• Omnis web solution •
International Success and Growth
with an Omnis Web Application for Agencies
Dietzenbach, Germany
www.proadsoftware.com
The Challenge:
Many agencies are facing the following scenario: The finance department is using a financial package, different account teams have different ways of storing and filing information and the studio another system all together. Some small to midsized agencies have a hotch-potch of homegrown paper based and software systems in use in their business. The problem with most of these systems is that they don’t “talk” to each other and agencies face problems of having to manually enter and re-enter information across these multiple systems. The ramifications of this include lost productivity in hours spent re-entering data manually and attempting to consolidate data from the disparate systems; high error rates, and lack of visibility of the information necessary to make decisions. Alternatively, a single integrated system would provide significant advantages to the agency, accommodating the breadth of the company’s business processes, while providing the flexibility even for small agencies to tailor the system to meet their specific business needs.
The Solution
PROAD provides the tools to take advertisement, communication, consulting and IT agencies to new levels of profitability and efficiency with a comprehensive suite of transactional functions covering all departments and the wider organisation, including:
• Management and tracking of jobs from conception to delivery
• Creation of a single platform for management, creative resources and finance
• Analysis of profit and loss by job, by employee, by department, by customer, or by whatever is important to the business
• Integration of existing financial packages
PROAD was developed with the Omnis JavaScript Client, is available in English and German, and can be deployed in the cloud or on premise. It offers company managers the flexibility to view the profitability and efficiency of their organisation from a number of different perspectives. Agency management can create a true picture of customer, agency or account team activity and profitability, review customers’ organisational structures and the status of individual jobs. The ability to apply tailored mark-ups and hourly rates to customers and services, directly relational to the actual costs of these resources ensures profitability and accountability at all times.
All of the individual departments within an organisation will benefit from more efficient job management. Production departments can use the ‘master data’ to produce fast and profitable estimates and reduce time spent managing third party suppliers. Account management can review the status of individual jobs, deadlines and allocated resources. Estimates, proposals and related documents are all stored together enhancing the ability of the organisation to retrieve and archive customer information. PROAD also integrates with most popular office productivity software, such as Word and Email, which means that existing templates and documents can be used. The resources of the studio are streamlined by using electronic time sheets that automatically update against job budget and can be tailored to reflect the cost of each individual employee.
Another important strength of PROAD is its user-friendly, intuitive UI which can be individually customised. This means that there is no need for lengthy training sessions, and working with PROAD is more enjoyable.
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The Company
“We love what we do and have loved it for 30 years.” J+D Software AG is THE full-service provider for the communications industry and one of the leading providers of agency software in Europe (core market DACH region and UK). They develop with passion and provide an integrated solution for order processing with extensive additional functions such as CRM and project management. This enables them to offer their customers one of the most functional and user-friendly software solutions to suit their specific business processes.
Known as the “preferred agency” software solution, J+D’s growth-driven focus is also in the area of project management and therefore targets industries such as IT, consulting and service companies.
Over 1,100 companies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia work with J+D’s solutions.
Intelligent processes as well as agile software development support their international growth and help J+D to constantly develop. Their employees are an essential part of this, contributing to the success of the company every day with their competence and dynamic way of working.
Why Omnis
PROAD customers are very different in size, the scale of their IT infrastructure and operations, as well as their technology adoption. Therefore it has always been essential for J+D to make PROAD available on different platforms, technologies and devices, to cater to all their customers’ requirements.
The industries of PROAD’s customers are subject to enormous change and they are therefore faced with the challenge of having to react quickly and flexibly to market conditions.
“Our mission is to support this and to inspire our customers to adapt rapidly alongside our constantly evolving ERP system. With its performance and efficiency in the development as well as the simplicity in maintenance and adaptation of the code, the Omnis JavaScript Client offers us the ideal tool for agile software development, fast individual modifications and the realisation of new modules. Thanks to the outstanding Omnis debugger, our customers can always rely on the quality of our software solutions.“
Stefan Dörrstein, Founder and CEO J+D Software AG
