Time Tracking and Reporting Tool

Summary

As an outsourcing services provider, INNERLUXES knows the value of quickly generated, accurate reports for customers, project managers, product owners, and HR managers who track the performance of a single employee or a whole organization. Since general project-management tools track tasks rather than time, INNERLUXES built its own web-based time-tracking and reporting tool with sophisticated reports but simple data entry.

About the Company

INNERLUXES is a software development and outsourcing services provider.

The Challenge

Software development companies traditionally use project-management tools such as Jira (Atlassian), Podio (Citrix), or online services like Basecamp — comprehensive management solutions that INNERLUXES uses for various purposes too. However, their tracking functionality is universal: it's more about task tracking than time tracking, requires a long training period for new users, and demands excessive time for entering input data.

As an experienced software development company, INNERLUXES also learned that customers are not willing to pay for developers' time spent filling out reports, yet they request detailed, accurate reports for tracking. This inspired INNERLUXES to develop a time-tracking solution that solves those issues.

The Solution

INNERLUXES built a solution with sophisticated reports but simple data entry — gathering data for business intelligence analysis takes little effort. It is an easy web-based system that lets an employee fill out a report in an intuitive Excel-like interface in just a few clicks, while a manager can generate different types of reports by pressing a single button.

Technologies and Tools

MS .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC, MS SQL Server, JavaScript.