Monograph

Logiciel de gestion du temps et de projet pour les professionnels de l’architecture

Avantages :

Cette solution en ligne est vraiment dotée de tous les outils nécessaire pour aider les entreprises d'architecture à gérer leur temps, s'organiser, prévoir leurs chantiers, planifier leurs projets grâce à un outil calendrier très performant et facturer leurs clients.De plus, le programme s'améliore en permanence, innovant en termes de fonctionnalités et annonçant régulièrement de nouvelles mises à jour. Enfin, Monograph permet d'effectuer un excellent suivi de projets avec, entre autres, la fonctionnalité jalons. Ainsi, la répartition des tâches est réalisée de façon fluide entre chaque membre d'un projet et il est facile de s'assurer de leur réalisation. Ce programme efficace et intuitif permet à tous les membres d'une entreprise d'être au courant en temps réel du planning, des phases et des aspects de chaque projet.

Inconvénients :

Manque de fluidité pour certaines fonctionnalités et dysfonctionnements occasionnels au niveau de la connexion avec d'autres logiciels

Beautiful and Transparent Firm and Project Management Tool

Commentaires : We've been able to solve our issue of having tons of data in different places, unable to reconcile them - assignments, pipeline/backlog, time tracking, budgets, etc. We tried to build something ourselves with the tools we had until we found Monograph, who does it perfectly, and understands what it takes to do architectural projects. The staff is incredible, and the expanded focus they've placed on building a community of practice operations nerds is SO valuable. From the product to the people to the community, they're incredible.

Avantages :

Monograph is so beautifully designed that my team of architects enjoy looking at an analyzing data now. We love how past, current, and future fee and staffing projections are married together to give us a clear picture of our firm's profitability and staff and project needs. Our firm owners can see high level firm health info, our project managers can see how they're performing on their projects, and our staff can see exactly what they should be working and reporting on. I also appreciate that it's a newer platform that's constantly putting out new updates, features, and functionality.

Inconvénients :

We understand that it takes time to build a great product and some things are going to be missing or slightly off as the platform improves. There are some minor annoyances with reporting functions, exporting features, and how resources are assigned work, but we get around it for now. Accurately tracking overhead time and PTO could use major improvement. I'd love to see different user types for guests and/or independent contractors - it's too high of a price point to invite part time 1099 contract staff to use it, but would be very convenient if they could track time directly against our projects on Monograph. I'd also like to see more app integrations.

We love Monograph and use it daily to track time, schedule and budget

Commentaires : Great! So very helpful and easy for my small architecture firm to implement and my staff to use. It keeps everyone abreast of each projects schedule, budget and expenses. The schedule Gannt Chart graphic is awesome. Readily shows our progress, our expenditures and milestones.

Avantages :

So easy right out of the box for our architecture firm. All the phases, schedules and budgets are prepopulated, just a little editing is needed and you're on your way. It's nice to see Monograph taking our comments and pumping up new and improved features on a regular basis.

Inconvénients :

Invariably, our accountants need to use Quickbooks. Which is forcing us to still have QBO. The interface and synchronization between Monograph and QBO is lacking. For one, the invoice numbers get lost and have to be manually checked and plugged into QBO after the fact. A real pain if not done right away. Also, the connection to Quickbooks is lost ever day, which I almost always don't notice until I am at the end of an invoice and have to back out, force the connection and then go back into the invoice to send to QBO. Would be nice to have the connection constant or be able to update it straight from an invoice when we would send data to QBO. Also, if QBO doesn't have the client or project, it won't send the invoice data. Which is less than helpful. Lots of manual back data needed to push a new client, invoice to QBO. Way too much.

Monograph review after 6 months

Commentaires : Overall, we are still learning to use monograph and are still undecided if we like it or not. Even though we do not send invoices thru monograph, we have used it to track our time when invoicing and really liked that you can track any time that hasn't being invoiced in the past. This saves time, but at the same time we create two invoices (one in monograph and the other in QuickBooks). We also enjoyed that we can see what tasks have been completed and assigning tasks have been fairly easy do.

Avantages :

Monograph is easy to use and in some way intuitive. Resource allocation and reporting are great features, but they need improvement.

Inconvénients :

Integrating with QuickBooks client information was simple, but we had to manually transfer our time from QBs to monograph which was very time consuming and to this day we have not transferred all our time into. We do not use the invoicing feature to directly invoice our clients because we wish that we could add some notes under each phase, or at least under hourly phases. Also, I do not like that you cannot combine hours under same titles, for example two principals have worked on the same project/phase - it shows as separate in the invoice. Also, project reporting and project financials lack important data. Such as showing profit and loss reports for each project. It only shows based on billable rates but not employee cost/overhead multiplier. Under time log, it would be helpful if the phases are shown. It would be great if rate tables could be adjusted or set per project. It would be helpful if tasks and resource allocation were sync, rather than being separate features. Also, it would be great if it were mobile/tablet friendly.

Huge improvement from previous time tracking and project management software.

Commentaires : Much better way to log time and track project profitability. Requires some in depth front end set up to make truly useful, but the output is a big improvement from how we were previously tracking projects, and the user interface is a joy to work within.

Avantages :

Love the ability to track project profitability and budget time.

Inconvénients :

Since it's a developing software, there are still some reporting, formatting, and 3rd party integrations we'd love to see (such as utilization rates as a percentage, individual hours spent on billable projects by user, customizable invoicing, and QuickBooks enterprise edition).