Magnetic Cards vs Tracking

[Studer]

Hello,
In my enterprise we have been using for quite some time one of those HR
magnetic card systems for controlling the time when people com in and out of
the enterprise. With this we do the assiduity control, calculate overtime and
we even have a very basic program where you distribute the hours you work in
the enterprise among the different projects we are currently running (yes I
said, Projects, not tasks)

The thing is that I want to start using "work completed" tracking in PWA,
but without forcing people to report twice (Once on our basic application,
another time in PWA).

Anyone with this situation? How do you manage this? An ERP could help? How
can I build “a bridge�

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Studer:

This is not something anyone can take on in a simple NG post. It certainly
can happen, but there are many challenges. Typically, the biggest problem is
one of granularity whereas Project requires data at the task/assignment
level, and external timekeeping systems usually don't handle anything below
the day of the week or a charge code. If you can map the data in a
reasonable way, you can pump it into Project and Project Server
programmatically. For more information on how, you can explore the Project
Server SDK or contact a partner in your area.

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
MSProjectExperts
For Project Server Consulting: http://www.msprojectexperts.com
For Project Server FAQS: http://www.projectserverexperts.com

 

[Studer]

Thanks Gary,
IOW do you know any ERP that really works together with PWA and MsProject?
Whent to a MsDynamics NAV presentation and got out bofore the end of it. They
simply destroy all the planning I make. SAP? Exact? Agresso?

Thanks

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Studer:

It depends on what you want to accomplish and how you track your projects.
Generally speaking, it's easier to send time data to ERP from Project Server
or an add-on timesheet tool designed to do Project task-level tracking than
it is to consume data coming from ERP systems because of the aforementioned
issue of granularity. You almost always want to consume cost data tracked in
ERP to properly track all costs in Project. Very often, the ERP system is a
better source of Resource data than AD, so you might want to integrate for
this data as well. Is ERP integration a good thing? Yes. Can it be done?
Yes? Is it easy? No.

--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
MSProjectExperts
For Project Server Consulting: http://www.msprojectexperts.com
For Project Server FAQS: http://www.projectserverexperts.com