From our President

By: Chris Vandersluis

Well the year has started off here at HMS with a bang. We started with a review of 2023 that was our largest year ever! That coupled with an ongoing shift to recurring revenue was great news. We were right in the middle of the TimeControl 8.5 upgrade. The on-premise version shipped in mid-December and we started January with upgrading all the TimeControl Online servers for TimeControl Online, TimeControl Industrial Online and TimeControl Project. Our development attention has now shifted to TimeControl 8.6 and beyond.

It is, without a doubt an exciting year already. It is TimeControl's 30th anniversary so expect us to make some noise about that later in the year and it is HMS Software's 40th anniversary about which we are very proud.

TimeControl Development now turns to 8.6

By: TimeControl Development

With the TimeControl 8.5 launch in December for on-premise systems and the upgrade of all our TimeControl Online, TimeControl Industrial Online and TimeControl Project servers updated in the cloud in January, the TimeControl development team has shifted its focus to TimeControl 8.6 and beyond. There’s a lot of development design that was already underway before version 8.5 was released and that has now expanded to more detailed design and actual coding of new features. We’re also looking beyond TimeControl 8.6 with a few to an upgraded infrastructure for TimeControl and possible features that would be AI oriented. We know that the TimeControl Blog recently addressed how our TimeControl AI efforts will not include filling in your timesheet for you so don’t expect that. But, there are other areas of TimeControl where we think AI can make a contribution to the product which we’ll be exploring in the development department during this year. The schedules for TimeControl 8.6 and beyond have not been determined.

TimeControl Mobile is getting lots of attention

By: Marketing

More and more of our clients are using the mobile interface and as a result, one of the focuses of the next few months will include the free TimeControl Mobile App. It is available at no cost on Google Play for Android devices and the Apple Store for iOS devices. We have identified a number of enhancements that we’d like to get into TimeControl Mobile that never made it into the last 2 iterations of TimeControl. There are some new features we added to TimeControl on-premises and TimeControl Online that we would like to have mobile equivalents for and some features that we’ve been eying for some time that will get a shot at making TimeControl Mobile even more attractive.  If you'd like to see more about the free TimeControl Mobile App, go to: TimeControl.com/features/mobile.

Our President, Chris Vandersluis is on the TrepTalks podcast

By: Marketing

It's always great to hear our leader talking about HMS and TimeControl and how the company has evolved over the last 40 years. This time he can be found on TrepTalks where he talks to Sushant Misra for almost an hour about the business and the trends in the software and project management industries. You can hear the entire episode at: https://treptalks.com/interviews/chris-vandersluis-of-hms-software.

HMS and TimeControl were featured in a follow up Starter Story!

By: Marketing

Once again, HMS and TimeControl were featured in an article in Starter Story. This was a one-year follow up from a previous review of HMS and TimeControl and features an interview done with the President of HMS, Chris Vandersluis on our progress since the original interview. You can read it at your leisure at: https://www.starterstory.com/stories/hms-a59aae5d-f599-488f-9e71-230aa9f487ce.

The TimeControl Blog has been particularly active.

By: Marketing

If you haven't subscribed to the TimeControl Blog or followed the backlinks to it from LinkedIn, then you may be missing out on a lot of news. Here are just some of the blog posts that have come out just since the start of the year:

• The upgrade of TimeControl Online to version 8.5!

https://blog.timecontrol.com/timecontrol-online-has-been-upgraded-to-version-8-5/

• The new TimeControl BI feature (TimeControl BI promises to be one of the biggest features of 2024!)

https://blog.timecontrol.com/timecontrol-bi-promises-to-be-one-of-the-biggest-features-of-2024/

• How TimeControl Project can be used for more than just Agile project management (TimeControl Project Board Views are more than just Agile)

https://blog.timecontrol.com/timecontrol-project-board-views-are-more-than-just-agile/

• Our views on how AI will affect TimeControl (Where does TimeControl Stand in the use of AI?)

https://blog.timecontrol.com/where-does-timecontrol-stand-in-the-use-of-ai/

• TimeControl’s support for external contractors (Supporting Contractors in your corporate systems)

https://blog.timecontrol.com/supporting-temporary-contractors-in-your-corporate-system/

• The migration to SaaS (Is it getting harder to support an on premise system?)

https://blog.timecontrol.com/is-it-getting-harder-to-support-an-on-premise-enterprise-system/

We try to keep the blog up at least once a week but it’s always exciting for our team when TimeControl and HMS are featured in other publications so we’re particularly thankful to those sites who included us in their thinking and published their thoughts and analysis about TimeControl online.