Editor's review
This Professional Edition of Easy Tracker 2007 is a full-featured time and expense tracking suite designed specifically for schedule notification, project management, expense management, work measurement and timesheet entry, with powerful reporting.
Pros: This application tracks time and expenses on project activities and thereby helps schedule notifications, expense management, work completion measurements, time sheet entry, detailed reporting facilities so that overall project management gets to be easy. The Pro version under discussion is the management center of project, task, client, resource and other related items. It is based on the Access database.
Easy Tracker is capable of easy task assignment method. This is supported by reporting and approval processes. It also provides analysis and charting for the supervisor to manage the process.
Time reporting is quite robust. Time tracking as well as analysis by supervisors is quite flexible. All work-related or billable time can be tracked and are easy to reference in reports. With valuable history data, you can make accurate evaluation of past projects, and better plans for the similar projects in future. It is easy to get accurate performance data and compare between estimates and historical data.
By creating reminders, a notification will pop up when the time is due, There are several tools for setting up reminders play music, send Email, pop up a talking agent etc.
Data from this application can be exported for further work and integration with enterprise processes if necessary. Export project data to MS Project and expense data to QuickBooks easily for further processing. Whole interface is built on the Outlook style and thus familiar for programmers to use.
Cons: Many menu items on the interface need polishing up. Several charts have annotations cluttered up. For professional use these will need to be polished up.
Overall: Despite the issues the application is functionally very feature rich and useful. This is a definite 4 star package.
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