Creative Manager Pro adds new Time Management & Charting features to its Project Management Software

Creative Manager, Inc. provider of Creative Manager Pro, charts new territory with its New Time Management & Time Planning charting features, and improved Financial features in its new version 5.8 release.

Lakewood, NJ (PRWEB) September 22 2003--The new Time Management and Planning features are extremely beneficial in staffing and review of employees as it provides management with simple means to set goals for their staff and measure their progress against these goals. Creative Manager Pro visually charts the billable time and the time that was actually realized (billed) to quickly enable management to review employee efficiency. Creative Manager Pro now also highlights the reasons why time is written off.

Details of the new Time Management and Planning features:

1. Labor Budgets are now available by employee, which including billable-hours goals and billable-dollars goals. Labor budgets may be reviewed by each employee using a bar chart that will show each employee their own goal, target hours, billable hours (as entered in the employees timesheets), billed hours, and unbilled hours. Management is now able to chart visually and analyze this information on a real time basis by employee, by department, by office, or for the entire firm.

2. 'Write off reasons' provide users with analysis of hours and dollars written off along with the related reasons. This analysis is viewed via a pie chart that is automatically generated for each employee, department, office, or for the entire company.

The Financial end of Creative Manager Pro has been improved in the following areas:

1. Recurring AP invoices

2. Recurring AR Invoices

3. Recurring GL Journal Entires

4. Standard GL Journal Entries

5. Department budgets in General Ledger

Ron Ause, Director of Marketing, said 'The additional functionality that we're providing and the continued low cost that our clients are paying is pushing our clients way ahead of the competition. How many Creative firms are monitoring employee efficiency and productivity? This is a win-win for us and for our clients. Creative Manager Pro has what it takes to give a Creative firm an edge against their competition'.

Asked about the new financial features, Mr. Ause said 'These financial features are standard among the high end financial software packages. The really new idea is to bring them in to the Creative firm with this ease of use, and the same low cost. The response from the client accounting departments has been very positive'.

Creative Manager Pro is the leading Agency Management and Project Management Software for the Creative Design industry, designed for design firms, ad agencies, in-house creative/MarCom departments, and creative service firms.

Creative Manager Pro (at http://www.Creative-Manager.com/mi0001), web-based integrated project management software and job tracking solution for creative oriented firms streamlines the entire creative firm, from developing new business, to staffing, managing, and executing projects, through to accounting and financial reporting.

Designed for creative firms, Creative Manager Pro is a full-featured, intuitive system making project management and agency management a breeze. Creative Manager Pro supports Customer Relationship Management, Document Management, Shared Calendaring, Accounting, and much more.

Creative Manager Pro (formerly ProjectApps) covers all of the areas that a creative firm needs for job tracking and project management. Because it is web- based, there is nothing to install and it can be set up in a single day. It works with both PC and Macintosh from any location over any connection. Or it may be installed locally on the client's own servers. All options include training and support to ensure that clients are up and running quickly.

Among the many features of Creative Manager Pro:

Charting of important industry metrics and firm statistics

Manage Contacts and Leads

Approve Timesheets, Purchasing, Billing and Budgets

Review and Approve Artwork Online

Create Project Schedules, Calendars and Manage Tasks

Participate in Online Discussion Groups

Store and Manage Digital Assets

Manage and Balance the Books

Take a test drive at http://www.Creative-Manager.com/mi0001

The team at Creative Manager, Inc. have been leaders in project management software for the creative industry and on the Mac OS for over 25 years.

Providing it's clients with two major offerings: Creative Manager Pro,and Creative Project Manager, both programs work seamlessly with the Mac OS, Windows and Linux. Creative Manager Pro, and Creative Project Manager are the first fully integrated web-based Agency Management and Project Management software for creative firms.

Creative Manager, Inc. is based in Lakewood NJ, with offices at

111 Madison Avenue

Lakewood NJ 08701

800.203.7684

http://www.Creative-Manager.com/mi0001

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Contact Info:

Ron Ause rona@creative-manager.com

Creative Manager, Inc.

800.203.7684 x3051