Time saver, easy to use

Information at your finger tips, easy to use.

Pros

Leave Management has been such a great add for our company. It allows each employee to see how much PTO they accumulate per pay period, how much they used and when they would max out. It makes each employee responsible for managing their own PTO. We can customize it to our needs. We have different accrual rates for length of service, as well as exceptions to the rule. Set them up once, assign them to the employee and it all works! Customer support is amazing and responds very quickly when you need assistance.

The product works and functions as needed for this organization. Customer support is top drawer.

1. Automated time and expense tracking with solid interfaces to/from various other applications. 2. Improved (over the course of many years) end user time and expense interface. 3. Hosted environment with the database custody proviso. 4. Top drawer customer support

Pros

I like most: 1. Customer Support through the Databasics support website/portal 2. Application stability - little to no downtime 3. Application functionality 4. Ease of administration 5. End user experience We have a 360+ employee user pool who all use the time sheets with a good portion of that total also using the expense reporting. We have used Databasics since version 4x, through the years upgrading to version 5x and now version 6x in the hosted environment. The application is generally easy to use, in most cases, requiring only a brief initial orientation and from there, minimal end user support for the application. Many employees have taken advantage of the mobile application to enter either time or expenses while traveling and this was a welcome functional addition received with version 6x. Receipt imaging and organization was another welcome addition. We extract and interface expense data (weekly) and time sheet data (semi-monthly) from Databasics to our accounting application. We also import and interface organizational data (employee information, accounting structural data, etc...) into Databasics from both our accounting and HRIS applications. While managing these interfaces requires some training, assistance is always available if needed.

Cons

User feedback indicates that the time sheet form could be improved. The one recurring complaint/suggestion sine version 4x is that time sheet lines cannot be drag-n-drop managed for user sorting preferences. As an administrator, I dislike the fact that I no longer have physical custody of the database for other analysis or reporting needs. All ad hoc reporting must be done through the embedded Jasper reporting application. This generally meets the needs but is sometimes inconvenient to use.

It's very handy

Pros

I love that they have an app for smartphones. It makes things so much easier.

Cons

There have been times it locked up, but it's rare. And less frequent lately.

Databasics is a good product.

Databasics was user friendly for our employees.

Pros

Easy for employees to access remotely. Good customer service.

Cons

Sometimes difficult to understand how to make changes in the system.

DB has solved our issues with managing utilization, labor billing and expense reports

HR compliance for hourly employees, time off management, electronic expense reports that seamlessly upload to our financial software, labor utilization by employees, departments and projects

Pros

Integration with Microsoft Dynamics/Solomon Project Controller and Financial Accounting is seamless and easy to manage

Cons

I think the report writing can be a little challenging and output not always pretty but it does work

The ability to give employees access to see PTO in realtime is great!

Con: I didn't hear about it sooner!?! There's really nothing to change about it, honestly. We get the view, we get the report... it's great.

Pros

Everything's automated. We set it up and it tracks and provides views to employees with me doing anything. It's a huge time saver and big benefit for our team members.

It's just a really easy software to use. One place to go for timesheets and PTO

Pros

I have to track my time to projects. Now that we use DATABASICS it takes me half the time to do my timesheet

Cons

Not sure... we haven't begun using all of the modules yet. We're supposed to implement Expense module next quarter.

Great system for time keeping and reporting

Pros

Easy to input time sheet data and submit time sheets. Great reporting functionality and ability to design and customize reports.

Cons

Administrative capabilities are not straight forward and difficult to navigate. Custom reports take significant time to run and load.

Easy to cut down on expenses

Pros

Very easy for our staff to submit time and expenses. Administrators love this because it is also easy for them to gather the information.

Cons

The only challenge is you need to navigate through multiple screen to review and confirm information (dates and times entered)