News – 2008
Latest news
Merry Christmas to you and three others
Once more TimeLog has this year chosen to cut the expenses for postage and Christmas cards, and instead support UNICEF’s Inspired Gifts.
Last year we donated a school-in-a-box, a midwifery kit and a well. The school-in-a-box created happiness for 80 Pakistani children, who were now able to go to school.
This year we have chosen to donate three child PC’s, to help third world children get an education.
Newsletter from TimeLog
New website with improved service
Time flies and a new website has seen the light of day. In addition to the new design and improved user-friendliness, the website also contains a brand new section called Service.
Fast-growing Belgian consultancy signs contract
Across Health recently signed a contract with TimeLog for a TimeLog Project solution for time tracking and project management.
Across Health is a fast-growing division of Across Group and the strategic partner of many high-profile healthcare companies in Europe and the US – from pharmaceuticals and consumer health to medical devices, hospitals and other key stakeholders in healthcare.
Google Chrome – welcome to a new browser
Google have now released their own web-browser. TimeLog Project has been tested using Google Chrome and TimeLog Project 4.5 runs smoothly using this browser.
Webinar II: Learn to Motivate Employees Through KPI
One of the new features in TimeLog Project 4.5 is the Key Performance Index (KPI). If you would like to be acquainted with this new report with budgeting, we are hosting another free and non-commiting webinar.
The purpose is to show how to draw budgets and use the KPI-report. Furthermore, we will demonstrate how management can motivate the employees through visualization of clearly defined objectives.
The webinar is held online June 4, 2008 at 11 AM by sales manager Bjørn Herbst and is expected to last 30 min. including a Q&A session. The webinar is held in English.
Sign up here – remember to give us your contact details so we can get back to you.
Webinar I: Better Communication with Your Customers
In extension of February's launch of TimeLog Extranet we are hosting a free and non-committing webinar to inform about the purpose and features of TimeLog Extranet. All customers, users and other interested are welcome to participate.
The webinar is held online June 2, 2008 at 11 AM by Sascha Skydsgaard, and is expected to last about 30 min. including a Q&A session. The webinar is held in English.
Sign up here – remember to give us your contact details so we can get back to you.
Workshop 3: Valuable Improvement of Your Skills
Professional Services introduces a new workshop for experienced users which aims at improving the business value of TimeLog Project.
In a three hour workshop together with one of TimeLog's experienced consultants we will go through every aspect of your company's use of TimeLog Project. The result is a finetuning of your system which will dramatically increase the value of your solution.
With experience from more than 250 successful implementations in different businesses our consultants are capable of advising you how and where your solution can be improved.
Peder Wuth Pedersen, team manager, Professional Services:
"Workshop 3 is the opportunity to optimise the use of TimeLog Project and reap the full business value. After six months' use of TimeLog Project there are enough projects and time registrations to really benefit from the many different reports in TimeLog Project. To many this will significantly raise the value TimeLog Project imparts."
Contact Professional Services on +45 70 200 645 to learn more about Workshop 3.
Introduction to TimeLog Project 4.5
Here is a brief description of some of the new things in TimeLog Project.
TimeLog Project gives management a new range of tools to create incentives for employees. Make budgets for each employee by setting goals for e.g. external registration percent, added value and average hourly rates.
These key figures – or KPI's – are shown in a personal report, which allows the employee to follow up on the goals set for her. A central key figure can even be shown on the front page of TimeLog Project.
Budgeting and the KPI report are especially powerful for consultancies and IT-companies who bill their work.
TimeLog A/S Provides Mjølner Informatics A/S with a Time- and Project Management System
Mjølner Informatics A/S has made an agreement with TimeLog A/S about implementation of TimeLog Project. The agreement includes among other things the add-on module TimeLog Enterprise.
TimeLog Project was chosen because of the dynamic access to time registration and the unique way TimeLog Project manages projects – from time registration to billing the individual project. TimeLog Project is expected to be fully implemented at Mjølner Informatics A/S at the end of May 2008.
Employee Build-Up
The spring has come and as a fresh breath we have hired 5 new employees. Especially our consulting and sales departments have had a boost in the right direction. But also the technical powers are strengthened.
Monica Baunbæk has been hired as International Account Manager. Monica has a background within marketing and recently worked at Microsoft with outbound sales and marketing related tasks. Monica is employed in TimeLogs International Sales department
How to Increase Security in a SaaS Solution
With simple means you are able to increase the security in an internet-application. The below mentioned advice and tips apply for not only TimeLog Project but all other SaaS solutions and most of the advice also applies for IT-systems in general.
1. Have a security policy
Have some overall guidelines for using the SaaS-solution and for handling security. Communicate your safety policy to all employees – and be sure to explain why you have these policies. Communication is especially important when having a strict policy, otherwise, employees might think of it as harassment of employees which can make them counteract the policy.
Keep the security policy as simple as possible and avoid long technical explanations. The most important thing to remember when it comes to security policies is that it should be easy to explain to the employees. A simple security policy is much better than a complex and technical oriented policy.
Christmas Cards Bring Joy in Pakistan
In 2007 we chose to send out christmas cards by email. The money saved on stamps was donated to UNICEF's World Gifts programme.
One of the gifts was a School-in-a-Box which has now been send to Pakistan and gives up to 80 children the opportunity to go to school. The box contains such as books, pencils, scissors, blackboard, chalk and other essential school equipment.
New: TimeLog Extranet opens up your Projects
The purpose of TimeLog Extranet is to improve communication between customer and supplier or other internal or external stakeholders. By adding TimeLog Extranet, customers are able to gain insight into various information concerning their project such as invoices, various reports and project status.
This means that the relation between customer and supplier is strengthened and more transparent because it is easier for the customer to, at any time, view the progress of the projects. TimeLog Extranet's industry focus is primarily consultancy companies or other companies that have or want a close relationship with their customers or other important stakeholders.
Danish Novozymes benefits from using TimeLog Extranet
The following paragraph is an excerpt taken from our new case study with the Danish bio-pharmaceutical company Novozymes:
"The daily use of the add-on module TimeLog Extranet has also been positively received and is primarily used by Novozymes' management to keep tabs on projects: "It has given management a tool that enables them to continuously monitor our projects, which provides them with a solid overview of the status of the department's different projects."
TimeLog - Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
This year TimeLog has achieved status of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. There are a number of different demands that must be met in order for a company to be able to call itself part of the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Program.
TimeLog Extranet Hints & Shortcuts
We have collected a few good tips from our support manager in our Help-Desk department, Thomas S. Gudmandsen. We hope that you can use these tricks of the trade to make the most of your TimeLog Project systems.Introduction to TimeLog Extranet
The purpose of TimeLog Extranet is to improve the communication between the customer and supplier. By adding TimeLog Extranet, the customers are able to gain insight into different information concerning their project such as invoices, various reports and the status of the project. This means that the relation between the customer and supplier is strengthened and more transparent because it is easier for the customer to view the progress of the projects. The industry focus is consultancy companies or other companies that have or want a close relationship with their customers.Future Trends: TimeLog Project on your retina?
The opportunities presented to us in futuristic sci-fi movies are now closer than ever to being part of today’s reality. Globalization, more sophisticated technological development and increasing consumer individualization have over the last few years accelerated with lightning speed. We are part of a revolutionizing era which, based on the number of inventions per capita, is comparable to the agricultural revolution more than 10,000 years ago.
A question however remains. How will the inventions of the 21st century take shape? This question inspired us to look more closely at the hot and future trends within this development of technology and what impact this may have on the future development of TimeLog’s products and the user experience. (excerpts of the article)
Service announcement for installed customers
NB! This message is only relevant for customers with an installed TimeLog solution. TimeLog customers with a hosted solution are not affected.
As part of TimeLog's focus on continuing improvements of the services we provide to our customers, we are currently working on a TimeLog Project 5.0 release. We expect to launch it during the summer of 2008. With regard to this upgrade, the coming version of TimeLog Project will be based on routines supported only by Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
TimeLog signs agreement with Danish Kuben A/S
TimeLog A/S has signed a company agreement with the Danish company Kuben A/S. The agreement includes buy and implementation of TimeLog Project in all of Kuben A/S’ companies.
The agreement embraces 300 new users. The solution includes TimeLog Enterprise, TimeLog CRM, TimeLog Help Desk and TimeLog KPI. It is expected that Kuben A/S' TimeLog Project solution is fully implemented by the first fiscal quarter in 2008.
The implementation of TimeLog Project is part of a larger replacement of Kuben A/S’ ERP-chain. The goal is to create a dynamic and more proactive IT infrastructure within the project-based departments of Kuben A/S.
New faces at TimeLog
Once again we have expanded the TimeLog team with two new members. Our newest member is Ellinor Forje. Ellinor is going to help us improve and strengthen our Swedish profile. She is currently working as a Swedish translator on a part-time basis. Besides working at TimeLog, she is finishing a Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration.
Besides addding Ellinor to our team we have unfortunately said goodbye to our former receptionist Sofie Kaas. Sofie has moved onto new and exciting things. Therefore, we are very pleased to welcome Lasse Bertelsen as our new receptionist. With these new additions, TimeLog now consists of 20 competent and engaging colleagues.
