Streamline with Streamtime….

Posted on October 27th, 2009 by admin in Articles

As a small Creative design agency we are constantly looking at ways to streamline our processes, to help us track projects, quotes, invoice and manage our time. Over the past few weeks we’ve been looking at a number of systems to help manage our design studio more effectively. For us there was the decision whether to go with an application or online based system. Products like Basecamp represent the online route and offer a strong project management led system based around a collaborative tool. On the application side, there are products like Streamtime which offer a secure server side application and studio management software. After several weeks of trials and testing of these systems it was clear that both of these had their individual strengths. I was impressed by the collaborative nature of Basecamp, though I always had reservations about how an online tool of this nature could impact communication by discouraging people to communicate by phone or face to face. Perhaps for truly global businesses where meeting in this was is less important Basecamp could offer a unique take on online communication. For our design agency however, communication is key. Our process is very user centric and therefore discussions by phone and face to face are of primary importance. What we wanted was a tool to support our internal processes, a tool to help us streamline our business. Streamtime certainly seems to offer this and much more. It allows, job tracking, job quoting invoicing and live reporting. We look forward to integrating Streamtime into our busy design studio and we hope it will live up to our high expectations.

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