Journyx Project Management Blog

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.

We kid our CEO a lot on our blog. But we do it out of love and respect. Curt really is a pretty smart guy and he’s chock full o’ knowledge about time tracking, project management and crazy technology things like the aforementioned Web2.0 and what the future holds for businesses in the 21st Century. So rather than horde his pearls of wisdom we’ve decided to share him with you, our loyal readers.

To that end, we’re opening up the phone lines (metaphorically) to let you ask Curt for his thoughts on whatever’s on your mind. So drop us a line at askcurt@journyx.com and we’ll pose your questions to the big guy. Then, starting next month, we’ll share Curt’s answers to the most compelling questions from our readers.