Transform your business processes with Avaza
Business Type
Software Development
Location
Missouri, USA
Size
80+ Employees
Their Story
1904 Labs, a US-based consultancy, is typical of many fast-growth, entrepreneurial consultancies that help bridge the gap between digital solutions and the humans that use them. The consultancy helps firms build and implement software that has a laser-like focus on the user experience.
Founded in 2016, 1904Labs grew to over 80 employees in just 4 years. Despite their growth, they pride themselves on a start-up culture that purposefully recruits and encourages entrepreneurial mindsets – something which accounts for their great reviews on recruitment sites such as GlassDoor.
With Avaza, the data is at our fingertips. We can run financial projections and different scenarios based on our pipeline.
What were the challenges?
1994 Labs started as a small software house in 2016. The business experienced rapid growth and soon their existing processes started struggling. Disparate apps, spreadsheets and isolated databases began to creak as operation demands tested the interaction between different systems.
Here are some of the pain points they were looking to address
- Staff should have total clarity on the work assigned to them and its priority
- Projects should be efficiently resourced with highest possible staff utilization.
- Staff should be easily able to track time on assigned tasks.
- Uninvoiced time should be visible and easy to invoice.
- Project managers should be able evaluate project profitability
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Their Victory
We did a lot of research, reading reviews, considering features, and then going through demos and trials. In the end, we choose Avaza because
- They were very easy to work with and very responsive
- They had all the required features at a reasonable price
- We were able to onboard our team with minimal training
With Avaza in place, we are able to run our business operations a lot more smoothly. We now know who is working on what and who may be required for upcoming work. Time spent on administrative tasks has been significantly reduced plus all those errors caused due to copying data from one system to another are a thing of the past.
We can’t see ourselves ever going back to pre-Avaza processes.
Their Victory
Favorite Features
Resource Scheduling
With Resource Scheduling, we are able to forecast future revenue and cost. It also identifies if additional resources are required to deliver future projects. We have been able to improve the overall staff utilization by balancing the workload on the Team Schedule.
Time Tracking
Our team is able to easily track time on specific tasks. Project managers are able to review the variances between scheduled vs actual time and fine-tune the estimation process. Timesheet reminder and approval features encourage the team to enter all their time accurately.
Invoicing
With all the data in the same system, our Finance team is able to easily pull uninvoiced time. Previously that information had to be copied and pasted to create invoices that were prone to errors. Another benefit is that billable uninvoiced time doesn't slip through the cracks.
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