Journyx Project Management Blog

Accruals – vacation, PTO, sick time, jury duty, and the like – are critical but difficult to manage aspects of employee time. The Journyx Accrual Calculator simplifies the process of dealing with these issues by providing a simple interface for the creation of specific accrual processes that can then be applied as needed to your existing users.

The Journyx Accrual Calculator is available for Timesheet 7.7 and later. To schedule a demonstration of the Accrual Calculator or for pricing and purchasing information please contact your Journyx Sales representative today.

Journyx is proud to announce its new project and resource management solution, Journyx ProjectXecute. ProjectXecute unites project and process planning with resource workload management, alerting project managers instantly when projects are in danger.

With ProjectXecute, companies can plan projects and assign tasks, while incorporating paid time off and complex MS Project files, for a complete view of resource availability in a single system.

Journyx has combined this powerful new technology with implementation from project management best practices experts, Cognitive Technologies, to deliver a flexible solution that scales to different levels of need.

Timesheet 7.7, the latest version of our flagship time and expense tracking solution, is now available. This release of Timesheet includes several highly-sought-after features including:

• Holiday Schedules
• Login ID changing
• A “project ownership” infrastructure
• Improved “look back” functionality for monthly time periods

Additionally, numerous enhancements and improvements to the user interface have been included in Timesheet 7.7, 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 7.7 also serves as the latest maintenance release for Timesheet 7.6m1 and earlier. Customers using earlier versions of Timesheet are encouraged to upgrade to Timesheet 7.7.

Timesheet 7.7, the latest version of our flagship time and expense tracking solution, is now available. This release of Timesheet includes several highly-sought-after features including:

• Holiday Schedules
• Login ID changing
• A “project ownership” infrastructure
• Improved “look back” functionality for monthly time periods

Additionally, numerous enhancements and improvements to the user interface have been included in Timesheet 7.7, 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 7.7 also serves as the latest maintenance release for Timesheet 7.6m1 and earlier. Customers using earlier versions of Timesheet are encouraged to upgrade to Timesheet 7.7.

To see Timesheet 7.7 in action either contact the Journyx Sales Team or sign up for a free 45-day trial.

A new year brings new challenges, and the Professional Services team at Journyx is always standing by to help you meet those challenges head-on. So whether you have a new process that you need to integrate with Timesheet or just need to clean up your installation with a ProUpdate Reconfiguration Package, don’t hesitate to drop us a line. We’re dedicated to working with you to make your installation of Timesheet the most useful, most integrated, and most valuable piece of software in your organization.

Okay, so we’ve talked about giving to your colleagues, your customers, and to other companies through the products or services you provide. Can anyone think of something we might have left out this holiday season?

How about giving yourself a gift for all the hard work you did all year?

It’s called PTO, and we all have it (hopefully!). If you take your vacations like good girls and boys, this message is not for you. It is for the workaholics out there who check their work email from home, get in early and stay late and never take time off. This may seem like a great way to advance your career and help your business, but in reality, all you are doing is setting yourself up for burn-out, and fast.

Whether you are about to get all of your 2009 PTO upfront in January, or you have some left over from this year, do yourself a favor and take a few days off. I’ll bet the people you work with will thank you, because a rested you will be much more pleasant to work with.

- April Boland, Journyx Communications Coordinator

Journyx is pleased to announce general availability of Journyx Accountlink v7.2.6. This new release of our Timesheet-QuickBooks integration provides support for QuickBooks Online Plus and QuickBooks 2009 (Pro, Premier and Enterprise).

Users of previous versions of Journyx Accountlink, as well as anyone who needs to share Timesheet data with QuickBooks, are encouraged to take the bull by the horns and join in the fun of this new release.

You would be surprised at how many folks write us here at Journyx asking for suggestions on the perfect Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Winter Solstice Holiday present to get for their Journyx-loving friends and family. No, you really would be surprised because frankly it surprises us as well.

So, in the spirit of giving, we here at the Journyx Journal have hastily thrown together this inspired (if incomplete) list of ideas for you to consider when shopping for the Journyx lover in your life. And hey, it’s ok to buy yourself a present from time to time, if you just happen to be the most Journyx-focused person you know.

• Maintenance Contract Renewal
  A current maintenance contract from Journyx guarantees rapid response from the Journyx Support team to any issues you encounter. Also included are significant discounts on major upgrades to Timesheet
• Training Classes
  Training Classes from Journyx take your understanding of Timesheet to the next level
• Integrations
  Integration packages like Journyx Projectlink and the recently updated Journyx Accountlink help you do even more with Timesheet
• ProStart & ProUpdate Services
  ProStart and ProUpdate services make Timesheet sing in beautiful harmony with your business processes

Be sure to ask your sales rep for details on holiday pricing so secret they wouldn’t even tell us about it.

Maybe it’s the heat. Maybe it’s the humidity. Maybe it’s just that we love you this much.

In any case, we’re here to tell you that between now and August 15th, 2008, we’re having what some people might call “a sale.” But this isn’t some sort of lame “10% off your next order” thing. No siree. This is a bona fide “we give you something for free” kind of thing.

But enough hype. You need details. So here they are:

• Buy at least 10 Timesheet Online (AKA hosted, SaaS) license seats and we’ll give you 10 more completely free.
• Switch your existing local Timesheet license to Timesheet Online (AKA hosted, SaaS) and we’ll throw in an additional 10 license seats on the house.
• Purchase at least 10 local Timesheet license seats and we’ll give you 5 more gratis.

That’s it. No gimmicks. No convoluted schemes. No need to send in box tops from your favorite breakfast grain or cereal. Just a simple, “you buy, we throw in a little extra” deal for old and new customers alike.

To take advantage of this offer – which really is only good through August 15th – just contact your Journyx Sales Rep and let them know you’d like to order from the newsletter menu.

The Obligatory Fine Print: Offer applies to new business initiated after receipt of this offer. Previous sales agreements, quotes and verbal agreements are not eligible for this offer. Tax, title and license not included. Do not use discount while showering, sleeping or operating heavy machinery.

Fair warning: Journyx is based in Texas, the 4th hottest place on earth. Also, it’s the middle of July. And yet I am about to complain about the heat. If I were to read a piece written by someone in upstate New York that complained about the cold in the winter time I’d feel pretty comfortable telling the whiner to shut up and live with it. But I’m asking you to stick with me because despite the whining, I really do have a point that’s germane to projects. Trust me. Would a marketing guy lie to you? Don’t answer that. Just keep reading.

It’s been a very hot summer. Incredibly, painfully hot, even for Texas. It was the hottest June on record, with 20 days at 100° F or higher. It’s also been very dry – like 3 inches below average dry. Why am I going on about this? To make the point clear that, unlike last year’s temperate and waterlogged June, this season hasn’t been very good – or very inspiring – for gardening. You remember my bit about gardening (oh, and time boxing) from back in February, don’t you?

Anyway, the garden has fared rather poorly. Almost entirely due to the heat. Well, that freak hailstorm back in May that utterly destroyed the tomatoes and demolished our bean pole tripod (lovingly lashed together by yours truly – thanks knot-tying merit badge!) didn’t help. But really, it’s the heat. If you have to work the land to survive, it’s one thing. But if it’s really just a hobby, well, there are indoor hobbies that keep you safe from the raging anger of the sun. And that means that the garden suffers alone.

Right, so here’s where we get to the point. Said green brown patch is part of a community garden, and that means that other people care about the state of the plot almost as much as we do. They care because it can affect their plots – if it gets too weedy, say, or if it gets overgrown and blocks out the sun (normally bad, though possibly a good thing this year). You get the idea. So, last weekend an email went out to the gardener list barking at everyone to clean up their plots by the end of Sunday or have their ownership of said plots revoked. Apparently, we’re not the only ones hiding from the intense ball of fusion in the sky.

Now, I’m all for keeping the garden looking nice and going strong, but to threaten to revoke ownership in July – after membership fees have been paid for the entire year, no less – is a bit, well, unreasonable. I suppose the tone was taken to try to spur action, but instead it really just sounded petulant and overly-demanding. Kind of like the way upper management sounds when they demand completion of a project without any effort at understanding the situation on the ground. You see, it’s easy to look at a situation, see something you don’t like and decree that changes be enacted. Heck, it’s probably human nature to do so. But we’re out to change that – in project land, if not in community gardens across the country.

How does a Timesheet company aim to help management get a better idea of what the lay of the land looks like, you ask? Sssssh. It’s a secret.

- Andrew Trent, Journyx Director of Web Content

Journyx customer ACS Dataline, LP has some nice things to say about Journyx – and we didn’t even have to bribe them!

If you’re someone who hasn’t yet joined the Journyx family, take a look at ACS Dataline’s review of Timesheet at DMReview.com. It just might tell you – from an independent point of view – what you need to make your decision.

Read more at: http://journyx.com/rss/redir/dmreview.html