Strategic advantage: empower locally, manage globally.

• A common real-time perspective for all decision-makers, replacing “piecemeal” spreadsheets and internal patchwork solutions
• Real-time views of projects, resource groups, progress, issues, costs
• Ability for local managers to see real-time data and make changes
• Accurate decisions based on real-time information, not after the fact
• View of global “shared workforce” to match up talent, availability, needs

Advantages for all project-oriented companies.
“While only a short while ago just 10% of an enterprise’s work was formed around collaborative projects and differentiated time, today about 40% is, and experts expect this to climb to 70% three years from now.” [See “Rise of the Project Workforce” White Paper]

• Facilitate real-time communication and decision-making for executives and project members
• Cut time and expense tracking costs by 40% to 90%
• Implement consistent project execution
• Comply with labor and industry regulations
• Improve project visibility, workforce productivity and operational effectiveness
• Quickly identify and/or eliminate non-performing projects

Advantages for professional services organizations or business units.
‘Resource utilization is on average 65%, indicating approximately a 35% resource underutilization including administrative and unproductive tasks, which do not directly benefit the organization” (Source: Forrester Research)

Cutting just $1 of operational costs could have the same impact as increasing revenue by $13. “ (Source: CFO Magazine)

• Improve resource utilization; reduce bench time and resource gaps
• Control fixed bid projects and employee-related expenditures
• Decrease the invoicing cycle by an average of five days
• Increase billable hours by reducing administrative overhead
• Increase control over billable work and employee-related expenditures

Advantages for internal, shared service or IT departments:
“Outright failures of projects have declined from 40% to 23% during the past five years, but challenged projects swelled from 33% to 49% in the same period. That’s bad because challenged projects often are more painful than projects that simply fail. And they are often just failures-in-waiting, dallying dismally until the patience (or the money) for getting them right runs out.” (Source: - CIO Magazine)

• Prevent budget overruns and scope creep
• Improve capacity planning and reduce resource gaps
• Automate and standardize internal business processes for increased efficiency and cost savings