Inspiration to Create AboutTime

This letter from Ryan Remkes, CEO and Founder of AboutTime Technologies says it all!  

AboutTime Team,

My wife was home cleaning out files from my construction business, Better Builders.  She found this sampling of "Time Sheets" and "Daily Logs" from 14 years ago in 2000.   She snapped a picture and sent it to me titled "Inspiration to create AboutTime." At the time, I had about 40 employees and this was the typical and common way to capture what was going on in the field. Check out the level of "detail and accuracy." This picture represents the core problem we help our customers solve every day.

It is amazing to me now, looking back, that I could actually turn a small profit and grow a business with such inefficient methods of measuring and managing field labor and project production!

Thousands upon thousands of companies are still managing their most valuable resources, their work force, assets and their businesses this same way today.  Some companies have graduated from paper and are now using a spreadsheet or possibly a cleaner form.  Still they require their workforce to manually input (and estimate) field information at the end of the day or even worse, at the end of the week. Foremen are guessing on assets used and cost codes.  The information is outdated and inaccurate before it even hits accounting. These companies need our solution. They are our future customers.  They are why we started AboutTime.

This small sampling of old time sheets and daily logs brought back many memories. Today the AboutTime solutions provide drastically improved accuracy, accountability and visibility... so much more than I ever had as a contractor. Our customers gain competitive advantages that help their teams work efficiently, it reaffirms to me that we are doing the right thing to help our customers enjoy a much better way to manage mobile resources. It's AboutTime!

Ryan Remkes

CEO AboutTime Technologies

Is your Data Integrity at Risk?

Time cards filled with scribbled out numbers, fours that look like nines, and inaccurate totals, plague the desks of the unlucky employee’s in charge of entering the data from hand-written time cards into accounting systems.  Countless hours  are spent making phone calls, or guessing in order to get the most accurate information possible.   Throughout the entire process, the data becomes more corrupt until the integrity of the data can’t be trusted. 

The goal of Data integrity is to make sure information is the same as when it was originally recorded.

What if there was a way to maintain the integrity of time and attendance information and cut the time needed to record and integrate it in half?   Using a mobile resource management software can make this possible.   Mobile resource management software can track important assets including employee’s time and attendance.  

Secure Clock in/Out

Data integrity begins with data collection.  In this case it begins with clocking employees In and Out.   Ensuring that the information sent to accounting is accurate is the first priority of a mobile resource management solution.  Using Personalized pin codes or technology like biometrics and GPS, makes knowing   the who, when and where of time and attendance seamless.   A clock in/out method using mobile devices does away with the need for paper completely.   

Real-Time Delivery

Instead of spending hours in line to fax time cards or waiting days for time cards to arrive in the mail, make sure that information is delivered to the correct parties in a timely manner. Using a mobile resource management solution uses modern technology to send this important information from the field to the office in, Real-Time,  giving supervisors a chance to review time cards and answer questions before information is forgotten or misplaced. 

Integration

“To Err is Human….”this statement has never been more true than with data entry.  A large percentage of mistakes are made during the data entry process.  Using a mobile resource management software eliminates these mistakes by automating the process and doing away with “human Error.” 

Data integrity is preventing unintentional changes to information.  When finding a mobile resource management solution that can help your business maintain data integrity it is important to find a system that monitors your information throughout the entire process of collection, delivery and integration. 

What is Mobile Resource Management?

2014 is going to be a great year for your business!  The construction industry is on the rise, which means your business is growing!  Now you have more projects, more job sites, and more employees to keep track of!  While growth is good and exciting, it can also be dangerous.  The more your business branches out, the harder it becomes to track.    The more your business grows, the more risk you take on. 

More businesses are turning to mobile resource management solutions to reduce this risk and stay ahead of their competition. 

What is Mobile Resource Management?  It’s the ability to track your mobile resources in Real-Time allowing you to make critical decisions such as what equipment is needed and where.  Which job site needs more employees working on it in order to complete the project on time?  Which projects are over budget? 

Your mobile employees are your largest resource and possibly the hardest to accurately manage.  Knowing who is where and working on what is critical to the success of any project.  Time and attendance programs that track when an employee clocks in and out answers part of the problem however more information is needed to have a complete and accurate picture of where you truly stand on a project. 

That is where a mobile resource management solution is needed.   Not only can you track who clocked IN or OUT but you can also see what equipment they used, what they are on, how many units they completed during their shift, and then compare all of that information to budgets.  Documenting any changes, mistakes, and alterations to the original project allows you to explain delays, justify added expense and give proper praise to a job well done. 

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