PSA SOLUTIONS

Success in today’s competitive market isn’t
just about getting new projects.
Professional services organizations must be able to manage these projects maintaining their profitability
and reaching the maximum customer satisfaction.
Information, employees, time and resources must be managed in order
to keep reins on projects and enhance customer relationships,
Professional services organizations require solutions that address
the needs of project planning & scheduling, resources allocation
management, progress tracking, capturing billable hours, increasing
employee utilization, increasing revenue and profits, and enhancing
collaboration and information sharing throughout entire organization.
Focus on resource management is essential to balance with the most
optimized path internal and external specialized resources with
customers demand. Bring the right skill to the projects is essential
for their success and for maintaining strong client relationships.
In the same way information sharing should be considered as a company
priority. The meeting between the two fundamental assets of any
organization, people and information, should be facilitated using
the most simplest tools in order to deliver to any project stakeholder
(from resource, to customer, to executives) the most appropriate
set of information to support day by day tasks as well as strategic
decisions. In Project Objects we call this attitude “Information
Democracy”.
ProjectObjects is the ideal partner for implementation of PSA –
Professional Services Automation solutions. With its modular architecture
ProjectObjects supports fundamental processes as time tracking,
expenses tracking and billing. These processes are then perfectly
integrated with project planning and control functions.
The ProjectObjects PSA solutions provide built-in project planning
& control, company defined rules for data consistency verification
at point of entry, real-time analytics and reports. Key features
include: enterprise timesheet management, enterprise expense management,
project cost budgeting and accounting, progress tracking and billing,
project collaboration.
ProjectObjects database architecture enables the implementation
of a powerful set of coding libraries in order to support any possible
analytical need. Information accessibility and sharing has been
our first priority during the design of ProjectObjects. All the
data you need to take the right decisions for your business are
there available from several points of view. You can analyze data
according to multiple dimensions, by Customer, by Contract, by Portfolio,
by Project, by Contractor and more.
Planning & Scheduling
Planning and scheduling process are supported by
simple and intuitive modules that do not require exhausting detailed
planning definition. Thanks to our FCFP (Five Click for Project) operating
sequence, you can plan and commit resources for a new project in only
5 mouse clicks. A project can be defined just as bucket and afterwards
used as the centre for collecting any information useful for its governance.
Resource Management
ProjectObjects
PSA solutions enable a powerful control
of resource allocation across multiple projects. Company resources
are profiled according to many dimensions (e.g. location, department,
teams,) in order to support advanced searching and allocation capabilities.
The use of “generic” versus “named” resources
permits high level planning with the use of resource “placeholders”
to be replaced with named employees when the tasks goes live.
Company resources can be organized in “Teams” with pre-defined
assignment criteria (% of assignment, assignment lag). A team can
be then assigned to a new project during its creation in order to
get an automatic resource assignment.
All resources can be associated to one or more “Skill”.
For each Skill association is possible to specify the level of competence.
This helps locate the employees that best fits with specific resources
skill requirements and identify possible alternatives when resource
replacement is required.
Resources workload can be analysed at Company level through a specific
module which enable multiple views by Resource, by Project or by RBS
– Resource Breakdown Structure.
A set of analytical reports helps you analyse internal and external
resource spending across various projects, by execution and originating
department.
Provide Tracking Across Projects
With
ProjectObjects PSA solutions you are no longer
required to spend hours or even days compiling status reports from
multiple data sources. With specific time and progress tracking capabilities,
ProjectObjects frees up employees time by capturing all this information
in a single repository and automatically rolling it at project level,
making real-time project status available to all project participants
and stake holders using PDE – Project Data Explorer Dashboard.
Red, yellow, and green indicators indicate project health in terms
of schedule, resources and costs.
Information are displayed at project level but managers can easily
drill into project details.
Using an intuitive user interface, you can model your Multi-Project
Views using hierarchical tree-structures, specify which projects roll
up to each structure, and link projects to more than one your Multi-Project
Views.
The end result is real-time access to all aspects of your Company
projects.
Timesheets & Billing
ProjectObjects PSA solutions are the ideal choice
for those organizations which aim to optimize management of their
projects, resources and customer invoicing processes.
By means of an effective 100% WEB architecture, employees and consultants
can plan their own timesheets monthly or weekly, specifying rate codes
for each completed activity. This information, validated in concert
with company or departmental workflows or resource specifications,
is fed into the invoice system, thereby generating a substantial reduction
(up to 80%) in invoice release times and ensuing collection times.
ProjectObjects PSA solutions target the following stakeholders:
• Executives
• Department managers
• Resource Managers
• PMO – Project Management Office
• Program managers and project managers
• Team Leaders
• Project Controllers
• Customers
• Resources
• Partners
ProjectObjects PSA solutions help organizations reach the following
benefits:
• Organize projects in a single database
• Analyze profitability at single project level as well as
at multi-project level (by Customer, by Contract, by Portfolio,
by Project, by Contractor and more)
• Improve productivity and efficiency
• Increase billable hours trough the accurate tracking of
work done
• Avoid customers claims by improving time and expenses tracking
accuracy
• Reduce administrative costs
• Reduce timesheet and expense sheet preparation efforts up
to 80 %
• Improve the control over travel & mission expenses
• Reduce billing process duration
• Improve project’s financial control
• Optimize company resources utilization and sharing
• Improve the accessibility and the sharing of project management
information
• Improve visibility on project’s status to support
decision making
• Integrate ERP financial data
• Analyse contractors efficiency
• Improve tracking of internal and external resources expenditure