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5. Gauge the Learning Curve

If your new solution will require a seemingly endless training process for you and your staff, what will that do to your strategic projects? You will need to weigh this against the benefit of the complex functionality you are receiving.

Again, it is best to focus on what you really need rather than trying to have it all. Ask about the training you can expect to receive, and how long it generally takes customers to become comfortable with the solution.

6. Choose a Hosted Solution

SaaS solutions save businesses both time and money. First, they have a lower cost of entry and lower risk than locally installed solutions. Not only that, but SaaS solutions put very little burden on your organization’s already overworked IT staff.

In addition, if you select the right vendor, you can rest assured that your data is more secure than it might be in your own hands. SaaS vendors must provide a secure data environment, or they’re out of a job. Customers can rest assured their data security Planning for the next peak season? Ensure your website is fast, secure and available 24/7. Click here to learn how. is probably better with a hosted solution — not worse.

Minimize Your Risk

Businesses need to ask the tough questions and carefully weigh their choices in order to ensure that they get the PPM solution that is right for their company. It is important that you not be taken in by flashy demos and lofty promises, especially when money is tight and you need tangible results in a reasonable time frame.

If you ask the right questions and stick to the issues listed above, you can minimize the risk of implementing what some unhappy PPM customers have referred to as “a million dollar timesheet.”

Admit it – you’ve always wanted to know a little bit more about your friends at Journyx, the people who make your life easier by providing the top web-based solutions for time tracking, invoicing, project accounting, resource management, cost reporting and more. Well, the wait is over. Over at the Journyx Facebook page, we are honoring our valued (and quirky) employees via…

The Journyx Employee Hall of Fame!

Head over there now to learn more about Scott, our Grumpy IT Guy, or Troy, our less grumpy Technical Support guru. Better yet, “like” Journyx on Facebook so that you won’t miss all of the other employees who are yet to be featured. (We will pretend that you are doing so for sheer love of Journyx and not for the chance at an iPod Touch.)

We interrupt your regularly scheduled project management content to give you this special bulletin:

Journyx is giving away an iPod Touch to one of our lucky followers on Facebook. To enter, all you have to do is “like” our page. Everyone who enters will receive the latest, greatest Journyx news, along with funny videos, tech and time management tips, and other tidbits to generally brighten your day. You will even get a behind the scenes look at the folks who keep your favorite software up and running each day.

This giveaway is our first but it won’t be our last, so like us today – you won’t regret it!

When the calendar flipped over to April our “31 Days of Twitter Coupons” campaign came to an end. But it doesn’t mean we’ve quit tweeting. Au contraire, mes amis. There’s still lots of great news and insight into your favorite web timesheet company coming out via the Twitter pipe every day.

Not only that, but Journyx is also chatting up a storm and helping people out on our Facebook page and via our Timesheet Users’ Group on LinkedIn. Give us a bit of your Web2.0 attention and we’ll reward you with all kinds of fun and friendship.

Speaking of LinkedIn and Facebook… it’s a little too soon to let the cat out of the bag, but let’s just say that something akin to the “31 Days of Twitter Coupons” might be in the works for one, the other, or both of those august social networking sites. It might even be the case that people who are already connected to Journyx there would get, shall we say, preferential treatment when the time comes to release the feline. Just sayin’.

Journyx today announces that Event 360, Inc. is managing its projects, resources and time more effectively with Journyx ProjectXecute. Journyx ProjectXecute unites project planning with resource management, helping companies to execute projects successfully every time and achieve the highest return on investment possible.

Event 360 – the nation’s leading designer and director of fundraising, advocacy and awareness events for nonprofits – hosts hundreds of events with thousands of volunteers each year. Each event has many components, programs, resources, etc., that must be handled seamlessly for the event to run perfectly. Event 360 sought a better way to manage all of these resources to ensure that all events ran as smoothly as possible for their clients. Journyx ProjectXecute shows customers who is working on what, when they’ll be finished and who is available for the next project. This information allows Event 360 to determine which projects are in danger and why.

Read the rest of the press release at the Journyx website.

Feeling nostalgic for our webinars? Not to worry! Journyx is now offering three of your favorites from last season, as well as two brand new ones. If you’re interested in learning how to extend Microsoft Project, enhance customer experience or better align IT with the organization, sign up now at: http://projectxecute.com/?q=webinars.html.

Journyx is pleased to announce that the latest versions of our applications, Journyx Timesheet 7.9 and Journyx ProjectXecute 8.5, are now available to the public.

Numerous enhancements and improvements to the user interface have been included in both products, as well as bug fixes and usability and performance improvements that, though not flashy, will make a grown man cry tears of joy.

Please Note: Timesheet 7.9 also serves as the latest maintenance release for Timesheet 7.8 and earlier. Customers using earlier versions of Timesheet are encouraged to upgrade to Timesheet 7.9.

Existing Timesheet customers can request the Timesheet 7.9 patch on our site.

Existing ProjectXecute customers should contact Journyx to receive the ProjectXecute 8.5 patch.

To see Timesheet 7.9 in action please contact the Timesheet Sales Team.

To see ProjectXecute 8.5 in action please contact the ProjectXecute Sales Team.

Sign up for a 30-day free trial of Timesheet 7.9.

Your friends at Journyx like sports. We also like games. Ergo, we’re really excited about our brand new March Madness Bracket Game. We’ve got room for 400 folks to take part in this contest of skill, strategy, knowledge and luck. The winner of the bracket challenge will receive an iPod Touch.

If you’d like to take part, drop our organizers a line at bracket@journyx.com and they’ll slide an invite your way.

Oh, and for the record, Journyx employees and their families are not eligible to play. So you don’t have to worry about competing with our in-house bracketologists.

The Journyx “31 Days of Journyx Twitter Coupons” campaign is in full swing, and if you haven’t taken part just yet, there’s still time to get in on the action.

We’ve already given away 15 free licenses of Journyx Timesheet to the fine folks at MIT and to the rockstars at Conner Clark. Hillary Laza is the fortunate soul who gets to have dinner with Journyx CEO Curt Finch and Daniel Ordway was the lucky winner of an iPod Touch.

There’s still an Amazon Kindle, tickets to the Austin City Limits Music Festival, and the grand prize of 50 Timesheet licenses left to win.

You can find out the full details on this crazy, one-of-a-kind social-media-based festival of prizes on our website. But all you really need to know is that following us on Twitter is the key to playing.

• In Journyx ProjectXecute, how do I view total availability statistics for groups or resources who share similar characteristics?
• What is a good strategy for filling out my NCAA tournament bracket?

Get the answers to these and other questions in the Journyx Tip Archive.