Claire S. of Atlanta, GA asks: How do you see technology impacting time tracking in the next five to ten years?

Curt Finch, Journyx CEO, responds:

I see a few things happening:

  • As consumers’ experience with iPhone raises expectations for usability, time tracking applications’ user interfaces will become friendlier and more intuitive.
  • Software-as-a-Service will become more and more dominant as IT people become more and more scarce and businesses become more accustomed to this model.
  • Communications technologies like WSDL/XML and SOAP will enable more connectivity between web-based applications like Journyx and Salesforce.com
  • Automated monitoring software will increase the ability of clients to edit a pre-filled timesheet at the end of the week instaed of trying to remember what they did all week.
  • Project-oriented time collection capabilities will be enhanced by community * building tools like wikis and blogs.
  • Businesses will start to see the advantage of viewing time management as a core business process, like inventory management is today.
  • Single point-of-entry time collection systems that send different views of the same data to payroll, billing and project management applications will become even more valuable.

Got a question for Curt? Drop us a line at askcurt@journyx.com and we’ll see if we can’t get him to sit down for a minute or two, peer into his crystal ball, and give you his best take on things.