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Survey Results: Challenges and Opportunities for Professional Services Firms

Survey Results: Challenges and Opportunities for Professional Services Firms

By Michael Fauscette on September 9, 2012

Earlier this summer one of my clients, Deltek, sponsored IDC in a survey and white paper on current challenges and opportunities for professional services firms world wide. The phone survey of 280 consulting firms in the US, UK, Belgium, Scandinavia…

Posted in Business | Tagged Benchmarks, Deltek, Metrics, Professional Services, PS, PSA, SRP, Survey

NetSuite OpenAir untangles the professional services 'hairball'

NetSuite OpenAir untangles the professional services ‘hairball’

By Michael Krigsman on July 20, 2010

NetSuite OpenAir released services resource planning, to bring ERP-style benefits to professional services organizations.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, Enterprise resource planning, erp, netsuite, NetSuite OpenAir, OpenAir, PSA, SaaS, services | 2 Responses

How to really transform a service business

How to really transform a service business

By Phil Wainewright on July 9, 2010

Every time I go to a NetSuite event, I wonder to myself why other vendors don’t make more of a song-and-dance about the potential for highly impactful business transformation that SaaS enables. Maybe it’s the particular sector of the market that NetSuite targets, where the early adopters are companies that want to find some way […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud Computing, Consulting, m26, netsuite, OpenAir, presentations, professional services automation, PSA, resource management, software as a service, utilization

The Year in Review in Software & Services

The Year in Review in Software & Services

By Brian Sommer on December 17, 2009

2009 had some interesting twists to it as far as the software and services industries go. Here are top five services stories of 2009. 1) The breakup of BearingPoint – BearingPoint had some big bills to pay this year. When the time came to do so, they couldn’t. The company began the process of selling […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Accenture, BearingPoint, it Services, Managed Hosting, Network Administration, PPM, PSA, SaaS, Satyam, software as a service, Systems Management, Technology / Software | 1 Response

Shouldn’t services firms have their own ERP?

By Brian Sommer on September 25, 2009

I caught up this week with Morris Panner, CEO of OpenAir (now part of NetSuite). One aspect of our wide-ranging conversation concerned the continuing evolution of businesses, the economy, etc. towards a greater services orientation. Drawing on that, we discussed how services firms need their own version of ERP.
Here are just some of the […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged CEO Interview, Future of Application Software, HR, netsuite, PPM, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, professional services automation, Project Accounting, project management, project tracking, PSA, PSA - Professional Services Automation, resource management, Selling Professional Services, services, software. applications, staffing, The Applications Market

Interview with Microsoft’s Seth Patton

By Brian Sommer on September 16, 2009

More from the Project Conference
Seth Patton is the senior marketing director for Microsoft Project. I got thirty minutes alone with Seth at the Microsoft Project Conference 2009 show this afternoon.
We discussed several topics impacting the PSA (professional services automation) and PPM (project portfolio management) software space. Here are the highlights from that conversation:
1) How […]

Posted in Business | Tagged CA, microsoft, Planview, PPM, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, Project Conference 2009, project management, project portfolio management, PSA, PSA - Professional Services Automation, Service Providers, Software Vendors | 2 Responses

More on Microsoft Project 2010

By Brian Sommer on September 16, 2009

The Completeness of the PPM Solution Grows
(More from the Project Conference 2009 in Phoenix)
As the demonstrations of Project 2010 continue, I noted the following:
1) Microsoft has added a lot of functionality in its Resource Management and Time Entry components. The resource management capability gives project managers, staffing professionals and others a lot of visibility into […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged microsoft, PPM, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, project management, project portfolio management, PSA, PSA - Professional Services Automation, services, Software Vendors

Microsoft’s Project 2010

By Brian Sommer on September 16, 2009

The conference announcements so far…
I just watched Microsoft executives demonstrate the upcoming Project 2010 product here in Phoenix at the Project Conference 2009.
Here are my first blush comments/observations:
1) The product has matured significantly as a PPM solution. The portfolio management functions are more robust, more graphical and address executive what-if needs quite well. This […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged microsoft, PPM, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, Project, PSA, PSA - Professional Services Automation

Interesting things I’ve been briefed on lately…

By Brian Sommer on September 15, 2009

NetSuite, CA, iTrade Network, Meridian Project Systems, UC4, Project Open,….
NetSuite has some new financial consolidation/planning functionality in their SaaS solution. It permits global firms to handle currency conversion. Adaptive Planning’s software is at the core of this solution. This technology does not currently use an in-core memory resident database. The more of this sort of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ARRA, CA, Current Affairs, erp, food safety, iTrade Network, Mergers & Acquisitions, Meridian Project Systems, netsuite, PPM, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, professional services automation, project management, Project Open, PSA, PSA - Professional Services Automation, SaaS and Beyond, Software Vendors, software. applications, Sourcing, SYSPRO, The Applications Market, UC4

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