ARCHITECTURAL OFFICE MANAGEMENT. This application tracks projects, project budgets, prospects, clients, and former clients. It tracks employees time by employee class, and by how much time they spend on each project. Reports and invoices are generated showing percent project completion for each phase of the project, and hours put in by each class of employee on each phase. It also tracks reimbursable expenses and includes these on invoices. Invoices are produced in draft format, which can be edited before being sent to the client. Reports and invoices show how each project is progressing relative to the budget, and provide the capability for the managing partner to postpone billing for specific segments of the invoice if desired. Automatic invoice tracking ensures no billing elements are overlooked, and prevents rebilling for the same item. Finally, the application includes elaborate security to ensure privacy of all data, and restricting access to various parts of the program based on user login.

Results: Hundreds of man-hours per year in reduced overhead, and more accurate employee work hour allocation to each project. Additionally, the principal architect has been able to perform significantly more "what-if" calculations with the budgeting module, resulting in increased profits to the company.