Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Ad Agency Project Management – 3 Ways Our Advantage Software Can help Your Agency!

Gear Icon Advantage Software is designed by agencies, for agencies.  You’ll find customizable desktops, menus and applications that conform to your agency brand or individual preferences.

Innovative and flexible ad agency software applications meet the needs of mid to large-size agencies with multiple offices or profit centers but also serve smaller agencies with easy-to-use features and efficient design. 

Role-based methodology and extensive collaboration tools ensure that everyone benefits; making your agency more efficient, productive and profitable.  Extend connectivity beyond typical boundaries with tools such as Webvantage Mobile and the Client Portal!

3 Ways Our Advantage Software Project Management Software Can Help Your Agency

1.  A good Agency Project Management system includes Resource Management tools projmgmt_icon that allow you to see into the future and predict both short-term and long-term staffing needs.

2.  A good Agency Project Management system provides accurate task lists and project timelines and calendars without making your project manager a data entry clerk.  It automates the task routing through intelligent workflow templates that you define.

3.  Agency Project Management systems that centralize all information, communications and documents allow companies to stay informed, up-to-the-minute on important events, changes, or problems that may affect the timing or accuracy of the finished product.

If you would like more information about Advantage Software Project Management software, please call us at 800.841.2078 or contact our Regional Sales Managers:  Dominique Lacerte - dlacerte@gotoadvantage.com or Mike McGee - mmcgee@gotoadvantage.com .  We look forward to working with your agency soon!

 

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Ad Agency Software from Advantage Software Delivers Major Project Management and Production Upgrades in Webvantage v3.20!

service-clouds There is more exciting news for Ad Agency Project Management and Production users with the latest Webvantage Agency Management Software v3.20 upgrade from Advantage Software!

We added a number of Agency Project Management Maintenance applications to Webvantage which can be controlled by security but allow Project Managers to manage maintenance items from Webvantage!

All of these agency software items can be exported to Excel for reporting:

  • Alert Assignment Maintenance – Required to use the new Alert Assignments feature.  This application is used to create States and Workflow Templates used for Alert Assignment routing;
  • Alert Groups
  • Phase
  • Status
  • Tasks and Task Templates
  • Roles
  • Project Schedule Settings

Other items of interest to the agency Project Management and Production users of the software include:

  • Purchase Order Search – added filter options to omit Voided Purchase Orders or Closed Purchase orders from the search results
  • Job Jacket Event Scheduling – added filters for Cutoff dates and Event ID’s
  • Estimates – added new signature option for 5 client signatures
  • Project Viewpoint Hours Viewpoint – added the Job Description and Job Component Description

Webvantage is an extremely powerful, reliable, robust and scalable web-based version of our Advantage Software.

We'll be covering more details from our Webvantage v3.20 release soon.  If you would like more information about Webvantage, our web-based ad agency software program, please call us at 800.841.2078 or contact our Regional Sales Managers:  Dominique Lacerte - dlacerte@gotoadvantage.com or Mike McGee - mmcgee@gotoadvantage.com.  We look forward to working with your agency soon!

Friday, December 3, 2010

Ad Agency Finance & Accounting Webvantage Software from The Advantage Software Company Includes Nice v3.20 Financial Enhancements!

client-billing The Advantage Software Company has released Webvantage v3.20 with some very nice enhancements and upgrades for all ad agency departments and roles!

Today, we wanted to share with our accounting and financial agency software team members some of the specific enhancements that we think you will really enjoy!

Billing Approval Batch Options in Webvantage

We added additional options for selected billing for approval to match new options in the Billing Command Center.  These include:

  • Select Jobs with Unbilled or Other Charges (means that jobs will be Advantage Circle A Facebook displayed if they have unbilled charges or have been advance billed or have an approved estimate or open purchase orders).
  • Select Jobs with Unbilled Charges Only (limits selection to jobs that have unbilled or un-reconciled charges).
  • Select All Open Jobs (includes all open jobs for a complete review).

Accounts Receivable Statements

We added the ability to “check all or uncheck all” to email or print!

Employee Utilization Dashboard

project-management These dashboards provide interactive, visual information on Employee Productivity and Realization billability, including a simple Fee Analysis view. They are locked by default (activate in System Locking) and include security for each option (productivity vs. realization).

We'll be covering more details from our Webvantage v3.20 release soon.  If you would like more information about Webvantage, our web-based ad agency software program, please call us at 800.841.2078 or contact our Regional Sales Managers:  Dominique Lacerte - dlacerte@gotoadvantage.com or Mike McGee - mmcgee@gotoadvantage.com.  We look forward to working with your agency soon!