TimeLinx Talk Weekly Project and Service Newsletter – Edition 141

Managing Your Remote Project Teams and the Quest for an Effective PSM Tool – For many years, having a job meant going to work for 8 hours in an office. You would commute in traffic spending wasted hours in your car going quietly mad. When the pandemic hit in early 2020, the whole concept of work changed. Since much of the world was under some sort of lockdown, jobs had to be done at home where possible. Zoom became one of the most popular apps in the world, and people all over were able to go to work without any pants on. Click the image to read…

Digital Transformation Is Linked to Financial Performance – Most companies today are well underway with digital transformation projects, with the average company roughly 70 percent through the process, industry analyst firm Valoir found in a survey of 1,400 companies worldwide. The research also found a clear correlation between digital transformation and financial performance, as companies further along with digital transformation achieve nearly twice the revenue growth of those lagging behind. Click the image to read the complete story…

Project Management Trends (2021): What does the Future Look Like – Just think of what project management industry looked like ten years ago? Fewer methodologies, lesser tools, smaller teams, and simpler projects. Cut to 2019, things have changed tremendously as the teams are no longer smaller and the projects no longer simpler. As the old adage goes, “Change is the only constant.” It seems so true for the project management industry. Click the image to get all the details…

5 Ways to Improve a Customer Self-service Strategy – All projects have constraints. Adhering to those constraints will ultimately determine the success of your project. What is known as the Iron Triangle or the Triple Constraint is a combination of three factors that are dependent on one another. The three factors are Scope, Time, and Cost. These need to be in constant equilibrium to measure changes that must be made while still keeping the project on track. Click the image to read the complete story…

7 Reasons to Give Field Service Technicians a Mobile Application – As more companies transform to digital operations, service companies must also adapt and move to paperless operations to manage field technicians. To successfully evolve, they must adopt field service management software. With this type of solution, service companies can better manage service schedules and monitor service activities. And they can use a mobile app to put these capabilities right in their field technicians’ hands. Click the image to read the complete story…

Reimagining Our Relationships with Our Customers – Field Service News Think Tank – There are many predictions as to what comes next after a year where everything has been shaken to its very roots. Having had time for reflection the members of the Field Service News Think Tank offer up their own insight into what they think is the immediate changes we will start to see as we look forward to 2022 and beyond. The language around the impact of the Covid-19 crisis has been dramatic. Click the image to download the complete report…

Sometimes Things Just Do Not Go As Planned: Edition 45 – Skydiving is considered one of the most exhilarating, heart pounding but dangerous sports anyone can engage in. Skydivers go through hundreds of hours of training and safety measures are added to the equipment to avoid disasters but sometimes things just do not go as planned. Recently, a group of veteran parachuters jumped from an aircraft but an unexpected wind gust tangled the lines of more than one of the jumpers moments before they hit the ground. Click the image to watch this terrifying video…

Triple Constraint: Using PSM software to conquer the Iron Triangle – All projects have constraints. Adhering to those constraints will ultimately determine the success of your project. What is known as the Iron Triangle or the Triple Constraint is a combination of three factors that are dependent on one another. The three factors are Scope, Time, and Cost. These need to be in constant equilibrium to measure changes that must be made while still keeping the project on track. Click the image to read the complete article…

How can CFOs Benefit from ERP Systems? –

Chief financial officers (CFOs) are increasingly being asked to get involved in more diverse projects within their organizations, using their skills and experience to contribute to strategic growth. This creates various challenges for finance leaders, who need to use all the tools at their disposal to make sound decisions based upon quantitative evidence. Click the image to get the complete story…

The Journey to Achieving Desired Outcomes in a Field Service Business – Fortunately, service leaders know exactly where they want to go. They want to achieve the business objectives they signed up for in the strategic plan or in their individual goals and objectives (which are used to calculate their annual bonus.) Unfortunately, many of these leaders are missing a terrific opportunity to win their own version of the World Cup because they are not using all the tools available to them. Click the image to read the rest of the story…

“Get That Vibe!”: Infor CRM – Your customer relationships are the driving force of your business. By offering a complete view of every customer touch point across your sales, marketing, customer service, and support teams, Infor CRM enables you to maximize the impact of every interaction—across the entire customer lifecycle—whether in the office or out in the field. The best part about Infor CRM is that it’s built for your business. Click the image to get all of the details…

What Is CRM? Sage CRM – What is CRM? Are you looking for a better way of managing your interactions with customers? Seeking a full featured customer relationship management solution that can integrate to your accounting solution for a seamless end to end customer experience? Looking for the best value for your company? Then you will want to click the image to watch this 2 minute video…

Win with Sage CRM integrated with Sage Intacct –

Looking for a full featured CRM Solution to integrate with your Sage Intacct Accounting Solution? Look no further. Sage CRM now has a bi-directional integration with Sage Intacct Accounting by promoting a Sage CRM company or person record to a new Sage Intacct customer or contact object record and linking an existing Sage CRM record to an existing Intacct record. Click the image for all of the details…

Sometimes Things Just Do Not Go As Planned : Edition 44 – The most common form of transporting freight is over the road in large tractor trailers, often 70 feet long and carrying 40 tons. Although include many safety features to protect the driver, the precious cargo and surrounding vehicles but weather and road conditions can create dangerous circumstances and sometimes things just do not go as planned. Click the image and watch this terrifying video of a runaway semi…

Infor Announces that Inforum 2021 Will be an Entirely Digital Experience – Early this year, Infor announced their plans for their annual conference to be held in person but did so with a commitment to keeping health and safety as their top priority . As of last week, an update from Infor was issued announcing that with the increase in COVID-19 challenges, they have chosen to move Inforum 2021 to a 100% digital event. Click the image to get all of the details…

COVI-19 Global Vaccine Tracker – As the world continues to pivot and adapt to life amidst a pandemic, the polarizing topic of vaccination has been a leading headline in the news everywhere on earth. With well over 200,000,000 cases of Corona Virus identified globally and more than 5,000,000,000 vaccines administered to date, a new Global Vaccine Tracker website has been created to illustrate the progress of each country’s administration of the vaccine. Click the l to view the results…

Sage CRM 2021 R2 is Now Available – Sage CRM 2021 R2 has been released as of Wednesday, 11th August 2021. The software has passed its QA process and has been issued as ‘GA’ to each of the Sage teams globally. Each Sage region is responsible for scheduling the release of the software in their territory because of the need to take different accounting integrations into account. As a consequence, the local release date of the software is down to each local Sage team. Contact for complete details or click the image for release notes…

TimeLinx PSM to be Added to the Sage Ireland Marketplace – Earlier this year, TimeLinx Project and Service Management solution was added to the Sage Global Marketplaces in North America and the UK and pleased to announce it will be added to the Sage Ireland Cloud Marketplace as well. Sage clients in Ireland with project and service business needs can now benefit from TimeLinx also. Check out the Sage Ireland 3rd Party Marketplace in the days to come to learn how it all works. Click the image to get all of the details…

World Health Organization Realtime COVID-19 Dashboard – Unfortunately, with the variant, the number of cases of COVID-19 are on the rise again with fall right around the corner. The World Health Organization has published a real-time dashboard providing up to date data from around the world. Hover over any country in the world and review the latest stats and official information related to COVID-19. Click the image to review the dashboard…

Infor’s “Come Back Clean” Reinstatement Program – Have you been a long-time Infor customer but let your maintenance & support programs lapse only to realize the reinstatement fees are simply too expensive to justify? Well, we have an answer for you! From now until August 31st, 2021 you can literally save tens of thousands while protecting your software investment by taking advantage of the “Come Back Clean Program”. Click the image to get all of the details about the program…

TimeLinx FREE ROI Calculator – Want to know how quickly you can obtain a return on your investment using TimeLinx? Download this simple ROI Calculator, input your applicable data-points, include a minimum of 30 (%) in efficiencies across your organization and the calculator will quickly illustrate how much money you will save per day and per year. Click the image for complete details…

TimeLinx – Project and Service Management Software Buying Guide –
The way business is done has changed dramatically, and if you’re considering this buyer’s guide, it’s because you’re seeking a software solution to streamline your business processes, increase productivity and efficiency, and reduce costly data entry errors…Click the image to download the Buyers Guide…

The Basics of Partnering with TimeLinx During Uncertain Times – The TimeLinx Partner Advantage Program is a perfect complement for mid-market resellers, business partners and technology consulting firms supporting businesses in the project and service industry. The Partner Advantage Program includes some of the best margins, support, training and administration offerings in software publishing…

TimeLinx Investor Information Center – Regardless of the impacts of the Corona Virus, TimeLinx is reporting some the strongest financial results in the company’s history and seeking outside investment to expedite the time to market in the re-launch of the new platform agnostic version of TimeLinx including all modules. Interested parties should click the image and download the complete market analysis and investor presentation…

With Uncertain Times, the Experience of Your Technology Provider is More Important than Ever. Please Take the Opportunity to Meet the TimeLinx Leadership Team – The executive team at TimeLinx sets the strategic direction for the company, supports a passion for continual innovation and a drive to meet the unmet needs of customers and business partners. The team brings together over 80 years of diverse, yet complimentary experience with the goal of providing industry leading technology solutions to the market. Click the image and meet the team…

In the Midst of the Global Pandemic, TimeLinx is Able to Offer Financing for All Purchases Across North and South America – TimeLinx is proud to partner with Dimension Funding and as a result of some recent announcements, technology financing is now available across all of North and South America. Click the image to learn about the benefits of technology financing…

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