Customized Microsoft solutions optimized for consulting firms
Whether you provide management, marketing, scientific, or technical consulting, a business management system tailored to your industry can help you enhance firm performance, track projects, and resource planning, and identify opportunities for improvement. An ERP or CRM solution built by Microsoft and delivered with customizations to your business by Rand Group can transform your day-to-day operations, help you overcome industry challenges, and unlock deeper insights into your business.
Run your consulting business on a single platform with Microsoft Dynamics 365
As consulting firms battle intense global competition they must also address challenges including customer behavior changes, increasing project complexity, vulnerability to customer performance and economic factors, and their dependence on highly skilled labor to solve complex problems. If consulting firms want to survive, grow, and stay ahead of the competition in today’s unpredictable and challenging world, they need a fully integrated solution tailored to their business to unlock complete visibility into their financial assets, people, and projects. The right ERP, CRM, or project service automation solution can help consulting firms overcome industry challenges by optimizing resources, increasing agility, enhancing risk management, improving productivity, and streamlining project management.
Rand Group is your long-term partner to help you implement Microsoft solutions that unlock valuable insights into your consulting business so you can differentiate from the competition, deliver better results, increase profits, and enhance customer satisfaction. With Microsoft Dynamics 365 from Rand Group, you can consolidate the various components of your consulting operations into one data-rich system, strengthening resourcing, project planning, financial management, and organizational efficiency.
Automate time and expense
Configure rules and set up automated workflows to improve time and expense policy compliance with submissions, approvals, and reporting. Make it easy for team members to comply with time and expense policies and empower them to submit time and expense on the go with the mobile app.
Streamline project financials
Manage your project accounting with higher accuracy and support your global teams’ adherence to accounting standards and practices. Recognize revenue accurately and on time while improving cash flow by invoicing customers quickly.
Increase visibility into operations
Make data-driven decisions by visualizing key insights with built-in dashboards that surface KPIs such as resource utilization, forecasting, and budgeting. Eliminate data silos for a comprehensive view of the overall health of your organization.
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Mitigate compliance risk with Dynamics 365 Finance
Stay up-to-date on compliance and reduce risk and liability associated with the administration and business initiatives for clients. In this whitepaper, learn how to leverage Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance to reduce compliance risk and improve control efficiency for your consulting firm.
White Paper
Mitigate compliance risk with Dynamics 365 Finance
Stay up-to-date on compliance and reduce risk and liability associated with the administration and business initiatives for clients. In this whitepaper, learn how to leverage Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance to reduce compliance risk and improve control efficiency for your consulting firm.
Build a superior workforce
Consulting firms solve complex business problems, and as such, rely heavily on highly-skilled, educated, and experienced industry professionals to provide consulting services. Challenges in acquiring top talent and new skills to stay competitive are increasing for consulting firms. To combat these challenges, Microsoft Dynamics 365 helps consulting organizations forecast what types of skills they will need as well as when, giving you an edge in forecasting job roles that will need filling. Additionally, managers are able to see which resources are readily available and unlock insights on where and how best to apply their skills.
With Microsoft Dynamics 365 tailored to your consulting firm you can:
- Maintain profiles to store the skillsets of your current resources
- Align the right people to the right project, minimizing bench time
- Anticipate future needs and quickly identify which skills you are lacking
- Deploy the best hiring strategies to avoid delays and minimize hiring costs
Optimize resource utilization
In order to remain competitive, consulting firms need the ability to easily manage resources and distribute workloads for optimal execution of project delivery needs. With Microsoft Dynamics 365, consulting firms can add flexibility to their resources so they can mobilize the right technology, people, and skills to deliver successful projects on time and on budget. Easily maximize resource utilization by planning capacity and sales. With universal resource scheduling tools, you can manage resources across your organization.
Use resource management capabilities to:
- Anticipate resourcing needs with intelligent scheduling
- Distribute workloads evenly across resources
- Leverage easy-to-read dashboards for visibility into resource availability
- Boost billability and utilization reporting
Enhance project management
Microsoft Dynamics 365 can help your consulting firm drive success through intelligent project management capabilities. By giving your project managers the tools they need to succeed they can improve productivity and customer satisfaction. Develop accurate estimates for labor, expenses, and materials and track planned-to-actual consumption as projects progress. Leverage built-in insights to understand how your projects are trending and make timely decisions for course correction. Empower your cross-functional teams to collaborate easily across project lifecycles.
Dynamics 365 project management features include:
- Work breakdown structures
- Task management
- Interactive Gantt Charts
- Risk and issue management
- Budget management and costing
Rand Group’s industry-tailored solutions for consulting firms
Rand Group offers a variety of consulting-tailored solutions built by Microsoft to transform the way you run your operations. Our team will help you evaluate and select the best solution for your consulting firm, then implement and customize it based on your specific processes.
Dynamics 365 Project Operations
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations is an enhanced project management solution for project-centric, consulting businesses. This powerful tool connects the entire project cycle from sales to financials to optimize resources and drive project success.
Dynamics 365 Finance
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance is a financial management solution with in-depth reporting capabilities and real-time analytics. With a shortened month-end process and agile financial reporting that supports multiple legal entities and currencies, it offers a global financial management system for consulting firms.
Dynamics 365 Business Central
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a comprehensive business management solution on the cloud for small and midsize consulting organizations that helps automate and streamline business processes. Leverage Business Central to optimize your consulting operations and facilitate project success.
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Overcome financial management challenges and improve your cash flow
Overcome financial management challenges and improve cash flow with Dynamics 365 built by Microsoft and customized by Rand Group to meet the unique needs of your professional services firm. From flexible billing configurations and simplified invoicing to greater visibility into financial performance, you can unlock your organization’s full potential and maximize profitability.
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