Whitepapers This collection of white papers covers a variety of enterprise timesheet and enterprise projet management topics. These papers have been written over the years by HMS staff. The author will usually be listed in the beginning of the article.

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• TimeControl Executive Briefing 
  This paper is targeted at executives who have responsiblity for the entire enterprise. Managing a project-oriented corporate environment is no small challenge and TimeControl can serve a crucial role in automating that environment. This paper will address some of the issues that executives face and how to address them.
  
  
• TimeControl - Operating Within DCAA Guidelines
  HMS has been designing corporate timesheet systems since its first project in 1983. Our clientele has always been corporate-based project-oriented clients, usually from Fortune 1000-type companies. Many of our clients are Defense/Aerospace clients such as Canadair, Eaton Corp or Rolls Royce. For these firms, managing projects within the Defence Contract Audit Agency guidelines, is a requirement.
  
  
• A Matrix Approval Process for Labour Actuals 
  This paper is at the heart of why project-oriented organizations have such a difficult time implementing actual labour control systems. Here HMS proposes a process for managing the critical phase of time collection: validation. This is most difficult in a matrix organization.
  
  
• Benefits/Cost Guide to Using TimeControl 
  TimeControl is an enterprise timekeeping system designed for project environments. Its state-of-the-art architecture makes it an ideal choice for a corporate timesheet system, fulfilling the needs of Finance while servicing the requirements of Project Management.
  Since 1994, hundreds of firms, both large and small, have adopted TimeControl and are realizing the benefits of standardizing on a corporate timesheet system with this level of functionality. Over the next few pages you'll see how TimeControl has benefited these clients and how it might apply to your organization.
  
  
• TimeControl Architecture
  TimeControl is such an extensible and open architecture system that it is sometimes difficult to get a concise picture of all the implementation options prior to deployment. This white paper identifies the major building blocks of a TimeControl system deployment with a number of suggestions of possible implementation options. This is must-reading for anyone about to embark on a TimeControl deployment.
  
  
• TimeControl Security Architecture 
  This paper will outline the various aspects of security of TimeControl data. We will look at different perspectives here including database architecture, data encryption, TimeControl communication layer architecture, TimeControl functionality architecture, working across the Internet and discuss related topics of interest such as firewalls, proxy servers, integrating with other access services such as LDAP and Active Directory.
  
  
• Buy it or Write it? 
  This paper discusses the comparative advantages of buying TimeControl vs. writing a custom built timesheet system. While creating a timekeeping system may seem trivial at first, a moment's consideration will show how complex it is. We've taken some conservative estimates of creating a department level timesheet system and put them next to sample TimeControl pricing.
  
  
• Using TimeControl, MS Project and SharePoint to create an EPM Environment
  While TimeControl includes links to Microsoft Project Server, there are still over 20 million people using Microsoft Project Standard and Professional for their project scheduling needs. With the incredible rise of SharePoint as a collaboration tool, there are many executives who are looking to use both these tools as cornerstones of an organizational project management system. The missing element is time. This white paper discusses how to create a project management system for the enterprise using Microsoft Project Standard or Project Professional along with SharePoint and TimeControl.