Professional Services Automation
Modernize your business and service delivery
Planview’s professional services automation solution enables professional services organizations to maximize efficiency, sell more services, and drive customer retention.
Watch DemoModernize your business. See how.Why Planview?
How well can you adapt your business models, resource mix, and delivery methods to meet market demands? Whether you need to grow revenue, increase profitability, or improve retention, Planview’s professional services automation software is the only solution built for connecting work, to dynamically plan engagements, confidently deliver customer work using any method, streamline financial management, and flexibly fit within your existing technology ecosystem.
Maximize operational efficiency and customer success
Sell more services throughout the customer lifecycle
Safeguard the business with better customer retention
Planview’s professional services automation solution helps overcome 6 common obstacles to success:
Inability to bill in different ways beyond T&M or fixed fee
Reactive planning and inaccurate forecasting from fragmented systems, data, and processes
Unhappy customers with inconsistent service delivery and invoice accuracy
Lower profit margins from late service delivery, billing delays, and rework
Wasted time and resources on manual reporting and data entry tasks
Audit risks with non-compliant reporting processes
See Planview in action
Watch an on-demand demo and see how Planview’s professional services automation solution can help you:
- Deliver outcome-based services and offers for recurring revenue with strategic alignment across product and customer success
- Reduce operational costs and streamline client delivery by standardizing, automating, and scaling processes throughout the quote-to-cash lifecycle
- Proactively manage capacity, availability, utilization, and skills to assign the right people to the right projects
- Protect existing revenue and market share with aligned organizational charters on adoption and retention
Professional services automation software capabilities
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Connect Professional Services to the rest of the company and to new business models.
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Professional Services Objectives & Key Results
Clearly outline objectives and key results aligning corporate strategy to professional services efforts.
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Multiple Business Model Support
Align Services processes and structures to multiple business models including T&M, Fixed Fee, Subscriptions, and Outcomes.
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Connect opportunities to engagements for maximum profits and customer success.
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CRM Integration
Bi-directional integrations with custom triggers to capture opportunity details for planning.
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Pipeline and Backlog Management
Manage incoming sales opportunities and prioritize your backlog with opportunity and project views.
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Revenue Forecasting
Gain detailed visibility into expected revenue and plan for future resource needs.
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Quoting and SOW Management
Simplify the quote and SOW creation, distribution, and approval processes.
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Capacity Planning
Gain detailed visibility into expected opportunities and current work to determine future capacity needs.
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Contract Management
Create and execute on contracts that establish the financial, rate and billing structures to drive profits and delivery success.
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Staff Planning
Make sure you have the right people hired, contracted, and assigned to the right client engagements by skill, experience, rate, utilization, and other categories.
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Connect and deliver using multiple ways of working to successfully deliver client engagements profitably.
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Project Planning
Clearly outline project plans and work breakdown structures for client engagements.
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Delivery/Project Templates
Standardize delivery/project templates by type for more efficient engagement and project creation and execution.
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Resource Management and Optimization
View and manage your entire resource pool to assign the right resources at the right time for more efficient and profitable project delivery across all engagements.
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Collaboration
Collaborate with clients and delivery team members using built-in chat and email features or through integrations.
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Change, Risk, Issue Management
Gain early visibility into requested scope changes, project risks and issues to address them before they affect delivery targets and client satisfaction.
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Time and Expense Management
Provide anytime, anywhere access to time and expense tracking and approvals for timely reporting and invoicing.
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Status Reporting
Create dashboards and reports by user type from executive to individual contributor to track project and client engagement statuses in near real-time.
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Hybrid and Agile Work Delivery
Deliver hybrid and agile work using traditional tasks or Kanban team boards with ease – enabling your teams to continue delivering value without disruption.
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Connect full lifecycle services data to gain insights into the metrics that matter.
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Utilization Analytics
Analyze resource utilization in near real-time to inform key resource optimization decisions.
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Revenue and Profit Forecast
See a clear picture of your planned and actual financial performance when you want it.
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Portfolio Analysis
Review and analyze your engagements by portfolio groupings such as region, practice, and engagement type.
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Post-Engagement Survey and Analysis
Gauge your client satisfaction and analyze where you can improve.
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Manage critical Professional Services financial processes connected to financial systems of record.
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Billing and Invoicing
Deliver billing items such as time and milestones to ERP for invoicing or deliver customer invoices directly from the Planview PSA solution.
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Revenue Recognition
Get real-time visibility into revenue and deliver the results to your ERP system. Have Planview PSA perform the revenue recognition process or simply deliver the inputs to your ERP system for processing.
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Cost Management
Understand the labor and material costs of your engagements to ensure profitability.
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ERP or System of Record Integration
Bi-directional integrations to pass accurate work effort and financial information to your ERP or system of record.
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More to explore
REPORT
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