Job tracking programs can help you to keep abreast of progress made on assigned workloads, or towards completion of an action plan. Those programs can be extremely helpful when it is necessary to control activities performed by a group of co-workers, for example in terms of business or project collaboration, because such software creates a virtual environment, uniting all team members according to their duties, representing course of real-life events and giving the superiors a central position to supervise everything taking place within the subordinated teams. 

There are a lot of solutions designed to provide users with this kinds of functionality, but they may greatly differ by their prices, range of features, and other aspects. Good example of job tracking programs is MS Outlook with its powerful set of functions for supporting task and time management; however, multi-user Outlook solution is quite expensive because of additional software required, while this product is initially designed for single users. Almost the same is the situation for Excel solutions – this software allows sharing spreadsheets among several concurrent users, but this is performed through outdated technology, making shared file vulnerable to data errors. Also, there are a lot of freeware on the Web, usually such products experience problems with updates, fixes, and usability. Let’s consider an effective job tracking program that is better alternative toMS Outlook multi-user solution, as well as uses better technology than Excel file sharing, and providing better support than any existing freeware.

• Specific example of job tracking programs:

VIP Task Manager is client-server job tracking software (working in real-time regime within your LAN or through the Internet) for professional workgroup management, which enables all team members to share common database of tasks and switch between different viewing modes in order to plan, assign, schedule, overview, control, and report their tasks. If to compare against Outlook solutions – this tool does not require any additional payments for collaboration, if against MS Excel file – this tool uses reliable database technology, and if against freeware – this tool is supported with regular updates and professional support.