Web scheduling software: advantages, disadvantages and alternatives

Every owner of small- and mid-size business knows that high level of task management and proper job scheduling are the key factors to success. And web scheduling software helps create, maintain and improve task management and job planning in a company. Let's see what pros and cons that software brings to the company management.

Advantages are the following:

• Employees can access web schedules and tasks anywhere, anytime
• Robust client database can be created
• Configure automated e-mail confirmations and reminders
• Managers can create payrolls, track schedules online, and manage a user login with varying permission levels
• They can build in-depth business analytical reports

Disadvantages are listed below:

• Employees use HTTP to create web schedule. That software can evade firewall security measures on user's computer. Firewall is intended to block or audit communication between programs, but HTTP services can bring a danger evading firewall measures

• Those employees may suffer from lower performance compared to other computing approaches. Although simplicity is an advantage, in some respects it can also be an obstacle. That system uses plain text protocols, so it means that requests of web scheduler (e.g. editing a huge web schedule) are larger than similar requests encoded with a binary protocol
• Although web scheduling software uses simple HTTP, it's not really usable for long-term online sessions. By using a browser, that software makes HTTP connection, requests a web page, and then disconnects. Employees may need to hold long-term sessions to manage their web based schedules, so they have to do a little extra work to renew connection if using web scheduling software

Getting more advantages from using client/server VIP Task Manager Hosted Server Solution
Did you think you can gain more benefits if using a client/server application with hosted server option instead of web based scheduling software? VIP Task Manager Hosted Solution can bring you more advantages than any web scheduling system. Why?VIP Task Manager Hosted Solution gives you the following benefits:

• The software uses Firebird technology that allows to create stable and long-term connection between server and client. As mentioned before, any web-based system uses HTTP
• The client installation has a user-friendly interface. Any user will need little time to learn VIP Task Manager. Besides you can get online support and talk to support team in live chat
• VIP Task Manager provides secure and reliable database management
• Multifunctional dashboard of VIP Task Manager is perfect for task management, job planning and work analyzing
• VIP Task Manager allows to collaborate through local network (LAN). So you can use your local server (LAN) as well as hosted server (Internet) to collaborate with your employees

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