Project Management - Technical Description of the Module

Project Management basically is an area which covers making strategic plans, organizing, controlling and managing the human resources. A project enlists a team, physical assets, and engineered plans to achieve one single goal. An organization can have many projects to achieve more than solitary goals to sustain its long term continuation. One needs to have an automated system which can actually manage the entire project at once without any interruption and wasting time, in a way that less human labor is utilized to avoid any errors. A complete project management system manages all the schedules, scheming the cost, managing the finances, how to assign resources, how to assimilate software’s, do a quality check and manage all the documentation work.
To understand Vision Project Management System we can highlight certain areas through which daily operations are aligned and executed. Those can also be differentiated into other modules, Project Integration Management, Project Scope Management, Project Time Management, Project Cost Management, Project Quality Management, Project Human Resources Management, Project Communications Management, Project Risk Management, Project Procurement Management, Project Integration Management, and Project Scope Management.
These modules can be aligned in anyway according to the needs of the business. Vision project integration management creates a complete graph of the project defining all the steps attached with the resources. Creating the project plan and then executing it with all the quality control and check on any new integrated changes.
Vision project scope management system gathers all the information first, and then it derives the scope of the particular project in the current time and situation. A WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) tool has also been synchronized with the system to extend the resources. When the project scope is confirmed it then verifies it and keeps a control on the scope by gathering data again and again and makes changes.
Vision project time management system calculates the timeframe required to achieve a certain target with the available resources, plans, and situation. It not only controls the whole timeframe for the project but keeps a timely check on daily activities, if they are performed on time and gives new results.
Vision project cost and procurement management system as it says is concerned with the budgeting of the project and activities and also controlling the finances estimated.
The most important section for any project is basically quality control. Quality check plans are made through quality management system, and then to execute them and keep them on regular basis to ensure maximum productivity.
Vision project communication management system identifies all the internal and external stakeholders for planning project communication and distribution of the information. It also manages the expectation of the higher management and reporting the performance.

Project Management Module - Advantages over similar systems

The core advantage of using an online project management system than the other management systems is that there is no need for any software and hardware to be implemented. No shifting from an old system to a new system is required. And no use of any integration tool is needed to run the new setup. However Vision online project management system has several advantages which gives the organization a competitive edge over other organizations.
Vision online project management system uses SSL security, which is also used in banks for their online and ATM transactions. The system is password protected; every user is given a user name and password with customized authorities to perform daily tasks. Any business would want their financial and other important information e.g. plans, estimates, engineered designs to be in safe hands, that’s exactly what Vision online project management system takes care of. Security has become the main concern for any capitalist these days, as assets and important information associated to the business has become more vulnerable.
Non-user friendly interfaces, convoluted long list of option menu makes daily tasks not only intricate for the user but also time consuming. It can even disinterest the user to the extent that the employee would want to run away from work. Vision online project management system gives a simple user friendly graphical interface and a number of shortcuts, which brings the user fondness rate higher and fabricate better and timely results.
Vision project management system does not restrict itself to graphs, pictures and plans, but it comes with designated communication system that responds to all the queries and gives evaluated answers. As the real success for a project does not come with simple numbers, graphs, or static pictures, thus all the information is communicated within the whole organization and within the specified feedback innovative possibilities are shaped to actually accomplish the goal of the project.
The system also comes with a community based messaging tool which makes work more fun and creative. Users can text, blog, notify, have conference, discuss on plans and do team meetings. The messaging tool is like any other popular web messenger which comes with interactive feature e.g. sending and receiving data files, email, changing password. All the notifications are sent received by the messaging tool in the organization for important updates and changes.
Most importantly with the ‘Help’ feature, users of Vision online project management system can give daily feedback to us, as to where they are having problems, maintaining and generating information. Or, also incase, they require any other feature as per their business operational project requirement needs.

Project Management Module - Who can benefit from it? (usage scenarios)

Management is a technique that enables individuals, organizations and multi-dimensional companies to ensure the accomplishment of their desired goals. Traditionally, organizations used to manage the projects by the help of competent human resources and their manual operations. In the current era of technology where time and space are valued the most, companies acquire cutting edge project management solutions to do the colossal task of management for them. Vision’s Online Project Management Module serves the needs of every business be it a small, medium or large. The variety of tools available in the online management module can be used with any methodology i.e. traditional, critical chain project management, extreme project management, event chain management, process based management etc.
Its capacity to manage a number of customers, vendors and sites are of of great usage to both the small and large businesses.
Online project management system has become a requisite for any business as different companies, vendors, distributors are using online systems. So the survival and communication of any business depends on a possession of an online management system.
Vision’s Project Management System plays an imperative role in guiding the decision makers any time during a project. It is not just a combination of graphs and pictures but it takes input from employees of different departments and give calculated results, which is then communicated by the higher management to the lower management, labor and engineers as to how to pursuit the project.
Many times a project has many sub projects handled by subordinates. Vision online project management has ample of scope; it not only manages the main projects but maintains integration between other sub projects that are running within the organization. The purpose of these projects is to achieve and reach a solitary goal, for which fast and sound communication is required between them which can only be sustained through Vision online project management system.
Online project management system also maintains a list of employees or workers, customers, vendors, sites, plans, internal and external contacts belonging to the project and sub projects in an aligned manner. The process of utilization of a resource, contact or a vendor in an efficient manner can only be taken up by a project management system. Vice versa a vendor or a customer may have the same project management system for the management of their business, request are sent and catered by the same compatible system. Many vendors these days are able to gratify their clients’ request in timely and efficient manner only because of well-built management systems.

Project Management – How it links with the other modules

Project Management is one of the most essential components of enterprise resource planning. It assists in the effective and efficient initiation, execution, reporting and closing of any project.
The success of a project management solution depends on its efficacious integration with other units of the organization. The input of the other units is constantly required from time to time from the launch till the closing of any project.
Once a project is being designed, one would want to know the available budget from the Finance Department, the obtainable material resources from the Procurement Department, the vacant human resources to be allocated from the HR Department, the capacity of production from the Production Department, the monitoring facilities from the Monitoring Department etc.
For example, a project has been undertaken which is scheduled to end in 6 months then the target cannot be accomplished unless and until all the stakeholders of the organization play their active role. If the employees do overtime, the HR Management will collect that information and will send the updated information to the Project Management Module. This will inform the user as to how quickly the targets are being achieved and track impediments in the execution of a plan.
Hence it is evident that the integration of Project Management Module with the others is indispensable for the effectual functioning of the Solution.
Vision’s Project Management Module is well integrated with the other modules of Production, Inventory, Financials, Document Archiving, Human Resources and Customer Relationship Management etc.
Every module of Vision Online Management System associated with the others in such a smart way that you get all necessary information real time to help in decision making.
Project Management Module does not get affected by break down of any other modules of the solution. This ensures smooth running of the solution and mitigates the negative impact on the projects of your organization.
As our solution caters to a variety of project management methodologies be it tradition, critical chain project management, extreme project management, event chain management, process based management and allows multiple types of information to be taken or poured in from the other modules. This capability of the module manifests that it must have been associated with the other areas in a competent way.
If you are looking for the perfect Online Project Management Module that can serve all your organizational needs, Vision is the right choice for you!

Vision Technical Description

Vision Online Business Management System is a leading provider of an easy to use on-demand enterprise collaboration platform for small and medium sized businesses worldwide. Offering cutting-edge collaboration tools, Vision boosts your businesses' performance and productivity, while strengthening your business relationships with clients, employees and other business associates.
The Vision online business management system provides you an integrated framework for easy to use advance management tools, for Project Management, Handling Human Resources, building customer relationships, document management and none the less managing your accounts.
Utilizing the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, Vision eliminates the long, difficult implementation processes required of otherwise desktop-based software installations, reduces fixed costs and lowers overall expenditures for personnel, hardware and system management. Vision’s Business Management modules can be accessed via the Internet 24/7, no matter where you are located.
Vision is implemented as a distributed client-server system that is web accessible. This means that the end user client on any networked computer connected to internet can access it using any standard web browser. Its main components are the Project Management, Human Resource Management, Field/Support Services, Document Management, Customer relationship management and Account Management functions implemented as "logical application servers" one or more physical server, and the user interface which is based on ASPX, HTML, JavaScript. Application Server running .Net Platform with SQL Server running at the backend installed on Windows Server.
Vision is available both for local installation (with user access through the local network or external Internet connections (on request), or as a remote installation, application service, SaaS (Software as a Service).
Vision Base System comprises of:
1- System Framework with Graphical User Interface (GUI), help and online manuals.
2- Front end is developed in latest installment of ASP.net.
3- Microsoft SQL Server is used in the backend as the preferred database.
4- Application is running on Internet information Server (IIS) on Windows .Net Server 2003/2008 server.
Platform Support
Vision system is currently supported on both Windows, Linux, Mac based machines with latest browsers. Supported browsers are Ms Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Apple Safari.



Security
Enterprise level permissions: Vision offers group based permission to its users
Data Transmission: 128bit SSL encrypted data transmission by different modules
Data Reliability

Vision is hosted at specialized SaaS hosting in several datacenters across America, Europe and the Middle East. We believe the data belongs to our clients, not us.
- "24x7 access” We guarantee 99% uptime, and request some of your time for system maintenance.
Backups Policy is as follows:
- Vision’s proficient System automatically backups the data every day.

Operational Benefits of Using Vision Online Business Management System

Gone are the days when desktop applications were used for managing various business functionalities, storing information and then, maintaining it by a trained team of IT professionals locked up in a separate department of your organization with a “Do Not Disturb” sign hanging outside the door. It’s the digital age and the prerequisite of today’s era is to automate work and manage multiple tasks using cost effective solutions. When one thinks of that, SaaS web applications seem to offer just the right solution for all the business management and administrative tasks in an organized and seamless manner.

Quite recently, after the introduction of broadband internet technology and the budding browser technology, many previous constricted methods of work management and business administration have changed the software usage scenario.
With online-hosted solutions in form of SaaS applications, you can greatly cut your expenditures since you would only have to pay to use the software and not worry about licensing it. As for Vision Online Business Management System, it is an one-of-its-kind SaaS application, offering ample opportunities to organizations and businesses to deal with a wide spectrum of management tasks in a proactive, cost-effective and efficient manner, increasing output efficiency and taking your business to higher strides. It is a multitenant tool with a single, universal infrastructure and centralized code base that can manage multiple tasking immaculately in a user-friendly and customized web interface.
One would ask himself that what is it that makes SaaS applications such as Vision to offer more benefits to a business than desktop based applications?
Installing softwares and keeping them updated is no less than a headache and can be expensive. In order to install and use a desktop application, you will be required to purchase a software license. But, with Vision as your hosted web application, you can generally pay a flat monthly rental fee without worrying about purchasing license and administer all of your management tasks easily and effortlessly.
In case of desktop based applications, all the data is stored in your PC, which restricts the facility of accessing your data from any other computer without a data traveler. So, unfortunately, this greatly limits your work and wastes your previous time. Whereas, Vision as an application running on hosted web server, you can access all your data from any PC using any web browser regardless of your location and time. Even if you are traveling abroad or are on a vacation, your Vision Management System is like a true companion who keeps your secrets and only reveals them to at time of need.
With your Vision Business Management Tool, you don’t require any software installation or some complicated system or technical infrastructure as obligatory mechanism for using it. It is a user-friendly tool – much easier than other Windows-based systems.
In addition, Vision as a web application, offers a seamless integration of platforms which embraces Web services that are standards-based, while replacing the traditional Enterprise Application Integration and Service Oriented Architecture. As a result, it offers longer flexibility terms, compared with desktop applications.
Your data, documents, contacts, account and finance related information etc will automatically be protected with our proficient industry-standard system and is monitored by specialists 24/7 to maintain the security of your data to ensure no data loss at any time.

Cost Effectiveness of Vision

Every businessman’s prime goal is to accomplish the target of high financial gains and lower costs. The objective cannot be achieved unless and until the available resources i.e. human and material ones are managed and utilized efficiently.
In the current era of technology, management of organizational resources has become colossal task. Companies have to spend an ample of budget for the purchase of business management solutions and the integration with the existing IT infrastructure.
The cost factor can only be justified once the system is up and running and producing results. It is also said that most businesses go into slump by choosing wrong business management system. The term is known as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) which has remain the main concern for both end users and solution providers as it is the point of differentiation for both.
Every time an organization thinks of taking up a management system, it starts with the thought of how will it benefit the business, either in monetary or operational basis. In case if the business is slumped it will be considered as an unwise expense that was taken up by them. That’s why many SME’s are reluctant to even be negotiated for BMS.
Millions of dollars are spent by the corporations on licensing, surveying and implementation of the business management system available by different vendors in the market now. And if the buyer is not satisfied he has to stick with the solution till expiration of the license. That is where vision business management system provides opportunity especially to SME’s to manage their business operations and to achieve bigger targets at a very affordable price.
With vision you do not have to purchase any software or switch from your old system or implement anything additionally. Vision is a pay-as-you-go service, starting at a monthly cost of $39. In contrast with others, licensed Business Management applications usually require a hefty license fee in advance, followed by smaller monthly maintenance fee which can usually sum up to be approximately 15-20% of the total license fee. Imagine that.
Vision is provided to you for a flat fee of $39 on per month basis without worrying about performance, uptime, security, reliability, and scalability, since we accommodate you with all the features within this fixed price.
More Benefits:
• Free unlimited number of team members receive tasks alerts via emails generated by vision when new project is assigned or there are updated related to some specific project.
• Vision offers unlimited number of projects, milestones, tasks within the same fee.

Economical Benefits of Using Vision Online Business Management System

To put it in simple words, there are numerous benefits of using Vision Online Business Management System, if compared with other multiple desktop-based systems for a range of different tasks.
Vision – being an online system, allows you to manage, maintain and share your work, collaborate with other people and systematize all your work in a real-time system. This way, you can access it anytime and anywhere via Internet, even if you are on the streets or enjoying vacations with family in some exotic destination aboard.
Vision guarantees you facilitation with 100% business proficiency and helps build stronger customer-clientele relationship. With the functionality mechanism being easy-to-comprehend, you can effortlessly implement and integrate Vision within your existing business set up and be benefitted both technically and economically. Hence, this gives full visibility of the entire activity across taking place within your organization and assists in achieving the desired results you want for your business.
Vision as your online business management tool, is equipped with the essential knowledge and technical know-how that works in sync with the development and enhancement of your business processes, strengthening your relationship with your clients and customers, helping you seek potential future prospects; while grants you with required business aptitude, in order to meet your unique demands and production expectations.
With Vision Online Business Management System, you can glibly save your time and effort in maintaining comprehensive notes of correspondence and contact with customers in relation to diverse projects and future prospects. Consequently, this will assist you in efficiently centralizing all your information.
Scalable and customizable business solution, Vision helps you economically save much on your expenditures owing to the low cost of implementation.
Being an easy and flexible one-tool for all your needs, Vision’s six various modules i.e. Project Management, Document Management, Accounting System, Field/Support Service System, HRM (Human Resource Management) and CRM (Customer Resource Management) systems, help you maximize your work efficiency, without having to rely on many different management staff to maintain it. Thus, it saves your man power costs for data maintenance.
The annual cost of using Vision is three times less than using desktop-based softwares. Previously, companies didn’t have many alternatives but to depend on desktop-based softwares, which maintain data within a specific PC with that software installed in it. Therefore, it won’t be wrong to say that this way the database becomes restricted to one specific computer. Additionally, these softwares didn’t come cheap either, not to mention the expensive purchasing of the license and regular update fees. Today, you can control your sales opportunities, improve your interactive client/customer/employees/staff communication and tracking systems, collaborate project information with team executives and other members, maintain business account and other finance related details and further management related functionalities without depending on multiple softwares – Vision’s all-in-one-system management tool administers all these tasks seamlessly and smoothly, without needing an IT staff to cater to these needs separately.
By choosing, Vision online system, you can easily cut down hidden organisational, on-going-integration, operational and maintenance costs.

One solution, instead of many tools

Vision Online Business Management System has been designed to fill the gap between various entry-level and multifarious high-end system. A cost effective management solution for your small or perhaps medium sized organization, Vision is a sophisticated business management tool packed with innovative features, facilitating with productivity-enhancing benefits and an array of customization options to befit your diverse business needs.
Unlike some other software options, Vision is an all-in-one-solution, eradicating the need for purchasing other system modules separately for taking care of further different organizational/business tasks. Vision’s in-built six outstanding modules comprising of Project Management, Field/Support Services, Document Management, HR Management, Customer Relations Management, and lastly, Accounting Management, come along with a set of fully integrated and interlinked system developed to streamline your business, increase productivity, and boost your revenue.
Along with the ease to set up and built-in security system, you can tailor your unique business needs with Vision’s customizable and scalable business solutions. Its powerful modules work seamlessly together in order to deliver incomparable performance, reliability, and add value to your business.
Vision Online Business Management System allows your employees to collaborate and share vital information and systematize their work in a single real-time system. You can keep a track on all the functional and financial activity going on around your entire organization. Armed with that knowledge you can improve your processes - your entire company becomes smarter about prospects and customers and your ability to meet their demands and exceed expectations.
Vision helps you maximize your customer relationships and other prospect opportunities that come your way. You can effortlessly streamline in-house employee or client communications in order to improve sales and service productivity which ranks up your overall business effectiveness and achievability.

If you want to manage all your documents and projects in one place without losing any essential data and keep a track of time and budget, Vision qualifies for being your ultimate choice for meeting all your unique business demands.

Enhance your sales and marketing efforts with an automated system that facilitates you in providing a better decision-making aptitude. Furthermore, it helps you stay updated with up-to-the-minute information and details any time.
Vision enables you to forecast, track and administer your revenue plan, underlying projects in pipelines and other business goals.

Without installing any hardware or software, only an internet connection can help you make it all doable with your Vision Business Management Solution, amplifying your business processes and workflow within fewer resources. This way, you can access your information, share and save data accordingly from remote locations without having to be restricted to your organizational or business premises.

When you can easily get most of your work done with Vision’s multiple-tasking Online Business Management System, then why spend heavy funds and make investments on purchasing individual softwares to manage different organizational tasks?

Usage Scenarios of VISION Document Management

Documents form a vital component of any organization. Every department of an organization relies on documentations and the archiving department to administer their daily activities and keep track of them. As the organization grows, the paper work management becomes a plight for the company. Manual handling of the unnecessary and necessary documents may lead to undesirable consequences, for example, loss of confidential or necessary documents. Moreover, the aim of their effective tagging, sorting and retrieval is almost impossible with manual handling.

Today’s technology driven society has resulted in the emergence of several softwares and machinery to do the work manually handled earlier. After purchase, even these have certain prerequisites for their implementation and usage. Moreover, the budget touches heights as the purchase has to be in terms of hardware as well as software.

Vision Online Management System saves the client organization’s time and money. It fulfills all the needs and resolves all the issues that may arise in the management of any organization. Its user friendly features adapt and run swiftly as per the demands of the client’s organizational activities. Moreover, as it is online it is approachable wherever required and whenever required.

Vision Online Document Management System allows for efficient document handling, storage, tagging, labeling, sorting and retrieval. The client logs in through the user account provided by Vision and upload all the entire documents within no time into a centralized data warehouse. All the other modules are given access to the data warehouse for the storage and retrieval of the documents as per their privileges. Thus, usage of Vision Online Document Management System is trouble free and simple.

All the documentation created or received by the organization are kept in the consolidated data reservoir.

Then if a vacancy is available, the HR Department can easily access the data warehouse and fetch the CVs received by the organization earlier for hiring purposes.

If the Finance Department has to check the payments made by the organization to a particular client, they can easily retrieve the payment slips from Vision Online Database Management System.

If the Customer Relationship Department requires any information about the consumers of the organization, they can easily pull out the details and whole history of any specific consumer.

Web-based Vision’s Document Management System is useful for all types of businesses in various sectors. Organizations in the engineering sector, for example, often find the need of using web-based DM systems for efficient storage and retrieval of their drawings and documents. Vision can prove to be an excellent tool for this purpose. Similarly, other organizations such as schools, universities, law firms, archives departments, etc can greatly benefit from using Vision’s online management system. 

Generic Description of VISION Support Services

Every businessman's ultimate goal is to achieve the target objectives and organizational goals which primarily revolve around high financial gains and lower costs. The objective cannot be achieved unless and until the available resources i.e. human and material ones are managed and utilized efficiently.

In today's business world it has become very hard to compete the reason of which is demanding customers, mounting competition, and sluggish processes at all operational levels. Every day large amount of data is processed and all the paper work is digitalized to gain maximum benefit of the available data. Unless and until all the major processes are effectively managed, the desired result cannot be achieved.

Even after the completion of the goals an organization is expected to achieve its desired business target if its customers are satisfied. Here comes the role of support services in the accomplishment of the mentioned objective. Active role of support services leads to more sales and more business.

 Support services included a few services which companies used to provide earlier for instance telephonic support. With the passage of time, there has been a transformation in the way companies provide support services to it customers. These may include physical, telephonic, email or sms services.

The provision of excellent support services requires an organization to spend more on budget, purchase more hardware, allocate more resources, more training, more data handling and difficult handling. As compared to manual provision of all these forms of support services and their management, online systems are of great benefit.

Vision online support services carry customizable functional modules. The system combines an online simple user interface with extensive customization capabilities and a robust database to enhance user experience. Extensive reporting capabilities enable management to make timely and informed decisions and keep a close watch on financial transactions.

Implementing Vision Management System will create systematic and synchronized environment which shows compliance to our client’s procedure, processes and simplify the operating procedures of its resources.

As the data is kept in a centralized repository with all the necessary details that might be needed to resolve a customer’s issue therefore, it allows the support agents to access data quickly. Vision ensures the system is configured according to exact organizational structure and that all historical data is available in front of the support agent of the consumer who contacts support center.

Through Vision Online Support Services, client can offer various forms of support services to its consumers without spending a lot of money which include telephonic, email and instant messaging. Detailed data availability to the support agents help to resolve issues in not time. Thus, this leads to customer satisfaction and organizational success.

Usage Scenarios of VISION Support Services

Customer support plays a vital role in bringing up business productivity and enhancing business proficiency and quality. For a better customer support, one needs to have the most simple and effective support services. Enhanced support services give the enterprise competitive edge over other organizations.

Vision Support Services include the tools like Phone Support, Email and Instant Messaging. All of these tools are helpful in daily working routine of any organization. In order to communicate problems of customers Visions Support Services plays a vital role.

Vision Phone Support is an interactive system, where all the records of the customers and associates are reserved in a systematic manner, which results in easy access and revision of information. Vision Phone Support helps organizations in building up an active customer support. With the help of the service customer are able to call tech officer for their issues and queries. Moreover several organizations develop customer support for their clients to issue order and return orders.

 Vision Support Services provide ample of options and sub-modules for better management of tech teams within the organization. Vision Phone Support keeps a track of time spent by each staff member who is related to customer relationship management and tech support. Hence Vision Phone Support not only keeps a track of the customer and their order but it also helps in keeping track of employee’s attendance and performance.

On the basis of performance a skill level can be set on different team and its member. According to the performance, skill and specialization calls are transferred to different agents. If an agent is assigned to a certain client, in the absence of that agent the call may transfer to another tech officer. A customer will be catered in anyway.

Employees can also share the workload of their colleagues in order to attain solitary goal of the enterprise. Through the system organization can set new schedules, contracts, future maintenance based on historical data.

At the end of each month a performance evaluation report is generated for every officer belonging to tech and customer support mentioning their strong and weak points. Hence the job of HR is simplified to identify who is performing and whose not.

Email is integrated with every module of the Vision Online management System. Every employee belonging to any of the department has access to email plus they are provided with their own email id too. Most of the on and Off-work communication is done through email. Customer, Business Managers, Business Partners and other Employees send and receive data through email. Also with instant messaging they can easily get in touch with anyone where they can discuss work, share ideas or take a break and have jokes to lessen work burden.

Hence Vision Support Services is a complete package for any enterprise to satisfy the customer needs. With every tool incorporated with the system becomes the source of gaining competitive edge over other organizations.

Technology and Structure of Vision

Vision is an integrated and complete online business management system with customizable functional modules. The system combines an online simple user interface with extensive customization capabilities and a robust database to enhance user experience. Extensive reporting capabilities enable management to make timely and informed decisions and keep a close watch on financial transactions.

Vision has been developed on multi-user platform keeping in mind the role-based activities most departments in an organization need to perform. The system provides built-in features for user account management and security to ensure hierarchy based access to sensitive information. User can be provided with generic login on which they can be assigned to perform different system and business roles. Vision works at SSL 128 for security, the same security level which is provided in online banking system, which will prevent any abuse of the company’s important data.

With the exclusive usage of Microsoft technology, it has established a seamless interaction between all the aspects of Vision’s architecture. Vision was originally built with and continues to use Microsoft technologies and platforms. Vision is written in Microsoft dot net, SQL server database and windows server environment. Also it supports XML web services for integration of other systems.

With the excellent Microsoft Approach in the system, we provide our customers with a robust and fully integrated infrastructure, simplified administration and modification, ease in setting up and integration with other either Microsoft or Non Microsoft Systems, thus greatly reducing IT requirements. As not every organization are having internal IT team Vision provides import wizard from CSV files available to all users. Not only that it exports or reports in different file formats such as CSV, Excel, Word, PDF, RTF depending on the need defined by the organization policy.

Implementing Vision will create systematic and synchronized environment which shows compliance to our clients procedure, processes and simplify the task not only maintaining resources but also fast access to data, having most reputable data centers with replication facilities for high redundancy. Vision ensures the system is configured according to exact organizational structure and that all historical data is available before the go-live date.  

 

Vision is state of the art and complete online management system to streamline all operations and extensions of any organization. Through online centralized repository all the operational entities will be linked to each other by using desktops, laptops or smart phones. Vision is compatible with all browsers and operating systems which mean the organization does not have to get into the hassle of getting new software packages or shifting from their old systems. Besides all modules will be integrated to ensure that the required information is seamlessly available to all users’ at all operational locations. The online repository of information will be accessible via internet. The online repository will be integrated with a task management application enabling simplified allocation of tasks to staff. The solution will also provide a robust Reporting engine which will enable the management to view reports on customer communication, case management, and task execution and employee productivity.

Cloud Computing is Budget Computing for SMBs

Today, as we have a hard-hitting competitive business environment; the survival is for the toughest only. Only those can survive who have an increasing customer intimacy and business receptiveness and who has an effective grasp over using smart technologies.

Every businessman’s prime goal is to accomplish the target of high financial gains and lower costs. The objective cannot be achieved unless and until the available resources i.e. human and material ones are managed and utilized efficiently.

In the current era of technology, management of organizational resources has become colossal task. Companies have to spend an ample of budget for the purchase of business management solutions and the integration with the existing IT infrastructure.

The cost factor can only be justified once the system is up and running and producing results. It is also said that most businesses go into slump by choosing wrong business management system. The term is known as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) which has remain the main concern for both end users and solution providers as it is the point of differentiation for both.

Every time an organization thinks of taking up a management system, it starts with the thought of how will it benefit the business, either in monetary or operational basis. In case if the business is slumped it will be considered as an unwise expense that was taken up by them. That’s why many SMB’s are reluctant to even be negotiated for Business Management Systems.

Ever since Software as a Service (SaaS) on-demand web-based/client model applications have been introduced in the market, business organizations have become autonomous in executing various tasks smoothly with less man power or heavy IT investments.

Millions of dollars are spent by the corporations on licensing, surveying and implementation of the business management system available by different vendors in the market now. And if the buyer is not satisfied he has to stick with the solution till expiration of the license. That is where SaaS business management systems provide opportunity especially to SMB’s to manage their business operations and to achieve bigger targets at a very affordable price.

Traditional, desktop based software have been overtaken by web-based applications which most commonly regarded as “online”, “hosted”, or “on-demand applications”. Owing to the increased dependability on the Internet and World Wide Web, today we see more and more businesses signing up with SaaS model applications readily available on the web for taking care of CRM, HRM, document management needs, contacts etc.

Why? Not just because they save time, effort, cost but also because SaaS applications offer benefits to business due to their multi-tenant efficiency, flexibility and scalability features. During the current economically turbulent times, it has become even more imperative to lead the race of time and be the priority choice for every opportunity and every customer interactions than it was ever before. Furthermore, it is best to utilize a system without having to make hefty investments on software which otherwise can be expensive to install, administer and maintain. Who needs initial big investments or suffer headaches of maintenance or fear the risk of losing your data, simply sign up with our services and access your data in a safe medium with pay as you go facility. No rules, no contract.

Vision Online Business Management System has been designed to fill the gap between various entry-level and multifarious high-end system. A cost effective management solution for your small or perhaps medium sized organization, Vision is a sophisticated business management tool packed with innovative features, facilitating with productivity-enhancing benefits and an array of customization options to befit your diverse business needs.

Unlike some other software options, Vision is an all-in-one-solution, eradicating the need for purchasing other system modules separately for taking care of further different organizational/business tasks.

With Vision you do not have to purchase any software or switch from your old system or implement anything additionally. Vision is a pay-as-you-go service, starting at a monthly cost of $39, yes just that! In contrast with others, licensed Business Management applications usually require a hefty license fee in advance, followed by smaller monthly maintenance fee which can usually sum up to be approximately 15-20% of the total license fee. Imagine that!

Vision’s in-built six outstanding modules comprising of Project Management, Field/Support Services, Document Management, HR Management, Customer Relations Management, and lastly, Accounting Management, come along with a set of fully integrated and interlinked system developed to streamline your business, increase productivity, and boost your revenue.

Along with the ease to set up and built-in security system, you can tailor your unique business needs with Vision’s customizable and scalable business solutions. Its powerful modules work seamlessly together in order to deliver incomparable performance, reliability, and add value to your business.

Vision Online Business Management System allows your employees to collaborate and share vital information and systematize their work in a single real-time system. You can keep a track on all the functional and financial activity going on around your entire organization. Armed with that knowledge you can improve your processes - your entire company becomes smarter about prospects and customers and your ability to meet their demands and exceed expectations.

Vision helps you maximize your customer relationships and other prospect opportunities that come your way. You can effortlessly streamline in-house employee or client communications in order to improve sales and service productivity which ranks up your overall business effectiveness and achievability.

If you want to manage all your documents and projects in one place without losing any essential data and keep a track of time and budget, Vision qualifies for being your ultimate choice for meeting all your unique business demands.

Enhance your sales and marketing efforts with an automated system that facilitates you in providing a better decision-making aptitude. Furthermore, it helps you stay updated with up-to-the-minute information and details any time.  

Vision enables you to forecast, track and administer your revenue plan, underlying projects in pipelines and other business goals.

Without installing any hardware or software, only an internet connection can help you make it all doable with your Vision Business Management Solution, amplifying your business processes and workflow within fewer resources. This way, you can access your information, share and save data accordingly from remote locations without having to be restricted to your organizational or business premises.

When you can easily get most of your work done with Vision’s multiple-tasking Online Business Management System, then why spend heavy funds and make investments on purchasing individual software to manage different organizational tasks? 

VISION Project Management

Of course, every project comprises of different set of complexities and challenges, distinct from the other. Whether or not the project is simple or complicated, project managers must keep a bird’s eye view of every project activity so as to accomplish the project objectives on respective time.

Vision’s Project Management solution provides a 360 degree visibility of each and every project right from concept till end delivery outcome. Vision’s powerful project management tool helps in delivering a lucid initialization against all goals and objectives prioritized.

Managing project plans in emails, spreadsheets and offline files in different locations was a thing of yesterday. With Vision, you can keep all your files maintained in one secure location and maintain a full insight into your business and easily keep a track of your team's collaborative work.

With Vision Project Management module, you easily see the status of your project and also helps you in merging your email communications and business contacts into the planning process. The unique flexible infrastructure enables managers to easily coordinate every little detail of the projects with their team and other associates and have a real-time, patent picture of multiple projects going in a row.

Work supervision, team coordination and collaboration are smoothly managed and maintained with Vision for easier and faster multiple projects management. Keep a track on time and cost spent on each task and build real-time cross-project reports.

Vision puts you in charge of your projects. You can track project progress through sending/receiving daily email alerts to resources, team members, customers/partners. You can efficiently upload multiple attachments against your projects as per your convenience.

Using Vision, you can effortlessly organize and add up as many projects running under your administration and can easily break down the (parent) project into (child) components in a hierarchical order, for a clearer, conceptual and uncluttered comprehension of the project. You can even link your project to other external resources and equipments for added help in the implementation and training.

With our project management module, project managers can define different access rights, against each user, from basic read only access to full control administrator level access. You can grant module rights to each user or group for an easy administration.

You can maintain a schedule and update the plan in one click. Every time you make changes in your plan, they are instantly made visible to all the team members, according to your need. This way, you can enhance the individual and mutual productivity of the entire team and meet deadlines by issuing automatic task reminders.

Vision has been created and designed in a way so that you can easily integrate all your tasks with other modules seamlessly and prioritize risks before any hindrance(s) may affect your projects.

Employees within an organization have different designated roles, depending upon the type of project and field. With Vision’sProject Management module, project managers can easily define different access rights against each user i.e. whether to allow them a basic level access or full control administrator level access. This way, you can permit module rights to each team member or group of teams for an easy and streamlined administration.

VISION Project Management - What business benefits it brings

Vision’s Online Project Management System has been developed to help businesses in being able to accomplish projects in an effective and efficient manner. You can easily keep a track of all your projects, maintain scheduling, synchronise the calendar with completion dates and manage reporting functions. This way, the project lead and the other members gain easy accessibility. Since the system is maintained online and doesn’t require you to install and purchase any hardware and software, if you have an internet, you can access it no matter where from anywhere – home, office and even if you are on the road. You have complete control over your project and thus you are facilitated with a 360 degrees view of all your projects 24/7.

With view of the features of Vision’s Project Management System, it gives you an easier and more organized way to plan and monitor your under-going projects. Vision allows you to store all project information and data in a single location; thus, enabling the executives, project managers, and employees to access, track and supervise project information rapidly, efficiently and proficiently, from any Internet with the condition that you any Internet connected location.

When looking at it from Project Team leaders’ perspective, Vision’s Project Management System provides them a convenient tool to manage every phase of the project. They can easily supervise much of their work process including assigning and prioritising tasks, keeping a track of the progress, keeping deadlines in check, setting milestones, and also manage cost and budget of all the projects separately and immaculately. Also, setting up resources and priorities can easily be managed.

Vision allows project leader to easily keep a check on the progress of all the individuals working on specified projects. In case, a certain member of the team isn’t able to fulfil his assigned duties in accordance with the deadline, the project leader after identifying the person can assign the tasks to preferably another member who can easily manage the task, without any further delays. This way, you can maintain your schedule according to team’s performance and improve your project’s accountability.

With Vision’s proficient and transparent tracking system, you can instantly indentify your project status at any time and share information and collaborate with team instantly. This foresees any cost overrun and can be controlled immediately. In case of any misuse or embezzlement found anywhere during the project, it can be tracked down since project related progress is automatically recorded in the system.

For an amplified business growth, use Vision
Online System to help you reach great heights of success within a short duration.

Vision as a Saas Model

Vision Online Business Management System – structured on SaaS technology - is a ‘hosted’ or ‘on-demand’, verified and cost effective end-to-end business solution designed to assist you in managing your core business functions.

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made it possible to transform the approach adopted by information-technology (IT) departments in order to relate to and execute their role as computing services providers to an entire business enterprise. Vision Online Business Management System is an exemplary application as ‘SaaS’. With the advent of SaaS as an efficient software-delivery mechanism, it has given opportunity for IT departments to change their focal point from deploying and supporting applications to managing the services which can effectively be provided by SaaS model applications – Vision being an exceptional model. Vision is a  successful service-centric IT which unswervingly affixes more value to businesses by providing services matching the suitability of both your internal and external sources and seamlessly administer your tasks in sync with your business objectives and aims.

Ever since SaaS on-demand web-based/client model applications have been introduced in the market, business organizations have become autonomous in executing various tasks smoothly with less man power or heavy IT investments.

Vision assures increased work efficiency, productivity and profitability by automating content management, document and project management, sales and marketing, customer service and communications via means of a stable, browser-based and easy to use application. Using Vision, you can easily implement, manage, troubleshoot and customize your project according to your unique business requirements – we only provide you the solution of how to do it, but it’s only how you want it.

Traditional, desktop based softwares have been overtaken by web-based applications which most commonly regarded as “online”, “hosted”, or “on-demand applications”. Owing to the increased dependability on the Internet and World Wide Web, today we see more and more businesses signing up with Saas model applications readily available on the web for taking care of CRM, HRM, document management needs, contacts etc.

Why? Not just because they save time, effort, cost but also because SaaS applications offer benefits to business due to their multi-tenant efficiency, flexibility and scalability features. During the current economically turbulent times, it has become even more imperative to lead the race of time and be the priority choice for every opportunity and every customer interactions than it was ever before. Furthermore, it is best to utilize a system without having to make hefty investments on softwares which otherwise can be expensive to install, administer and maintain. However, this all is possible with one solution that can cater to all your business needs without heavy expenditures and that is possible by using Vision Online Business Management System.

Vision helps you converge in focusing your budgets on competitive advantages, instead of Infrastructure with a pay-as-you-go facility and offers you nothing but booming success and increased business productivity.

As an effectively designed SaaS application, Vision has proficiently took over the benefits of centralizing tasks through a single-instance, multi-tenant architecture, and provided a feature-rich experience for the users, giving a tough competitive challenge for on-premise applications.

Who Can Benefit From VISION?

Today, we have a hard-hitting competitive business environment; it’s survival for the toughest only. Only those can survive who have an increasing customer intimacy and business receptiveness and who has an effective grasp over using smart technology.

For those who want a win-win situation, Vision can mark their path. Vision is a powerful, comprehensive suite of six different modules which cater to providing different management solutions for project, documentation and business management and serving as your tool for accounting solutions, with seamlessly designed automate functions; Vision can help you succeed in today’s dynamic business world.

Vision’s customary modules work in an integrated fashion to deliver unmatched performance, reliability, and value to your business. Vision includes a range of add-on solutions designed to enhance your system.

Anyone who needs multiple tasks done, save time and effort and continue to work in a smooth and headache-free method, Vision Online Business Management system is for them.

From initiation till execution, Vision’s Project Management System works as a tracker and encompasses all the complete lifecycle of the project. With the excellent project management tools, you can easily keep a track on all ongoing/completed tasks and projects in terms of cost and duration, manage and monitor resource provision, control project accesses (who can access), generate a project from existing project templates and get real-time SMS/Email Notification. You can maintain and manage all this through a secure browser, without having to be geographically located in a certain specified location.

Vision’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System is built on a modern web-based architecture and is a customizable back-to-back CRM solution. It serves as the best tool for enhancing & promoting your real-time collaboration between you and your employees, business associates and third parties regardless of their location and time-zone differences. Vision CRM helps you to cater to the needs of your clients and maintain a profitable liaison with them in the best possible manner.

Who needs to use the archetypal method of Human Resource management when you can integrate your work with the latest technology in the market? Just sign up with Vision Online Business Management System and manage time and efforts sensibly. With Vision’s Human Resource Management System module, you can easily keep a track of your daily timesheet and staff attendance, record and catalog the skills of all your hired employees, manage employee assessments, and administer all your employees work progress and involvements in various office/business areas – all in one proven and secure system for the best, yours and ours.

With Vision’s Filed/Support Services Management System, you can supervise your let’s say your call center and customer center support needs and work functionalities smoothly. You can effortlessly manage all your helpdesk activities and keep a check on the support time spent by each staff member on each customer and used technology, administer multiple support teams based on their skills, availability, and case type, run maintenance contracts and renewal schedules, advance on future maintenance necessities based on historical support data and also manage internal and external acceleration in terms of development and progress.

Managing accounts separately for each client, project or employee is quite a lot of work. But, with Vision’s Accounting System, you can easily automate & organize your tasks, accounts and contracts seamlessly. With this effective account management tool, you can administer all the account related reports and manage contacts over the internet without losing on essential data and figures, and access detailed customer profiles. Using the accounting system, you can sustain a panoramic view on your customer’s account activity, account flow, scheduling, invoicing, billing and account history.

Ever imagined how see document managed could become?  Thanks to the latest technologies at hand and bigger thanks to Vision Online Business Management systems, you can easily administer online access to secure document banking, anytime, anywhere with the Document Management System. With our document management module, you can look up with alert & notification response times, enhance coordination & cut costs, provide instant on-demand online access anytime and anywhere and collaborate with your with co-workers, business partners extensively internally & externally to earn business your with some real-time benefits.

Vision Online Business Management provides easy, rapid and 24/7 access to your files from anywhere without any hassle within a highly secure web browser and our intuitive web interface. It provides your organization with powerful management capabilities without prerequisites and heavy investments in IT implementation in form of software management and hardware purchases and hiring special staff to cater to these tasks. You have a reliable helping companion that moves along with you anywhere you go in form of your Vision Online Business Management System.

Vision Online Business Management System – An Overview

VISION Online Business Management System provides an all-in-one business management solution which caters to all your day-to-day uptake of business processes and tasks, documentations, maintaining accounts and contact information and much more. This user-friendly, customizable, and portable online business solution system has been designed for everyone, infact, even the less technical savvy users and managers can run it.

Vision speaks for scalability and reliability. The word ‘online’ indicates that the system is hosted on our web servers and made available for you as a service you can readily access from anywhere at any time. You can get fully functional business management tools for managing all your business related tasks without the bearing overhead for software installations and maintenance on your PC’s. This saves time, investment in server hardware, infrastructure costs on system backup, network, security and man power costs spent on hiring and training staff and system administrators.

As a hosted web application Vision not just lessens the burden of IT support, but also eliminates problems associated with off-site data synchronization and system maintenance and helps in maintaining and using a shared database rather than several replicated databases. However, if a customer is willing to host the system on self premises (self-hosted), that can also be easily arranged (contact sales for arrangements).

VISION Online Business Management System effortlessly manages all the activities and functionalities involved in project management, document management, human resources management, contact management, contract (and SLAs) management, environment profiler, accounting as well as customer support services.

These modules provide seamless workflow integration maximizing the efficiency, so that you can easily access information and generate reports from any module, which saves a lot of time.

With Vision Online Business Management System, you and your proficient team can administer and manage all your customers, prospects, contacts, tasks, sales opportunities and marketing campaigns in an all-in-one accessible system which keeps your data protected 24/7.

Who needs initial big investments or suffer headaches of maintenance or fear the risk of losing your data, simply sign up with our services and access your data in a safe medium with pay as you go facility. No rules, no contract.

Simply connect to the internet and access VISION’s no matter where you are – at office, at home, at a hotel room, in your car, at a meeting, on your mobile/communicator or PDA, or even when you’re on vacations with your family.

Why rely on old methods of maintaining files and sheets and a whole room just for your documents when you can have the ease of preserving them online through VISION online business management Application - a reliable, cost-effective, and flexible convenience to save your time and effort.

Vision online business management tool is just what you need to the perfect your business administration and maintenance needs.