PHILADELPHIA, PA, May 8, 2006 - Primavera Systems, Inc., announced today that it has enhanced its market-leading solution to help business leaders in professional services organizations (PSOs) and embedded service organizations make the most effective and appropriate use of their available human assets to build lasting customer relationships and boost profitability.
With budgets under close scrutiny, resource managers at PSOs need to identify which employees are available for work, schedule consultants for maximum efficiency on hundreds of simultaneous projects, and ensure that the organization has the resources available to meet current and future client needs. The latest Primavera solution equips resource managers with powerful new tools to meet these daily challenges.
"In professional services, a person´s time is, quite literally, money," said Gisela Wilson, Director of Product, Project and Portfolio Management Solutions at IDC, a leading research and advisory firm. "By reducing the costs of coordination, while augmenting the use of business metrics and forecasts to optimize personnel utilization, Primavera's solution enhances overall practice management."
"With Primavera, business leaders have all the information they need to staff current programs, forecast future needs and quickly communicate critical metrics across their organizations," said Joanne McCool, Primavera for Services General Manager. "As a result, people are able to spend their time making sure they have the right resources they need to effectively meet client demands, while directly impacting profitability."
Key enhancements include:
- Easier collaboration and workflow for staffing requests: Automated workflow facilitates communication of requests earlier in the process and includes powerful metrics for analyzing staffing requests, including time to fulfillment.
- Better data integrity with the latest Web services standards: Embedded integration capabilities allow all members of professional services organizations to share data between Primavera software, legacy and other enterprise systems to ensure data accuracy, eliminate redundant data entry tasks, and improve system performance and scalability.
- External time and expense support: Users can now load time and expense data from other systems into directly into Primavera. This integration provides a better understanding of how many hours resources are spending per project and per task, visibility into potential over-utilization of resources, and billed versus actual costs accrued.
Primavera´s enhanced integration and collaboration functionality makes sure that everyone, from resource managers to executives, is up-to-date with timely information on milestones, adjusted schedules, staffing requests and costs.
About Primavera
Primavera is a software company whose focus is to help organizations assign key resources to top priority projects, make it easy for people to collaborate, and deliver improved results. Primavera solutions are used by consulting firms and service organizations to maximize resource utilization, minimize costs, deliver on customer commitments, and manage multiple projects. Primavera solutions enable companies, including some of the world´s leading service organizations, to create a consistent methodology for global service delivery. For more information, visit www.PrimaveraForServices.com or call+1.888.238.6583.