Today's Professional Services business climate is unpredictable. The business demand is inconsistent and profit margins are eroding away. Customers are increasingly asking your organization to solve complex challenges for less cost and risk. Your ability to provide the right solutions and services depends on how well you use your resources. In order to meet these demands, Professional Services firms need to use dynamic business tools that will enable them to quickly respond to client needs, make quick and informed decisions and control internal costs.
An organization’s ability to provide the right solutions and services depends on how well they leverage their resources. The need for your organization to have instant visibility to resource availability and expertise is paramount to ensuring that the right people with the right skill sets are assigned to the right project for the right price. The goal is to increase utilization and realization.
SMART EPM for Professional Services helps organizations rapidly respond to client needs, make quick and informed decisions and control internal costs by providing a complete EPM solution that helps managers successfully manage and track programs from Demand Management to Product Delivery. From scope changes, risk, issues, resources, to schedules and costs, consistent processes enable on-time and within budget management of even the most complex projects. As an integrated solution with any one of the SMART EPM suite of management modules, which include Demand Management, Portfolio Management, Project Management, Operational Management, Collaboration Management and Business Intelligence, organizations gain a competitive edge by making decisions based on accurate and timely data and analysis.
SMART EPM is an award winning solution that enables organizations to fully configure their Microsoft EPM Solution in less time and cost, virtually risk free. SMART EPM™ for Professional Services provides a preconfigured Microsoft Office system solution that is the framework for Microsoft EPM for Professional Services. These preconfigured Microsoft Office solutions save the significant cost of arduous requirement gathering, system design and software configuration that is required for traditional Microsoft EPM deployments and provides several value-add features that specifically support Professional Services work management ecosystem.
Why re-invent the wheel? Leverage LMR Solutions’ knowledge of Professional Services best practices, tool experience, and proven methodology and process knowledge from hundreds of EPM deployments, SMART EPM utilizes a process-driven approach unlocking the power of Microsoft Office Systems. SMART EPM for Professional Services provides preconfigured Microsoft Office and Visual Studios system solutions designed to provide processes and built-in analytics for Professional Services.
SMART EPM for Professional Services supports the processes and provides the data that enable rapid response and assignment of the right resources to the right project for optimal return and customer satisfaction.
The SMART EPM Demand Management module captures all the competing sources of demand such as opportunities, proposals and business initiatives to determine a baseline inventory. SMART EPM Portfolio Management provides the data and ability to evaluate, prioritize and select the right projects for optimal return. Using SMART EPM for Project Management to ensure your projects are on-time and within budget will ensure customer satisfaction and return work. Leveraging the SMART EPM for Project Management and Resource Management capability to assign the right resources to the right job will consistently improve the bottom-line.
The SMART EPM for Collaboration Management module provides the ability to effectively collaborate and communicate throughout the life of the project by providing Time-sheeting, Document Management, Issue and Risk Management and Work-Status abilities. Leveraging these features helps organizations to identify and mitigate risk early in the life of the project and control cost.
SMART EPM for Professional Services provides the information and data views to make informed and effective decisions. SMART EPM for Business Intelligence provides the reports and views such as EVM, Trend Analysis, Six Sigma Metrics or Score Cards that will keep your business on track.
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