"Peter Robson, Professional Service Manager of HumanConcepts discusses about why they chose FinancialForce Accounting:
The ability to view all the data from FinancialForce Professional Services, Salesforce CRM and HumanConcepts accounting system quickly and easily is invaluable."
1. HumanConcepts Goes Global with FinancialForce PSA
Success Story Customer Profile
Company:
HumanConcepts is a leading provider of solutions for understanding the
current workforce and facilitating organizational change of all types, including HumanConcepts
growth, rightsizing, and reorganization. The company is headquartered in
Application:
Sausalito, California, with clients located around the world. FinancialForce PSA
HumanConcepts is a rapidly growing company with clients and projects based in
the US, Germany, and the UK with plans to expand further. To manage and grow its URL:
www.humanconcepts.com
business, the company wanted to capture accurate and current information on all
aspects of its professional services business within each geographical area. They Company Size:
also needed to continue to deliver consistent, high quality service to its customers
140 employees
during the expansion and beyond.
Industry:
Integration is key Software
Multiple, disparate business systems with different technology processes and
platforms were beginning to create obstacles to expansion. HumanConcepts Results:
realized that it needed to replace its existing professional services solution, which - The HumanConcepts team
had become too cumbersome to work with and could not integrate seamlessly with can now focus more on
Salesforce CRM and its legacy financials system. If the three systems were integrated, client work than internal
processes.
information on projects would be easily accessible and always current.
- Consultants are able to
We needed a system that was integrated with Salesforce CRM and accounting, so login simultaneously to the
that we could get a clear view into project status, said Peter Robson, Professional system to upload and keep
Services Manager at HumanConcepts. Visibility into the data within CRM, financials, track of their time and proj-
and professional services was critical to providing executives with a clear and up-to- ect notes, saving valuable
the-minute status of projects and support informed business decisions. time and getting invoices
out more quickly.
Improved project planning through 360O visibility - With real time visibility,
projects are now closed
The sales teams inability to access the current status of implementations at customer an average of 30% faster,
sites was another challenge. The sales team needed the information to help move which has helped the
implementations along or address any client concerns before they impacted the company more effectively
project goals. Additionally, time tracking, billing and accounting were very manual. allocate resources and
Prior to FinancialForce, a project manager was responsible for entering the time cards grow globally.
for all of the professional service consultants. Uploading time would happen only
once a month. Valuable information on project workloads and resources was not in
sync, so project leaders did not have a complete, real time view of engagements. It takes us half the time
to obtain current and
To enable its growth strategy, HumanConcepts chose FinancialForce Professional
Services Automation to replace its existing system because it was on the Force.com
forecasting data from
platform and could seamlessly integrate with their existing accounting system and FinancialForce PSA versus
Salesforce CRM. our previous system.
www.FinancialForce.com
2. Success Story
Benefits are quickly realised The ability to view all the
The company quickly started to see benefits of a single integrated environment. Not data from FinancialForce
only is the new system easy to use, but it has rapidly enabled new efficiencies that Professional Services,
help the HumanConcepts team focus more on client work than internal processes. Salesforce CRM and our
Professional Services Consultants are able to login simultaneously to the system accounting system quickly
to upload and keep track of their time and project notes, saving valuable time.
Timecards were entered by each consultant and done daily versus monthly in the
and easily is invaluable.
previous system. The new level of integration means the process flow for approvals
is much more efficient now. For example, timecard approvals are much easier, which With FinancialForce PSA
means the finance team can get invoices out more quickly. and Salesforce CRM we
The integrated system also helps keep HumanConcepts leadership on top of their can now see how many
business. Executives can view the current state of projects in real-time and that has licenses have been sold
helped with visibility into the business. Sales executives can now jump in and assist
and how much additional
if ever a customer question arises. Up-to-the-minute information presented in a drill
Professional Services
down manner on the dashboards allows executives to view high level details or drill
down by region, by month, by customer, or by prospects in the pipeline. work is coming down the
Having utilization numbers by pipeline helps us make informed decisions for the
pipeline.
good of the business. We now close projects an average of 30% faster, which has
helped the company allocate resources properly and grow globally, added Robson.
Having both back and front office systems running in a single cloud environment
Consultants previously
would only login at the end
on the Force.com platform has simplified internal support and provides Human
Concepts executives the visibility into existing projects necessary to make smarter of the month to enter in
business decisions. As the company grows, it plans to implement the utilization their time. Accuracy of the
schedule functionality in FinancialForce Professional Services to get an even closer information is lost when
view of each consultants workload. you delay entering data.
Now we are logging time
on a weekly or even daily
basis.
With the dashboards,
we have visibility into the
utilization numbers by
pipeline and by region,
which is really helpful
for planning our global
strategy.
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