TimeTiger is a time and project tracking software tool developed by Indigo Technologies Ltd. in Toronto, Canada. Indigo was founded in 1997 and initially released TimeTiger in 1998.

Company

The company was incorporated in 1997 and began operations as a custom software developer

Custom software developer

Custom Software Developer is a business term for companies or individuals specializing in creating made-to-order software for specific customers and applications. The resultant software is not usually a product in the conventional sense of being marketed and sold to a general audience...

. TimeTiger (internally called TaskMaster) was developed as a tool to help with Indigo's own project estimating and planning. After releasing TimeTiger as a commercial product in 1998, Indigo shifted its focus to time and project management solutions.

Features

• Web-based time entry
• Pivot table
  Pivot table
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   report designer
• Role-based security
  Role-Based Access Control
  In computer systems security, role-based access control is an approach to restricting system access to authorized users. It is used by the majority of enterprises with more than 500 employees, and can be implemented via mandatory access control or discretionary access control...
  
  
• Earned value management
  Earned value management
  Earned value management is a project management technique for measuring project performance and progress in an objective manner. EVM has the ability to combine measurements of scope, schedule, and cost in a single integrated system. Earned Value Management is notable for its ability to provide...
  
   tools

Software Integration

Reports can be exported to Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications...

 or saved as Excel-compatible HTML

HTML

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 files. TimeTiger provides bi-directional synchronization with Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project is a project management software program, developed and sold by Microsoft, which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.The application creates critical path...

 project files. A software development kit (SDK) is also available.

See also

• Comparison of time tracking software
  Comparison of time tracking software
  This is a comparison of notable time tracking software packages and web hosted services.- See also :*Flextime plan*Project management software*Time tracking software*Timesheet*Working time...
  
  
• Earned value management
  Earned value management
  Earned value management is a project management technique for measuring project performance and progress in an objective manner. EVM has the ability to combine measurements of scope, schedule, and cost in a single integrated system. Earned Value Management is notable for its ability to provide...
  
  
• Project Management
  Project management
  Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...
  
  
• Productivity
  Productivity
  Productivity is a measure of the efficiency of production. Productivity is a ratio of what is produced to what is required to produce it. Usually this ratio is in the form of an average, expressing the total output divided by the total input...