One application; one loginFor those familiar with DOVICO Software’s previous releases, the following topic highlights the major differences between Track-IT Suite 2005 and DOVICO Timesheet version 9.
One application; one login
With DOVICO Timesheet, all functions, views and tools (excluding Database Manager) are accessed through one browser-based application. Everything is accessed via a single logon page with employee security settings establishing what views and tools are available for each user.
For those employees only entering time and expenses, only those screens are available. For managers and empowered employees, the single login gives them access to administrative functions permitting them to create, manage and report on projects, invoice clients, link to Microsoft Project, QuickBooks, etc., enter their own time and expenses, and any other function available for their security level.
Project Workspace
The Project Workspace section contains all the necessary views and functions to setup and manage your projects and project budgets. In one easy-to-use area, you have the ability to create clients, projects, tasks, employees, etc and to create project assignments. From Project Workspace, you can also create, monitor or adjust project time and expense budgets.
New Time Entry screen
DOVICO Timesheet’s single time entry screen combines the best of our previous time entry views plus many new features to help simplify the time entry experience. Bulk Time and Timer functionality is now combined into a single, weekly timesheet grid. The addition of Favorites allows a user to populate the time entry grids with recurring task assignments. The hierarchical representation of clients, projects and task makes it easy to quickly locate any single assignment, and time entry users can also customize the level of details displayed for each time entry.
Project Assignment Hierarchy
With DOVICO Timesheet, the project assignment hierarchy has been modified so that it is now Project / Task / Employee. This now permits project structures to be organized before assigning employees.
Project Alerts
Project Alerts allow managers, executives and empowered employees to receive notices via e-mail when established targets for time or costs have been reached.
Mileage
Any 'rate based' expense can now be entered by employees by simply selecting the appropriate expense category, entering the total number of units with the resulting total value automatically calculated based on the 'cost per unit' established by management.
Bulk Time Move
The new Bulk Time Move utility gives system administrators the power to move an employee's time entries from project to project, task to task or in combination.
Active Directory
Simplify your Network identity management by using DOVICO Timesheet's integrated link to Microsoft's(R) Active Directory service. The Active Directory link allows employees to be imported from Active Directory and also authenticates DOVICO Timesheet user IDs and passwords against the information synchronized with Active Directory.
Hosted Solution
DOVICO Software offers DOVICO Timesheet as a hosted (online, ASP) solution for those wanting to outsource the technical aspects of installing and maintaining the application. Note that some functionality is not available on the Hosted solution. Contact your DOVICO Sales representative for more information.
More E-mail Notifications
Now e-mails can be automatically sent to managers when they have time/expenses to approve, to employees when they have had time/expenses rejected and to managers when employees have not completed their timesheets.
Security On Costs
Restrictions on what information users can and cannot see has been further enhanced with the ability to hide cost and rate information in Administrative views and reports.
Reporting
The Reports Explorer structure has been completely re-organized to better group available reports. Many reports have also been renamed. See Report Changes for a comprehensive list of report modifications. While some reports have been removed, they are still available for downloading.
From the new Reports Explorer, you can now make additional reports available to the time entry users and you can directly schedule reports to be e-mailed to employees and clients (in PDF, Word, Excel, etc).
Other improvements
Now when a task is moved to new or different task group, you have the option to update existing assignments.
From
each view, clicking the Help button 
will launch the help
file for that specific view (context help).
Login User IDs and Passwords are now case sensitive.
Microsoft Project Link: Optionally send ETCs or Status date from DOVICO Timesheet to Microsoft Project/Project Server.
Time Entry: The time entry description field length is now 4000 characters.
While designing DOVICO Timesheet, we took
the opportunity to include some of your suggestions about view names and
their locations in the side navigation bar. See Navigation
Bar to review all views.
The Employees, Tasks, Projects, Task Groups, Teams and Client views have now been merged into the Project Assignments view. These are also available from the Items List tab in the Project Workspace area.
Receivables is now Billing.
Track-IT link is now QuickBooks link.
Estimated Expenses is now Budgeted Expenses.
Matrix Approval is now Project Approvals.
Timesheets is now Time Calendar.
Time and Attendance Rules is now Leave/Absences Rules.
Track-IT pro Assistant is now Job Scheduler.
Approve view is now Time & Expense Approvals.
The Project Budgets view has been split into 2 views: Budgeted Time & Costs and Actual Time & Costs.
Add Time Entry is now Holiday Time Entry.
To keep up with market demands and technology
changes, some Track-IT Suite functionality and views are not available
in DOVICO Timesheet. The following lists those features which are not
included in DOVICO Timesheet.
Track-IT Punchclock
Track-IT wireless
Track-IT PDA
Broadcast messaging
Project Timesheet view
Approve by exception for expenses
Gantt view
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