Making the Case for Advanced Projects®

Our experience tells us that our customers can improve their cost efficiency by an average of
2% - 10% by delivering more projects on time and within budget with Advanced Projects®.

The cost efficiency gains are primarily achieved via;

• Higher and better balanced resource utilization

• Reduced budget overruns

• Improved cash-flow

• Increased estimation accuracy

• Leaner inventories

• Tighter control of technical issues and project risks

• Firmer management of project schedules and deadlines

• Reduced project administration and timely availability of project intelligence for fact based decision making

The percentage efficiency gains vary significantly based on the unique circumstances of individual customers.

Companies largely dependent on utilization of internal resources tend to be able to achieve larger percentage savings than companies with material intensive budgets and/or outsourced operations.

We have developed a model that more precisely calculates your return on investment (or ROI). With this model we can compute your own savings to get a idea about how much Advanced Projects® (and Microsoft Dynamics AX) can help you to improve your project cost efficiency and ultimately your bottom line.

The chart below illustrates a 7 year ROI projection based on a conservative 1.5% cost efficiency gain.

Albeit this very simplistic cost/benefit model, it help to illustrate the real potential savings from basing your project based business on Advanced Projects® and Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Intrigued? Let your Microsoft partner (or us) put together a more detailed example that more precisely reflect the situation in your company.