The TeamWox groupware is
designed for the optimization of management and production
processes in a company.
Using it, you can organize management processes inside a
company, make them more transparent, quicken decision making
based on full and authentic information.
Besides, all the information about your clients and history
of the cooperation with them, various documents, tasks
and discussions are stored in TeamWox. Now all this information
is concentrated in one place and available to you from
any point of the world.
TeamWox contains everything to provide the efficient
operation of your company. The system includes the following:
1. Personnel Department
This module contains all the information about your employees:
personal details, address, contacts (IMs, email, telephone
numbers) and information about the persons work
in the company. All documents connected with a person
(e.g. labor agreement, scanned copies of passports, medical
records, etc.) can be saved right in the system.
Employee time sheets are kept here too. Now you can easily
see your company employees that work more than others,
as well as those who work less than other employees. This
module also reflects the structure of your company. Very
often even a casual analysis helps to detect the duplication
of functions and inefficiency of an organizational structure.
2. Tasks
This module is used for promptly assigning tasks to your
employees and controlling their fulfillment. A problem
occurs? Set a task, assign persons responsible and watch
how the task is fulfilled. In tasks you can hold various
discussions, publish images, audio and video files. This
will help you to solve appearing problems quicker and
more efficiently.
As distinct from usual communication means (e-mail, telephones,
instant messengers) tasks in TeamWox have one more advantage
when solving business problems. After a telephone talk
with your colleague, you can rely only on your memory
when recalling the details of this talk. E-mails and instant
messengers save the history of communication, but it is
very uncoordinated and searching for it takes much time.
Tasks in TeamWox are void of this disadvantage. After
closing a task you will be able to find it in an archive
and watch all its details: who participated in the discussion,
how it was held, what decision was made. And if necessary
you will be able to raise this issue once again.
Automated task reporting system helps you to estimate
the labor productivity of your employees. You will always
know who of your employees puts the most effort into the
job, whose work makes the largest contribution to your
company business. With task reports in TeamWox, analyzing
your employees' efficiency will become much easier and
quicker.
3. Documents
This module is designed for building an efficient work
with documents. Here you can store absolutely any documents
in the electronic form: agreements, statements, scanned
images and any other documents.
Version support endorsing system provided in TeamWox
make the group work with documents possible. Your employee
creates a document and assigns it to your for signing.
You make some amendments and return the document to the
employee as requiring improvement. And this procedure
can be repeated until you decide that the document is
ready and put an "electronic signature" on it.
The important feature of TeamWox is that you always work
with the latest version of a document. At the same time,
all previous versions are stored in the system.
All documents coming via e-mail, attached to tasks or
board comments can also be saved in this module. And vice
versa - a document from this module can be sent in an
e-mail, attached to a task or a comment in the board.
Besides, documents can be associated with any organization
or contact. So in future you will be able to easily find
any document and study it.
4. E-Mails
E-mail has become so popular that we cannot imagine the
corporate life without it. It is probably the most popular
tool for communication with clients and suppliers. TeamWox
contains the e-mail module too, but now it is bound with
the whole system! And in the group work this feature is
extremely useful.
Like in any mail agent (for example, MS Outlook Express),
in TeamWox you can create any accounts and receive e-mails
from several addresses at the same time. Here you can
also set up filters that will help you to automatically
sort emails. But this is not the main thing.
In TeamWox each system user also has a mailbox called
"Assigned". There one gets emails assigned to
him or her by other employees. For example, to solve a
client's problem you need the advice of a certain employee.
Now you do not forward the e-mail to him or her, but assign
it as a task. And you can see what reply your specialist
sends to the client. You also can first discuss the topic
with a specialist and only then send a reply. If necessary,
you can assign the e-mail to other employees or even departments
of your company.
The combining of the mail agent with the CRM system gives
one more advantage. Directly in the system you can attach
any file stored in the Documents module. Besides, the
advanced document-sharing system helps you forget about
such a popular "it-is-not-the-latest-version"
problem.
Finally, the most important advantage is that all your
correspondence with a client is automatically saved in
the Organizations and Contacts modules. Remember you assigned
an e-mail to a specialist? In the Organizations module
you can easily find the correspondence with a certain
client and estimate the work of your employees.
5. Organizations and Contacts
A data base of all clients and contacts is very important.
It is always very convenient to have all contact information
including telephone numbers, addresses, fax numbers and
others always at hand. And it would be even more convenient
to have all documents connected with a partner as well
as other useful information. You get all this with TeamWox!
In this module you can keep a detailed database of all
your clients and suppliers: addresses, contact persons.
You can also store here all documents, e-mails and discussions
connected with a certain client. In TeamWox the full history
of your cooperation with a client is always available.
Of course, you can set up different Clients access rights.
For example, you can entrust working with VIP clients
to experienced managers. While other your employees will
not know about the existence of such a group. With TeamWox
you can stop fearing that after a discharge of your employee
you will miss contacts with a client. Besides you will
not lose any part of after clients' history.
What is more important - all members of you company will
work with a single database. How do you run business with
your clients? Is the situation like this: one department
is responsible for agreements, another for support
and the third one for sales? Then each department
must be having their own client database, their own history
of communication with clients and their own reports. The
right hand of your company doesnt know what the
left hand is doing? Forget it!
TeamWox is a possibility to consolidate the information
about your clients in a single place thus improving the
work of the whole company. No more numerous databases
or inexact policy towards your clients. Now you can get
single complete reports for the whole client base. With
TeamWox this information will always be within your reach.
Automated reports for clients instantly show you the
current state of affairs. You can see how many new client
you have got this month, who of your managers found the
most of clients, what clients decided to decline your
company services and who of your managers is responsible
for this. Now for obtaining such information you do not
need to refer to different departments, suffer from delays
or sabotage of your employees. All this is done automatically
and instantly appears on the screen of your computer!
6. Forum
Very often companies do not pay much attention to the
"home policy" and difficulties appear in this
field. Employees do not always know what exactly and why
the management does, in what direction a company moves.
TeamWox Board is the most convenient place for the inner
PR via which you can deliver all the company news and
policy to each employee of your company.
It is also important to know the likings and preferences
of people working in your company. It is the Board module
where you can find the employees' feedback. Here you can
learn more about your colleagues, timely detect possible
problems and eliminate them.
Besides, the TeamWox Board can become a substitute for
the traditional hours-long meetings. You can create a
separate topic and invite only those who are needed for
the solution of a problem. Other employees will know nothing
about this secret conference. Using the Board you will
easily find optimal solutions without having to distract
them from their everyday work for several hours.
7. Search System
Data storing, quick search and access to information are
among the most important tasks of modern companies. Just
imagine how much time is spent by your employees searching
for a three year old agreement with your client. This
problem resulted in the appearance of expensive corporate
search systems. Such a search system is built in TeamWox
and is provided to you absolutely free.
In the system the search is made in all databases, in
all modules. Using TeamWox you can quickly find a necessary
document, e-mail, task, client or the Board topic. Besides,
the morphological search function is implemented in this
system. It means you enter a word and the system searches
for all its variations. For example, you have entered
the word "market". The system will search for
"markets", "marketing", etc.
Of course, advanced search is also available. You can
set certain time limits, indicate an author of a document
or message, or assigned employees. Such a filtration system
helps significantly limit search results and save your
precious time.
With TeamWox you can quickly find any necessary information
without having to draw your employees away from their
work.
8. The System of Reports
It is impossible to manage any company without precise
and authentic data about the current state of affairs.
All this information is presented to a company management
in the form of reports. Usually, for getting a report,
you set a task and you employee wastes some time preparing
a report for you. His or her colleague from another department
also invests time into a report. And as it often happens,
it is impossible to compare reports of different departments
so it is hard to see the whole picture.
Fortunately, the same cannot be said about reports in
TeamWox. First of all, they are automatic and for getting
them you do not have to draw employees off their work.
Secondly, being the part of one system reports are well
coordinated. Thirdly, concentrating all the information
in one system you can get a general report on the whole
company. Fourthly, due to automation, at each moment of
time a report in TeamWox is effective.
In TeamWox reporting System you will find various reports
from employees' attendance to their working efficiency
in their cooperation with clients. Besides, there are
reports on client bases that can be used for marketing
purposes in planning. The reporting system in TeamWox
is a new method of working with actual information - the
automatic method, which is quicker and much more convenient.