It’s About Time! The Journyx Blog

As a controller or director of finance, you direct all the financial and accounting operations of a company to ensure profitability is maintained. This includes: Analyzing financial performance against key business metrics. Documenting pertinent financial highlights that enable management to determine progress against budgets. Identifying, investigating, and analyzing potential operational improvement, and making proposals based on findings for operation changes. Read More

Timesheets are such a mundane part of our work day, and in fact, many employees dislike filling out their timesheets completely. While tracking time on work is, in fact, essential for driving payroll, billing, and project management/accounting processes, employees give it the side-eye of disdain for one simple reason: it takes too much time. Read More

In the ever-changing ecosystem of partner channels, it is important for organizations to find Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that they trust, are experts in the industry and, more importantly, can provide the highest value to their customers.  I’ve interviewed several of our own partners to find out “what’s important to them” from a partner perspective, we learned the three most important factors they consider are: Does the solution solve the primary need of the customer? Does this solution make their customers “sticky”? (Meaning, less likely to attrit.) What’s in it for me? Read More

In mountain climbing, the key (and biggest physical challenge) is moving up the mountain with as much efficiency and as little expenditure as possible. Project management (though generally not as physically demanding) works in a similar fashion – project managers must manage through and complete each part of the project as efficiently as possible, so they can deliver on time with as little cost as possible. Read More

We’ve talked about this many times before, so it’s really not new to say that filling out timesheets is not fun. Completing a timesheet is one of those tasks that tend to be procrastinated until it just can’t be procrastinated anymore. It’s a lot like ripping off a bandage – it’s painful, but it has to be done (especially if you want to get your paycheck). Read More

For most software development companies, understanding your project costs, optimizing your resource allocation and making sure your projects stay on time and on budget are the most critical factors that help drive the profitability and success of the organization.  However, the concept of tracking time to development efforts can be somewhat difficult for dev teams (some may argue that it simply doesn’t work). This is mainly because developers tend to have a certain “flow” and can jump from project to project within a set period of time. This can lead to ambiguities in how to bill time to different projects. Read More

Any business that sells services to the government today needs to know about DCAA. The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), under the authority, direction, and control of the United States Under Secretary of Defense, performs all contract audits for the United States Department of Defense (DoD). DCAA also provides contract audit services to other government agencies. Read More

In a field services organization, such as companies in the utilities industry, telecoms, or even healthcare, employees are dispatched into the field on “jobs” to deliver services to clients (which generally include repairs, installations, or in case of healthcare, in-home care). Read More

In my previous post, I wrote about the benefits of integrating time tracking with your accounting system. To give you a quick recap, here are those three main benefits: Expedited system stand-up Easier time tracking Better, more accurate data Ultimately, the adoption of any integrated systems project is going to profit the organization in the same way by enhancing speed, accuracy and efficiency of processing data by serving as a one-stop shop for all your information. FASTER & BETTER are buzzwords I think we’re all familiar with! But how would an integration of your time tracking system with your financial systems provide you with better reporting capabilities? Faster WHAT? Better HOW? Read More

The world’s gone to cloud, and that includes all your data. You have unprecedented access to so much information from almost everywhere you go, all because it’s all living somewhere in the technological “cloud.” Think about it: Every time you post something on social media, it’s posting to the cloud. Every time you access your financial accounts online, you’re accessing it in the cloud. Every time you use a piece of web-based software during your day (whether for business or personal use), your using it in the cloud. These are just a few pieces of your personal data that are floating around in this mass of 1’s and 0’s, ready to be found and used. It’s kind of scary to think about the kind of data that’s out there – whether we willingly put it there or not. That’s why the companies that keep this data – software that we use every day – must take incredible measures that change almost constantly to ensure that it’s kept pr Read More