SharpOWL supports and enhances the core business processes that underpin successful management of people and projects. Enabling the collection of a wealth of information about client relationships, project performance & profitability and resource skills & utilisation - SharpOWL will ensure that you make important strategic business decisions rapidly and with confidence.

• Maintain a database of resource skills, qualifications and attributes
• Match skills with availability by reference to Microsoft Outlook and Project Calendars
• Manage booking requests
• Understand resource constraints or over capacity
• Forecast service revenues
• Identify recruitment and training needs

• Maintain client and project information
• Maintain task and activity dictionaries
• Configure analysis codes / measures to support business analysis and reporting
• Capture time and expense information quickly and accurately
• Process expenses in foreign currencies
• Process and authorise time and expenses rapidly
• Record achievement against project tasks and key milestones
• Communicate essential information regarding project status and performance

• Easy to use, fully automated time and expense capture
• Workflow for routing and approval of time and expense
• Feeds SharpOWL Billing and other applications
• Web-based and off-line time and expenses
• Reduce admin costs associated with heavy spreadsheet and paper-based systems
• Eliminate revenue leakage
• Shorten the time to cash cycle

• Maintain rate schedules and project or client overrides
• Establish fixed price billing schedules and milestones
• Manage complex billing scenarios
• Manage inter / intra company recharges to other cost centres
• Online drafting and editing of invoices
• Manage write-offs, uplifts and incremental charges
• Publish electronic invoices to clients for approval via the web

• Compare actuals vs. both cost and charge budgets
• Measure costs by resource and / or activity
• Manage currency exchange rates
• Comprehensive work-in-progress reporting
• Report on revenue and profitability by client, project and other measures
• Report on resource utilisation and recovery

SharpOWL provides reporting, business intelligence and analytics capability through its embedded use of Microsoft Reporting Services and the Vision suite. A range of standard but configurable reports are complemented by the provision of a series of preconfigured database views that enable users or SharpOWL consultants to develop custom reports. Additionally SharpOWL provides a fully-detailed database 'schema' that will allow users to adopt their own reporting strategy based upon other widely available business reporting tools.

• Microsoft Project Server - SharpOWL provides comprehensive integration with MS Project Server enabling the sharing / synchronisation of key data such as projects, tasks and resources. SharpOWL organisation structures and project entities can be imported into MS Project Server to automatically configure outline codes.
• Financial Systems – SharpOWL has extensive experience of integration with leading financial accounting and ERP solutions including CODA, Microsoft Business Solutions, Sage, SAP and SunSystems.
• Other 3rd party applications – SharpOWL’s integration manager provides a highly configurable tool for integration with other applications via XML.

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