Column5 SAP Qualified RDS for Professional Services Industry

Revenue and Cost Planning for the Professional Services Industry

The Column5 Professional Services RDS for BPC provides models that are designed to address the Consolidation, Planning and Forecasting of managing staff and staffing costs along with associated projects. A flexible design allows organizations to quickly configure to meet their unique needs no matter what the industry – Legal, Financial Services, Consulting, Construction, Cleaning, etc.

Challenges Met

The need to collaborate and coordinate across multiple departments to generate a plan.
The use of stand-alone, manually prepared spreadsheets that lack workflow and are difficult to maintain while failing to provide capabilities like ‘what-if’ and visibility into risk.
Time consuming, error prone and lacking sufficient detail making it difficult to plan when needed and respond to changing organizational and business conditions.

Deliverables

Ability to model and plan professional services business processes for revenues and costs.
Ability to model and plan with the core business drivers for a professional services organization.

Business Benefits

Unifying information from multiple systems – payroll, HR, billing, time & expense, CRM, accounting and more.
Giving personnel access to the planning capability they need to be involved through a familiar interface.
Integrating workflow across multiple departments and driving collaboration between on all the stakeholders.
Expansion capabilities easily achieved through a modular business platform and technically integrated RDS design.

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