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When you can’t trust the numbers, what do you do?

“Our business is in growth mode” Says Kelly McCarthy, CEO of Genesis Integration, “and when we tried to get data from the CRM program, the project management system and accounting system to get a clear view of the business, I couldn’t trust the numbers.” When … Read More

Watch Your Profits Increase

How Benchmarking and Best Practices Can Improve Your Business Business as usual is not working. With the various pressures that today’s systems integrators are experiencing, companies must look beyond what they’ve done before, because doing the same thing and getting the same results no longer … Read More

Can resource allocation improvements help you bid a job profitably?

Would you send an Engineer to do an Installer’s job?  Starting a bid with unrealistic resource allocation assumptions will negatively impact project profitability before the job even begins.  It’s just one of the things to consider when bidding a project. … Read More

Dirty Data is Costing Your Business More Money than You Think

3 Steps to Get from Bad Data to Good Data – You can’t make good business decisions with dirty data. When you’re planning your resource allocation or you’re auditing your project accounting, if you don’t have one centralized business management software, there may be bad or missing data. That’s costing you precious money and time that can be better served helping your customers. … Read More

5 Things to Consider when Bidding a Project

The Art & Science of a Good Project Job Costing Process – Not all projects are created equal. It would be nice if there was an exact science to bidding a project but sadly many factors come into play that could malign your latest bid. You need art and science, a job costing system in place, to make it work. … Read More

Solutions360, PSA Software Leader, Celebrates 25 Years of Enterprise Software Innovation

Solutions360, the market-leading professional services automation software company, is celebrating its Silver Anniversary in 2013. For 25 years, customers have depended on Solutions360 psa software to help run and grow their businesses. Solutions360 has led the industry across North America … Read More

Proud Sponsor of NSCA’s Business & Leadership Conference

  Mark the Calendar: February 21st – 23rd Join industry business owners and managers at the premier conference for electronic systems integrators to transform through a variety of new strategies to improve your business performance and compare notes with your … Read More

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 – December 2012 – Solutions360, a leader in business process management and PSA software … Read More

Our Systems are Integrated… Really?

As I review “As Is” business processes at new mid-size customers I constantly run into applications that claimed to be “integrated”.  Customers have environments that have integrated CRM, Accounting, Inventory, Job Costing, Project Management, etc.  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 paperless is truly … Read More