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When Embedded Resource Group (ERG), an engineering contract, consulting and full-time placement corporation headquartered in the heart of the Silicon Valley, sought to create a new system for submitting on-line timecards for employees, it’s search successfully led to an implementation with Visual WebGui that cut costs and offered additional benefits.

Embedded Resource Group had built an ASP.NET website for its hourly contractors and employees to submit online timecards, supplemented by an internal WinForms application that enabled the administrator to utilize the timecard data. The timecard data, stored in SQL Server, is accessed to generate customer invoices and vendor receipts in QuickBooks, as well as to create reports that indicate missing and unapproved timecards and other metrics relating to the health of the recruiting firm.

ERG contractors regularly asked the administrator for the updated timecard status (e.g. “was it approved?”), leading the administrator to seek a way to allow the contractors to use the website to self-determine the status of their timecards.

The contractors needed to see a list of all their timecards, showing a glance which had been approved and which had not. The timecards needed to be easily resorted by date and hours worked. In addition, contractors needed to be able to select a timecard from the list and see the full timecard details in an image approximating the physical timecard which they had submitted.

It was decided to create an internal WinForms application for the utilization of the timecards status. The existing ASP.NET website coupled with the SQL Server had offered very good performance, and it was highly desired to have roughly the same performance for the Timecard Status feature.

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