End-to-end Microsoft solutions for engineering services firms
Engineering services firms require powerful business solutions that provide real-time visibility into operations and capabilities that help increase billable hours, project profitability, and client satisfaction. An ERP, CRM, or project service automation solution built by Microsoft and delivered by Rand Group with customizations for your business that can transform your day-to-day operations, help you overcome industry challenges, unlock deeper insights into your business, and enable rapid and effective decision making.
Evolve your engineering firm with Microsoft Dynamics 365
Today’s engineering services firms are facing increasingly complex client projects while at the same time dealing with industry challenges such as vulnerability to economic conditions and dependence on highly skilled personnel. Controlling project costs, meeting tight deadlines, complying with client-specific contracts, and managing a complex network of subcontractor resources can all place a heavy burden on your firm. To overcome these challenges, it is imperative to maintain a real-time view of finances, clients, projects, and resources. Rand Group offers ERP, CRM, and project service automation solutions to support all of your operational needs so you can maximize productivity, boost collaboration, improve efficiency, increase profitability, and drive business success.
Rand Group is your long-term partner to help you implement Microsoft solutions that streamline project delivery and reduce administrative efforts in bid creation, resource management, project planning, and billing. With Microsoft Dynamics 365 from Rand Group, you can consolidate the various components of your engineering operations into one data-rich system for your financial management, accounting, project management, procurement, human resources, sales, and CRM operations.
Increase organizational agility
Leverage Microsoft Dynamics 365 to monitor and respond to change with speed and ease using real-time business analytics and flexible business processes. Ensure your engineering business is able to adapt quickly to shifting resources and changes in scope so you can maintain project profitability.
Unlock real-time visibility and transparency
Our holistic solutions make it easy to extract vital information from various systems to gain real-time insight into business health. Accurate and real-time data enables companies to make informed decisions quicker and more accurately greatly reducing operating costs.
Manage complex compliance requirements
Quickly adapt to changing financial requirements with a flexible, rules-based chart of accounts that allows you to easily manage your financial operations. Meet local and global business requirements in a wide range of countries and languages.
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 engineering 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 engineering firm.
Simplify financial management
With industry-leading, core financials, your finance team will be empowered to do more strategizing and less paperwork. Not only does Dynamics 365 improve cash flow by enabling quick invoicing with interactive billing tools but also enables you to accurately project your cash flow using powerful insights and customizable forecasting tools. Recognize revenue accurately and on time to ensure compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to support your company’s adherence to accounting practices. Accelerate financial closing and reporting with connected general ledger, accounts receivable, payables, and fixed assets data.
With a Microsoft Dynamics 365 engineering-tailored solution you can:
- Manage project accounting with higher accuracy
- Reliably predict customer payments
- Adapt quickly with intelligent budget proposals
- Make more profitable business decisions
Superior resource management
Gain the ability to view resource availability across the board so you can optimize utilization. With Microsoft Dynamics 365 you can pinpoint the right resources for your engineering projects based on skills and availability, build profitable project plans with actual resources, optimize resource utilization, and unlock insights into future capacity needs. With total visibility into staff skills and active projects, you can ensure you’re assigning the right resources to the right projects while making the most of your team’s billable time.
With Dynamics 365’s resource management capabilities you can:
- 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
Streamline project management
Projects that are over budget and behind schedule are costly to any engineering services firm. Microsoft Dynamics 365 provides you with the tools and resources to proactively manage projects every step of the way. By giving project managers the tools they need to track projects efficiently, you will boost performance, productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction. With built-in insights, you can understand how your projects are trending and make timely decisions for course correction.
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 Microsoft solutions for engineering services firms
Rand Group offers a variety of engineering services-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 engineering services 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, engineering 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.
Dynamics 365 Business Central
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a comprehensive business management solution on the cloud for small and midsize organizations that helps automate and streamline engineering business processes. Leverage Business Central to drive excellence in all your engineering services operations.
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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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