Notes
Slide Show
Outline
1
Unanet Presentation
February 23, 2006
2
Valador, Inc. - Overview
3
Information Assurance
4
Management Consulting
5
Modeling & Simulation
6
Software Engineering
7
Company Data
  • 48 Full Time employees; Mostly high end advanced degreed professionals
  • Geographically dispersed:
    • Virginia
    • Washington, DC
    • New York
    • Colorado
    • Mississippi
    • Alabama
  • QuickBooks Accounting system
  • Payroll semi-monthly through PayChex
  • 2006 Revenue Projection of $12.0M
  • Contract Type:
    • T&M 75%
    • FFP 25%
    • CP 0%
8
Business Challenge/Solution Time Reporting
  • Prior to January 2004 Time cards were paper
    • Prone to errors
    • No control on charge code access until after time card was submitted
    • Difficult to collect and have approvals from dispersed workforce in a timely manner
  • Interviewed/reviewed 4 systems
    • Unanet
    • Deltek
    • Ammo/Cincinnati
    • QuickBooks plug in
  • Why Valador selected Unanet Time reporting system:
    • Web based
    • Ease of use
    • Location of company
    • Cost
    • References


9
Implementation Time Reporting
  • Implementation Strategy
    • Plan, plan and plan
    • Define organization chart, approval channels, business practices
    • Layout of charge code numbering system and linkage to QuickBooks
    • Run several scenarios before going live
    • Tested upload to QuickBooks
    • Employee training
  • Resources
    • Advice from references
    • Personal Past experience with other IT implementations
    • Unanet expert on site support
  • Results
    • Went live with Unanet time reporting system March 1, 2004
  • Lessons Learned
    • Positive:
      • Planning was key
      • Using all the resources
    • Negative:
      • Provide more on hands training for Senior Managers





10
Implementation Time Line-Time Reporting
  • Purchased 50 user license December 2003
  • Started internal preparation of mapping projects in QuickBooks to new charge code numbering methodology middle of January 2004
  • Started Unanet on site support the first week of February 2004
  • This is the key week in laying the foundation for your time reporting system; Very detailed discussions
  • Second week of February 2004 reviewing and making minor changes. Test linkage/uploads to QuickBooks
  • Third week of February 2004 develop training material and training schedule; Unanet provided PowerPoint presentation which we modified as take away and send to the people in the field
  • Send multiple e-mails announcing new system all through February
  • March 1, 2004 go live
  • Four hourly employees ran parallel both old and new system; Salary employees direct cut over


11
Business Challenge/Solution Resource Planning
  • Needed a way to automatically load the hours in the time reporting system and then link to MS Project
    • Prone to error and time consuming to re input the hours of “actuals” into MS Project
  • Needed a way to see what resources are available, need to hire perm or bring in temps
  • Why Valador selected Unanet PSA solution:
    • Linkage to MS Project Enterprise Edition
    • Ease of use
    • Link to Unanet Time Reporting system
    • Cost




12
Implementation Full Unanet PSA
  • Implementation Strategy
    • Plan
    • Layout of charge code numbering system and linkage to QuickBooks and MS Project Enterprise Edition
    • Run several scenarios before going live
  • Resources
    • Personal Past experience with other IT implementations
    • Unanet expert on site support ( Simple used only 2 hours)
  • Results
    • Went live with Unanet Resource planning system May 1, 2005
  • Lessons Learned
    • Positive:
      • Planning was key
      • Ease of installation
      • Great reporting capabilities
    • Negative:
      • None





13
Implementation Time Line-Full Unanet PSA
  • Purchased 50 user license March 2005
  • Started internal preparation of mapping projects in QuickBooks to MS Project in April 2005
  • Loaded the resource planning module (PSA) internally by ourselves
  • When we purchased the package also purchased 4 hours of Unanet on site support; Only used two hours
  • Loaded all the MS Project sub task in QuickBooks
  • May 1, 2005 go live


14
Contact