Maconomy's Enterprise Project Optimization (EPO) software is a complete, configurable, standard web-enabled software solution designed for project-based companies. It offers integrated functionality for project planning, time and expense reporting, project management, billing, accounting, and management reporting. The single product approach allows for faster and lower-cost implementations compared to traditional ERP solutions, as little or no customization is required.

1. S O F T W A R E
S O L U T I O N S
P O W E R E D B Y

2. What Is Enterprise Project Optimization?
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S O F T W A R E
S O L U T I O N S
EPO or Enterprise Project
Optimization is the next
step forward in optimizing
company business
processes. Here's why:
Innovative, project-oriented
organizations have long
acknowledged the benefits
of optimizing and decen-
tralizing their internal busi-
ness processes with ERP-
like solutions, only to real-
ize that traditional ERP
solutions cannot fulfill their
core business needs. This
is because traditional ERP
solutions were developed
for the manufacturing
industry, i.e., for compa-
nies that produce goods.
Thus the obvious need for
a new generation of web-
enabled ERP software -
such as Maconomy's
Enterprise Project
Optimization software -
designed for project-based
companies, offering serv-
ices and billing hours.
To stay competitive,
companies must optimize
their value chain, covering
all business processes
from project planning and
management to financial
analysis and integration
with customers and suppli-
ers. Typically, companies
like this manage hundreds
of projects simultaneously
and operate as virtual
organizations with employ-
ees working between satel-
lite offices and client loca-
tions.
Maconomy is a com-
plete, configurable, standard,
webenabled software solu-
tion, based on evolving
industry best practice.
Maconomy's industry focus
and standard approach
mean that the solution can
be delivered faster with a
significantly lower total
cost of ownership than tra-
ditional ERP solutions.
Maconomy's EPO soft-
ware is already highly val-
ued by some of the
world's major players in
various service industry
verticals:

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Maconomy's Enterprise Project Optimization is a complete,
configurable, standard web-enabled software solution, based on
evolving industry best practice. The single product approach
translates into fast, safe and cost-effective implementation.
Project planning
& budgeting
Local employee
Internet
Local employee
Remote
employee
Remote employee
Accounting
Time & expense reporting
Project management & billing
Management reporting
and project analysis

4. New Ways of Doing Business
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• Global project control
• Allocation of global resources
• Integrated budgeting and planning
• Increased utilization rate and invoiced hours
P r o j e c t p l a n n i n g
& b u d g e t i n g

5. “Maconomy has the most
flexible invoicing capabili-
ties and after having been
through this very thorough
selection process, it was
clearly the best finance and
business administration sys-
tem for KPMG
Switzerland. Our internal
evaluation proved that
Maconomy was the favor-
able choice, due to its func-
tionality, user-friendliness,
ease of set-up and low
investment costs.”
Heinz Helfenstein
Vice Director Finance and
Accounting Department
KPMG Switzerland
The changing nature of
communications and the
success of Internet tech-
nology are transforming
the ways we do business.
Companies that once were
dispersed around the
globe have now been
brought closer together -
and new cross-
border/cross-market busi-
ness opportunities are
emerging rapidly. For many
organizations, global busi-
ness is a reality.
Service companies are
in the best position to take
advantage of the new
opportunities. Mainly
because they do not pro-
duce goods, but rather
sell knowledge and bill for
hours in an extended
enterprise environment.
Increased global compe-
tition has triggered a
growing need for many
organizations to be per-
ceived as a single supplier.
Thus, the increased focus
on coordinating global
resources, centralized
planning and on the ability
to manage customer bud-
gets across borders.
Accurate planning, bud-
geting and resource man-
agement combined with
online monitoring of proj-
ect information provide
companies and organiza-
tions with the right tools
to increase both their uti-
lization rate and invoiced
hours.

6. The modern, project-orient-
ed company often man-
ages hundreds of projects
simultaneously and oper-
ates as a virtual organiza-
tion with employees work-
ing between satellite
offices and client loca-
tions. Today, virtual teams
with different cultural
backgrounds and sets of
skills are now the “prod-
uct” that many customers
seek.
Unlike most software
packages that need to be
integrated with other front-
end software to support
the Internet, the
Maconomy solution is
already web-enabled. Java-
based time and expense
management allows users
to enter timesheets and
expenses directly into the
database using a web
browser. Thus, a compa-
ny’s “roaming” staff has
access to a two-way,
online information ex-
change, giving the company
a real-time view of all staff
activities and the billing
status of their projects.
Keeping the Global
Workforce Online

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• Decentralized time and expense capture
• Real-time WIP information (actual versus planned)
• Project management in virtual organizations
• Flexible invoicing for global projects
WPP Group plc has
appointed Maconomy as a
preferred supplier of
accounting and manage-
ment software to the WPP
group of companies, who
are in the process of imple-
menting Maconomy in sev-
eral offices in Europe and
the USA. WPP chose
Maconomy because of its
requirement for a system
that provides integrated
project management and
timesheet facilities together
with a strong multi-currency
General Ledger.
WPP Group plc
T i m e & e x p e n s e
r e p o r t i n g
P r o j e c t m a n a g e -
m e n t & b i l l i n g

8. Accounting for the Virtual Organization
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• Balancing inter-company accounts
• Single data source for consolidated reporting
• No re-entry of data – secure, accurate, up-to-date
• Centralized management of Key Performance Indicators
A c c o u n t i n g

9. Increased productivity is
one of the keys to manag-
ing costs in fast-growing
organizations. The concept
of a centralized back
office for accounting and
finance management, com-
bined with remote data
capture, is therefore an
attractive option. In the
service industry, real pro-
ductivity enhancements
are achieved when there is
complete integration
between planning and man-
aging projects and
accounting data.
Maconomy’s EPO solution
ensures that project data
is entered once – and
updated with no re-entry of
core data.
With the trend towards
converging industries and
markets – and today’s
many mergers, takeovers
and management buy-outs
– the tangled web of corpo-
rate entities often makes
sense in commercial terms,
but can be confusing and
irrelevant to customers
who prefer the ease of
“one-stop-shopping”.
Maconomy meets the chal-
lenge because with an EPO
solution, inter-company
transactions are automati-
cally balanced by sharing
resources across compa-
nies and organizations,
making group-wide plan-
ning easy and effective. “We agreed on Maconomy
because we felt that they
understood our business
better than the other
suppliers.”
Richard Jarvis
IT Director
Countrywide Porter Novelli

10. Fast, Flexible Access to Vital Information
M a n a g e m e n t
r e p o r t i n g a n d
p r o j e c t a n a l y s i s
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• Instant online data
• Dynamic answers to questions instead of reports
• Ease of use instead of reliance on IT personnel
• Decision support (with access control) for all organizational levels

11. Fast and flexible access to
vital information is crucial
for companies eager to
make better and timely
business decisions. In
most systems, this need is
met by using specialized
external reporting tools
that require the data to be
exported to a separate
data warehouse platform.
Maconomy has opti-
mized this approach by
turning the business sys-
tem itself into a ware-
house. This eliminates the
need for extra servers,
data exchange, and the
frequent duplication of
information. Of even
greater importance,
Maconomy provides direct
access to actual online
data to ensure the best,
real-time view of business
performance. Online
access not only helps peo-
ple at all organizational
levels do their jobs more
quickly and effectively,
employees dispersed
throughout the organiza-
tion are able to make bet-
ter-informed decisions on
the spot.
One of the key features of
Maconomy’s business man-
agement software is the
Analyzer module. It allows
users to quickly obtain the
facts they need without
making complicated
reports or asking IT per-
sonnel to help them
retrieve data. When people
spend less time getting
answers, they have more
time to put those answers
to use in driving the busi-
ness forward.
“The most important thing
about a job is to see the
profitability measured on
many different levels, e.g.,
employee, client or external
supplier. Maconomy gives
us these reporting facilities,
and on top of that elimi-
nates the need for typing in
information more than one
time. At the end of the day,
Maconomy saves us time
and gives us a better
overview”.
Ivan De Schrijver
Financial Director
BBDO International
Belgium

12. Integration is a key to
business optimization in a
complex environment. Of
course, integration is
much more than just get-
ting computers to talk to
one and other, it’s also a
question of integrating
work processes. In most
cases, this means sharing
information between
departments. For instance
between accounting, proj-
ect planning and manage-
ment, OLAP and the
Internet – which is precise-
ly what Maconomy has
been designed to do. All
user processes in
Maconomy are fully inte-
grated and based on a sin-
gle database. As a result,
inter-departmental cooper-
ation is vastly improved
and a great deal of
process redundancy is
eliminated.
Globally dispersed, proj-
ect-oriented enterprises
often consist of large and
small companies within the
same parent organization.
Maconomy can easily be
scaled up or down to suit
the local environment, be
it a handful or many thou-
sands of users. In either
case, Maconomy provides
outstanding speed, accura-
cy and convenience.
Maconomy’s single data-
base approach supports
mixed technology environ-
ments with Windows,
Macintosh and Web clients
as well as both UNIX and
NT-based servers. For
UNIX servers, Maconomy
is based on the Oracle
database, while for NT
servers, Maconomy sup-
ports both the Oracle data-
base and the Microsoft
SQL-server database.
The Heart of the Matter

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• Company-wide business process integration
• Web-enabled technology
• Data security
• Built-in scalability
“Maconomy’s project
accounting is fully inte-
grated with the general
ledger, saving us time dur-
ing registration and
administration proce-
dures.”
Henri Hoogendijk
Chief Financial Officer
Philips Design

14. Business software, if well
designed to begin with,
will provide all the features
and flexibility a company
needs from the very first
day - without special cus-
tomizing.
The moment a company
starts to reprogram an
application to fit their spe-
cific needs - or to dupli-
cate old habits - they
begin to create a propri-
etary system. Such sys-
tems are expensive to
maintain and when future
software versions become
available, they are rarely
compatible with previously
customized versions.
Maconomy software is
configurable standard soft-
ware, based on evolving
industry best practice. This
“single product philosophy”
offers advanced and flexible
functionality for project-
oriented companies, so
they are able to optimize
their business processes
by using the standard ver-
sion of Maconomy.
Maconomy International
invests all R&D resources
in maintaining and
strengthening this solution
for its targeted user groups.
Automatic upgrades once
a year ensure Maconomy
customers constant
access to the proven best
practice in their business
segment.
F u n c t i o n a l i t y
1 0 0 %
9 5 %
T i m e
B e s t p r a c t i c e
M a c o n o m y ' s
s u s t a i n e d
b e s t p r a c t i c e
F u n c t i o n a l i t y l a g
I m p l e m e n t a t i o n t i m e
f o r i n d i v i d u a l i z e d
s o f t w a re p a c k a g e s
95% is better
than 100%
Implementation time
for most software pack-
ages that aim at 100%
functionality is very
long. By the time a cus-
tomized system is opera-
tional, Maconomy’s
standard software will
already be far ahead in
terms of best practice
functionality.
The Single Product Approach

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Maconomy software is
designed for the global
service and distribution
industries, with the main
focus on medium- to large-
size companies.
Maconomy’s client list
includes an impressive
number of international
customers within these
segments.
Maconomy offers an
end-to-end solution, which
supports the business
processes of project-based
companies offering knowl-
edge-intensive services
and billing hours or proj-
ects. The Maconomy solu-
tion offers best practice
functionality for these
companies - and includes
financial management, proj-
ect management, e-com-
merce, procurement, and
business intelligence func-
tionalities, all of which are
fully integrated into one
single, configurable, stan-
dard product.
All Maconomy R&D
resources are invested in
mapping out best practice
functionalities for the com-
pany’s target industries
and this constantly
improves the competitive-
ness of the total solution.
All Maconomy customers
are able to upgrade on a
yearly basis which ensures
continuous access to “best
practice” improvements.
Maconomy
International’s fast track
implementation method,
referred to as “Product-
based Re-engineering”,
uses the configurable stan-
dard product and best
practice principles as a
starting point for business
process re-engineering. As
a result, Maconomy can
usually be implemented in
3-6 months, including re-
engineering, ensuring cus-
tomers a fast, safe and
cost-effective implementa-
tion process.
Powered by Maconomy

16. Maconomy International is
headquartered in
Copenhagen, Denmark.
International sales and serv-
ice are carried out by
100% owned subsidiaries
in the Benelux, Denmark,
Norway, Sweden, the
United Kingdom and the
United States. Maconomy
International is backed by
a group of international
venture capital investors
including Danish Venture
Finance, 3 (UK), Vertex
Capital Management
(Singapore), Gilde IT Fund
(NL), and Star Venture (D).
Some 50% of the compa-
ny’s employees are also
shareholders.

17. Implementation
6-12 months
Customization
6-12 months
Implementation
2-6 months
Re-engineering
6-12 months
Re-engineering
2-6 months
Ty p i c a l S t a n d a r d F r a m e S o l u t i o n
G o l i v e
G o l i v e U p g r a d e
M a c o n o m y S o l u t i o n
Maconomy's unique
implementation method
makes it possible to
implement Business
Process Re-engineering
during software installa-
tion. As a result,
Maconomy can offer
customers several
upgrades in the same
time it takes to implement
a traditional standard
frame solution.
The Fast Track to Business Optimization
Traditional high-end system
implementations often take
a very long time because
to achieve real re-engineer-
ing benefits, all a compa-
ny’s core business
processes must be re-engi-
neered. Typically, the first
step is re-engineering busi-
ness processes (BPR) and
implementing change in
the organization - and then
and only then can the
selection, customization,
and installation of a new IT
solution be carried out. A
traditional BPR approach
normally takes several
years and requires exten-
sive and expensive con-
sulting services.
The combination of con-
figurable standard software
with best practice function-
alities in selected business
segments has allowed
Maconomy to develop a
unique implementation
method called “Product-
based Re-engineering”.
Using this method, small,
inefficient business process-
es are re-engineered easily
and effectively. Thus, in all
our client implementation
projects, re-engineering is
integrated with the installa-
tion of the software so
that organizational
changes are carried out
simultaneously. This
reduces the implementa-
tion period to 3-6 months,
ensuring that the change
process is fast, safe and
cost-effective.

18. Maconomy
International
Software
Headquarters
Maconomy International
Vordingborggade 18-22
DK-2100 Copenhagen
Phone: +45 35 27 79 00
Fax: +45 35 27 79 10
www.maconomy.com
Denmark
PPU Maconomy A/S
Vordingborggade 18-22
DK-2100 Copenhagen
Phone: +45 35 27 79 00
Fax: +45 35 27 79 10
www.maconomy.dk
Norway
Maconomy Norge A/S
Boks 75, Lilleaker
N-0216 Oslo
Phone: +47 67 10 16 00
Fax: +47 67 10 16 01
www.maconomy.no
Sweden
Maconomy Sverige AB
Pyramidvägen 7
SE-169 56 Solna
Phone: +46 (0)8 587 077 00
Fax: +46 (0)8 587 077 99
www.maconomy.se
United Kingdom
Maconomy (UK) Ltd.
Regal House, 70 London Road
Twickenham, Middlesex TW13QS
Phone: +44 (0) 181 843 7000
Fax: +44 (0) 181 843 7001
www.maconomy.co.uk
USA
Maconomy NE Inc.
33 Boston Post Road West, Suite 310
Marlborough, MA 01752
Phone: +1 508 460-8337
Fax: +1 508 303-8075
www.maconomy-usa.com
Benelux
Maconomy Benelux B.V.
Building Rivierstate
Amsteldijk 166, 1079 LH Amsterdam
Phone: +31 (0) 20 661 26 26
Fax: +31 (0) 20 661 23 33
www.maconomy.nl
www.maconomy.be
Hungary
Trenger és Társai Kft.
Kossuth L.u. 13
H-2500 Estergom
Phone: +36 33 400 821
Fax: +36 33 400 822
Bulgaria
FTS Ltd.
Dondukov Blvd. no 19, 4th floor
1000 Sofia
Phone: +359 2 986 42 12
Fax: +359 2 986 65 83