Life in an agency often resembles a tightrope walk: projects stack up everywhere, deadlines continuously draw closer, and client expectations keep rising. In this demanding environment, a reliable tool is indispensable to maintain the perfect balance between creativity and control. This is where the integration of OS/ and awork comes into play, allowing you to holistically and efficiently steer your project business.
OS/ is an advanced software for controlling and budgeting that, combined with awork, enables you not only to plan your projects but also to precisely track financial goals.
In this article, discover how this tool combination optimizes your agency process by helping you effectively monitor costs, optimally allocate resources, and ultimately manage your projects more efficiently.
OS/ and awork – two tools, one goal: efficiency
With awork, you guide your team through smart task management. Thanks to features like time tracking, capacity planning, and calendar integration, you always keep an overview of your project's progress. Yet, particularly complex agency projects need more than good organization– financial transparency is also crucial. Here, OS/ excels, a controlling and budgeting software specifically developed for agency needs.
These features are available in OS/ and can be seamlessly integrated into your awork projects:
- Quick project calculation: Say goodbye to cumbersome and lengthy calculation processes. With OS/, you can efficiently and quickly make cost estimates for your awork projects.
- Comprehensive profitability analysis: OS/'s Overhead Cost Factor and True Labor Costs™ provide you deep insights into the actual costs of your projects and support you in effectively managing them and optimizing their profitability.
- Simple budgeting: Drag & Drop budgeting makes it easy for you to make budget adjustments while always maintaining a full overview.
- Advanced project controlling: Features like OS/ Expected™ allow you constant oversight over your finances and projects, enabling you to act proactively based on real data.
The integration of awork and OS/ simplifies the management of all project-related activities and boosts the efficiency of your processes: Relevant data you enter in awork, such as work hours or project details, are automatically transferred to OS/ and vice versa. This allows a seamless connection of project planning in awork with financial controlling in OS/, without any additional effort. Let’s be honest: Who wants to manually enter data anymore?
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Magic AG: A success story of using awork & OS/
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Imagine you are a project manager at the renowned agency "Magic AG," known for its outstanding design quality and has made a name for itself among demanding clients through creativity and innovation.
In daily operations, you are busy coordinating and adjusting project controlling and management. These manual activities take up much time that you would rather use for creative tasks. To optimize your workday and increase the economic efficiency and profitability of the projects, you have opted for the integration of OS/ and awork software. Thanks to the seamless linking of awork and OS/, work hours, project data, and budgets are automatically synchronized between the systems—without any manual effort. Anna, your team leader, is thrilled: "Thanks to awork and OS/, we receive controlling data in real time directly from our projects. This allows us to proactively, for example, respond to budget overruns."
The seamless integration of project management and controlling ensures that no details are overlooked. Real-time data are exchanged between awork and OS/, avoiding duplicate work and boosting productivity. Jenny, a leading graphic designer, is also pleased: "Since the integration, we have more time for what's essential. It's a huge relief, especially for creative tasks."
By connecting the simple project management of awork with the detailed controlling of OS/, you have found a solution that not only improves efficiency but also increases financial transparency, ultimately enhancing the competitive edge and market position of Magic AG.
Ready for efficient project controlling?
Do you also want to benefit from the power duo for comprehensive agency management? Then set up the integration now—it's easy and only takes a few minutes. All the necessary info can be found in our helpcenter article.
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