Understand & implement yourself
Since consultants can only be billed for their consulting time, a project time recording system was needed that met these requirements and at the same time was flexible enough to be able to make adjustments. After a thorough evaluation, managing director Bhagat Ransi finally chose ZEP. “We needed something that we could understand and implement ourselves,” Ransi remembers. “From simple time recording to project management, ZEP covers our needs very well! “And employees also have no additional work when using ZEP, as an internal training document covers almost all questions. In addition, online help in ZEP is also occasionally used.
Hand in hand internally & externally
There is also enthusiasm when it comes to interfaces — Mr. Ransi particularly highlights the SOAP interface. “We extract all necessary data from ZEP, transfer it to our BI tool and can therefore plan precisely,” says Ransi. Planning is carried out monthly using our own system, which the team is even more familiar with. Although implementation with ZEP required some development effort, it now works all the more smoothly in conjunction with ZEP.
Final Conclusion
“We are using it because the tool is simple for us as a consulting firm, but also to maintain transparency with our customers! ” — Bhagat Ransi, managing director of OAC Analytics GmbH.
