[X4U] Heavy duty job trafficking & tracking software

[Brett Conlon]

Hi all,

Apologies for cross-posting but I'm in a hurry for a solution! <8-}

I'm looking for directions to a pretty heavy duty job trafficking 
software, preferably aimed at the graphic design market.

We have a studio of 17 or so designers and 4 coordinators. The software 
would be driven by the coordinators (creation of job tickets etc.) and 
then run by the designers. It would be ideal if it could automatically 
capture time spent on different jobs, though I think that's probably a 
utopian request. Basically, from the designer's end, the least time they 
spend administering to it the better.

It would need to have the ability to export reports or data (eg. xml) for 
integration with other company systems or be able to receive data from 
other systems to perhaps automate some processes already being done in 
other parts of the company (eg. job ticket creation done by another dept 
not having to be redone because the systems can't talk).

Quotes/job costings/invoices are also an important part.

Can anyone recommend a hard hitter (ie. not interested in small shareware 
FileMaker databases) that would satisfy these demands, in essence?

Your urgent feedback is most appreciated!

Regards,

Cojcolds