The Perfect Match

Today at work I was interviewing some candidates for a position we have been trying to fill for quite some time now but haven't been able to find a good match. This experience got me thinking can PAW be a "perfect match"?.

Today was also billing day, the two days in the month when I am drowning in numbers, pulling multiple time sheets for all my direct reports working with multiple excel worksheets. In these two days I will have worked over 10-12 hours per day pulling reports, summarizing them, matching and merging finally building out my worksheets to be sent to my finance department for billing.

Month after month there is all this manual labor involved in putting together these workbooks. This prompted me to think of getting a software product that would help reduce it. It would be so nice to get back 4-6 hours. A 50% in time saving ---> SWEET. I opened PAW started to build my monthly time reporting worksheet from scratch. It took me about an hour to set-up and automate the process the way I wanted it. I tested it and it worked. I wondered if there was something out there that could do everything I had in my head, PAW only addresses 85% of the steps I envisioned.

On the drive back home I realized that next month I will only have to do 15% of the work as PAW will automatically do the balance 85% and export the excel file to me, that made me so happy. In today's world of instant gratification where software only gets cheaper, faster, better one has to realize "the perfect match" is also changing constantly, whats in today is out tomorrow, whats considered hot today is dead tomorrow. I now look at PAW in a new light my PERFECT MATCH light my solution for today, tomorrow will bring something that is faster cheaper better. Until then I have found my PERFECT MATCH.