IoT Solution Provider Delivers up to 35% Less Operations & Maintenance Overheads for its Customers with Orangescrum

In today’s edition, I would like to share how an IOT Solution Provider partnered with Orangescrum to enhance its customer engagement, deliver up to 35% less Operations and Maintenance overheads & enable quick go-to-market for its customers; while automating its business processes, resource, task and project management.

Techuva Solutions is a digital & modern technology agency with prime focus on IOT solutions for Telecom Infrastructure, Agro, Food Processing & Retail sectors along with Mobile Development, SaaS product deployments and IT & ERP Services.

Their Mission & Vision

Techuva enables its clients to outperform the competition and stay ahead of the innovation curve. We envision to help enterprises renew themselves while also creating new avenues to generate value. We provide enterprises with strategic insights on what lies ahead. We help enterprises transform and thrive in a changing world through strategic consulting and operational leadership.

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Expense Management is Now Easier in Project Management Software

 

Managing expenses is an important aspect of our daily lives. But very few have the skills to manage them well. If you are a freelancer, entrepreneur or a professional you just can’t do without apt Expense Management.

Days of manual expense handling and data input are long gone as the means of expenses incurred are being digitized every single moment.

It is imperative for businesses, projects and enterprises to have solid expense policies and management tools if they are to remain sustainable. All business projects have a budget and the execution team has an obligation to deliver within budget and if possible show instant savings.

In our endeavor to further strengthen your project management capabilities we have brought a simple, quick and an automated expense management module to Orangescrum.

There’s a ton of things you can do with the Expense Management module in Orangescrum. Let’s talk about a few of those…

• Create instant project and non-project expenses
• Define expense categories
• Attach receipts, view and download them all in a matter of clicks
• Define your project specific approval flow
• Track project expenses with real time activity & history updates
• Generate expense reports
• Gain your clients trust with confidence and transparency

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How to Kick Start your Projects with Project Management Software

Projects are as much a part of our work-life as the coffee machine. Strange but true!

A typical work day of any professional is filled with all sorts of project meetings – status update, project review, Stakeholder review, management review and as many visits to the coffee machine!

At times, it feels like a ritual to pay a visit to the coffee machine before entering the meeting room ?

Why is it so?

Is it that a good coffee in the morning sets your tone for the day? 99% of we coffee lovers will say “Well YEAH!!”

This simple daily act has an important message – “kick-offs are important” and all efforts and focus must be deputed to ensure we start things on the right note with our best foot forward.
And, projects are no different!

I consider Kick-off meetings to be one of the “Critical Success Factors” of any project. It is your opportunity as the Project Manager to rally your troops behind a common goal.

It’s like your foundation laying ceremony if I may ?

You get to present the project vision, the expectations, stakeholders involved, the TEAM & its GOAL!


It is best if you have the basics of a project setup in your chosen project management tool. For e.g. create the project, invite the project team, define user permissions, create the initial tasks & define timelines.

Let us quickly see how we can prepare and orchestrate an effective and successful “Project Kick-Off Meeting”.

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Slack Integration process with Orangescrum Project collaboration Tool

 

Slack brings all the pieces and people you need together so you can actually get things done. It’s the platform which brings all communication together in one place. Slack teams allow communities, groups, or teams to join through a specific URL or invitation sent by a team admin or owner. Slack integration helps real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams in your project collaboration tool.
A few simple steps for your Orangescrum integration with Slack
 

• Create a new slack team – To begin communicating via Slack you first need to get your team created by doing a quick slack signup.

Visit slack at https://slack.com/create to create your team as a first step towards Slack integration. You will need to perform the slack signup steps.

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Product Development Agency Maximizes Productivity with Orangescrum

Anil Kumar, the Founder & CEO of Saral Technologies, one of the leading software and product development agencies finds Orangescrum integral to their business.

Let’s explore their journey from inaccurate billable hours, project and task management problems to a gradual rise in productivity by 50%.

Saral Technologies is a specialized product development company that helps enterprises in developing excellent products since the last 14+ years.

They have proven expertise in product conception and ownership from cradle to grave that entails highly fault tolerant scalable enterprise software, deployed and managed on the cloud as per client business needs.

Saral Technologies always wanted to use a smart tool, which would allow them to manage project & tasks using agile methodologies with integrated features such as time tracking, resource utilization, billable & non-billable hours, invoicing to name a few.

The team’s primary ask was to ensure absolute accuracy and transparency in the effort spent and invoicing for their clients at all times.

Anil and his teams were overwhelmed with using separate tools for Project management, time logging and invoice management. It was time consuming, difficult to manage and impacted productivity adversely. They were looking for a simple tool, which would allow them to manage everything without spending too much time on it.

Like all companies, Saral Technologies too tried all types of tools which could save time and allow them to focus on their core tasks – develop world class cloud products!

Their search was halted by Orangescrum which turned out be a perfect fit for their needs & scored high in its ease of use and adaptability.

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Control Your Business Through Opensource Project Management Software

 

The world is slowly moving towards an open style of working. A culture where people are not afraid of giving! And that has given rise to uncountable open source applications in recent years. As the need for security around the world is at an all time high, even business organizations have not been afraid of using the opensource apps… throwing aside the risking exposure in the cloud.

What’s even more interesting is that both organizations & individuals alike have taken a liking towards these open source apps. Let’s throw some light on finding out ‘why’?

More importantly, open source project management softwares provide a simple and reliable way to manage projects. As simple as that!

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