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Deltek, Inc.Brilliant agency management software. (I've tested them all and this is best)2015-11-23T16:22:47.088ZTrafficLIVE is being used for estimates, quotes, resource allocation, time tracking, expenses, purchasing, and invoicing. Primarily controlled by our client services and delivery team; it is critical to the day to day running of our business. Integration with Sage Line 50 helps to keep Traffic aligned with our management accounting.,Quote and job templates are incredibly valuable. Not only do these save time, but the team are less likely to miss crucial work packets from their estimates.
Dashboards provide a clear picture of finances on every quote or job, with the added ability to drill down to the detail.
Being able to go back to any job and analyse time and resource usage is priceless. You might see where you have overrun, or maybe missed something in your original estimate. This will help you to continually improve the accuracy of your estimates.
By nature, having everything in one system (quotes, expenses, purchases, jobs, time, resource, invoices) makes it far easier to get the true picture of what's going on in your business.,The user interface is clunky. Like its competitors, Traffic is hindered with legacy code, features and interfaces. It often feels like they're running out of space for buttons! That being said, I think it's the best of a bad bunch! And it works!
The support portal and documentation need a complete overhaul. The Traffic support portal declined when it migrated into Deltek's portal. It now feels like you've stepped back in time!
Content needs restructuring and rewriting. It's a mess and it's hard to find what you are looking for. PDF downloads are a nightmare. Needs clean html pages.
The UI screens for resource planning (the 10,000ft view screens) are cumbersome and in need of a design overhaul. We don't use them at all, they're pretty useless. The new Work Planner looks promising, but overly complicated and hindered by the general UI weaknesses of their legacy Adobe Air App platform.
Projecting agency capacity is something we do outside of TrafficLIVE. Because we're often trying to predict against things that aren't yet jobs in the system, alongside jobs that ARE in the system. For this kind of flexible/lightweight capacity planning, we end up using another third party application. TrafficLIVE is best used when you have definitive estimates/bookings.
Integration with Merlin Project is non-existent. Mac users don't generally use MS Project, so this is a bit of a failure on Deltek's part.
Being able to assign multiple resources to one task would be a better way of structuring quotes and jobs in Traffic. It would save time. It would reduce the number of tasks needing to be created for every job. Project plans have been created this way for years, why doesn't Traffic allow this?,9,Increased employee efficiency - often takes less time to create a quote because you can start with a template.
More accurate estimates through use of templates. Less chance of missing a critical task from the estimate. By being able to go back and review similar job performance, you can improve your estimates on your new quote.
You know where you are on every single job going through the business!
Having data on every job has helps us to make smart decisions again and again. This has had a huge impact on job profitability.,,MindMeister, Atlassian Confluence, JIRA Software, HipChatJames CarringtonTrafficLIVE - perfect for managing timesheets2015-12-02T20:29:17.497ZWe used Deltek Traffic LIVE across the whole organisation for scheduling and tracking jobs across multiple teams in different locations and for keeping track of time sheets and job related expenses and purchases. We also use it for managing our client contact database.,The time sheet area is really good - it's easy to drag and drop and fill in time sheets with allocated tasks quickly, which makes it more likely that people will actually do it!
It's invaluable to be able to see the time spent on different tasks across a job - both for keeping track of ongoing projects, but also to plan resourcing and costs for the next time.
It's useful to be able to mark parts of a job as 'complete' before the full job is finished - this makes it easier to track which tasks still have to be finished, and makes sure that people are tracking time to the correct task within the job.
Job templates are very useful to make sure the same set of tasks is added to each job automatically.,The interface is clunky - everyone in our agency hates how it looks! There are also a lot of not very intuitive features - Deltek TrafficLIVE can do so many things, but how to do them is not always clear! A design refresh is well overdue.
The support site is hard to use, and frustrates many of our users. The client services managers are always helpful, but it would be great to have an easy to navigate support site and set of guides to help people with even the most basic features of Deltek TrafficLIVE - we've ended up making our own internal handbook on it!,8,We have been able to quote much more accurately for jobs based on full information about previous jobs.
We can ensure that no jobs get 'lost' or details forgotten when people are on leave/out of office, as its all in the system.
It's very easy to refer back to previous jobs and correspondence with customers when speaking to them about new projects.,XeroPolly JacksonChoosing TrafficLIVE2015-12-01T16:52:12.194ZTrafficLIVE is continually being used in our extremely busy studio on an hourly basis to monitor not incoming jobs but to access we have the amount of resources in place to meet the deadlines. Before TrafficLIVE we did not have enough visibility of the current status of jobs to keep the account managers informed of their progress. It was very easy for jobs to be bumped as there were no clear processes in place when challenged as to why a job was over running or being superseded. Previously we would have large charts to outline each season work load but this was proving ineffective as keeping the chart up to date was proving not only too time consuming but less and less used as the definitive scheduler. TrafficLIVE is used by the marketing department in our head office with a broad range of users.,Good overview of what has been planned in and highlighting any potential troubleshooting needed.
You can add as many tasks for each job so that the potential to miss a deadline is avoided due to not having enough time added.
The user permissions can be set for a particular audience rather than there just being one generic setting. We have different levels of management as to who can self assign work and who is assigned their daily/weekly work flow.,One of the main features I would like to see added is another permissions option that allows Studio/Traffic Managers to the see the 'blue' time added that currently only the user can see when they have added their actual hourly time. This would give the option to view quickly the progress of a job, and to see if its still live or completed. There is the option to look at the 'weekly timesheet' but this in my opinion is not nearly as user friendly as being able to look at a glance each calendar.
It would be hugely beneficial if along the grey bar on the bottom of the homepage another notification is added that a job had been added to Deltek TrafficLIVE. A simple number would alert you that a new job has been added and needs your immediate attention.
The job search has been conveyed to me by a number of users as not working efficiently enough. If you have the job number then it works perfectly but if you try to locate a job by the account managers name or project name it will not reliably respond in your search.,8,Much more clarity as to how much time each different type of brief should take to complete as we can back reference as to how long it took last season.
It has lead to better customer service. We can visibly demonstrate where we are with jobs and who has been assigned. In the past verbally confirming the different stages did not always convince the project leaders that they were being given the actual real time.
From the Studio users point of view it has empowered them to manage their time more efficiently. If they receive a request to move onto another job their calendars can be reviewed to see if they are available or not.,Simeon CalverTrafficLive - get working smarter2015-11-24T17:22:48.599ZTrafficLive has made a huge improvement to the scheduling of staff and planning of projects. The whole company can now view our resourcing needs and then plan accordingly. We can easily measure utilisation and report on projects with just a few clicks, saving us all time and effort.,We use TrafficLive from quote through to delivery, we have custom templates that have enabled us to keep our own branding.
The scheduling function in TrafficLive has made a significant improvement across the whole company and given us a clear view of who is available and when. We even now employ a traffic manager.
Timesheet entry is simple and ensures hours are put to the correct projects.,We would love to see variable working hours and allowance for part-time staff.
Traffic manager being able to see users' time sheet entries.
Some pre-loaded simple reports.,8,Our utilisation has increased due to better scheduling.
We can track which clients are most profitable.
We can easily see the tasks the continually over run.Liz SpencerTrafficLive great for managing studio workflow.2015-11-20T21:16:32.824ZTrafficLive is mainly used as a schedule/job management tool in our agency. We manage our workload and allocate specific jobs to team members and map out their daily, weekly and monthly schedule. Also time is tracked and entered allowing us to ascertain time and budget spend of projects.,Drag and drop function to allocate work to team members easily.
Time tracking/entering very easy for team.,Improve report function and/or allowing customers to write their own reports.,8,Increased employee efficiency and organisation within studio.Katherine Allard-MaretteTrafficLIVE was a NO Brainer!2015-10-27T14:41:47.428ZTrafficLIVE was used across the business from the very start of the process chain - quotation to invoice and everything in between.
It allowed us as a design agency to have full visibility of operations, thus leaving the 'creatives' to be creative and the finance guys to count the pennies in realtime.
No system is perfect but TrafficLIVE came pretty close to solving our problems all in one central place in the cloud 24 x 7.
We decided to change our process to suit the way TrafficLIVE works to capture all costs, time and resourcing for each project which increased the speed of billing and invoicing.
With all the data in one place it made it easier to create reports in real time with data we could trust and challenge instead of plucking figures out of the sky.,Being able to schedule in real-time in many different ways is a massive benefit as projects change. Giving users the ability to move their individual workloads around helps them organise their day in a more realistic fashion.
Having the ability to allocate resource in a variety of ways and reflect this in capacity reports makes it easier to constantly evaluate and instantly change employees availability to suit the needs of the business.
Flexibility of how you want to start a Project by translating a quote from a job and vice versa with adding tasks on the fly makes it easy to adapt to changing deadlines.
It negates the need to use paper PO books as all POs are kept within the wrapper of a project, along with expenses so they can be tracked and reclaimed on the fly saving time and your cash flow.,Within the administration set up it needs clearer definition as to the type of user account - maybe a warning or prompt to tell you the additional charge if you switch more features on when setting users up or reusing accounts when employees leave.
I'd like to see other options and price points available when selecting what each user should have available to them.,10,Visibility of staff utilisation.
Faster invoicing for account managers and invoicing to clients.
Improved collaboration across departments and teams with little effect on the people who need to be creative.
Having the ability to run any kind of operational report - ultimately it's the estimated versus actuals which is what the finance guys love.,Darren BatchelorGiving the green light to TrafficLIVE2015-07-30T16:47:02.230ZTrafficLIVE is used across our entire business to aid in time scheduling, contact management, billing and briefing.,Excellent scheduling tool
Easy to issue invoices that can be customised to suit
Easy to see staff utilisation,Developer API could offer more flexibility and features,10,Increased employee efficiency
Better pipeline visibilityPete SimmonsSave time and money with Traffic2015-12-11T21:05:31.798ZUsing Deltek TrafficLIVE has streamlined and simplified our studio scheduling. The reporting enables us to see an overview of the resources spent on all clients and projects, and also delve into the granular detail of specific jobs.It is simple to use and saves us a lot of time on administration.,Scheduling Studio resources.
Detailed reporting on tasks, jobs and projects.,I would like to be able to colour code my clients, so I can see at a snapshot what projects staff are working on.
I would like to be able to colour code staff holidays, public holidays so I can easily see what resources I have available.
As an administrator, I can't see at a glance the actual time spent on a task work or comments a user has logged.,9,We use Deltek TrafficLive in an in-house studio environment, so we don't use all of its features. However, we couldn't function as efficiently without it.Verified User
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