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The Advanced Projects® PSO solutions delivers best in class capabilities focused on the following project disciplines:

Project Management 
Project Resource Management
Project Billing
Project Costing
Project & Portfolio Analytics
Project
Collaboration
Project Workflow Management

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Complete Project ERP Solution 

As an advertising, marketing, or public relations firm you value creative talent and deep relationships with your clients.  Ensuring the right creative resources are available at the right time and place, with the right skillsets, is an ongoing balancing act. 

Advanced Projects® PSO for Microsoft Dynamics AX is specially designed to help you overcome these challenges and promote an efficient and collaborative organization.

Has effective client management become a major project in itself?

We hear you.  Accounting for every detail of a client contract, including measuring the degree of campaign or contract completion, remains a huge challenge, particularly as projects become more complex.  Poorly managed resources and budgets can turn what appeared to be profitable projects into a string of unfulfilled client expectations, extra work for employees, and less than anticipated profit margin on the books. 

Creativity is your bread and butter, but if it isn’t delivered effectively across increasingly different forms of media, your profitability suffers.  Add in the complexity of managing multiple brands and campaigns across a portfolio of client relationships and you can quickly become overwhelmed.

Rather than just another project accounting system you need a fully integrated operational project management solution to start spending more time managing and less time administering your projects. 

Extending the horizontal ERP capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics AX, Advanced Projects® PSO is a one-stop solution that will improve operational efficiency, reduce technology costs and increase your customer satisfaction level as well as your bottom line.

Advanced Projects® PSO will help you:

  • Effectively evaluate the profitability of projects in the sales phase and maintain that profitability through planning and execution
  • Ensure your high cost creative resources are utilized effectively across a portfolio of campaigns and clients
  • Increase the repeat business value of a client by more consistently coming in on time and on budget
  • Quickly respond to scope changes, campaign results, and external market impacts
  • Establish efficiency in your business processes while allowing flexibility for the creative process
  • Provide a clear real time view of your progress and profitability across your entire portfolio of projects and clients
  • Enable close collaboration between your resources, no matter where in the world they are based
  • Significantly reduce the non-creative time spent supporting client projects

Project Life Cycle Support

With full project life cycle support Advanced Projects® PSO provides a single consolidated solution that enables you to effectively manage all critical project components, operational as well as administrative.

  • Template quotations
  • Formula based templates
  • Delivery projection
  • Cost, margin & cash flow analysis
  • Pipeline management
  • Soft and hard capacity reservations
  • Project activity scheduling
  • Flexible resourcing
  • Inter-company and inter-department resource loan
  • Critical path, delay and overload analytics
  • Simulation scheduling
  • Change Order Management
  • Scheduling & Capacity Management
  • Project Workflow
  • Exception & Event Management
  • Month End Process
  • Milestone & deadline management
  • Retention & pay when paid
  • Progress billing
  • Milestone billing
  • Time sheet
  • Travel and expense
  • Inter-company project accounting 
  • Project portfolio analytics
  • Earned value management
  • Budget overrun notifications
  • Project breakdown structure
  • Project sensor point status
  • Resource breakdown structure
  • Approval workflows
  • Cost breakdown structure
  • Risk and issue management 

Learn About the Value

Advanced Projects® PSO helps companies generate more business with fewer resources. Experience tells us that our customers are able to improve their cost efficiency by an average of 2%-10% by delivering more projects on time and within budget and maintaining a high and balanced resource utilization.

Read more about how we get to these numbers here: Making the case for Advanced Projects® PSO.

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