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December 5, 2024

Improve your team’s Productivity with the Bmatix Planning Tool Power App 

Bert Mombeek

Bmatix is proud to present a new Power App: the Planning Tool. It will make life easier for businesses in managing project workload and employee schedules. The tool allows for planning hours, tracking holidays, and location management.

What the App Does

The tool simplifies team project management. With customizable employee scheduling, you can easily view and adjust schedules for up to five employees, ensuring consistency while meeting specific needs. Intuitive project management allows you to assign projects and track billable and non-billable hours, while integrated tools like project soft reservations and extensions make your planning adaptable to various scenarios. This software solution provides location tracking; with that, you will manage the locations where your team members will work and give them a better overview of who works at which location. Also, some of its features include replicating settings from past projects or loading any previously pre-set pattern, which ensures work patterns are created efficiently. Further, this improves team productivity while increasing efficiency in working methods and providing better control through cooperation.

Why You Need It

It enhances your operations with one single platform instead of the manual tracking and use of spreadsheets that you need to keep on updating, improving productivity. With the data being stored all in one place, it keeps your team organized. It allows for better decision-making and great team performance. Integration with an application would save and update data automatically, reducing repetitive tasks. Whether it’s managing a small team or complex schedules across locations, this tool puts you in control and lets you focus on the results.

Cost

When it comes to choosing data storage for the Planning Tool, you have either SharePoint or SQL Server, depending on your needs.

SharePoint is part of most subscriptions to Office 365 and comes with relatively low costs, which is good for dealing with smaller datasets; say, about 10,000 records with simple jobs, such as employee scheduling. SharePoint enables basic automation and is best for companies that focus on simplicity and affordability.

SQL Server is designed for the management of larger datasets and is targeted at more complex applications. SQL Server allows high-performance in handling up to millions of records, advanced automation, and customized reporting. These additional features increase cost in the form of licenses and hosting, hence better utilized for businesses with higher data and performance needs.

It depends on the size of your dataset, functionality requirements, and budget. For small-scale operations, SharePoint will do the work; for scalability and advanced features, SQL Server is your partner.

Conclusion

It’s targeted at modern businesses and provides a very simple user interface for viewing and editing employee information. On Power Apps, it helps project and employee management with good data handling. We provide customized Power BI reporting for our customers who require in-depth details in their operations. Advanced analytics and visualization are included within these reports, letting you make even better decisions or manage resources more easily.

Bmatix introduces a brand-new Power App: The Planning Tool Power App is designed to help you with scheduling and to provide a data-driven solution to team time management.

Contact

If you are interested in hearing more about it, please contact Charlotte.Pavic@bmatix.be for further information. Let us help you change how you currently manage your projects and teams!