- Agfa Global Services – NAFTA Newspapers Group
AGFA's North American Newspaper Division has been using Project Insight since 2003 to manage, track and control its software and hardware implementation and installation projects. Project Insight has made it possible for the entire national project management group, AGFA's managers at customer sites, and hundreds of field service engineers deployed in various sites in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, to stay up-to-date with project status and to communicate in real-time.
"Initially we looked at over 200 packages, narrowed that down to 17, then did beta tests on four packages. Ultimately, none of them could do anything like what Project Insight could do for the price."
--National Project Manager
- Freedom Communications
Freedom Communications is a media company that owns 70 news publications, 8 broadcast television stations and interactive media businesses. The Project Management Office (PMO) selected Project Insight because they have project managers who travel to newspapers and TV stations across the country. They needed a project solution that was available via the web. Project managers can be at home or in an airport, catching up on and updating projects from anywhere.
"In the old days, we would spend two days scrambling to find everything. Now the CIO goes into Project Insight at anytime, finds what he needs and shares it with the other executives."
--Director of the Project Management Office
- Funrise Toy Corporation
Funrise Toy Corporation is an adventurous innovator in the toy industry manufacturing and distributing toys like Tonka trucks, Silly Putty and Scooby-Doo. With offices in California, Hong Kong, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany, their solution had to be web based. The solution also had to be easy to use because the designers and creative people did not want to work an overly complex solution. Project Insight offered the right blend of standardization on project management fundamentals without requiring a full time project management specialist.
"We're really able to maintain timelines in a way we could never do before, so it's a huge win from that aspect."
--CIO
- Go Traffic Interactive
Go Traffic Interactive is a multi-discipline agency specializing in strategies for increasing online traffic through design and usability, web development, search engine optimization and online advertising. The team started using Project Insight in 2005 to solve issues with 'scope creep' on customer projects. Now team members are entering time in the system which gives management real-time updates on project status.
"Project Insight's a huge benefit. It has saved me hours and hours and hours of time. I can pop in, look at where we are on projects, pull a time entry report, then see how much time we've accumulated. It gives me a great amount of security to know where we are with our projects."
--Managing Director and Owner, Go Traffic Interactive
- Hickman Group
Hickman Group is a creative design firm specializing in new products and marketing of consumer goods. Hickman Group is one of Project Insight's oldest customers. They began using the software in 2001. Project Insight enhances communication with their clients and speeds up the project delivery. This gives Hickman Group instant credibility with their customers.
"It's been my dream to have a custom interface for all client communications that would make freelancers accountable, have everything in one place, and provide access anywhere. Project Insight has delivered all those things and more, and has become the nerve center of our operation."
--President, Hickman Group
- P2P Link
P2P Link's implementation team has been using Project Insight since 2003 to provide Internet-based services including electronic claims processing between medical care providers and payers for Workers' Compensation and Personal Automobile injury claims. They especially like the ability to template projects because each implementation project has similar elements. All of the members of their virtual team can view and update their portions of the project.
"Project Insight gives us one place to go to review where all our projects stand, as well as a way to communicate to clients the steps they need to take to stay on track."
--Assistant Vice President of Operations
- Razor USA
Razor USA, famous for the creating and manufacturing the Razor scooter, uses Project Insight to design and manufacture its products. The product design and development team is in Los Angeles and the manufacturing is in Asia, so coordinating tasks and activities across the globe is imperative. With Project Insight, Razor optimizes its project coordination and communication, maximizes resources, lowers project risk, and ensures positive project outcomes.
"With Project Insight, we have reduced the headache of keeping everyone updated as to the project development status and actually focus on the real work of creating fun toys for kids."
--Project Manager
- Register.com
Register.com, the first registrar in the domain name registration business after de-regulation, selected Project Insight in 2003 to manage its information technology projects. The team is geographically dispersed and works with third party vendors on solutions. They have experienced remarkable improvement in their communication and collaboration since using Project Insight.
"We were experiencing a situation where project managers were slaves to our project management system…With Project Insight, our biggest success has been its automatic adoption. I have people approaching me daily with requests for accounts and training."
--Manager
- Sigma Breakthrough Technologies, Inc.
Sigma Breakthrough Technologies, Inc. (SBTI), one of the first Six Sigma deployment firms, works with its corporate customers to bring their business processes to Six Sigma standards. The implementation team uses Project Insight with its clients. They save their documents in a single, common location, which makes accessibility and overall system use very simple. Both clients and project managers have access to the data they need.
"Project Insight is really a core component of what we do and a critical component of how we deal with our clients. It is a significant improvement over what we had before...If you can use a browser, you can use the software."
--IT Support
- Tailored Business Solutions
Tailored Business Solutions (TBS) specializes in software systems for the government sector. As the name indicates, the company tailors its standard software offerings to meet the unique requirements of each customer. TBS started using Project Insight in 2005 and now the team has better visibility and communication. What's more, the financial people are getting alerts that tell them when to invoice a customer, which brings revenue in faster.
"Our financial people are getting those deal alerts in a more timely way, so they don't have to wait until the project is done to send an invoice…That means better cash flow and faster payments."
--Consultant, Tailored Business Systems