CEITON

The scheduling system plans, manages, bills, and analyzes projects or tasks. It manages human and technical resources, material, and locations on a single GUI. The system uses a gantt chart[8] to assign tasks to be done to available and eligible resources (i.e. staff), automatically or by drag-and-drop.

The scheduling module includes material management, resource management/ human resource management, integration of freelancers, clients and suppliers, time-tracking, shift scheduling, quality management, delivery and logistics, document management, archive, analysis and controlling, business reporting, as well as all accounting and documentation processes.[2][4][8][9][10][11]

Media companies use CEITON for managing largely repetitive projects such as producing DVDs, PlayStation games and Blu-ray discs.[12]

The workflow management system module coordinates business processes. Processes are defined once as a workflow and then repeatedly executed. Human resources are automatically assigned to steps (tasks) and integrated in workflow forms. Systems are integrated with an EAI/SOAP module, allowing data exchange with arbitrary external systems which are also involved in the business process.[13] It also features a 3-D workflow overview in which the status of each project step can be determined by its color in the overview.[14]

For project and order processing management, business processes are designed as workflows, and coordinate communication automatically. Different user interfaces for staff, customers or suppliers can be created so each gets only relevant information.[9] Different workflow forms are associated with different log-ins.[13]

The main application for the system is knowledge-based business processes, in which many people are involved and virtual results are produced, e.g. in research, or development of media products, such as TV and movies.[2] Broadcasters and media companies such as MDR and Yle use CEITON to control their production processes for products and services and coordinate complex workflows with all kinds of resources.[12]

An integrated EAI module allows CEITON to integrate every external system in any business process without programming,[2][12] using SOAP and similar technologies. Aspera[15] and FileCatalyst[16] were integrated for faster data transfer, yet complex ERP systems and numerous SAP modules[13] have also been integrated, for example, to extract working times to payroll.

Since Version 7, released in 2015, CEITON includes a time-tracking module allowing employees to enter their times from mobile devices such as tablets running Android, iPhones etc.