The company target market is made of privately owned companies, public company and a very important chunk of national Public Administration. The services provided go from fleet operative and administrative cost optimization till operative maintenance planning and execution with added services like vehicle substitution, vehicle towing and repair till car insurance advisory.

Recently Drive Service has become part of a larger Group, Cobra Automotive Technologies, whose technological capabilities span from vehicle recognition and tracking to thief alarm and driver behavioral analysis.

The IT is mainly a process lever but also an enabler and an important part the service delivery: from managing the planned maintenance processes till evaluating and managing the single ordinary and extraordinary maintenance, it usually allows the process to be carried out efficiently as well as to integrate information and tasks internally and externally as regarded to business processes; the most important challenge Drive Service is currently facing is to be capable to integrate its own processes and systems within the broader Supply Chains made of Supplier and Customers processes and ICT solutions.

DS used a single project manager approach in planning and tracking projects; moreover, it was lacking a single coherent picture of what's going on in terms of activities as well as of managing external personnel.

Another lack was the possibility to observe and allocate resources cross-project, especially true for external consultant and outsourcing developers.

Right now having a single instrument that allows data to be visible and shared across multiple projects, supplier and Prj. Leader allows a better evaluation of time and schedule as well as budget vs. actual cost allocations while giving the main stakeholders a deeper understanding of ICT activities / projects and costs.

External personnel can moreover have the possibility to commit tasks / efforts and advancements to items and projects as they are progressing toward the goals with the money / resources spent and results achieved.

The time reporting and project advancement are very powerful, as well as the status reporting and cost reporting features. Being a web application, it is always on whatever site you are and ready for internal as well as external stakeholder; it is also possible to use the same platform to share news and reports with external customers without proliferating the means of communication while centrally managing the status reports what become integral part of the project management process and not an added effort from the parties involved.

Being able to track cross-project advancements and expenses, having a coherent picture of status and projects issues, managing the whole project portfolio being able to share / move resources in a dynamic way evaluating the impact of the resource allocation and sharing it without multiple communications to be produced / managed. Moreover, the possibility to have on a single platform the internal personnel, the external resources and the Customers is a very powerful way to have a clear picture of the whole environment in a systemic way to be able to manage issue and ameliorate the performance of a given project and a deeper understanding of the causes of the mismatch between plans and effects.

Specifically we like the Earned Value Analyses and the very easy to use reporting tools for all projects. These tools help our project managers to make decisions more easily. Another advantage of Celoxis is the fact, that it is an online tool and we're able to access it from all over the world.

We're now more aware of the total time consumption of our projects and it is much easier for us to get a feeling of the utilization of our resources. Furthermore it is much easier for us to start new projects (through templates) and to track down the bottlenecks of each project.

Axe Group specialises in providing software solutions to the Insurance Industry through its 'Axelerator Insurance Platform', and cross-industry application services focused on the software development lifecycle. More information can be found at www.axegroup.com.au.

Before implementing Celoxis, Axe captured staff time allocations through a time tracking system built in-house. We moved to Celoxis to track time by task and allow us to access information through the customisable reports.

Celoxis is primarily used for time tracking however we also make use of the financials to track how the project is progressing against the budget. The API is a powerful feature which we call from with Excel macros to automatically generate timesheets using our standard customer template.

Celoxis has become our primary tool for tracking time within the organisation and allows us to ensure that we are correctly billing for this time.

Working in complex organization requires a very good coordination where all key players must have same level of information. Sharing documents, storing mails, Celoxis does it all and help anticipating better and communicating more transparently to our customers.

Last but not least, by combining project with tailor made workflows, we could enhanced all our business critical processes, freezing roles and responsibilities, forcing mandatory inputs, measure lead times and SLAs.

In both Product Development and Geophysics Division of the business, jobs are project based but there was no project management tool to track project progress, neither project accounting tool to track project cost, especially people's cost. As a result, it was impossible to gain an overview of all projects and the total cost of projects. In addition, there was great difficulty to track staff leave days due to the complexity of employee entitlement.

Business system team was giving the task to find a Project management and time sheeting tool that is low cost, easy to use and easy to implement. We have extensively scanned market with the finding that a lot of in-house products that can do the job but with rather high software cost and complex implementation process. Then we came across Celoxis as SAAS provider with sophisticated project management functionality and great reporting capability on time sheeting. Celoxis outranked the others in functionality, reporting and value by a wide margin.

Celoxis was implemented in mid 2009 for project management and time sheeting purpose. It is easy to use and doesn't require instalment on local desk top. It only took us a couple of days to complete training for staff and project managers.

Using Celoxis project management tool, we can track actual vs. budgeted time very quickly and simply. This helps the project managers track projects and confirm tasks are being done when required and within the allocated time period. It is also useful to relay project progress to team members. As most staff are working on multiple projects at once they can see how much time they have spend on a project and with the knowledge of what work they have completed they can provide project managers with realistic finish dates. And staff can see where they been allocated and how much time they have to work on something.

The time sheeting functionality improves productivity by allowing staff track time at project-task level. It enables us accurately tracking and approval of time easily so as to calculate correct project cost. It provides us with greater understanding of where staff spends their time due to reports. The report feature enables you to drill down into all or an individual timesheet. For example reports can be run on how much each individual or the whole group have spent on Business Development each week. We can then understand whether a position needs to be reviewed based on the more than that expected being spend on a task than what was thought.

The feature we like the most of Celoxis is easy implementation, easy to run report. Celoxis Support Team has been very responsive regards system support and issue solving.

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At our Headquarters, located in Sunrise, FL, there is a staff of approximately 50 professionals supporting this large and rapidly growing network of independently owned franchises. Supporting the company's accelerated growth can only be achieved by the successful completion of the wide array of projects that arise on a frequent basis; projects must be well organized and well communicated. Enter Celoxis.

Celoxis allows our Project Management Office to plan project execution much more effectively. Having a central repository for our projects' information, allows team members to manage project tasks from any web enabled device, share information more efficiently, monitor project progress with less effort and learn from past projects, allowing for better planning in the future.

Celoxis as a tool encourages project team members to properly prioritize their assigned tasks in their personal work schedule. Either they setup a view within Celoxis and monitor their tasks there or they have email notifications sent through Outlook and manage their task deadlines using Outlook reminders. Celoxis is a very agile solution and fits any number of personal work styles.

We are currently managing more concurrent projects, using less paper and consistently hitting our major milestones on schedule!

The Portfolio Management reports allow us to tailor dashboards for each level of management within our organization, so that people see the information that is most important to them. From a PMO perspective, it is easy to hone in on the projects that are falling behind and offer the support those PMs need to keep their projects from falling behind.

One of the biggest improvement is costs analysis. We can now accurately track costs and budget accordingly, especially with regard to engineering resources. It also helps us assign resources across projects to maximize efficiency of available resources.

Customizable work flows, project cloning features, batch time entry and conditional project access based on task assignments. Also, increased customized reporting is flexible and easy to use. Gantt chart, financial and budgeting tools are also helpful.

It has been very helpful for budgeting and having a central repository for all project related work. Having a single source of information to track projects across various groups helps us stay organized and execute projects on schedule.

Riva's software provides tools that perform strategic long range asset, risk and budget management by forecasting the full lifecycle of our client's assets. These tools automatically integrate with source systems to generate inventories for assets including roads, bridges, water and waste water networks and facilities. By applying best practices, Riva generates a lifecycle cost and risk profile for each asset, determining the events that should be scheduled each period, as well as their effects on the cost, condition, risk and capacity for our clients.

In addition, Riva supports PSAB 3150 Tangible Capital Asset reporting guidelines as well as the United States equivalent GASB Statement 34.

Riva is a young and growing company. We have made big efforts of late to improve our processes and implement best practice management. There wasn't one place for coordination. Riva has implemented Celoxis to aid in managing client projects, keep time tracking relevant for billing as well as configured Celoxis to act as our Bug Tracking system for ongoing software development. Through Celoxis, we now have one place to coordinate our efforts. Riva can also now easily retrieve information on availability of staff so that planning and timelines for upcoming projects can be incorporated into daily operations, and reasonably met as current workloads across the organization are known.

The graphical user interface is very impressive. The project/task management functionality is exceptional. Time tracking has also greatly improved. The ability to customize pages, dashboards and reports is very useful to have Celoxis conform to our business practices and procedures. Importing and exporting projects is very useful, especially if the link is kept open, so tasks and projects can be updated offline, and re-synched to the online shared project. The customizable process flow also allows us to manage our processes our own way, rather than conforming to a mandatory standard.

Celoxis has allowed Riva to better coordinate development as well as project management. We currently use time tracking and bug tracking extensively. We hope to capitalize on more of Celoxis' features in the near future. We have much more transparent objectives and operations across departments, as the managing tools are not specific to only one function. We are also more timely in our deliverables as tasks can be assigned without having to call each staff member, since email notifications are sent out. We also have a record for all of our requests, and duplicate requests can be prioritized with the original request.

Celoxis has allowed the growth of Riva to be more seamless, and reduced pains or road blocks common with a rapidly growing start-up company by providing a stable software with very prompt responses to any issues discovered.

We've been using Celoxis for several years now. Previously, we were using Basecamp which is a great communication tool but did not allow for issue tracking or true accountability for task completion. Since using Celoxis, we've improved our ability to track internal tasks and issues as well as improving and tracking document and purchase order submissions to suppliers.

We definitely take most advantage of the customizable workflow processes. Not only has it improved our ability to track key business processes, but it forced us to better understand and enabled their improvement.

Celoxis helps keep our teams on track with project and business directives and schedules. It also helps keep issues and tasks from slipping through the cracks.

Celoxis has been an integral part of The Hive's refinement of internal communication for not only projects, but for day to day task and issues.