Integrated Design Inc has been in the software business for a long time. The Ann Arbor-based firm is a year shy of celebrating 30 years of delivering customized application-integration software for its clients. It plans to spend the next year introducing a new, time-management software platform.
Integrated Design Inc, also known as IDI, will be launching Quick Time Entry, a web-based application designed to streamline the tracking of employee hours, labor and pay codes each pay period. The solution provides an alternative time-entry system for organizations that do not need a full time-and-attendance application but do need to gather and manage time sheets. Check out a video of it
here.
"It's an online timecard entry application for organizations that are capturing hours either in excel spreadsheets or timecards," says Kit Dickinson, president of
Integrated Design Inc. "This gets those organizations off of antiquated methods and onto a more reliable, accurate time-management solution."
Integrated Design Inc is marketing the platform to non-profits, project-based businesses, construction companies, and other small businesses that need to grapple with payroll and employee time management but are not familiar with what technology options are available or feel overwhelmed by them.
"They just don’t need all of that overhead of a full time and attendance system or ERP," Dickinson says. "They need something that is simple, transfers time data to their payroll or other systems and comes in at a lower price point."
Integrated Design Inc also makes the lions share of its revenue from custom integration software projects it gets through a partner network. That network has grown from handful of companies to a half dozen. Integrated Design Inc has also grown its revenue by 11-13 percent each year over the last few years, allowing it to hire three people in tech support over the last year. Dickinson expects to repeat those gains soon.
"The goal is to do that again, and Quick Time Entry can help get us there," Dickinson says.
Source: Kit Dickinson, president of Integrated Design Inc
Writer: Jon Zemke
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