directly to the client invoice.

The simplicity of Journyx Timesheet software allows JCA's consulting staff to enter their time while sitting at their desks or over the Internet when on-site with a client. Additionally, the integration with Quickbooks fully automates JCA's client billing and reduces overhead.

"It's very important – and profitable – for a company to know their project costs," said Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx. "If a company does not know this information, it is impossible to know which projects are making money, which ones should be abandoned and which ones should be saved before it's too late. JCA realizes the value of this knowledge and their reward will be their bottom line."

About Jacobson Consulting Applications, Inc.

Founded in 1988, Jacobson Consulting Applications, Inc. (JCA) is the nation's premier independent non-profit technology consulting firm. JCA has built its reputation by providing superior technical solutions designed to enhance the use of fundraising, membership, admissions/ticketing, visitor services and web-based systems at non-profit organizations. JCA consultants hold a wide breadth of technical and business process knowledge that they have shared with over 600 non-profit clients.

JCA offers training and consulting services to help organizations apply best practices to their constituent management and fundraising software. Clients have included prominent institutions in fields ranging from health care, education, religion, culture and the environment. Headquartered in New York City, JCA also has offices in Philadelphia, PA, Tampa, FL, Columbus, OH, Portland, OR, Baltimore, MD, and San Francisco, CA. For more information, go to www.jcainc.com.

About Journyx Timesheet

Journyx Timesheet is a timesheet and expense management solution for the entire enterprise. Organizations can automate management of employee timesheets and expenses for project control, customer invoicing, and payroll processing with Journyx Timesheet. Journyx offers patented technological solutions – not just generic tools – that are flexible and adaptable across five platforms and multiple projects, in order to help companies identify profit opportunities along the per-person, per-project continuum.

About Journyx, Inc.

As the creator of the Web-based time tracking industry, Journyx carves out its own path, while guiding customers to their goals and destinations. Journyx helps customers reach the highest levels of profitability by automating labor-intensive, paper-based processes with a superior, Web-based solution. Founded in 1996, Journyx is the first and only company to establish Per Person/Per Project Profitability (P5), a proprietary process that enables customers to gather and analyze information to discover profit opportunities. Journyx has thousands of customers worldwide, including American Airlines, Bayer, BlueCross BlueShield, AC Nielsen, L'Oreal, Symantec, The Discovery Channel, Schlumberger, Capstone Turbine and many others. Journyx solutions are available both on an application service provider (ASP) and a standard license basis. For more information, go to http://pr.journyx.com or contact Journyx at (512) 834-8888 or info@journyx.com.