TIMESHEETS

It was also important for AGTI to reduce the time to enter timesheets
by their approximately 200 consultants and to generate invoices. In
addition, management required flexibility in reporting. The Solution lied in the PSA products that AGTI considered were weak in WIP and too expensive. In Abak, AGTI found an affordable timesheets solution that met their requirements.

The Abak system manages timesheets, expense accounts, projects, WIP,
invoicing, and integrates with a number of accounting software
solutions. Abak was developed by the Groupe AGI (no relation to AGTI)
in Montreal, which started selling the timesheets system in 1997. There are now about 300 clients from a variety of industries including accounting
firms, engineers, architects, and consulting firms.

The majority of Abak clients are in Quebec, but over the last two
years, most of Abak’s new business has come from outside of Quebec. In
January 2000, AGTI implemented Abak’s client/server system, which
automated billing and integration to Accounts Receivable. The
consultants continued to send their timesheets as Excel spreadsheets
by e-mail to administrators who would re-key a summary of the time into
the Abak system. AGTI considered using the AbakWEB product in 2000, but because of a number of specific AGTI requirements, it was not
considered ready for use by AGTI. However in March of 2002, AGTI
started to implement AbakWEB which now enables most of the AGTI
consultants to enter their timesheets from anywhere and at anytime over the Internet. All they need is a browser on their workstation, and so they
can enter their timesheets even on a computer at one of their clients.

With Abak, you can access the entire system from a remote location
without the use of Citrix. You can also access timesheets and expense
reporting with just a browser by using AbakWEB. The major challenge
faced by many computer consulting companies is the shoemaker’s son syndrome whereby the son of the shoemaker is without shoes.

SUBCONTRACTORS and VENDORS
Abak allows you to manage vendors' invoices having an impact on
the project. It can also handle timesheets and expenses of
subcontractors at your company and then you can compare data with the
actual subcontractors invoices

Control Workflow
   
timesheets and EXPENSES
The simplicity involved in using the timesheets and expense accounts functions is one of the most important characteristics of Abak.

• Batch entry
• Security by client/project
• Activity / Expense restriction
• Time banks
• Approval process
• Ease of us
• Input timesheet and expense accounts
• Web based version (with browser) also available
   
 
Track costs and benefits for better revenue generation
   
Maintaining effective and accurate financial records is vital to the success of all companies. Abak effectively manages an essential part of all financial systems :
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Abak will effectively complement your existing financial
system. The great flexibility of the invoicing process makes it one of
your most strategic management tools.

• Various invoicing levels
• Invoicing project for approval
• Personalized invoicing format
• Rich text editor
• Invoicing schedule
• Batch invoicing
• Report Generator
• Crystal Reports generates reports with the desired visual presentation
 
   
Optimize your work force use
• Manage requests – Track who is working on which project, track requests
• Optimize your workforce's talents
• Assign the best resource to the right task – Search on skill pools to find the right people for the job.
• Increase departmental efficiency and productivity with the new request module