Complete business solutions for consulting operations
Whether you are a management, marketing, scientific, or technical consulting firm, a business management solution can help you increase agility, control, and visibility to drive organizational performance. An ERP, CRM, or professional services automation solution built by Microsoft or NetSuite and delivered with customizations to your business by Rand Group can help you overcome industry challenges, enhance firm performance, track projects and resource planning, and identify opportunities for improvement.
Drive growth with an industry-tailored solution for your consulting firm
Opportunities for growth in the consulting industry are huge, however, in order for a firm to be successful, it must be able to address the biggest challenges facing the industry such as intense global competition, changing customer behavior, increasing project complexity, vulnerability to economic factors, and reliance on highly skilled labor. If consulting firms want to survive, grow, and stay ahead of the competition, they need a fully integrated solution tailored to their business that unlocks complete visibility into financial assets, people, and projects. The right ERP, CRM, or professional services automation solution can help consulting firms overcome industry challenges, optimize resources, increase agility, mitigate risk, improve productivity, and streamline project management.
Rand Group is your long-term partner to help you implement solutions that unlock valuable insights into your business so you can differentiate from the competition, deliver better results, increase profits, and enhance customer satisfaction. Easily consolidate the various components of your consulting operations into one data-rich system, strengthening resourcing, project planning, financial management, and organizational efficiency.
Simplify time and expense tracking
Preconfigure rules and set up automated workflows so users can seamlessly capture detailed records of hours worked. Ensure compliance and maximize the accuracy and timeliness of expense reporting.
Streamline project financials
Manage your project accounting with higher accuracy and support your global teams’ adherence to accounting standards and practices. Accurately recognize revenue on time while improving cash flow by invoicing customers quickly.
Increase visibility into operations
Built-in dashboards that surface key KPIs such as resource utilization, forecasting, and budgeting empower teams to make intelligent, data-driven decisions. Eliminate data silos for a comprehensive view of the overall health of your organization.
White Paper
How to measure your services business with metrics that matter
There are easily over fifty meaningful metrics a management team could use to assess their professional services business. The issue is determining what specific metrics provide the greatest insight. Download this whitepaper for a practical framework that managers can use when selecting the appropriate metrics for their organization.
White Paper
How to measure your services business with metrics that matter
There are easily over fifty meaningful metrics a management team could use to assess their professional services business. The issue is determining what specific metrics provide the greatest insight. Download this whitepaper for a practical framework that managers can use when selecting the appropriate metrics for their organization.
Build a superior workforce
Consulting firms depend on highly-skilled, educated, and experienced industry professionals to solve complex business problems. However, many firms are finding it increasingly more challenging to acquire and retain top talent and skills to stay competitive. A powerful business solution can help consulting firms forecast what types of skills they will need as well as when, giving them an edge in forecasting job roles that will need filling. Easily view which resources are readily available with powerful dashboards to unlock insights on where and how best to apply their skills.
With a business solution 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
Consulting firms need the ability to easily manage resources and distribute workloads for optimal execution of project delivery needs. With resource management capabilities, consulting firms can increase their competitive advantage by adding flexibility to 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 seamlessly manage resources across your entire 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
Streamline project management
Drive success for your consulting firm with intelligent project management capabilities. Give your project managers the tools they need to succeed so 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.
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 to transform the way you run your business. Our team will help you evaluate and select the best solution for your consulting services firm, then implement and customize it based on your specific processes.
NetSuite for Professional Services
Transform your consulting business with NetSuite’s SuiteSuccess Services, a cloud-based professional services automation solution featuring powerful capabilities in project management, resource management, project accounting, billing, and invoicing.
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 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.
Related Insights
Top 5 2023 professional services industry trends and the role of modern Cloud ERP
As the professional services industry evolves, businesses constantly seek innovative ways to remain competitive and meet their client’s changing needs. In 2023, several transformative trends are emerging, reshaping the landscape and driving industry growth. In this blog, we’ll explore the top 5 professional services industry trends of 2023 and delve into the role of modern Cloud ERP in driving businesses forward.
5 key challenges faced by professional services organizations
Discover key challenges that professional services organizations must overcome in order to successfully deliver projects on time and on budget. This blog will highlight how an ERP, CRM, or PSA solution from Rand Group can help your services-based organization to standardize operations, encourage collaboration, optimize resource utilization, and boost project visibility.
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.
Let’s talk about how we can transform your business
