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An online work platform (or online/virtual workplace) is not located in any one physical space. Rather, several workplaces are technologically connected (via the Internet) without regard to the physical location. Employees are able to interact and work with one another regardless of where they are. Decreased costs is an instantaneous advantage of implementing a online work platform.
With the implementation of a online work platform, productivity is increased because employees are more focused on their value-creating activities. Also, collaborating with team members is made easy with a online work platform. Most importantly, employees blend both personal and professional lives more easily with a online work platform.
Xamun is a online work platform as it covers the full gamut of business activities:
• Prospect Management
- Task management (Xamun Projects)
- Time-tracking (Xamun Timesheet)
- Issue & bug ticket management (Xamun Helpdesk)
- General and project task management (Xamun Task List)
• CRM
- Account management (Xamun Accounts)
- Sales pipeline management (Xamun Sales)
- Invoicing (Xamun Invoice)
• HRM (human resource management)
Personnel records and time-off management (Xamun HR)
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A task board is a chart that presents tasks in columns for organizing a project team's work. The term originated from agile software development, where it is widely used. Some agile teams include their backlog as a column on the task board, while others limit it to work to be performed during the current iteration or sprint. The task board is usually a physical thing, consisting of note cards or sticky notes stuck to a wall or a corkboard. However, with distributed teams, using a physical task board is impossible and most teams with this setup resort to online task board applications.
Xamun Project is an online project management system that features a task board.
Xamun Project’s task board has four default lanes where you could move task cards according to their status: Backlog, To Do, In Progress, and Done. The task board allows you to add lanes and rename lanes as you wish. It also lets users filter the board according to team member, milestone, or category
The task cards on the board can have different details such as task assignees, subtasks, category, milestone, deadline, email notification, file attachments, etc. You can even chat inside each task card and update your timesheet directly.
The task board also features quick access to your timesheet and a summary report, as well as a way to jump from one project to another.
Xamun Project allows business owners and leaders to collaborate with a distributed team in real time, monitor tasks to prevent delays, and keep teammates and clients always in the loop.
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Project management is comprised of planning, organizing, securing, managing, leading, and controlling resources to achieve certain goals. A project is a temporary activity with a defined timeframe (projects are usually time-constrained) and isoften constrained by funding or deliverables. People usually engage in projects to initiate change or added value to an organization or a team. The temporary nature of projects sets them apart with operations, which are repetitive, permanent, or semi-permanent business activities to create products or render services. Managing product creation and service delivery are often quite different, therefore each requires the development of specific technical skills and management strategies.
The main challenge in project management is accomplishing all project objectives while being aware of the pre-identified constraints: scope, time, quality and budget. The secondary challenge is to optimize the use of necessary inputs and integrate them to meet a project’s objectives.
With Xamun Project, ensuring that project goals are met has become much easier. In it, you can get full insight on your projects, monitor your task status, and collaborate seamlessly in a single page.
Each task is fully detailed in a task card. In each card, you can categorize the task, estimate task duration, set subtasks, assign teammates to the task, and even attach files and chat.
The task board is where you’ll find the task cards arranged according to their status, found in fourdefault lanes: Backlog, To Do, In Progress, and Done. To update the status of a task, you simply drag-and-drop a task card from one lane to another. The task board can be filtered in various ways: by category, milestone, or task assignee.
Xamun Project is a powerful tool to address the challenges in managing projects online and with geographically-distributed teammates.
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Customer relationship management (CRM), as the name suggests, simply involves managing the relationships a company has with its clients or customers. It is a combination of people, processes and technology that seeks to accomplish one goal: acquiring and retaining customers. It’s highly important to invest in CRM and the existing technologies that help companies connect with their customers better.
Web CRM (sometimes called online CRM, hosted CRM, on-demand CRM, and cloud-computing CRM) is a cloud-based CRM solution that serves as a replacement to traditional, on-premises CRM software. The benefits of Web CRM include rapid time to value by eliminating the need for up-front investment and providing faster results, quick deployment, customization, unlimited scalability, painless and instant upgrades.
Xamun has THREE CRM apps that enables users to do three key things:
• Manage Accounts (Xamun Accounts)
• Monitor sales in the pipeline (Xamun Sales)
• Centralize invoicing & client information (Xamun Invoice)
In Xamun Accounts, you will see all the companies that you have built relationships with. With each company, you can see projects that you’re currently doing with them, the bids that are currently in the pipeline, and projects that you’ve done with them in the past. Other details such as contact persons are also found inside the app.
In Xamun Sales, each lead is monitored as it goes through a customizable sales process: from demo to negotiation to winning a deal. Once a deal is won, it will automatically add a client for invoicing, and a project can be instantly added.
In Xamun Invoice, users can create, send, and update invoices in a matter of a few clicks and monitor your receivables and collection rate.
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Human Resource Management (HR Management, HRM, or simply HR) is the management of an organization's workforce, or human resources. HRM involves the attraction and selection (collectively known as recruitment), training, assessment, and rewarding of employees. HR professionals are also engaged in supervising organizational leadership and culture, and ensuring compliance with labor and employment laws.
The HRM function was originally comprised of transactional work such as wages and benefits administration. In recent decades, due to developments in globalization, company consolidation, technology, and research, the role of the HR department has evolved to include strategic initiatives like talent management, succession planning, mergers and acquisitions, industrial and labor relations, and diversity and inclusion.
Xamun HR is an Human Resource Management app that enables users to:
• Store and update personnel records: resumes and skill profiles
• Setup the entire organization in Xamun
• Manage their time-offs more efficiently
In the People Board, you can store and update different versions of personnel records, which are comprised of resumes and skill profiles so you can have an in-depth knowledge of your employees. In People Board, you can also set time-off balances which are synced with the Time-Off Manager, an applet where users can apply for or approve time-offs and remote work.
My Team allows you to access all of your associates’ skills, project deployment and resume. There are three views for My Team: General, CRM, and HR. These views are based on your app access rights and feature different filters for the team. For example, the CRM view lets you see which employees are deployed and which ones are on the bench.
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Outsourcing is the act of contracting out a business activity, which an organization may have previously done internally or has a new need for, to another organization. Outsourcing may also involve transferring certain employees and assets to the outsourcing provider. The definition of outsourcing includes both domestic and foreign contracting. Offshoring, in which a company takes a function out of their business and relocating it abroad, is also included in outsourcing. Insourcing is the opposite of outsourcing and it is, at times, done through vertical integration.
Outsourcing has several implications. Greater physical distance between higher management and employees often requires a change in management methodologies, as inspection and feedback may not be as direct and frequent. There are also quality, legal, security and compliance issues that need to be addressed through the contract between the client and the suppliers. However, outsourcing has resulted in reduced costs in various business activities.
Xamun is an outsourcing solution that makes outsourcing easier and simpler by connecting service providers and their clients, and giving them the tools to remotely manage projects:
• With Xamun Project, a client can manage the progress of a project by collaborating with service providers in the task board. In it, they know what needs to be done, what is in progress, and what is already done – without necessarily being in the same room
• Xamun Marketplace allows service providers to bid for projects through Xamun RFPs, and at the same time help clients manage the bids easily
• With Xamun Invoice, service providers can easily create invoices and monitor their receivables in a single place
• Xamun Helpdesk helps service providers facilitate better customer support by enabling support managers monitor how customer feedback in the form of tickets are addressed by project teams
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Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet). The name comes from the use of a cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it contains in system diagrams. Cloud computing entrusts remote services with a user's data, software and computation.
Types of cloud computing include:
• Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
• Platform as a service (PaaS)
• Software as a service (SaaS)
• Storage as a service (STaaS)
• Database as a service (DBaaS)
End users access cloud-based applications through a web browser or a light-weight desktop or mobile app while the business software and user's data are stored on servers at a remote location. Cloud computing reportedly allows enterprises to get apps run faster, with improved manageability and less maintenance, and enables IT to more rapidly adjust resources to meet fluctuating and unpredictable business demand.
Xamun is both a PaaS and a SaaS: it enables Project Management, Customer Relationship Management, and Human Resource Management. With Xamun Productivity, managers are able to bring everyone together in one place – virtually and they can use Xamun anywhere in the world.
Xamun also enables users to gather and share insights, in a cost-free, collegial way. In it, users can post announcements, upload links, and share files to the entire organization, a project team, or department.
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A virtual business uses electronic or digital technology to transact business, as opposed to a traditional brick and mortar business that relies on face-to-face transactions, physical documents and physical currency or credit. Shifting to a virtual business setup may also include outsourcing non-core business functions, collaborating with other global industry players, and telecommuting.
As Web 2.0 services have become the norm, several businesses have started using these technologies to market their products and services. Delivering professional and creative services online has become more popular.
Xamun is a virtual business enabler. An enabler is someone/something that makes things possible or easy, and that’s exactly what Xamun is all about. Xamun’s end-to-end management tools allow a virtual business to run smoothly and thrive:
• Project Management (Xamun Project)
• Issue & Bug Ticket Management (Xamun Helpdesk)
• General and Project Task Management (Xamun Task List)
• Time Tracking (Xamun Timesheet)
• Account Management (Xamun Accounts)
• Sales Pipeline Management (Xamun Sales)
• Invoicing (Xamun Invoice)
• Personnel Records & Time-Off Management (Xamun HR)
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Virtual Business Solution
Online work platform
Virtual Teams
Distributed Teams
Online Collaboration
Creative Services
Professional Services
Creative Industry
Professional Industry
Offshoring
Outsourcing
Consulting
Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises
SME
Small Business
Cloud Computing
On Demand Software
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Project Management
Team Management
Task Board
Work board
Teamwork
Agile Software Development
SCRUM Tools
Kanban Tools
CRM
CRM Solutions
CRM Software
CRM Support
Customer Relationship Management
Customer Service Software
Invoice Management
Sales Pipeline
Time-off Management
Leave Management
People Management
Human Resource Management
Calendar
Schedule Management
Appointments
Support Ticket
Support Helpdesk
Time Tracking
Job Search
Freelance Professional
Consultants
Marketplace
New Business Development
Project Bidding
Project Pipeline
Request for Proposal
Integrated Solutions
End-to-end Solutions
All-in-one business management software
