Better Management of AV Project Staffing –The Task Just Got Easier

As demand for AV services increases, good timing: managing your labor just go a lot easier, with an innovative new App, Trident, from Atlantis Partners.

As we get deeper into 2021, the entire economy is adding momentum. And AV and AV/IT integrators are quickly pivoting from “wait-and-see” over the winter to positioning their companies for a growing demand for their services. We’ll see increased need for not just technicians, project managers, and other AV pros experienced in site surveys, and engineering drafting – but we’ll also see increased need for better management of those people. Which brings us, as an industry, back full circle to a challenge that emerged well before the pandemic sidetrack. That challenge is: creating a better, easier, more trackable way to manage the “people” part of AV installation. The good news is: Atlantis Partners is now unveiling a new App, called Trident, that does just that.

“Well before COVID,” said Frank Papayianis, President of Atlantis Partners, “my top management and I had seen the need for a better tool, a software or App tool, that could help AV integrators with easier, better scheduling, tracking, reporting, billing – and all the project-related outside labor management parts of a project. As 2021 got underway, and we completed the development of our new Trident App, it became clear that spring 2021 was perfect timing to release it. As the trend toward using highly skilled installers and technicians provided by the best outsourced labor firms is being fast-tracked by both the disruptions of 2020, and now the ‘restart’, it’s the perfect time to offer AV integrators a new tool help them meet new demand and new management challenges.

 

What is the new Trident App, and what does it do, that none of the off-the-shelf time keeping/scheduling Apps do? You can easily download the free Smartphone App for Android or iPhone, on all the big App stores. The features and advantages for the integrator are many:

  • With the Trident App, the project manager at the integration company can more efficiently schedule the techs. For example: rather than relying on a bunch of emails back and forth to communicate with the technicians, it’s all done on the App. When the tech is thinking “where do I need to go?” they just open up the App. The schedule for the day? Schedules are blasted out to the techs on their smartphones, not by email. The SOW? It’s on the App. AV technicians and any AV pro you have contracted for a project use it on their end, to “clock in”, communicate with the managers about scheduling, and report in a variety of ways. More efficient, more immediate, and easier to follow and track, for everyone.
  • Because Trident uses much more sophisticated GPS features than any other apps on the market, the reporting on when a tech clocks in/out, where they are, physically, on the project, is accurate and reliable. No more guessing, and much better reporting on who was on the job, when, where, for how long.
  • Because Atlantis Partners’ managers have a sophisticated computer application back end to Trident, that –combined with the Smartphone-enabled techs in the field – makes the whole process tighter, and provides better, and faster reporting for the project. The back end office software can generate reporting, validate how many hours worked, the dollars tied to the job, and more.

“If you’re a project manager at an Integration company,” said Frank Papayianis, “this App makes your life easier, before the project even starts. You’re in a conference with your colleagues, discussing an upcoming project that just popped up, and the customer needs it done ASAP. You need 5 techs, to start next Monday? With the Trident App, with the click of a button, make a technician request for the new project. A calendar pops up, like Expedia. Duration of the time needed for the tech? What’s the job, meeting room, college classroom? All of that, is so easy, but really the biggest advantage for the Integrator comes when the job is on, and when it wraps– all the management, scheduling, reporting is done so much better and so much faster than before.”

2021 is starting to bring not just more demand for highly skilled AV technicians on a contract basis, to mitigate risk in a more uncertain landscape, but also a new kind of demand as more skillsets move to the forefront. Managing the new dynamics can help position your AV company for greater profitability this year, and going forward. Atlantis Partners’ new Trident App can be a valuable tool in that process.

Download the Trident App, here:

Apple:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/labor-leagues/id1341714760

Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atulsia.atlantis&hl=en_US&gl=US