It enables organisations to automate and continuously improve their business. Real-time diagnostics allow business leaders to understand and remedy underlying issues.

About

Kimble’s Solution:- Kimble is designed specifically to enable the overall management of an entire business, rather than having just an Operations, Sales or Delivery focus. In a single product, it provides functionality traditionally requiring a combination of separate Opportunity Management, PSA, T&E and Financial reporting systems. It enables organisations to automate and continuously improve their business. Real-time diagnostics allow business leaders to understand and remedy underlying issues. This holistic focus on business improvement, beyond just operational support or project delivery, is unique in the professional services automation (PSA) market. Whether a 5 or 50,000 employee organisation, this solution has the simplicity and complexity to manage an entire services business which will:- • Provide profit growth through holistic understanding of the business • Provide real-time access to actuals, forecasts, items or billing and revenue recognition staff utilisation and reduce bid-to-bill cycles • Improve operational efficiencies and reduce aged/bad debt • Reduce the administration costs across the business

Key Benefits

Professional Services Automation will increase the utilisation of your key people, improve the cashflow of your projects & programmes, reduce your administration costs – all leading to increased margin. By implementing the Kimble solution, their customers are experiencing benefits such as:- • Profit growth through holistic understanding of the business • Improved utilisation of key resources thereby improving productivity • Improved operational efficiencies and reduced aged/bad debt – better cashflow • Reduced administration cost across the business Customers include:- • Kainos - award-winning IT consultancy • Canon • Bayer Healthcare • ClickSoftware – workforce management provider • Praxis Life Sciences • Tribal Group – software provider to support educational institutions • Adaptive Financial Consulting – financial services technology consultancy

Applications

providing a purpose-built application that sits on top of Salesforce, this robust solution provides:- • Business Visibility and Forecasting:- o Real-time diagnostics show the health of your business and gives a comprehensive view of historic and future performance. See all aspects of your customer relationships in one place. • Resource Scheduling - Utilisation:- o Comprehensive resource planning enables the best resources to be identified to fulfil requirements. Kimble matches supply and demand to increase utilisation even before a project has been won. • Predictive Time Sheets:- o Timesheets are auto populated with project schedules resulting in accurate time capture. An Operations Dashboard identifies incomplete timesheets, where approvals are causing bottlenecks, and provides a facility to raise email chasers • Mobile Optimised:- o The mobile application allows timesheets and expenses to be submitted on and offline, Expenses evidence can be captured by taking a photo of the receipt and attaching to the claim form • Intelligent Insights:- o Kimble alerts users to business issues requiring immediate attention. Their insights use the latest industry thinking to embed best practice throughout the application • Revenue Recognition:- o Kimble automatically calculates the revenue to be recognised from a project, ensuring accurate and systematic reporting and removing project management subjectivity.

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