Moment facilitates our everyday life

HUS Arkitekter  uses the product Moment, which is now part of Milient's brand.

Back in 2016, HUS Arkitekter chose a project management system that was supposed to be tailored for HUS. Unfortunately, this turned out to work poorly.

Siv Skogstad, office manager, and CFO at HUS, says that the biggest problem was that they couldn't trust the solution.

Unfortunately, there were a lot of errors in their previous system, but she emphasises that she doesn't think the supplier knowingly delivered a bad solution, but that they simply didn't understand HUS' needs.

Øyvind, for his part, perceived the system as not very user-friendly.

Saved by Moment

One day, in 2017, the partners in HUS received a presentation of Moment. Almost immediately and unanimously, the reaction was:

"This is what we need!"

HUS was also advised on which accounting system they could fully integrate with Moment, which was also decisive for making the choice.

"It's been a happy marriage!"

Øyvind believes Moment gives them very simple and intuitive control of time, people and projects.

- Everything in the system seemed very simple, almost banal – and it shows that you have understood it! We do not have time to learn complicated things from data – that is not what we are doing. We also noticed that you speak our language, and you understand what we are doing and what is difficult for us.

Siv further says that they had been looking for a system for many years and had presentations with several of these.

- There are many who think they can project, but they certainly don't know enough about how architect projects work!

After the transition to Moment, HUS has received a very good overview of how employees are booked for projects in the future as well as available capacity, says Øyvind.

- It has become easier to plan resources, and that is the main problem for a company like us, namely planning time. People and time – that's what we fight with every day!

HUS now has a greater opportunity to obtain experience figures, for example, how many hours they have spent on a sub-project, and they have continuous access to more and more data.

- If you are employed in a larger architectural office, then it is impossible to be informed about everything that is going on. We cannot go around and notifying everyone about potential projects that may not happen. In the past, there was much more uncertainty, people walked around wondering what to do and we had a staff that occasionally, and rightly so, was frustrated and unsure of what was happening. Now, it is more predictable, people are happier and happy people give better results.

Easy invoicing

The biggest relief for Siv has been invoicing. Previously, she usually had to work overtime to invoice because the solution was complicated and she had to concentrate in order not to lose the thread.

Now, she can do it at any time and needs less than a day to complete invoicing for an entire month.

- For me, it has become extremely much easier to invoice! I feel that it does not lose anything or forget anything, nothing disappears and I can trust 100% that what is in Moment is right.

Øyvind states that he wants to spend as little time as possible on project management, as it is not an architect's core business.

- Moment facilitates our everyday life, and I want to spend as little time as possible on project management – it is not our core business. It should just work, and we should spend as little time as possible on it.