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BigTime Projector Reviews & Product Details

Projector PSA, now powered by Big Time Software, is a cloud-based Professional Services Automation tool specifically designed for managing delivery organizations. Modules for Project Accounting, Project Delivery and Resource Management enable better profit margins, utilization rates and operational efficiency. Projector BI provides PSO specific analytics and intelligence to measure and manage at every level and model your future success. Integrate with your CRM for extended visibility into pipeline revenue and staffing. Projector’s out of the box functionality supports multi-currency, multi-company capabilities. Our tech-agnostic approach to integration means no compromising on tech today or in the future. Projector is the PSA built by services professionals to support the specific needs of PSOs and is consistently ranked #1 for customer satisfaction.

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BigTime

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BigTime Projector Community

Languages Supported

English

Product Description

Professional Services Automation software from Projector PSA helps services organizations track time and expenses, manage projects and schedule resources

Overview by

Vicky Karantonakis

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

8 months

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BigTime Projector Media

BigTime Projector Demo - Utilization Dashboard

PSO specific reporting to measure a range of KPIs. Customizable to address your specific organization or use preconfigured to start measuring and managing immediately.

BigTime Projector Demo - Time & Expense Dashboard

Easily view time and expense data, identify potential revenue leakage from unbilled time, track rate realization and much more.

BigTime Projector Demo - Revenue Dashboard

Measure standard KPIs including: profitability, pipeline and project revenue or customize for your PSO

BigTime Projector Demo - Employee Dashboard

At a glance dashboard displays information specific to the employee including: time and expense entries, project and managment alerts, utilization

BigTime Projector Demo - Pipeline Dashboard

Integrate with your CRM to extend visibility into sales pipeline

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Sarah C.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/19/2018

"Impressive PSA Tool!"

5/5

What do you like best about BigTime Projector?

Projector PSA has tremendously helped our company move to the next tier of project and company management. It has provided us with invaluable insights into our project performance and helped automate many of our accounting and administrative systems. Their support team is top notch and has assisted us with getting the most out of the program. Their web portal is also easy to use and adopt quickly. The recent addition of Microsoft PowerBI to their Advanced Analytics Module has allowed us to create informative interactive reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BigTime Projector?

The only two things that we would change: a pre-built connector for Zoho and Quickbooks Desktop connector for the Advanced Analytics Module. The Quickbooks issue stems from the analytics company they use for their Advanced Analytics Module, which does not have a connector. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BigTime Projector:

I highly recommend implementing the AAM. The tool is quite powerful for creating useful KPIs. Additionally make sure to contact their support team with any questions or recommendations. They are very receptive to the customer's needs and actually have listened to our requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BigTime Projector solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have been able to manage and review each of our projects performance seamlessly with their management and online portals. Their Advanced Analytics Module has allowed us to create intuitive Key Performance Indicators which have made our project managers more productive and proactive instead of reactive to project changes. We have been able to implement a more accurate forecasting system for our company which has led to more growth and better decision making by our managers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeff B.

Director of Project Delivery

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/18/2020

"Strong Business Logic, Exceptional Support"

4.5/5

What do you like best about BigTime Projector?

Projector PSA understands service businesses like ours, including the importance of appropriately modeling projects with both actual hours reported and forecast hours for the future. Their online help is pleasantly informative and easy to search/read, and their support team is extremely responsive with emailed replies (usually within 24 hours or faster) and ideas for troubleshooting tricky matters. Responsiveness and understanding are highlights of our experience with Projector PSA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BigTime Projector?

While the management portal is very functional, it isn't exceptionally pretty or always intuitive. The Projector BI analytics tool is also powerful but similarly tricky to work with at times. The time management functions of Projector are also basically functional but a little rigid (very straightforward for project work but not the easiest for managing and reporting on time away, including accruals of PTO, etc.). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Katherine C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/29/2020

"Great product!"

4/5

What do you like best about BigTime Projector?

Projector PSA has changed the way we do business. Our ability to see real time information has made us proactive in client and associate communications. We can find resources with the skills more quickly and availability much more quickly. Since the introduction of Projector in November 2019, we have not had to provide any client credits.

Our invoicing cycle has improved drastically. We have moved form several days of manual invoicing down to one day! It takes so much less time to close out our month, providing us with quick access to data needed to make important business decisions.

The AAM provides us with data and visuals that help us run the business more efficiently and smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BigTime Projector?

Does not integrate with some of our other systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alexandru I.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/25/2020

""If it's not in Projector it doesn't exist" - is the saying in our company."

5/5

What do you like best about BigTime Projector?

As the title says "If it's not in Projector it doesn't exist" is what we say and that is because, before we do anything (plan for timeline, for resources, for budget, etc) the first order of business is get your project into the system so everyone involved can see what's coming down the pipeline.

We rely on Projector for: PM, Staffing, Data Accuracy, Business Plans, you name it. It is already part of our culture, on the way out, on the door it says :"Did you enter your time?"

Projector provides a clear, concise picture of your current business: projects, resources, needs, people's availability or lack of for now and for many months into the future. It is easy to make decisions when you have the correct data 2 clicks away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BigTime Projector?

We want a more flexible way of interacting with it and one of those ways would be APIs. We are a software development company so we have developers on hand that could automatize some tasks easily if we had an API to talk to Projector. That is my only “wish” and not an actual dislike.

Some would say the old style of design is a dislike – for me it is a BIG like. I don’t want impractical beautifiers making the app look like an iPhone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jo S.

Head of Project Management (UK) and PMO

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/3/2020

"Great product and a great team to work with"

4.5/5

What do you like best about BigTime Projector?

Projector has automated our processes and given up great insight into our projects. We can easily review and monitor budgets of all our projects, P&L and utilisation ... now more manual tracking of projects and spreadsheets! :D

Projects, time and expenses all in one place is great too! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BigTime Projector?

We really need a Work In Progress report which we would have assumed would be an out of box report for Projector, so a little disappointed thats not there and manipulating other reports to get to some kind if WIP

Would also have liked a clearer view of number of days sold and total order values but we get round them via UDF's which we can customise ourselves Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BigTime Projector:

Make sure you have your requirements defined specifically reporting needs in order to work through with the Projector team so that they can fully understand your business and business needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BigTime Projector solving and how is that benefiting you?

Month end reporting has been a lot easier. Rev rec, accruals and deferal information to hand to ease has been great and being able to see overall P&L, Order Book information has been able to provide great feedback to project approach and pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steve J.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/25/2020

"Projector has helped our management team make better decisions and stay in control"

4/5

What do you like best about BigTime Projector?

How it brings it all together - clients, engagements, projects serviced by roles, resources and rate cards within our organisation, to generate revenue. The way the system is engineered also enforces good disciplines and integrity around controls and approval workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BigTime Projector?

The multi-year WIP migration from the Management Portal to Projector Web. It is by no means a show-stopper, but I look forward to the day when I can do everything from a single interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BigTime Projector:

As with most mature and feature-rich packages, there are a multitude of configuration options. Do not fall into the trap of believing you can navigate your way optimally through the config. choices: invest the time and money and engage a configuration support consultant (put forward by Projector), make sure there are at least two of you working through the configuration process and make sure that at least one of you is dedicated to the config and conversion project. Big mistakes upfront are a pain to try and rectify later. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BigTime Projector solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving a number of problems:

o We have much better control of project rates and costs

o We have a complete view of all resource bookings, requests and utilisation (by resource or role type). This allows to pro-actively address over and under-utilisation issues and also drives capacity planning and recruitment activities

o Complete control of project costs and revenue-drivers through the user of both time and expense capture directly into Projector

o Through reporting, we have been able to:

* flag potential revenue shortfalls and rectify these

* monitor variances in EAC project profit leading to the early identification of issues which can then be addressed

Tangible benefits have not been tracked, but put simple, our investment in Projector will pay handsomely as it will help us avoid the inherent errors and data quality issues that beset any growing organisations running on multiple, linked spreadsheets. In addition - with a bit of work - we are able to extract data to support the population of an operational cashflow forecast model. This is enormously powerful as it help our executive team make important hiring and investment decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steve B.

Adjunct Professor, Center of Extended Learning

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/19/2016

"Very productive and useful PSA tool - essential for our organization"

5/5

What do you like best about BigTime Projector?

Easy of Use: time entry, expense entry, approvals and especially invoicing, including distribution

Great Support: Anytime I have a question the Projector Support Team are quick and accurate in providing help! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BigTime Projector?

Very little - the old "battleship-grey" management portal looks old-fashioned, but once you get used to it is very usable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BigTime Projector:

If you are an organization that needs to track and bill hourly work Projector can make your life a lot easier! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BigTime Projector solving and how is that benefiting you?

Better time entry, better future resource plans, more efficient approvals and quicker invoice at the end of the month. We achieved all of these: especially the invoice generation - prior to Projector it would take us our accounting team two weeks to prepare, get approvals and issue 30-40 invoices. Now we get 90+ sent within a week of end of the billing period.

We also get our weekly Wildly Important Goal (WIG) from Projector: weekly project-billable hours. This lets us track our company performance on a regular basis to see how we are meeting our corporate goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nicholas C.

Operations Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/28/2020

"Projector is user friendly and well intergrated!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about BigTime Projector?

Projector is user friendly, seamlessly switching from project data to invoicing and reporting and is well integrated between various in house platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BigTime Projector?

I mainly use Projector Management Portal which I find easier to maneuver between the various tabs than the Projector Web, which is still a work in progress. The Web version will eventually surpass the Portal with additional integration been made with the company Time Sheets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BigTime Projector:

I fully endorse or recommend using Projector as it has cut our admin time by many hours and we have a lot more visibility of how our consulting business is doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BigTime Projector solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are forecasting with far more accuracy in real time or for weekly forecast calls and can view how we are doing vs budget at project level. The reports function is underrated as well with a useful, easy to modify query and export function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/29/2020

"Comprehensive PSA Software"

5/5

What do you like best about BigTime Projector?

Projector PSA is one of the most comprehensive project management and time tracking software we have used. It has provided us with excellent leading and lagging indicators of the health of our business and improved our invoicing workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BigTime Projector?

There is no pre-built connector available with our CRM system Zoho. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tara G.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/18/2020

"Good cross-office resourcing tool"

3.5/5

What do you like best about BigTime Projector?

Pretty flexible on users, roles, set-ups, projects etc enabling you to customise for your desired output. Also very good for working across international offices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BigTime Projector?

Can be a little slow in reacting to commands and doesn't raise Purchase Orders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BigTime Projector:

Make sure you unlock all the benefits and create as many reports as you need regularly for ease of use ongoing. Trial run with a couple of projects and teams for the first couple of months while you transfer over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BigTime Projector solving and how is that benefiting you?

Personally I just use Projector for cross office resource management but our office also benefits from the finance package managing client accounts/project management and running reports to check profitability and status of accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.