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PSA – Professional Services Automation

PSA/PPM Goes Vertical – Better Time to Value for ChangePoint Solutions

PSA/PPM Goes Vertical – Better Time to Value for ChangePoint Solutions

By Brian Sommer on March 16, 2010

Compuware Changepoint has created a faster time to value solution for technology firms. PSA and PPM solutions are getting deeper vertical chops.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Current Affairs, India & Services, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, project portfolio management, PSA - Professional Services Automation, Selling Professional Services, Service Providers, software as a service

The State of Professional Services 2010

The State of Professional Services 2010

By Brian Sommer on February 20, 2010

If you’ve got a service organization, do you know how it stacks up to others? Dave Hofferberth at SPI Research did a quick interview with Brian and shared a few nuggets from their latest (and quite detailed) report.

Posted in Business | Tagged CEO Interview, Current Affairs, India & Services, netsuite, Notable Research, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, PSA - Professional Services Automation, Service Providers, software as a service

Oracle’s Primavera Product Update

Oracle’s Primavera Product Update

By Brian Sommer on January 6, 2010

It’s been one year after the Oracle acquisition of Primavera. Has anything changed? What will Oracle do next with this product line? Should PPM competitors care or worry?

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Current Affairs, deal, erp, Mergers & Acquisitions, oracle, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, PSA - Professional Services Automation, The Applications Market | 1 Response

Before you do that BPO, Audit, Consulting or other services deal, check out these costs

Before you do that BPO, Audit, Consulting or other services deal, check out these costs

By Brian Sommer on November 16, 2009

How service providers spend money on T&E is your business. You’ll pay for it one way or another. Check out these numbers and the questions you should pose to your next service provider.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Contracting, erp, expense management, expense reporting, GRC - Governance Risk Compliance, Implementing Technology, Notable Research, Outsourcing, Professional Services, PSA - Professional Services Automation, Selling Professional Services, Service Providers, Sourcing, The Application Software Buyer | 1 Response

Cloud-to-Cloud Integration - Another Big ERP Challenge!

Cloud-to-Cloud Integration – Another Big ERP Challenge!

By Brian Sommer on October 28, 2009

NetSuite’s new Open Connect integration should make ERP buyers and vendors re-think interfaces and integration across application suites. Everyone needs to re-think what cloud-to-cloud integration, in multi-tenant apps, really means.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Current Affairs, erp, Future of Application Software, Implementing Technology, netsuite, oracle, Professional Services, PSA - Professional Services Automation, SaaS and Beyond, sap, Software Vendors, software. applications, The Applications Market, Think About IT

Shouldn’t services firms have their own ERP?

By Brian Sommer on September 25, 2009

I caught up this week with Morris Panner, CEO of OpenAir (now part of NetSuite). One aspect of our wide-ranging conversation concerned the continuing evolution of businesses, the economy, etc. towards a greater services orientation. Drawing on that, we discussed how services firms need their own version of ERP.
Here are just some of the […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged CEO Interview, Future of Application Software, HR, netsuite, PPM, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, professional services automation, Project Accounting, project management, project tracking, PSA, PSA - Professional Services Automation, resource management, Selling Professional Services, services, software. applications, staffing, The Applications Market

Interview with Microsoft’s Seth Patton

By Brian Sommer on September 16, 2009

More from the Project Conference
Seth Patton is the senior marketing director for Microsoft Project. I got thirty minutes alone with Seth at the Microsoft Project Conference 2009 show this afternoon.
We discussed several topics impacting the PSA (professional services automation) and PPM (project portfolio management) software space. Here are the highlights from that conversation:
1) How […]

Posted in Business | Tagged CA, microsoft, Planview, PPM, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, Project Conference 2009, project management, project portfolio management, PSA, PSA - Professional Services Automation, Service Providers, Software Vendors | 2 Responses

More on Microsoft Project 2010

By Brian Sommer on September 16, 2009

The Completeness of the PPM Solution Grows
(More from the Project Conference 2009 in Phoenix)
As the demonstrations of Project 2010 continue, I noted the following:
1) Microsoft has added a lot of functionality in its Resource Management and Time Entry components. The resource management capability gives project managers, staffing professionals and others a lot of visibility into […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged microsoft, PPM, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, project management, project portfolio management, PSA, PSA - Professional Services Automation, services, Software Vendors

Microsoft’s Project 2010

By Brian Sommer on September 16, 2009

The conference announcements so far…
I just watched Microsoft executives demonstrate the upcoming Project 2010 product here in Phoenix at the Project Conference 2009.
Here are my first blush comments/observations:
1) The product has matured significantly as a PPM solution. The portfolio management functions are more robust, more graphical and address executive what-if needs quite well. This […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged microsoft, PPM, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, Project, PSA, PSA - Professional Services Automation

Interesting things I’ve been briefed on lately…

By Brian Sommer on September 15, 2009

NetSuite, CA, iTrade Network, Meridian Project Systems, UC4, Project Open,….
NetSuite has some new financial consolidation/planning functionality in their SaaS solution. It permits global firms to handle currency conversion. Adaptive Planning’s software is at the core of this solution. This technology does not currently use an in-core memory resident database. The more of this sort of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ARRA, CA, Current Affairs, erp, food safety, iTrade Network, Mergers & Acquisitions, Meridian Project Systems, netsuite, PPM, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, professional services automation, project management, Project Open, PSA, PSA - Professional Services Automation, SaaS and Beyond, Software Vendors, software. applications, Sourcing, SYSPRO, The Applications Market, UC4

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