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February 12, 2020
Function Point- A Creative Agency's Dream Platform
Function Point is utilized by our entire organization. It allows all departments to collaborate and traffic jobs/projects through the same system which almost completely eliminates errors, mistakes and/or items being missed during the job closing process at the end of each quarter. Previously we were using much more labor-intensive processes so this system has also greatly reduced the amount of time needed to project management and provides efficiency in that regard.
- Project management- from project conception to completion, this is THE system to have.
- Estimates & budgets- allows real-time insight into hours logged per job and if we are going to exceed estimated hours for each project's budget.
- Reporting- FP offers many pre-loaded reporting functions but sometimes all of this amounts to our job summaries and not specifics.
- Employee calendar/scheduling- FP does a lot for us and streamlines our processes but one of the main aspects it's lacking is the ability to use the system for employee management like PTO requests, Out of Office, Working Elsewhere, etc.
September 18, 2019
FunctionPoint promises integrated systems and delivers mayhem.
Function Point was implemented in our organization as an integrated project management and financial system. Function Point integrates with QuickBooks Desktop AND Online, and our accounting manager found this very appealing. Project Managers use the system to schedule and manage projects. Creatives use it to manage projects and input time against projects. I used it to provide consolidated financial and performance information.
- Function Point will help you manage your marketing and advertising projects, and will give you insights and data that are actionable.
- Function Point has some of the best customer support agents I've ever worked with.
- Function Point will work with you to implement your software, and are patient as you grasp new concepts.
- Function Point often provided reports that were inaccurate due to bad calculations. The support team would work with us to troubleshoot these issues, but the fact remained that calculations were wrong.
- Function Point was purchased by a new parent company that increased prices over their nearest, superior, competitor, pricing themselves out of the market.
- Function Point's interface is dated, as is its code base.
- New features are being implemented not as software revisions or upgrades, but as new for-pay features.
Our agency uses Function Point for a variety of purposes and across the entire organization. It is how we manage projects, enter time and estimate projects. We have it integrated with QuickBooks for billing and use it for in-depth analysis of profitability, forecasting and resource allocation. It is highly intuitive and provides us with the advanced analysis abilities that we were lacking with our previous solution.
- Financial analysis and reporting is one of the tool's primary differentiators
- Function Point has tremendous support and is very helpful when we have questions or issues
- Time tracking and project management is also very solid
- Estimating, statements of work and new project setup is very easy
- While it includes a CRM of sorts, the functionality is not what you would get from a stand alone CRM like Salesforce, or even Hubspot CRM
- It would be nice if it had more out of the box integrations, specifically for marketing automation platforms
- While it is easy to use, it requires a lot of training and there is definitely a learning curve
We implemented FunctionPoint company-wide in February 2019. After approximately 3 months, we are satisfied with the resulting intel—cross-departmental clarity of resource allocation and clear project paths. As we move forward into the billing integration phase, I am very hopeful that the ability to track expenses with the jobs and enter all fees and estimates will streamline our month-end process considerably.
- Project Scheduling
- Profitability Projections
- Workflow Clarity
- Job Expense Tracking
- Simplified Time Keeping
- Batch Task Addition (i.e. for rounds of changes)
- Automated Reporting
- Agile Option
October 11, 2017
Great Project and Task Management Software
With our agency growing, we were looking for a project management software that would allow our agency to manage internal tasks for clients, better estimate projects and track project spending/budgets, and to track and manage billable time. We found that Function Point was one of the only options that gave us everything we needed without being overwhelming for the team to learn. It is used by our whole company.
- Estimating Projects
- Manage Tasks for Team Members
- Track and Manage billable time
- Some of the reports are hard to find or don't give you what you need
August 30, 2016
FunctionPoint: Time Tracking Bliss
FunctionPoint is used company wide to create estimates, translate estimates into jobs and schedules and eventually into individual tasks. Our sales team uses it to create statements of work for clients, and every employee uses it to track time every day. FunctionPoint provides a solution to the gaps between sales and execution of work for our organization. As an agency, tracking time is everything. FunctionPoint makes it easy for every employee to make sure that the right amount of time is tracked to the right place and billed at the right time.
- Time tracking - like several time tracking solutions, FP uses a clock that will track in real time so that you do not need to remember how long you worked on a project to input later.
- Dashboards - I love FP's dashboards that let me track my personal utilization, the utilization of my team members and all of my open tasks.
- Reporting - FP's reports provide insight organization-wide into how we are doing and where we (as an organization) are spending our time. As with any reporting, though, it is important to manage the cleanliness of your data to make the reporting useful.
- Project based billing - when a project is fixed bid, the only way for us to track this accurately in FP dollars is to bill the number of hours equal to the dollar amount which may inflate or under-represent the number of actual hours worked.
- Kanban - FP lacks a Kanban board for moving tasks through a workflow in a visually meaningful way.
- Shared tasks - sometimes two people need to work on the same task at the same time. FP makes this difficult because each task can only be owned by one person at a time, so it needs to be passed back and forth.
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About Function Point Productivity Software
Function Point is a project management software built specifically for ad agencies, design studios, and marketing departments.
Categories: Project Management
Function Point Productivity Software Technical Details
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