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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.

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Why Planview?

Gain a competitive edge, adapt with more agility, and drive customer success with Planview’s professional services automation software

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

Streamline the quote-to-cash process and improve engagement by proactively assigning people to the right projects and addressing delivery issues earlier.

Sell more services throughout the customer lifecycle

Gain a competitive edge with speed across the lifecycle, predictability in capacity and utilization, and alignment with business partners on outcomes.

Safeguard the business with better customer retention

Delight customers with an integrated customer engagement model, aligned charters, and a shared view into current and future customer engagements.

Planview’s professional services automation solution helps overcome 6 common obstacles to success:

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Inability to bill in different ways beyond T&M or fixed fee

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Reactive planning and inaccurate forecasting from fragmented systems, data, and processes

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Unhappy customers with inconsistent service delivery and invoice accuracy

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Lower profit margins from late service delivery, billing delays, and rework

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Wasted time and resources on manual reporting and data entry tasks

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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
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Planview is a trusted technology partner

We’ve helped organizations like yours realize the benefits of professional services automation. See how.

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Take a quick solution tour

The Planview Platform for Connected Work is the foundation for solutions spanning a breadth of use cases.

  • Strategize Services

    Match your services priorities and offerings to corporate strategy and objectives

    Strategy Services Visualization
    Visualize and connect your work to strategic priorities.

    Your services functions should focus on the high value offerings that deliver expertise to unlock customer value, increase adoption, usage, and revenue and help drive new business models. Therefore, align your professional services objectives with the broader, long term strategic priorities of the business and gain visibility into the work tied to those objectives.

    • Professional services objectives & key results
    • Support new business models
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  • Client Engagement

    Manage interactions from contract creation to post-execution activities for consistent, and valuable customer interactions

    Client Engagement View
    View all client and project details that drive successful delivery with Planview PSA Software.

    Go beyond managing contracts. Leverage consistent operational standards that meet your financial, billing, and project reporting requirements. Recognize the value at every interaction, with streamlined engagements between the company and customer that goes far beyond the transaction.

    • Collaborate both internally and externally
    • Share documentation
    • Define, automate, and monitor contracts
    • Dashboards available to customers
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  • Flexible Delivery

    Keep client projects on-track and aligned to different ways of working, maintaining both your financial and standard breakdown structures

    Flexible Delivery Management
    Manage services delivery by project and resource from traditional to Agile ways.

    Deliver predictable, profitable, and valued services for clients, with comprehensive project management capabilities. Streamline your sales, finance, and delivery teams together by collaborating and delivering customer-centric work.

    • Traditional to agile task management
    • Time and expense management
    • Auto assign project templates
    • Create process workflows
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  • Resource Optimization

    Improve resource assignment, management, and utilization for more efficient and profitable engagements

    Resource Optimization Interface
    Optimize your entire resource pool to improve utilization using Planview PSA software.

    Generate more revenue and higher profit margins while reducing added costs tied to last-minute resourcing decisions. Improve visibility to efficiently manage and accurately forecast your entire resource pool, assigning the right resources at the right time for more efficient and profitable project delivery across all engagements.

    • Capacity planning
    • Detailed resource searches
    • Real-time capacity insights
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  • Financial Insights

    Improve client engagements and client project profitability with better insights

    Financial Insights Dashboard
    Stay in sync across every financial aspect of your professional services business with Planview’s PSA solution

    Make more strategic decisions to improve client experiences and services profitability with actionable insights from detailed, real-time, globally oriented profitability, risk, and financial health data

    • Interactive dashboards
    • Real-time analysis
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Professional services automation software capabilities

  • Connect Professional Services to the rest of the company and to new business models.

    • Professional Services Objectives & Key Results

      Clearly outline objectives and key results aligning corporate strategy to professional services efforts.

    • Multiple Business Model Support

      Align Services processes and structures to multiple business models including T&M, Fixed Fee, Subscriptions, and Outcomes.

  • Connect opportunities to engagements for maximum profits and customer success.

    • CRM Integration

      Bi-directional integrations with custom triggers to capture opportunity details for planning.

    • Pipeline and Backlog Management

      Manage incoming sales opportunities and prioritize your backlog with opportunity and project views.

    • Revenue Forecasting

      Gain detailed visibility into expected revenue and plan for future resource needs.

    • Quoting and SOW Management

      Simplify the quote and SOW creation, distribution, and approval processes.

    • Capacity Planning

      Gain detailed visibility into expected opportunities and current work to determine future capacity needs.

    • Contract Management

      Create and execute on contracts that establish the financial, rate and billing structures to drive profits and delivery success.

    • 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.

  • Connect and deliver using multiple ways of working to successfully deliver client engagements profitably.

    • Project Planning

      Clearly outline project plans and work breakdown structures for client engagements.

    • Delivery/Project Templates

      Standardize delivery/project templates by type for more efficient engagement and project creation and execution.

    • 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.

    • Collaboration

      Collaborate with clients and delivery team members using built-in chat and email features or through integrations.

    • 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.

    • Time and Expense Management

      Provide anytime, anywhere access to time and expense tracking and approvals for timely reporting and invoicing.

    • 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.

    • 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.

  • Connect full lifecycle services data to gain insights into the metrics that matter.

    • Utilization Analytics

      Analyze resource utilization in near real-time to inform key resource optimization decisions.

    • Revenue and Profit Forecast

      See a clear picture of your planned and actual financial performance when you want it.

    • Portfolio Analysis

      Review and analyze your engagements by portfolio groupings such as region, practice, and engagement type.

    • Post-Engagement Survey and Analysis

      Gauge your client satisfaction and analyze where you can improve.

  • Manage critical Professional Services financial processes connected to financial systems of record.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • Cost Management

      Understand the labor and material costs of your engagements to ensure profitability.

    • 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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