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Deltek Replicon Time

Score8.4 out of 10

32 Reviews and Ratings

What is Deltek Replicon Time?

Replicon Time is a cloud-based project time tracking platform that helps mid-market and enterprise organizations manage time, projects, and workforce operations with accuracy and confidence.

Categories & Use Cases

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Replicon's project time-tracking dashboard
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Replicon's compliance dashboard
Replicon's time and attendance tracking
Replicon's payroll management

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Great for Small Business, not so much for Large Companies

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Time & Expenses. We would use this product to keep track of our employee's time and expenses for individual projects. Identifying time as billable and non-billable for different clients.

Pros

  • Time & Attedance
  • Expenses

Cons

  • Project Scope
  • Large Companies
  • Data Organization

Most Important Features

  • Time & Attendance Reporting
  • Expense Reporting

Return on Investment

  • Time & Attendance tracking platform helped us become more organized.
  • Lack of project bandwidth required us to do manual leg work than wanted.

Alternatives Considered

BQE Core, BigTime Software and Procore

Other Software Used

BQE Core, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Power BI

My experience so far with Replicon

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I had to use this tool at my previous company which was my first job. Since this was the first time using such a tool, I had no previous context. Now when I look back, I feel like it was okay and did its job, nothing more. I mainly used it to track my hours worked, book time off, and of course fill reimbursement forms. Company-wide this tool was being used for the same 3 things (as far as I know).

The basic business problem it addresses is to share a common platform within a company to track time and expenditure. Had such a tool not existed, we would have to use probably Excel or other spreadsheets to track all of this manually. It is not so fun but is a critical tool to have.

Pros

  • It allowed me to fill my work time sheet. Every week I had to fill this. Based on the numbers the company keeps track of which days I worked.
  • It reminded me to fill the time sheets constantly and also notifies me when it gets approved. So I never really forgot to fill it.
  • It allowed me to see my vacation days left, and plan ahead.
  • It had a list of holiday dates which was very handy to plan my trips or vacation.
  • It had categorization by department and my view of time sheets was only limited to me. I could not see others time sheets, and except for my manager, nobody else could look into mine.
  • It had internet access, which meant I could fill my sheets anywhere. It came in handy while working from home where a VPN connection may not be present. I also guess that this service being online meant no extra effort from IT department side.

Cons

  • The UI in my opinion was too simple. Calendar views were pretty stale.
  • I don't believe there was a mobile app for this, or this site worked nicely when opened on small devices.
  • A better view of my time could have been shown. At the time I could only see small excel like boxes filled with numbers. Graphs, or some other visualization of remaining days would have been lucrative.
  • Very stupid login page. We had to fill "company name" at the login page and this name had to match exactly to what was set in the database. It was frustrating and I always had to refer my notes to get that right.
  • There wasn't any preselection option which made it hard to do it fast. If I can only set a few fields (because we had long list of dropdowns to choose from) then this process could be much smoother.
  • A major issue was not being able to see my team-mates schedule or calendar. E.g. when are they taking vacations. So I had to pester them offline to get this information. Many times due to inter-team miscommunication we didn't know about others vacation days during planning. A central place where I could see this information would have helped me a lot.

Return on Investment

  • Replicon helped me maintain a record of my time. This helped during my assessment where my manager could see my work hours.
  • Replicon was easy to use, so I didn't spend my precious time filling sheets in this site. As far as I can remember, this site only gave me problem once, but was never down.
  • Though a good tool, I actually never got the use case of recording your time sheets. I think it will be pretty hard for an employee to just fill the time sheet and not show up for work. There are so many meetings and people around you, that you cannot fake your presence. So I feel there is no need to fill time sheets. It is a functionality with no real world solution.

Alternatives Considered

Workday

User friendly time clock system

Pros

  • It is very user-friendly. From a user aspect, it is hard to mess up any entries.
  • It is flexible, so it allows users to go back and adjust any issues before submitting timecards for approval.
  • It is easy for managers to approve and add comments once the time card has been submitted.

Cons

  • I think that the backend setup could be a bit more user-friendly. It can be a very manual process to add employees in.
  • If there could be a an easier way to mass import a group of employees with the same set up, that would be amazing.

Return on Investment

  • Time - often we have to enlist the help of other departments to go through and make changes to employees profiles once they are loaded.
  • The program as worked well with our HRIS system.

Other Software Used

UltiPro

A good tool that does what it needs to do

Pros

  • The system is fairly straightforward and easy to use.
  • The mobile app is a nice benefit that makes my life easier.

Cons

  • The process for adding my hours for the week has a few more steps than other systems I've used.

Return on Investment

  • Overall it does what we need it to do.

Alternatives Considered

ADP Workforce Now

Other Software Used

ADP Workforce Now, UltiPro, Google Cloud Storage