Argus ERP for Contracting Companies

Argus ERP for Contracting is an integrated Business Operation Solution that brings effectiveness on operations and people with high competitive edge in the industry. It provides easy, accurate and timely retrieval of files and activity-oriented information through menu driven, user-friendly functions

• v  Project Levels and Cost Codes - Unlimited level of project structure / categorized project levels, unlimited number of cost codes
• v  Project Budgets, defining project cost estimates and budgets by cost codes or project levels. . In so doing, the management will have an overview of the cost allocation and decide what action to take if a particular cost element exceeds the budgeted cost.
• v  Budget Revisions allows budget variations and budget transfers. Track project budget Variations from the submission stage till approval for any addition or omission to the initial contract specifications. A history of contract revision is kept for comparison purposes
• v  Project Contract, project file information such as client profile, start & completion date, original project sum, project quantities, retention rates, terms and conditions, and other important project information
• v  Retention amounts are automatically computed based on contract specification and kept in a Balance Sheet account. It allows for full or partial retention release. Once approved for release it will then be reflected in Accounts Payable module for payment.
• v  Sales Invoices, revenue recognition through manual invoices or recurring invoices based on the project contract terms. Revenue is captured via Sales invoicing. The system allows the specification of the retention amount and the corresponding GL Account code during invoicing. This saves time and reduces the mistakes that can be made with the re-keying in of information.
• v  Project in Progress, the expense claims booking against projects. It tracks all project revenue and cost in detail, including committed cost on a cumulative real-time basis as well as the financial progress of each project over the life of the project and segmented into its respective reporting periods.
• v  Project Costing, the system allows preparing the project cost based on the project completion %, through easy steps. So that the Project in Progress value will be moved to expense account for the selected project.
• v  Overhead Cost/ Administration Cost distributions, the system can distribute the common over head cost or administrative expenses through automatic process among the running projects or jobs. The distribution can be based on the value or activity percentage.
• v  Project Level Ledger, the system keeps the entire transaction on project levels and cost codes, so that project level ledger brings you the entire picture of the project
• v  Project Ledger, the project ledger gives you the full analysis of the project with expenses and revenues incurred for the project
• v  Project Variance List, the system generate a project variance list to compare the actual verses budget
• v  Project Profit Analysis, the project profit analysis shows the project revenues, actual expenses and the profit and can drill down to the detailed reports
• v  General Ledger - The chart of accounts with general and sub account types. The sub account type includes job and cost codes for entries to job cost control accounts
• v  Payroll - Powerful easy method of controlling the most complicated payroll process and Allows daily labor costing to job cost. The system allows for an employee's time to be posted to Jobs with multiple workers’ Compensation codes based on the employee's specific task of the day or Labor Classification. Payroll module lets you to choose pay methods, set user-defined deductions and automatically calculate employer burdens. Prevailing wage reporting for state and federal projects can be based on job site location.
• v  Accounts Payable - System control over disbursements, cash requirement projections, immediate review of each vendor's payable and paid items, distribution of charges and discounts to the general and job ledgers, and prevention of costly errors such as duplicate invoices, P.O., or subcontract overruns, accidental charges to closed jobs, etc.
• v  Accounts Receivable - Sales gives you the information you need to manage the most important aspect of your business - your cash flow. Manual invoices can be distributed to any number of jobs and revenue codes or to general ledger accounts. Invoice detail is retained for as long as you need it.
• v  Subcontract Management - The system gives you the complete control over your subcontracts. Each contract retains its original contract amount and the contractor details.
• v  Purchase Order Management - Purchase Orders allow you to hold your vendors to the agreed upon pricing conditions. A purchase order can be coded to an inventory item, job and cost code, or straight to a general ledger account.
• v  Inventory Control - Inventory system gives you the complete control over your inventory. The system allows receipt of inventory through the purchase order system and issue materials to multiple jobs and cost codes or return excess materials from jobs back into inventory.
• v  Fixed Assets – the system keeps the information for Vehicles, buildings, tools and equipments. The depreciation can be calculated monthly or yearly through easy process.

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Argus RIMS - Real Estate Management Software from Argus Qatar

The Property Information Management Software [RIMS] provides a new and innovative way to perform property management tasks more efficiently. The RIMS is a Residential and Commercial Property Management Software solution designed specifically to help today's Real Estate professionals work more easily and effectively. The RIMS includes a H.R and Payroll Management System facilitates extensive employee information at your fingertips.

The payroll Management section reduces payroll processing costs, ensures accuracy and increases efficiency
The RIMS includes a completely integrated Financial Accounting system that offers a General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Drill-Down Financial Reports that integrate seamlessly with a powerful property management system. With extensive Security Controls you can limit your users to the specific Files, Documents, and Features that you want them to not only use, but see. The System Log tracks each user and their actions within the program keeping your data and money safe.

eRecruit - Online Recruitment Solution from Argus Qatar

Argus HRMS – HR & Payroll Management System from Argus Qatar

The H.R Management System facilitates extensive employee information at your fingertips. The payroll Management section reduces payroll processing costs, ensures accuracy and increases efficiency.

Argus HRMS is a comprehensive HR and Payroll Management Solution that brings greater organization and effectiveness to the full range of Human Resources functions and responsibilities. It provides for easy, accurate and timely retrieval of Employee and activity-oriented information through menu driven, user-friendly operations.

Argus HRMS makes payroll processing a simple job that any company can accomplish in-house. Our payroll management software gives you all the information and options you need to process your own payroll in house and save money.

The benefits of Argus HRMS software is its ease-of-use and ease of implementation. Our users tell us that they have been able to implement our system in a fraction of the time and cost of previous payroll products they have used or evaluated. Ease of implementation is due to the extensive features and reports, as well as having our team of HR and Payroll software experts there to train, implement, data migration, and post-implementation support

Employee dissatisfaction and turnover are costly to companies and can reduce the competitive edge in this challenging market. HR is faced with the daunting task of keeping costs under control, keeping employees motivated and productive. This is a delicate balancing act that requires; planning, precise execution and sophisticated tools to manage the process. With ‘Argus HRMS’, you would have employees that stay longer and perform better making your company more competitive.

ARGUS HRMS FEATURES

 Workforce management

 Workflow management

 Reminder systems

 Integrated HR functions

 Employee history

 Over time management

 ID Card expiry alert

 Payroll

 Salary distributions

 I N F O R M A T

ARGUS HRMS BENEFITSI O N T E N O L O G Y

 Increased savings

 Efficiency in processes

 Faster ROI

 Control on workforce

 Employee productivity

 Document control

 Easy Job handover

 Decision maker

 Clarity in HR functions

Argus Qatar Internet Marketing Solutions

Argus Qatar can boast of this venture as a pioneer step in providing Websites, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and SEM (Search Engine Marketing) solutions in Qatar with highly talented technical team who enables and monitors website activities at all time.

What are Online Advertisement Campaign Goals?

• Increased Visibility -Number of people who see advertisements.

• Increased Response- Number of people who go to the website.

• Increased Inquiries - Number of people posting an inquiry on website

How Argus does it?  

In 3 steps

1. Target audience segmentation, media planning, and execution.

2. User experience design.

3. Analytics consulting. 

What matters most in Search Engine?

1. Which websites link to you

2. Number of websites linking to you

3. Google Page Rank (PR) of the website linking to you

4. Anchor text used in the link linking to you

5. Number & type of links linking to the website links to you

6. Whether or not the websites linking to you are deemed by Google as authority website

Why Argus technologies?

Because of the extensive research, development and execution experience by creating search engine friendly website and content management systems, backed by an excellent off shore research team capable of analyzing global internet ideas & trends.

Qatar’s IT sector set to grow: BMI report

Qatar’s IT sector may be worth in excess of $400mn this year and about $600mn by 2014 given the country’s prospects in energy, banking and telecom sectors, researcher Business Monitor (BMI) said in its latest report.

Qatar may not have the largest IT market in the Gulf, but in 2010 it appears ‘better positioned’ than some other markets in the region to benefit from economic recovery, it said.

“Despite a deceleration in many market segments last year, 2010-2014 IT spending compounded annual growth forecast (CAGR) for Qatar is forecast at 10%, with opportunities in sectors such as hydrocarbon, banking and telecoms,” Business Monitor said. 

In 2010, IT managers will probably remain ‘cautious’, after some projects were scaled back last year. However, there could be a boost, particularly in the second half of the year, from computer hardware tenders delayed from 2009. The Qatari IT market has a number of ‘positive factors’ that should help it going forward, Business Monitor said. The government ‘remains keen’ to promote economic diversification and aside from oil and gas, banking is likely to be the one of the more important sectors in terms of IT investments.

Qatar’s IT sector received a boost last year when Qtel announced that broadband Internet speeds had been doubled to 1Mbps from 512Kbps. Research released by Qatar’s Supreme Council for Information and Communication Technology in Qatar (ictQATAR) showed mobile penetration exceeding 120%. The Qatari ICT authority has a number of priority policy areas, including telecoms liberalisation, online government, e-learning, e-health and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A government target is to increase utilisation of ICT by SMEs. The government is also implementing a major IT initiative in the healthcare area, namely the development of an integrated national health information platform.

BMI forecasts a software market value of $77mn in 2010, up from $69mn in 2009. With the evolution of the Qatari IT market, a stronger strategic focus on software spending is being seen, with procurement decisions often taken at a higher executive level. Software spending is expected to grow to at a CAGR of 10% during BMI’s five-year forecast period.

Growth areas include business intelligence and other information management applications, as Qatari companies seek more efficiency in both internal collaboration and relationships with international customers and partners.

Top 10 strategic technologies for 2010

Ever wondered which would be the strategic technologies that have the potential to significantly impact an organisation's growth in the next three years? The technologies that would be at the forefront of an organisation's long-term plans, programmes and initiatives. Research firm Gartner has listed top 10 strategic technologies that will help organisations transform and grow. 

1. Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a style of computing that characterizes a model in which providers deliver a variety of IT-enabled capabilities to consumers. Cloud-based services can be exploited in a variety of ways to develop an application or a solution. Using cloud resources does not eliminate the costs of IT solutions, but does re-arrange some and reduce others. In addition, consuming cloud services enterprises will increasingly act as cloud providers and deliver application, information or business process services to customers and business partners.

2. Advanced Analytics

Optimization and simulation is using analytical tools and models to maximize business process and decision effectiveness by examining alternative outcomes and scenarios, before, during and after process implementation and execution. This can be viewed as a third step in supporting operational business decisions. Fixed rules and prepared policies gave way to more informed decisions powered by the right information delivered at the right time, whether through customer relationship management (CRM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) or other applications. 

The new step is to provide simulation, prediction, optimization and other analytics, not simply information, to empower even more decision flexibility at the time and place of every business process action. The new step looks into the future, predicting what can or will happen.

3. Client Computing

Virtualization is bringing new ways of packaging client computing applications and capabilities. As a result, the choice of a particular PC hardware platform, and eventually the OS platform, becomes less critical. Enterprises should proactively build a five to eight year strategic client computing roadmap outlining an approach to device standards, ownership and support; operating system and application selection, deployment and update; and management and security plans to manage diversity.

4. IT for Green

IT can enable many green initiatives. The use of IT, particularly among the white collar staff, can greatly enhance an enterprise’s green credentials. 

Common green initiatives include the use of e-documents, reducing travel and teleworking. IT can also provide the analytic tools that others in the enterprise may use to reduce energy consumption in the transportation of goods or other carbon management activities.

5. Reshaping the data center

In the past, design principles for data centers were simple: Figure out what you have, estimate growth for 15 to 20 years, then build to suit. Newly-built data centers often opened with huge areas of white floor space, fully powered and backed by a uninterruptible power supply (UPS), water-and air-cooled and mostly empty. 

However, costs are actually lower if enterprises adopt a pod-based approach to data center construction and expansion. If 9,000 square feet is expected to be needed during the life of a data center, then design the site to support it, but only build what’s needed for five to seven years. Cutting operating expenses, which are a nontrivial part of the overall IT spend for most clients, frees up money to apply to other projects or investments either in IT or in the business itself.

6. Social Computing

Workers do not want two distinct environments to support their work – one for their own work products (whether personal or group) and another for accessing "external" information. 

Enterprises must focus both on use of social software and social media in the enterprise and participation and integration with externally facing enterprise-sponsored and public communities. Do not ignore the role of the social profile to bring communities together.

7. Security - Activity Monitoring

Traditionally, security has focused on putting up a perimeter fence to keep others out, but it has evolved to monitoring activities and identifying patterns that would have been missed before. Information security professionals face the challenge of detecting malicious activity in a constant stream of discrete events that are usually associated with an authorized user and are generated from multiple network, system and application sources. At the same time, security departments are facing increasing demands for ever-greater log analysis and reporting to support audit requirements. 

A variety of complimentary (and sometimes overlapping) monitoring and analysis tools help enterprises better detect and investigate suspicious activity – often with real-time alerting or transaction intervention. By understanding the strengths and weaknesses of these tools, enterprises can better understand how to use them to defend the enterprise and meet audit requirements.

8. Flash Memory

Flash memory is not new, but it is moving up to a new tier in the storage echelon. Flash memory is a semiconductor memory device, familiar from its use in USB memory sticks and digital camera cards. It is much faster than rotating disk, but considerably more expensive, however this differential is shrinking. At the rate of price declines, the technology will enjoy more than a 100 percent compound annual growth rate during the new few years and become strategic in many IT areas including consumer devices, entertainment equipment and other embedded IT systems. 

In addition, it offers a new layer of the storage hierarchy in servers and client computers that has key advantages including space, heat, performance and ruggedness.

9. Virtualization for Availability

Virtualization has been on the list of top strategic technologies in previous years. It is on the list this year because Gartner emphases new elements such as live migration for availability that have longer term implications. Live migration is the movement of a running virtual machine (VM), while its operating system and other software continue to execute as if they remained on the original physical server. This takes place by replicating the state of physical memory between the source and destination VMs, then, at some instant in time, one instruction finishes execution on the source machine and the next instruction begins on the destination machine. 

However, if replication of memory continues indefinitely, but execution of instructions remains on the source VM, and then the source VM fails the next instruction would now place on the destination machine. If the destination VM were to fail, just pick a new destination to start the indefinite migration, thus making very high availability possible. 

The key value proposition is to displace a variety of separate mechanisms with a single “dial” that can be set to any level of availability from baseline to fault tolerance, all using a common mechanism and permitting the settings to be changed rapidly as needed. Expensive high-reliability hardware, with fail-over cluster software and perhaps even fault-tolerant hardware could be dispensed with, but still meet availability needs. This is key to cutting costs, lowering complexity, as well as increasing agility as needs shift.

10. Mobile Applications

By year-end 2010, 1.2 billion people will carry handsets capable of rich, mobile commerce providing a rich environment for the convergence of mobility and the Web. There are already many thousands of applications for platforms such as the Apple iPhone, in spite of the limited market and need for unique coding. It may take a newer version that is designed to flexibly operate on both full PC and miniature systems, but if the operating system interface and processor architecture were identical, that enabling factor would create a huge turn upwards in mobile application availability.

Software and Web Services from Argus Qatar

Argus delivers end-to-end solutions with Software and Web Technologies and ITES  (IT enabled Services) in various industry sectors like Trading, Service, Productions, Real Estate & Hospitality  with domain expertise of Accounts, Inventory, Human Resources, Payroll, Procurement, CRM ( Customer Relationship Management ) BPM (Business Process Management) BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) and web technologies.

Products

·     Argus Business Suits - Accounts, Inventory, HR & Payroll , Job Costing, Procurement, Shares, Fixed Assets

·       Dynamic and Static Websites

·       Argus Real Estate ( Accounts with Property Management ) 

Global Open Source Partners

Intalio BPM (Business Process Management)

SugarCRM (Sales, Marketing and Customer Relationship Management)

Alfresco (Document & Content Management System)

Joomla & Drupal (Web content and portal Management System)

Argus be one of the leading software companies in Qatar

Argus is a leading IT consulting and solution provider based in Qatar with offices located in Qatar and India. We provide end to end I.T services especially software technologies to serve the people looking to their interest and demand. We spread our wings in the business of Application Development, Web Designing , Web Applications, Graphics & Multimedia, Custom Software Development & Support, Document Archival Solutions, Hardware and Networking, and I.T. Consulting. We specialize in developing successful innovative business applications and creating competitive advantages for our clients.

We implement powerful software solutions that cover your entire business lines. We are constantly in the process of updating our software skills and adopting new technologies that can perform better functions. We believe in integrating our skills with our clients' inputs to achieve desirable results. We have developed our own performance measurement systems that virtually support our clients into the routine of software developing and over- viewing the performance of our skilled manpower.

Argus can boast major success stories in implementing software applications like HR and Payroll, Argus Accounting, web solutions and management for various scale companies covering different industries in the region. We have a relentless focus on delivering business value, building long term relationships, and using existing partnerships and alliances to deliver solutions at speed for our clients and achieving their business objectives and ROI.

Argus is leading by a team of professionals having previous work experience in multinational companies with the collective project experience that is more than 50 man years. Having several years of HRIS experience and innovation, we created a suite of powerful easy-to-use applications that put the human back in Human Resources. Our Product design has always been driven by customer involvement. Our hallmark is listening carefully to our customers and delivering an easy to understand solution to their needs.

If you need a solution, come to us. We deliver any application that is desktop or web based and further our solutions are designed to adapt your business rather than your business adapting the software. Our solutions are 100% fruitful and empower you to take control of your business online and in real time!