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Unanet for Claraview

June 15, 2005
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Agenda
  • Company Profile
  • Business Challenge
  • Solution
  • Implementation Experience
  • Benefits


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Company Profile
  • Claraview is a strategy and technology consultancy that helps leading companies and government agencies use business intelligence to achieve competitive advantage and operational excellence.
  • Our clients realize measurable results:
    • faster time-to-decision
    • improved information quality
    • greater strategic insight
  • Founded in 2001
  • 106 professionals
  • Revenues growing 50%+ per year




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Partial Customer List
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Business Challenge
  • Employees and contractors submitted excel templates via e-mail
  • Timesheets and expense reports need to be prepared and consolidated on a semi-monthly basis
  • No automated mechanism to review and approve timesheets & expenses
  • Employees and contractors geographically dispersed
  • Consolidation issues
  • Limited reporting
  • Manually format excel files as supporting documentation for client invoices
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Solution
  • Decision to find an automated time sheet and expense system early 2004
  • Identified 4 of vendors
  • Selection criteria:
    • Ease of use
    • Flexible configuration
    • Open and documented data model
    • Web-based
    • DCAA compliant
    • Flexible integration with other systems
  • Limited pilot of top 2 vendors for 2 months
  • Selected Unanet Technologies in June 2004
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Implementation Experience
  • Unanet was launched in 4 days
    • Data conversion took 4 days – importing was straight forward & easy
    • Configuration took 2 days
    • Software was installed in hours
  • Working with Unanet Professional Services, Unanet was in production in 8 days
  • Unanet assisted us in:
    • Data conversion
    • Work flow approval set-up


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Benefits
  • Accuracy and timeliness of the billing has improved
    • Invoicing time reduced by 7 days, leading to better cash flow
    • Quick access to printing of supporting documentation for invoices
  • Ease of staff to submit time/expense and managers/project managers to approve timesheets at their computer, anywhere and anytime
  • Better visibility and improved reporting
  • Data centralized - facilitating analysis
  • Ease of notifying people who are late
  • Interface is easy to understand and use
    • New users required minimal training
  • No need to keep files of paper copies nor subsidiary ledgers
  • Volume increased by 50% without adding staff



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