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Job Costing Survival Guide Introduced by Business Process Management Leader, Solutions360,

New Job Costing Survival Guide Illuminates Best Practices and Helps Businesses Assess their Current Job Costing Process to Ultimately Improve Project Profit Margins   Newmarket, Ontario ā€“ December 2012 ā€“ Solutions360, a leader in business process management and PSA software … Read More

Our Systems are Integrated… Really?

As I review ā€œAs Isā€ business processes at new mid-size customers I constantly run into applications that claimed to be ā€œintegratedā€.Ā  Customers have environments that have integrated CRM, Accounting, Inventory, Job Costing, Project Management, etc.Ā  However, rarely are these software … Read More

Have you ever considered the cost of paper to your business?

The amount of paper used by businesses today is staggering. While the movement towards a paperless office has picked up over the past decade, there are still many ways you can reduce paper consumption. The reality is: often paperlessĀ is truly … Read More

Sales and Marketing is a Process That Needs Automation

Automation in sales and marketing should be about improving the ability to deliver the right message to the right person at the right time via the right channel. Automation or repetition of more generic, higher volume tasks is more likely … Read More

Integrated Systems Next Step; Single System

For years, industry and analysts have been touting the benefits of integrated systems that would improve the decision-making process by taking information from disparate functions and processes and organizing it efficiently. Strides continue to be made in driving efficiencies throughout … Read More

What are the Benefits of PSA Software?

Professional Services Automation (PSA) software includes a number of high level benefits. Ā WeĀ can whittle this down into three groups of benefits; streamlining operations and execution, improving business performance and winning more business. Streamline Operations and Execution These PSA elements allow … Read More

The Importance of Project Accounting in Professional Services Organizations

Project Accounting, sometimes referred to as job cost accounting, is the practice of creating financials specifically to track the financial progress of projects.Ā  Project Accounting enables the professional services organization to monitor the progress of their projects from a financial … Read More

How to Use Software to Help Weather the Economic Downturn

Focus on ā€œFaster and Betterā€. Every asset, machine, tool and person you have must be accountable and cycle more quickly. Your business cannot survive unless you know where your resources are and how they can be used efficiently. Imagine being … Read More

Job Costing Software is Key to Construction Profits

Even in the best of economies more contractors go belly up than not. Knowing this, many builders reason that the best solution for dealing with risk is to keep their business modest. And yet, many fail. Nonetheless, for every failure, … Read More

Five Keys to Success when Implementing Change

No matter what kind of change you are trying to invoke in your business; there are five key considerations to address to give you the best chance for success. Ā According to Dave Gustafson, NIATx (process improvement specialists) Director, these are … Read More