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Revenue Leakage at Growing Professional
  Service Firms:
  Are You Aware of the Money You Are Losing?




+6,000 global companies use Severa
Optimized for professional services, IT firms,
consulting,    advertising     and     engineering
companies. Severa handles over 160,000 projects,
265,000 invoices and 11 million work hours.




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Executive Summary
Professional services firms with staffs of 3 to 100 billable resources
often lose revenue because they fail to properly track all of the time
spent servicing customers. This happens because small firms often
track time using spreadsheets, a process that becomes inefficient as the
business grows and which often leads to incomplete time data as well as
delayed invoicing or invoicing that is lower than it should be. This form of
revenue leakage commonly occurs when tasks such as travel time,
expenses and customer service are not properly noted.

This white paper presents how a Professional Services Automation
(PSA) solution addresses the time-tracking challenge cost-effectively.
Delivered via the Internet, PSA solution providers typically charge per
user per month, significantly lowering the cost compared to maintaining
a similar system in-house. PSA solutions also make it easy for billable
resources to enter their time and for managers to assess resource
utilization and project profitability. PSA solutions can include elements of
CRM and ERP as well as invoicing so that professional service firms
can rely on them to manage customer projects all the way from the bid
process to the final invoice.




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Small-to-medium size professional service businesses face a big
                                                                               Even     with    flawless   billing
challenge in tracking time spent on customers. As they grow larger from
                                                                               processes, businesses need to
one or two-person shops, the amount of revenue they lose on a daily
                                                                               keep track of work hours on a
basis can increase significantly. The challenge is the same across many
                                                                               daily basis to prevent losses. For
business types including consulting, legal, accounting, engineering,
                                                                               example, if employees report
marketing and advertising, technology solution providers and other
                                                                               work hours at the end of the
professional services firms.
                                                                               week, the organization suffers a
                                                                               15% profit loss.
How Revenue Leakage Occurs
                                                                               Firms with employees reporting
Revenue leakage occurs as professional services firms grow because
                                                                               work hours at the end of the
time tracking data for each billable resource can be incomplete or
                                                                               month suffer a 30% profit loss.
scattered depending on the system used and the diligence of each
                                                                               Revenue leakage occurs because
billable resource when turning-in time sheets. To be profitable,
                                                                               employees don’t recall work
professional services firms need everyone that services customers—
                                                                               activities correctly and may
from sales to service—to routinely submit time reports every day or
                                                                               allocate billable hours as non-
more often.
                                                                               billable hours. That’s a direct hit to
                                                                               the bottom line.
Spreadsheet Suspicion
When a firm is still very small, with only one or two billable resources,
tracking time on spreadsheets is usually sufficient. As long as each
billable resource correctly tracks all of their time, the business can be
assured that all clients are being properly billed, and they can accurately
measure the profitability of any fixed-fee projects.

But as more billable resources are added to the staff, tracking time by
spreadsheets becomes problematic. It requires every billable resource
to classify time using the same time-category definitions. It also requires
administrative time to combine spreadsheets from different people. The
more people submitting spreadsheets, the more difficult the task
becomes (especially if time-category definitions are not uniform
company-wide).

If billable resources submit reports late, invoicing and cash flow will lag.
And with spreadsheets allowing billable resources to use their own
reporting template, some resources might list their time across five task
categories while others might use seven. Management won't be able to
properly track the work being done for each client, which delays billing
even further. This situation also makes it more difficult to assess the
amount of time that billable resources spend on each task.

To Bill or Not to Bill?
Revenue leakage can also occur if each billable resource does not
clearly understand the difference between billable time and non-billable
time. Some administrative tasks might be billable to the client, while
others may not. If management does not clearly review time
submissions in near real time, errors discovered at the end of a month or
when the customer receives their invoice may have to be resolved in
favor of the customer. It will be too late to correctly remember what
occurred, and it's probably too late to convince the




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customer even if memories are accurate. For the sake of maintaining the
customer relationship, the business will usually need to err on the side of
not billing for time that otherwise could have been billed.

The Travel Time Dilemma
Another area where revenue leakage occurs for professional service
firms includes travel time to-and-from customer sites. Whether a
business bills the full rate for both directions, a half rate, nothing at all, or
by some other formula, the time must be tracked properly to ensure
proper billing and to ensure the overall profitability of the project is
assessed properly.

Cost of Prospecting & Customer Service
The sales process is another area for potential revenue leakage.
Generally, sales time is not billed to customers, but management still
needs to view the amount of time reps spend on each prospect to
measure the cost of each sale and to ensure that prospects with the
greatest potential receive the greatest amount of prospecting time. If too
much time is spent on non-profitable prospects, the company will
ultimately lose revenue.

Once a prospect becomes a customer, revenue leakage can occur in
the customer service area. Whether customer service time is built into
the cost of a product, billed at an hourly rate, factored in as part of a flat
monthly fee, or offered as a free courtesy, management must still
measure the cost of the time. Management should also make sure
customer service reps spend more time on profitable customers vs. less
profitable customers. In the long run, the most profitable customers will
generate more revenue, so that is ideally where the most time should be
spent.

Monitor Activity in Real Time Through a Centralized System

When assessing the time of billable resources in the areas described
above, it's critical that assessments take place in as close to real time as
possible. Checking billable resource time on a daily basis makes it more
likely that problems can be rectified before it's too late. If a problem
occurs early in the month, rectifying the issue at the end of the month or
perhaps 60 days later when the customer is about the pay the invoice,
will likely not be possible. The firm will either lose out on billable time, or
the profitability of a project will suffer due to unnecessary time applied to
a customer project.

And as small-to-medium size professional service businesses add more
billable resources, tracking all of these work-related tasks along with
travel time, expenses, time spent on servicing and time spent on new
sales, will become more overwhelming on spreadsheets that each
individual resource manages and submits. Thus, it's critical to have all
resources submit information into one central system.

Converting to a central system will require a process change throughout
the business, and convincing people to change how they conduct and
document their work is a major challenge in itself. To meet this
challenge, it's important that management explain why




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the change is needed and demonstrate how revenue and profit margins
are being hurt by de-centralized time tracking methods such as
spreadsheets.

Professional Services Automation: The Most Effective Time-
Tracking Alternative

In considering where to turn for a solution to the spreadsheet dilemma
that causes revenue leakage, many firms think they can continue to get
by with spreadsheets and that their revenue leakage problem is not
significant. The problem with the spreadsheet model is that measuring
the size of the problem may not be possible. But for the long-term health
of the firm, it's critical to generate a baseline revenue leakage
measurement.

Other firms assume it will take too long to implement a solution, and they
fear they may invest too much capital and months of time only to find the
solution does not deliver as promised. This is often the case for firms
that have attempted to deploy complex Enterprise Resource Planning
solutions, but they come with price tags that make sense only for firms
with 100 or more billable resources.

For an effective time-tracking solution, it's important for professional
services firms to find a solution where they can capture all time
information in one easy-to-access, centralized application so that time is
not spent re-keying the data into another application. If the workflow is
complicated, billable resources may spend extra time submitting the
data, and managers may not have enough time to properly assess the
time reports.

The best way to meet this need for firms with 3 to 100 billable resources
is to rely on an online professional services automation (PSA) service
delivered via the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. With the SaaS
method, the application is hosted over the Internet by the solution
provider. This model has become popular as end users realize their data
remains safe even when delivered by an Internet-based service.

SaaS particularly makes sense for small- and medium-size professional
service firms because most providers using the SaaS model invoice
customers on a monthly basis per user, and they allow customers to
change the number of users at the beginning of each month. For a firm
that expects to grow on a monthly basis or might need to reduce staff at
some point, this is a much more cost-effective approach compared to
purchasing a number of software licenses that would be owned outright
but that may or may not be needed. The SaaS model also means the
firm does not need to allocate computer hardware to run the software or
use internal IT people to maintain the software and future budget funding
for system upgrades.

The PSA SaaS model allows billable resources to enter their time daily
or more often from a mobile device or anywhere they can access an
Internet connection. This is particularly important for firms with
resources that spend most or all of their time in the field. By entering
data in real time as tasks are completed, management can immediately
view the data for red flags that indicate something is amiss, and it
accelerates the billing cycle.

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                                                                              PSA        streamlines   business
The best SaaS offerings provide flexibility to create different categories    processes          by    reducing
of billable time. They also use cross-industry, easy-to-read forms and        administrative work and allowing
reports. These can be more effective than industry-specific time-tracking     data management and billing to
services that often create too much complexity along with so many             become more efficient. Many
extras to choose from that field personnel as well as management              firms experience improvement in
become frustrated to the point where they don't use the tool.                 the speed and accuracy of
                                                                              invoicing, which also benefits
A PSA solution should encompass some components of CRM, ERP,                  customers that need to see
time-tracking, project management and billing, but if the solution delves     billable time broken down across
too deeply into any one area, it may discourage billable resources            specific categories. This in turn
because of the time it takes them to fill-in all the information. Solutions   reduces the amount of customer
designed for cross-industry use tend to focus only on the major               invoice inquiries.
information that's needed so end users and managers spend minimal
time entering and analyzing data. That allows them to spend more time         PSA broadens the types of
on their core competencies.                                                   activities that can be tracked.
                                                                              Rather than just tracking hours
Professional Services Automation Benefits                                     directly related to customers,
                                                                              businesses can monitor time
A major benefit that PSA solutions deliver that might not be expected is      spent on administrative duties, in-
the documentation that service firms can deliver to their customers.          house projects, and partner-
Automated solutions create detailed hourly reports by the task and by         related projects. This helps
the billable resource so that customers can view a list of all the tasks      properly     assess     employee
and all the hours. This helps emphasize the value that professional           performance as well as overall
services firms deliver. Because the time per task and resource is shown       business costs.
clearly, customers will feel the service firm is being more transparent—a
vital attribute in today's business world for being a generator of trust.

Analyzing the time that sales and customer service spend on each
customer can also lead to improvements in overall process efficiencies
that reduce business costs. If an exorbitant amount of time is spent on a
particular work order, it may indicate that sales is not communicating
clearly with customer service and production on what needs to be
delivered to the customer. This is another important area to track in
order to keep profit margins high and to ensure customer retention. If
tasks are not clear, or if incorrect resources are assigned, it can slow
down service.

With a PSA solution, business managers can closely evaluate the
utilization of all billable resources. If resources are over-booked during
an extended time frame, customer service may suffer, and it may
indicate that the service fees being charged are too low. If resources are
under-booked, then revenue is lost, and it may indicate that service fees
are too high. By proactively identifying either condition, management
can prevent revenue leakage.

It's also important to take advantage of the ability to drill-down into the
utilization rate of each resource to see exactly how that time is being
spent. If two resources are utilized 100 percent of the time, it could be
that Resource 1 is utilized on billable time 100 percent while Resource 2
is on billable time only 50 percent while the rest of the time is being
spent on non-billable tasks. Managers can then analyze the non-billable
tasks to make sure they are warranted and also confirm whether they
should actually be billable tasks.




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Professional Services Automation Case Study                                 “Recording work hours
One of the leaders in Professional Service Automation is Severa             and travel expenses has
Corporation, a provider of SaaS-based PSA solutions for small- to
medium-sized businesses. Severa 3 is offered as an online application       improved tremendously.
for advertising agencies, consulting, law firms, engineering houses,
architecture firms, accounting firms and other professional services
organizations. Severa enables service firms to manage customers,
                                                                            Severa              almost
projects, work time and billing with one centralized system. Severa’s
transparency into project data also helps communicate business
                                                                            guarantees            better
objectives, optimize resource allocation and reduce revenue leakage.
                                                                            business       processes.
One of Severa's customers, Direxon, is an industry expert in the field of
identity-based security and network services. They help customers plan,     Daily reporting is so
develop and implement identity management processes. As a result,
Direxon’s customers receive documented security improvements that           easy that we now have
enable closer business relations with their clients and partners, and
better performance for their mobile users.                                  more             accurate
Direxon chose Severa 3 for enhanced accounting, project management,         information about how
customer relationship management, and resourcing procedures. Severa
3 also helped Direxon to develop better business communication              our time is spent.”
processes based on improved reporting techniques. All of these features
have led to optimized resource allocation and reduced revenue leakage.
                                                                                         Jaakko Malmgren
Initially, the need for a PSA system derived from a European Union
                                                                                                    CEO
project in which Direxon participated. “We were planning to have a
                                                                                                 Direxon
common reporting function, at least among the Finnish participants, and
that’s why we started testing Severa 3,” said Direxon CEO Jaakko
Malmgren.

Because Severa 3 was developed as a self-service solution, Direxon
found it easy to implement and use immediately. The company was able
to independently implement Severa 3 in their organization without IT
involvement. According to Malmgren, the implementation went smoothly
and without a hitch: “The start-up process was extremely easy. I
registered myself on the system as a free user and after adjusting a few
settings, I was able to complete my first work-hour entry. Severa’s quick
implementation puts it in a class all its own when compared with other
PSA tools on the market.”

Severa also supported independent learning. “The user interface is
intuitive and therefore encouraged us to test and learn new features,”
said Malmgren. “Severa’s quick help and support documents guided us
through new procedures, such as adding several client accounts.”

Before using Severa, Direxon didn’t use a tool for project management,
CRM or billing functions. Like many other professional services
organizations, they tracked work hours in Excel. After only a few months
of using Severa, Direxon noticed great improvements in their business
processes. “Recording work hours and travel expenses has improved
tremendously,” said Malmgren. “Severa almost guarantees better
business processes. Daily reporting is so easy that we now have more
accurate information about how our time is spent.”




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                                                                             Professional Services
Professional Services Automation (PSA) Features Checklist:                   Automation Solution Benefits
                                                                             Checklist
 Delivers services via online Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model to
eliminate concerns about internal IT requirements—including costs for         Prevents revenue leakage by
hardware, system maintenance and software upgrades.                          ensuring all billable time is
                                                                             invoiced.
 Offers subscription-based, flexible billing model that allows for adding
and subtracting of users every month and bills monthly according to the       Allows non-billable time to be
number of users—with no penalty for reducing or adding users.                assessed in measuring overall
 Allows management to easily and quickly view how billable resources        customer profitability.
are performing, whether customers are being properly billed, and the
profitability of each project via customizable dashboards accessed by a       Generates invoices faster with
one-click methodology.                                                       greater accuracy.
 Presents simplified data-entry fields so billable resources can quickly     Tracks and predicts the
submit their time and won't become discouraged.                              utilization rate of each billable
 Provides an easy implementation process via a self-service model that      resource as well as other
allows most key features to be accessed by billable resources                employees.
immediately and without assistance.
                                                                              Identifies non-profitable tasks so
 Provides back-up technical support in case extra functionality is          resources can be reallocated.
required.
 Encompasses multiple business functions from sales to billing so that       Improves follow-up and
bids, projects, resource assignments and invoices can all be created         predictability of projects.
seamlessly within one system to avoid multiple data entry or wasteful
duplication.                                                                  Manages sales, customer and
                                                                             billing processes with a single
 Offers flexible work-task categories that can be customized according      tool.
to the areas of time tracked by the firm or according to customer
requirements.                                                                 Allows all employees to view
 Allows billable resources to access the service from mobile devices or     and contribute to the progress of
any Internet connection so that data can be submitted easily and quickly     projects, tasks and business in
every day.                                                                   general.

                                                                              Provides flexibility to employees
                                                                             for reporting on their time spent
                                                                             on each customer project
                                                                             regardless of their location.

                                                                              Monitors project profitability and
                                                                             progress effortlessly in real time.

                                                                              Creates more refined employee
                                                                             job descriptions based on time
                                                                             spent on tasks to assist with HR
                                                                             recruiting efforts.




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White Paper on Revenue Leakage in Prossional Services Firm

  • 1. Revenue Leakage at Growing Professional Service Firms: Are You Aware of the Money You Are Losing? +6,000 global companies use Severa Optimized for professional services, IT firms, consulting, advertising and engineering companies. Severa handles over 160,000 projects, 265,000 invoices and 11 million work hours. www.severa.com | info@severa.com Severa Customer 743 3175 Story, page 1 / 2 | +358 20 Success
  • 2. Revenue Leakage at Growing Professional Service Firms: Are You Aware of the Money You Are Losing? Executive Summary Professional services firms with staffs of 3 to 100 billable resources often lose revenue because they fail to properly track all of the time spent servicing customers. This happens because small firms often track time using spreadsheets, a process that becomes inefficient as the business grows and which often leads to incomplete time data as well as delayed invoicing or invoicing that is lower than it should be. This form of revenue leakage commonly occurs when tasks such as travel time, expenses and customer service are not properly noted. This white paper presents how a Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution addresses the time-tracking challenge cost-effectively. Delivered via the Internet, PSA solution providers typically charge per user per month, significantly lowering the cost compared to maintaining a similar system in-house. PSA solutions also make it easy for billable resources to enter their time and for managers to assess resource utilization and project profitability. PSA solutions can include elements of CRM and ERP as well as invoicing so that professional service firms can rely on them to manage customer projects all the way from the bid process to the final invoice. www.severa.com | info@severa.com Severa Customer 743 3175 Story, page 1 / 2 | +358 20 Success
  • 3. Revenue Leakage at Growing Professional Service Firms: Are You Aware of the Money You Are Losing? Small-to-medium size professional service businesses face a big Even with flawless billing challenge in tracking time spent on customers. As they grow larger from processes, businesses need to one or two-person shops, the amount of revenue they lose on a daily keep track of work hours on a basis can increase significantly. The challenge is the same across many daily basis to prevent losses. For business types including consulting, legal, accounting, engineering, example, if employees report marketing and advertising, technology solution providers and other work hours at the end of the professional services firms. week, the organization suffers a 15% profit loss. How Revenue Leakage Occurs Firms with employees reporting Revenue leakage occurs as professional services firms grow because work hours at the end of the time tracking data for each billable resource can be incomplete or month suffer a 30% profit loss. scattered depending on the system used and the diligence of each Revenue leakage occurs because billable resource when turning-in time sheets. To be profitable, employees don’t recall work professional services firms need everyone that services customers— activities correctly and may from sales to service—to routinely submit time reports every day or allocate billable hours as non- more often. billable hours. That’s a direct hit to the bottom line. Spreadsheet Suspicion When a firm is still very small, with only one or two billable resources, tracking time on spreadsheets is usually sufficient. As long as each billable resource correctly tracks all of their time, the business can be assured that all clients are being properly billed, and they can accurately measure the profitability of any fixed-fee projects. But as more billable resources are added to the staff, tracking time by spreadsheets becomes problematic. It requires every billable resource to classify time using the same time-category definitions. It also requires administrative time to combine spreadsheets from different people. The more people submitting spreadsheets, the more difficult the task becomes (especially if time-category definitions are not uniform company-wide). If billable resources submit reports late, invoicing and cash flow will lag. And with spreadsheets allowing billable resources to use their own reporting template, some resources might list their time across five task categories while others might use seven. Management won't be able to properly track the work being done for each client, which delays billing even further. This situation also makes it more difficult to assess the amount of time that billable resources spend on each task. To Bill or Not to Bill? Revenue leakage can also occur if each billable resource does not clearly understand the difference between billable time and non-billable time. Some administrative tasks might be billable to the client, while others may not. If management does not clearly review time submissions in near real time, errors discovered at the end of a month or when the customer receives their invoice may have to be resolved in favor of the customer. It will be too late to correctly remember what occurred, and it's probably too late to convince the www.severa.com | info@severa.com Severa Customer 743 3175 Story, page 1 / 2 | +358 20 Success
  • 4. Revenue Leakage at Growing Professional Service Firms: Are You Aware of the Money You Are Losing? customer even if memories are accurate. For the sake of maintaining the customer relationship, the business will usually need to err on the side of not billing for time that otherwise could have been billed. The Travel Time Dilemma Another area where revenue leakage occurs for professional service firms includes travel time to-and-from customer sites. Whether a business bills the full rate for both directions, a half rate, nothing at all, or by some other formula, the time must be tracked properly to ensure proper billing and to ensure the overall profitability of the project is assessed properly. Cost of Prospecting & Customer Service The sales process is another area for potential revenue leakage. Generally, sales time is not billed to customers, but management still needs to view the amount of time reps spend on each prospect to measure the cost of each sale and to ensure that prospects with the greatest potential receive the greatest amount of prospecting time. If too much time is spent on non-profitable prospects, the company will ultimately lose revenue. Once a prospect becomes a customer, revenue leakage can occur in the customer service area. Whether customer service time is built into the cost of a product, billed at an hourly rate, factored in as part of a flat monthly fee, or offered as a free courtesy, management must still measure the cost of the time. Management should also make sure customer service reps spend more time on profitable customers vs. less profitable customers. In the long run, the most profitable customers will generate more revenue, so that is ideally where the most time should be spent. Monitor Activity in Real Time Through a Centralized System When assessing the time of billable resources in the areas described above, it's critical that assessments take place in as close to real time as possible. Checking billable resource time on a daily basis makes it more likely that problems can be rectified before it's too late. If a problem occurs early in the month, rectifying the issue at the end of the month or perhaps 60 days later when the customer is about the pay the invoice, will likely not be possible. The firm will either lose out on billable time, or the profitability of a project will suffer due to unnecessary time applied to a customer project. And as small-to-medium size professional service businesses add more billable resources, tracking all of these work-related tasks along with travel time, expenses, time spent on servicing and time spent on new sales, will become more overwhelming on spreadsheets that each individual resource manages and submits. Thus, it's critical to have all resources submit information into one central system. Converting to a central system will require a process change throughout the business, and convincing people to change how they conduct and document their work is a major challenge in itself. To meet this challenge, it's important that management explain why www.severa.com | info@severa.com Severa Customer 743 3175 Story, page 1 / 2 | +358 20 Success
  • 5. Revenue Leakage at Growing Professional Service Firms: Are You Aware of the Money You Are Losing? the change is needed and demonstrate how revenue and profit margins are being hurt by de-centralized time tracking methods such as spreadsheets. Professional Services Automation: The Most Effective Time- Tracking Alternative In considering where to turn for a solution to the spreadsheet dilemma that causes revenue leakage, many firms think they can continue to get by with spreadsheets and that their revenue leakage problem is not significant. The problem with the spreadsheet model is that measuring the size of the problem may not be possible. But for the long-term health of the firm, it's critical to generate a baseline revenue leakage measurement. Other firms assume it will take too long to implement a solution, and they fear they may invest too much capital and months of time only to find the solution does not deliver as promised. This is often the case for firms that have attempted to deploy complex Enterprise Resource Planning solutions, but they come with price tags that make sense only for firms with 100 or more billable resources. For an effective time-tracking solution, it's important for professional services firms to find a solution where they can capture all time information in one easy-to-access, centralized application so that time is not spent re-keying the data into another application. If the workflow is complicated, billable resources may spend extra time submitting the data, and managers may not have enough time to properly assess the time reports. The best way to meet this need for firms with 3 to 100 billable resources is to rely on an online professional services automation (PSA) service delivered via the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. With the SaaS method, the application is hosted over the Internet by the solution provider. This model has become popular as end users realize their data remains safe even when delivered by an Internet-based service. SaaS particularly makes sense for small- and medium-size professional service firms because most providers using the SaaS model invoice customers on a monthly basis per user, and they allow customers to change the number of users at the beginning of each month. For a firm that expects to grow on a monthly basis or might need to reduce staff at some point, this is a much more cost-effective approach compared to purchasing a number of software licenses that would be owned outright but that may or may not be needed. The SaaS model also means the firm does not need to allocate computer hardware to run the software or use internal IT people to maintain the software and future budget funding for system upgrades. The PSA SaaS model allows billable resources to enter their time daily or more often from a mobile device or anywhere they can access an Internet connection. This is particularly important for firms with resources that spend most or all of their time in the field. By entering data in real time as tasks are completed, management can immediately view the data for red flags that indicate something is amiss, and it accelerates the billing cycle. www.severa.com | info@severa.com Severa Customer 743 3175 Story, page 1 / 2 | +358 20 Success
  • 6. Revenue Leakage at Growing Professional Service Firms: Are You Aware of the Money You Are Losing? PSA streamlines business The best SaaS offerings provide flexibility to create different categories processes by reducing of billable time. They also use cross-industry, easy-to-read forms and administrative work and allowing reports. These can be more effective than industry-specific time-tracking data management and billing to services that often create too much complexity along with so many become more efficient. Many extras to choose from that field personnel as well as management firms experience improvement in become frustrated to the point where they don't use the tool. the speed and accuracy of invoicing, which also benefits A PSA solution should encompass some components of CRM, ERP, customers that need to see time-tracking, project management and billing, but if the solution delves billable time broken down across too deeply into any one area, it may discourage billable resources specific categories. This in turn because of the time it takes them to fill-in all the information. Solutions reduces the amount of customer designed for cross-industry use tend to focus only on the major invoice inquiries. information that's needed so end users and managers spend minimal time entering and analyzing data. That allows them to spend more time PSA broadens the types of on their core competencies. activities that can be tracked. Rather than just tracking hours Professional Services Automation Benefits directly related to customers, businesses can monitor time A major benefit that PSA solutions deliver that might not be expected is spent on administrative duties, in- the documentation that service firms can deliver to their customers. house projects, and partner- Automated solutions create detailed hourly reports by the task and by related projects. This helps the billable resource so that customers can view a list of all the tasks properly assess employee and all the hours. This helps emphasize the value that professional performance as well as overall services firms deliver. Because the time per task and resource is shown business costs. clearly, customers will feel the service firm is being more transparent—a vital attribute in today's business world for being a generator of trust. Analyzing the time that sales and customer service spend on each customer can also lead to improvements in overall process efficiencies that reduce business costs. If an exorbitant amount of time is spent on a particular work order, it may indicate that sales is not communicating clearly with customer service and production on what needs to be delivered to the customer. This is another important area to track in order to keep profit margins high and to ensure customer retention. If tasks are not clear, or if incorrect resources are assigned, it can slow down service. With a PSA solution, business managers can closely evaluate the utilization of all billable resources. If resources are over-booked during an extended time frame, customer service may suffer, and it may indicate that the service fees being charged are too low. If resources are under-booked, then revenue is lost, and it may indicate that service fees are too high. By proactively identifying either condition, management can prevent revenue leakage. It's also important to take advantage of the ability to drill-down into the utilization rate of each resource to see exactly how that time is being spent. If two resources are utilized 100 percent of the time, it could be that Resource 1 is utilized on billable time 100 percent while Resource 2 is on billable time only 50 percent while the rest of the time is being spent on non-billable tasks. Managers can then analyze the non-billable tasks to make sure they are warranted and also confirm whether they should actually be billable tasks. www.severa.com | info@severa.com Severa Customer 743 3175 Story, page 1 / 2 | +358 20 Success
  • 7. Revenue Leakage at Growing Professional Service Firms: Are You Aware of the Money You Are Losing? Professional Services Automation Case Study “Recording work hours One of the leaders in Professional Service Automation is Severa and travel expenses has Corporation, a provider of SaaS-based PSA solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses. Severa 3 is offered as an online application improved tremendously. for advertising agencies, consulting, law firms, engineering houses, architecture firms, accounting firms and other professional services organizations. Severa enables service firms to manage customers, Severa almost projects, work time and billing with one centralized system. Severa’s transparency into project data also helps communicate business guarantees better objectives, optimize resource allocation and reduce revenue leakage. business processes. One of Severa's customers, Direxon, is an industry expert in the field of identity-based security and network services. They help customers plan, Daily reporting is so develop and implement identity management processes. As a result, Direxon’s customers receive documented security improvements that easy that we now have enable closer business relations with their clients and partners, and better performance for their mobile users. more accurate Direxon chose Severa 3 for enhanced accounting, project management, information about how customer relationship management, and resourcing procedures. Severa 3 also helped Direxon to develop better business communication our time is spent.” processes based on improved reporting techniques. All of these features have led to optimized resource allocation and reduced revenue leakage. Jaakko Malmgren Initially, the need for a PSA system derived from a European Union CEO project in which Direxon participated. “We were planning to have a Direxon common reporting function, at least among the Finnish participants, and that’s why we started testing Severa 3,” said Direxon CEO Jaakko Malmgren. Because Severa 3 was developed as a self-service solution, Direxon found it easy to implement and use immediately. The company was able to independently implement Severa 3 in their organization without IT involvement. According to Malmgren, the implementation went smoothly and without a hitch: “The start-up process was extremely easy. I registered myself on the system as a free user and after adjusting a few settings, I was able to complete my first work-hour entry. Severa’s quick implementation puts it in a class all its own when compared with other PSA tools on the market.” Severa also supported independent learning. “The user interface is intuitive and therefore encouraged us to test and learn new features,” said Malmgren. “Severa’s quick help and support documents guided us through new procedures, such as adding several client accounts.” Before using Severa, Direxon didn’t use a tool for project management, CRM or billing functions. Like many other professional services organizations, they tracked work hours in Excel. After only a few months of using Severa, Direxon noticed great improvements in their business processes. “Recording work hours and travel expenses has improved tremendously,” said Malmgren. “Severa almost guarantees better business processes. Daily reporting is so easy that we now have more accurate information about how our time is spent.” www.severa.com | info@severa.com Severa Customer 743 3175 Story, page 1 / 2 | +358 20 Success
  • 8. Revenue Leakage at Growing Professional Service Firms: Are You Aware of the Money You Are Losing? Professional Services Professional Services Automation (PSA) Features Checklist: Automation Solution Benefits Checklist  Delivers services via online Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model to eliminate concerns about internal IT requirements—including costs for  Prevents revenue leakage by hardware, system maintenance and software upgrades. ensuring all billable time is invoiced.  Offers subscription-based, flexible billing model that allows for adding and subtracting of users every month and bills monthly according to the  Allows non-billable time to be number of users—with no penalty for reducing or adding users. assessed in measuring overall  Allows management to easily and quickly view how billable resources customer profitability. are performing, whether customers are being properly billed, and the profitability of each project via customizable dashboards accessed by a  Generates invoices faster with one-click methodology. greater accuracy.  Presents simplified data-entry fields so billable resources can quickly  Tracks and predicts the submit their time and won't become discouraged. utilization rate of each billable  Provides an easy implementation process via a self-service model that resource as well as other allows most key features to be accessed by billable resources employees. immediately and without assistance.  Identifies non-profitable tasks so  Provides back-up technical support in case extra functionality is resources can be reallocated. required.  Encompasses multiple business functions from sales to billing so that  Improves follow-up and bids, projects, resource assignments and invoices can all be created predictability of projects. seamlessly within one system to avoid multiple data entry or wasteful duplication.  Manages sales, customer and billing processes with a single  Offers flexible work-task categories that can be customized according tool. to the areas of time tracked by the firm or according to customer requirements.  Allows all employees to view  Allows billable resources to access the service from mobile devices or and contribute to the progress of any Internet connection so that data can be submitted easily and quickly projects, tasks and business in every day. general.  Provides flexibility to employees for reporting on their time spent on each customer project regardless of their location.  Monitors project profitability and progress effortlessly in real time.  Creates more refined employee job descriptions based on time spent on tasks to assist with HR recruiting efforts. www.severa.com | info@severa.com Severa Customer 743 3175 Story, page 1 / 2 | +358 20 Success