We are regularly asked for user specific timesheets that will update summary spreadsheets in realtime (even offline) without sharing confidential data.

Team Timesheet App integrates your existing project spreadsheets to more quickly and accurately manage your projects and costs.

Features:

• Individual time entry
• Supervisor Controls User Views (Restrict confidential data access)
• Analysis by Day, week & Month Logs
• Dashboard analysis
• Dropdown List of Project/ Budget Codes, activities.
• Data In Google, Excel or Smartsheet Tables any combo
• Pivot tables and Charted analysis in either Excel of Google sheets
• Offline entry for later sync.
• Any Device, Any Platform

Deliverables:

• Activity Log
• Resources
• Managers
• Tasks
• Pivot Tables
• Charts

Price:
Upfront cost £1000 – $1500

User Licenses and Support – from £3.00 / $5.00 per user per month

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These AppSheet Mobile App Solutions are game changers  for those Spreadsheet users that like to provide selected mobile access for reports and updates using spreadsheets to not only source but to capture data,  location,  signatures,  scan bar codes,  even work offline.

Implementing AppSheet alongside Smartsheet has allowed us to extend Smartsheet’s capability, providing you with the ability to;

• Slice and dice your data according to who needs to see or edit it.
• Create the effect of a relational database which uses conditional logic to modify your work activities
• Have Dynamic dropdown capability – maintain one dynamic dropdown list, accessed by numerous other sheets
• Manage time more precisely by hour, minutes and seconds
• Split Tasks so they can be completed by multiple users
• Scale up your data beyond 5000 rows with data partitioning
• Work offline

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Bearing in mind this new capability, our solutions open up all sorts of business efficiencies, improved user access and views on any device – so what would you like to achieve? Share your ideas with us.  

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It’s hard to escape the buzz around the rise of collaboration apps and the role they play helping leading enterprises build and sustain a lead in the market. A recent survey dove into the specifics of what enterprise collaboration apps actually mean for today’s business leaders.

One of the key survey takeaways reinforces that organizations overwhelmingly recognize the critical importance of collaboration strategy. 71% of surveyed organizations said they have a defined collaboration strategy in place. Furthermore, respondents acknowledged that organizations that haven’t strategically deployed collaboration apps are viewed as being at a competitive disadvantage. “If employees are not sharing information as quickly and efficiently as possible, business grinds to a halt,” said one survey respondent. “One of our key advantages has been the frequent exchange of ideas.”

What Defines a Best in Class Collaborative App Strategy?

As vendors and platforms have arrived on the market to facilitate collaborative work, five categories have materialized as key to competitive success. Here are the five categories that collectively make up a world-class collaborative app portfolio, and number of survey respondents deploying each one:

When organizations take an intentional approach to fully and effectively deploy one solution in each category, they are in a position to fully realize their cloud-based collaborative work potentialand accelerate collaboration and productivity, enterprise-wide. When collaboration apps are deployed that encompass these categories of creating, managing, and producing work, improvements are seen across accountability, accuracy, and speed. Just as important, thanks to the transparent and real-time nature of these applications, a new layer of visibility is created across the organization into status, progress, and execution  for all to see.

5 Areas to Consider as You Build Your Collaborative App Arsenal

Understanding the components of a successful collaborative app strategy is only the first step in building out your own. As you select platforms to fill in the holes, here are five elements to keep in mind overall:

Interoperability: While introducing new technology can be a huge productivity boost for a number of your employees, many will continue to work with their current set of productivity tools and systems of record. Of surveyed organizations, nearly half have 11 or more collaboration apps alone deployed. Rather than requiring massive change, look for collaboration solutions that will work well with the environment you already have in place.

Questions to ask: Is it possible to connect the platform you’re evaluating with other software systems currently in place in your business? What types of integrations are available to use out of the box? Is there an open API should you want some custom development?

Accessibility: Increasingly, remote work options are becoming the norm. Telecommuting has increased 103% over the last decade and shows no signs of slowing down. Younger generations entering the workforce have come to expect this flexibility. The majority of survey respondents use collaboration tools not just internally, but also with customers, partners, and suppliers. Consider how important easily accessible solutions are for your organization, both now and in the coming years.

Questions to ask: How will we enable remote employees to access their work? How will team members work together? What does our vendor / contractor ecosystem look like and how do we share information with them?

Security: As cloud solutions have grown in popularity, so have concerns around the security of these solutions. 66% of surveyrespondents reported concern that enterprise collaboration apps unsupported by IT make networks vulnerable to outside intrusion. According to Forrester research, security is the number one reason preventing companies from moving to the cloud. This doesn’t mean you need to rethink your strategy – with thorough vetting and by asking the right questions you can choose a collaboration platform in the cloud without sacrificing security and control of your data.

Questions to ask: Has the company you are evaluating submitted itself to independent assessment, and are they willing to share the results? Was the service designed with security in mind? Is there redundancy in their data recovery?

User Interface: Take stock of the software systems your organization uses today and any preferences you already know about your employees. One survey respondent shared, “Enterprises that do not adopt these [collaboration] tools generally fail to do so because their workforce is rigid and unwilling to adapt to new technology.” Given the challenges that come along with change management, when choosing new technology, user interface matters – a lot. Recent research from G2 Crowd found that user interface can “make or break” adoption of new tools, especially collaboration tools.

Questions to ask: What trends exist in the UI of our current tools? How prone to consumer-like interfaces are employees in our organization?

Internal Awareness: The biggest complaint about enterprise collaboration apps is that not everyone uses them. Change is always hard, but it’s a lot easier to stomach when everyone understands the upside of adopting new technology. To avoid low adoption, do your best to help your employees see what’s in it for them as you promote new solutions and ways of working together. Identify internal champions who can help roll out new ways of working to their teams.

Questions to ask: Who are my early technology adopters? What ROI can I share with my organization?

Winning companies align the different elements of collaborative work: create, manage, reference, and communicate under one collaboration strategy. By asking the right questions and thinking through the right elements, you, too can set your team up to survive in the next digital era.

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Making sales teams work smarter, not harder.

While field teams are the on the rise, it is becoming more and more crucial to empower these employees with customized mobile apps. This innovation of working efficiently with optimal communication is a top priority for Antwain Jordan, Sales Execution Coordinator for Spring Mobile which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of GameStop and serves as the premier wireless retailer for AT&T and Cricket Wireless operating in over +1500 locations. “Part of my job is to take the everyday sales and our onboarding process and simplify them by removing redundancy from the process”, explains Antwain. “Since we have partnered with AppSheet, we have developed and currently use 5 applications on a regular basis to help us accomplish that.”

Part of my job is to take the everyday sales and our onboarding process and simplify them by removing redundancy from the process

Modern day businesses are no longer constrained by state lines or time zones. For many, including Antwain, their team expands across the nation and often times, the globe. Mobile apps are a great way to ensure that communication is clear and that progress is being made in a timely manner (which is especially crucial concerning sales). In fact, Natalie Lambert of Enterprise Apps Tech found in a recent Forrester Research report that “30 percent of employees want personalized notifications of tasks that need to be completed and another 28 percent of employees believe a personalized feed of individual actions and updates would improve how they leverage, access, and take action on information.”

Initial Project Requirements

• Connect multiple spreadsheets and data sources in an unified solution
• Automate workflows through email and SMS
• Enable real-time reporting

Before using AppSheet, Antwain’s work process consisted of accessing multiple spreadsheets and documents that contained a lot of the same data. “This proved to be a task because Google sheets can only handle so many sheets, cells or rows per workbook, and typically required the use of multiple bookmarks. Excel could not provide us with a cloud-based system that we were looking to use to get real-time information,” explains Antwain. “We were also looking for ways to quickly automate workflows through e-mails and text messages. By combining AppSheet with Google sheets, I have been able to organize, develop reports, simplify processes and trigger workflows in the fraction of the time we use to before.”

Antwain has been able to customize his apps to his specific job duties. He has developed five apps in which four of the apps are used on a daily basis. These apps range from CRM management to Onboarding new hires. These apps have features that not only manage automated workflows, but allow for better time management. “Being able to manage our time better allows us to concentrate on other areas that allow us growth and opportunity. As I am solely responsible for all day to day interactions with AppSheet. I have been able to simplify processes that would take normally take hours, down to minutes. Our sales reps can quickly get real-time notification on leads that come through our CRM.”

Antwain further customized his apps with additional features. “Because our apps are being used nationwide, it can be difficult to deliver messages to teams across the country so we use GoTo Meeting to discuss app updates and changes. One thing that simplifies this is AppSheet’s user-friendly monitor mode that allows the tracking of user statistics and workflow actions. Having this is very important because I can see who is actually interacting with the app, how often, and if any issues arise with the sync process you can tell, when, where, how & why. That way I can directly reach out to those individuals to provide aid.”

Here are some of the apps that Antwain has deployed to his field sales teams.

EntertainemtCRM

This app is used by our sales executives to track all our leads and where they came from. We are able to use all of our spreadsheets connected to send back to AT&T while staying within SOC compliance.

• Tracks leads in real-time when our lead generators submit leads
• Tracks referral payout expenses.
• Automated vendor setup and sends secured W9’s through email workflows
• Emails confirmation letter to customers on completion of sales.
• Tracks updates of lead statuses in real-time.
• Allows contacting customers a breeze using quick action buttons
• Record new leads in real-time during the order process
• Dashboard view of lead statuses and expenses to provide a

Spring Concierge

Spring Concierge is a web app we developed to securely collect leads from our lead generators. Our lead generators send us leads through a website designed to showcase our team, what we do, and our growth.

• Web app developed for lead generators to easily send leads to sales team
• Directory of all sales executives to easily provide contact when needed for support
• A map to show where our sales executives are located.

BSIS On-boarding

This app is used to minimize the amount of time required to request access to tools, devices, and training. During our hyper growth, this is extremely important because it allows our new hires to start faster and minimizes time spent to set these individuals up.

• Automates email workflows for requesting new hire information such as employee ID’s, training, requesting new devices, and requesting access to other tools
• Allows for the upload of employee picture and biographies.
• Easily find and locate team members or store locations by multiple identifiers such as address, manager’s name and store specific codes.
• Breaks down store locations by color coding regions
• Directory to quickly contact sales executives
• Allows for the removal of employee access to other apps when inactive or terminated.

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Enterprises are capitalizing on the mobile app phenomenon by building innovative apps to communicate with their staff and to enable them to work anytime, anywhere.

As more and more businesses use enterprise mobility apps to complement their core business, the use of corporate apps will continue to grow. This means more opportunities for mobile app developers and cross platform mobile development experts to test their ideas, skills, and creativity to find their niche in this thriving marketplace.

According to research firm Gartner, by 2017 the demand for such development will increase five times faster than companies and IT departments can keep pace with. With mobile phone sales expected to reach 2.1 billion units in 2019, it will fuel demand for enterprise mobile apps that are just as useful and popular as consumer apps. We look at reasons why.

Customized to business needs

Corporate apps are customized to an organization’s core business needs and there are several use cases, for example, such as helping its field sales and marketing teams effectively present solutions to customers. They also enable staff on the go to access the latest product brochures or information where document management and distribution platforms make sure that employees have up-to-date information when they need it. There is no need to share multiple versions of files and to look for misplaced documents. Staff can gather information from customers and prospects and enter this data into the corporate or customer relationship management databases efficiently. This saves workers time and ensures that they stay in the loop.

Train and develop anywhere, anytime

Such apps deliver learning content to their workers on the go. They are interactive, up-to-date and enable workers to sign up for courses online. This way, employees can learn anytime, anywhere and at their own pace. Workers can also keep up to date with company news and industry developments.

Employee engagement

Employees are already having to pay attention to the emails they get on a daily basis from their co-workers and external customers. A corporate app should not add to this burden.

Do keep in mind the following suggestions when building a corporate app:

• Consider the group of employees you are designing the app for. When creating a product for the public at large, the first step is to consider your audience. The same goes for the corporate app.

• Talk to your staff and find out about the culture of the department, get their feedback and find out what they actually need. It may sound simple to say but until you actually talk to the people who are actually doing the job day in and day out, creating an app you think may help them, may not actually address their needs.

• Build engagement with your employees. If your staff find the apps useful and understand that these will help to make their lives easier, they will want to adopt this into their daily work routine.

• The lives of employees hang on their mobile devices. A good suggestion, at this point, would be to incorporate location services and image capabilities to connect staff and share information more efficiently. Include a variety of media such as interactive, videos and embedded documents. This level of interactivity engages staff, enabling them to be more productive. The best corporate apps work because they enable organizations to engage their employees and to bring productivity increases and faster business processes. The bigger picture is that the organization gains insights (through analytics and such software) into the work habits of its employees, which in the long term, will enable it to fine-tune business processes for greater productivity and rewards. Do your employees work in the field? Give them offline access.

• Keep apps up-to-date so that the latest information and documents can be distributed to the work force so as to ensure that everyone is working on the same digital page. Nothing is more frustrating than spending time working on outdated documents or data.

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Organizations and businesses around the world are using AppSheet to create custom mobile solutions with minimum fuss and at a fraction of the cost of traditional mobile applications

Smarter Business Processes Managing Director Richard Rymill said: “For those Spreadsheet users that like to provide selected mobile access for reports and updates using spreadsheets to not only source but to capture data,  location,  signatures,  scan bar codes,  even work offline,  AppSheet is a game changer.  AppSheet  is a whole new way of working and has been very warmly received by our existing Smartsheet clients and is a very welcome and complementary addition of our business efficiency toolbox.”

The AppSheet Team had this to say: “We are happy to partner with Smarter Business Processes. The team has extensive capabilities with Smartsheet and several other productivity tools. They’ve realized AppSheet’s value from the get-go and have already begun crafting innovative solutions for a wide range of clients with mobile needs. We look forward to growing this relationship and making apps accessible to companies around the world.” 

Directors Richard and Gwen Rymill founded Smarter Business Processes in 2013 due to client demand for consultancy services that help businesses improve their Business Processes using the very best intuitive Cloud based software that is highly specified yet rapidly implemented and reasonably priced.

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Smartsheet enables you to manage unstructured work and build efficiencies in processes across teams—both internal and external, to deliver results that matter.

AppSheet links the data that’s stored in spreadsheets (Smartsheet or a combination of Excel, Google Sheets and Smartsheet) with the devices everyone uses every day and at a fraction of the cost of ‘Traditional Mobile App Development’.

As recommended UK and Worldwide Smartsheet Consultants and Resellers,  Smarter Business Processes provides  Smartsheet and AppSheet Consultancy to help you simply get work done !   We’re here to help with your Design and Development, Smartsheet optimisation, Training and Support.  

Whilst having the right tools is important, we focus on the People and their Processes first, which produces excellent Performance outcomes.

Let us help you Empower your Teams.         Enquire  about our Smartsheet and AppSheet solutions or Contact us to arrange a free initial consultation.  

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