Employee Schedule Software reviews

Employee Schedule software is a popular type of software enabling to compose and share business calendars, worksheets and timesheets of the workers, so that all their time-specified workloads and expectations can be electronically exposed to be clearly visible and easily reachable for everyone concerned. There are a lot of different reviews on the Web and very often managers allotted to find such a program for their companies are confused by variety and diversity of proposed products that usually appear completely different not only in their features (that are worth of particular attention), but also in technologies used to drive these solutions. This article is an attempt to provide you with an reviews of the most popular technologies:

• Online software – when we talk about such solutions we normally mean Web-based (also called PHP) tools that need a web-browser and Internet connection in order to access their interfaces, learn and modify business schedules of your employees, etc (to-do lists, spreadsheets, calendars, etc). Such tools can perfectly work for needs of virtual teams (distanced employees collaborating through the Web), while their obvious minus is that once your Internet connection is down, your business data becomes unreachable, so they cannot work well for solid organizations with stable staff where all team members work within one office.
• Open Source software – some solutions are designed to enable their users to modify the initial program’s code to develop their own software products satisfying their most sophisticated needs. Such an open source solution can be very useful for a company with a powerful IT staff including skilful programmers, so that they can create solutions to match their company’s business requirements, while SMEs cannot benefit much from these programs due to limited capabilities of their IT budgets.

• Free Employee schedule software – as far as many owners of small and medium businesses operate moderate budgeting capabilities they try using some free products. However, this is a wrong path leading to different problems, as very often users of free tools suffer from “bugs” that are not fixed operatively, as well as from using ugly interface, facing lack of qualified support, etc.
• Solutions for different operating systems – even through you may find a solution matching your needs you need to make sure that it can work for your operating system, as for example staff scheduling software for Mac will not work at Windows-driven PC.

Alternative to all these technologies is VIP Task Manager that is client-server employee management software used for planning, sharing & reporting employees’ tasks and project calendars. It works on Windows-driven computers and operates within your corporate LAN, so that your database safely resides on your internal office server, and your employees can easily share their working data.