AREA 17 Media Customer Success Story

OpenAir enables AREA 17 to efficiently manage their business and provide timely services to their customers.

Now with OpenAir, streamlined resource bookings provide AREA 17 with concrete information to measure company trends and forecasts. “OpenAir has relieved the anxiety involved in measuring utilization. If the company is having a short lull in work, I can go into OpenAir and see exactly when projects will pick up again,” said George Eid, Partner and Creative Director at AREA 17.

With OpenAir in place, organizations no longer have to hope and guess that work will increase during slow periods.

Due to OpenAir’s hosted solution, information can be viewed from any internet connection as well as through various mobile devices. Furthermore, all changes in the system are updated immediately so everyone who logs into the system has access to the accurate data they need. OpenAir provides fully integrated multi-currency functionality that enables international organizations to bill clients without the added task of manual currency conversion. “OpenAir is the strongest system out there to automate multi-national business and has significantly eased the process of supporting our international clients.”

With a stable system to house resource and project metrics, AREA 17 now has access to powerful reporting functionality. “Project profitability used to be a difficult area for us. It required speaking with our finance team after the books were closed for a given month and then manually measuring cost vs. revenue.”

OpenAir provides robust profitability reporting that enables project managers to discuss profitability on a weekly basis rather than once a month. With this information more readily available, AREA 17 now has the ability to identify non-profitable projects earlier and the knowledge to avoid similar troubled projects in the future.