Senomix Timesheets

Senomix Timesheets is a commercial time tracking system for small and mid-sized offices. Networked via transmission control protocol (TCP), the system runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux to coordinate the work of employees through both secured company networks and the public internet.
Released commercially in August of 2003, Senomix Timesheets was one of the first business software packages to use Sun Microsystems' Java Web Start technology for the deployment of stand-alone applications through web servers.
History
Responding to a demonstrated need for accurate engineering time keeping, the software firm Senomix Consulting Inc. created the first version of what was to become Senomix Timesheets in January of 2003. Originally envisioned as a system for time management in customer engineering offices, the application was quickly adopted by a variety of design, architectural, consulting and educational institutions, encouraging the developers to consider its wider deployment as a commercial product in its own right.
With the growing acceptance of Software as a Service in the corporate marketplace in the early 2000s, Senomix Timesheets was first developed with the objective of remote application deployment and use through a central web server. However, rather than use dynamic html web pages for this purpose, Senomix instead adopted the emerging technology of Java Web Start to deploy thick-client GUI Java applications through the internet. This presented an opportunity to develop a customer-hosted version of a networked system which did not require a dedicated web server for use, resulting in Senomix creating one of the first commercial applications to use Java Web Start technology.
Pursuing that technology strategy, the renamed Senomix Software Inc. created a networked client-server system which allowed an office to interconnect their office computers for time collection via UDP through a custom time tracking communications protocol (named SVIP). Choosing to provide a customer-hosted version of the time tracker rather than retain data in a centrally managed server database, Senomix adjusted the application server to use in-house accounting systems common to small and mid-sized offices such as QuickBooks, Peachtree and MYOB Accounting. This resulted in a Hybrid Software As a Service offering which allowed customers to retain full control of their own office data through directly licensed software while providing the flexibility to use their desktop applications over the internet.
Expanding on that network interoperability to create a multi-platform system, a version of Senomix Timesheets compatible with Linux was deployed in mid-2004, with a version made available for Mac OS X in 2007. Delivering a fully Mac-hosted version of Senomix Timesheets in October of 2008, Senomix Software continued its development of the product to more easily function through secured, wireless, satellite and proprietary handheld networks, creating a TCP version of its SVIP protocol in mid-2009.

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