Leverage SmartBudget and Bill Plan Engine to Collaborate with Sales and Project Teams
Stay on top of costs, WIP, billing and manage accounting processes with ease.
Polaris for Finance/Billing
The Polaris self-driving PSA platform serves as the single source of truth for all your organization’s project, resource and finance metrics helping your billing team with complete real-time visibility into all financial metrics like costs, billing, WIP, cashflows etc. and helping them streamline billing and revenue recognition
Advanced Analytics for Finance Executives
- MissionControl gives real-time visibility into all your business metrics – profits, margins, revenues and more.
- Tailored views cater to every role within your project-based organization including project managers, resource managers, finance teams, practice managers, client managers and more.
- See the big picture using our dynamic summary charts and dashboards to take your services businesses to the next level.
- Drill down to analyze the underlying project, resource, costs and billing data to make proactive decisions.
- Configure and schedule reports to match your organization’s reporting needs.
- Leverage advanced API for BI and prebuilt Tableau, PowerBI, Google BigQuery connectors to meet specific analytics needs.
Financial Modeling for Better Budgets and Bids
- SmartBudget ensures your proposals and bids are right at the start to ensure every project meets all business metrics.
- Factor in 100% of resource time and costs & overheads while creating rate cards to maximize margins and profitability.
- Predict business metrics based on rates under consideration to make smart decisions about projects.
- Leverage true utilization number against 100% of people time based on historical information, current and future availability.
- Arrive at project margins and profits based on a 360° view of your business.
Comprehensive Project Accounting
- Manage financial controls on all projects – budgets, estimates, costs, margins, WIP, billings, bookings etc. with ease.
- Gain full visibility into project financial health in real-time.
- Track project status in real-time with instant updates from your resources.
- Understand projects and tasks that are ready to be billed for every client.
- Improve visibility into cash flows and reduce billing lead times.
- Manage billing issues upstream before they percolate downstream resulting in unhappy customers.
Revenue Plans and Rev Rec
- Model complex revenue contracts with a flexible system.
- Quickly reconcile revenue with contracts, WIP, and billing.
- Leverage revenue recognition built as an extension of the billing and invoicing platform.
- Get support for industry standard revenue recognition standards – ASC 606 and IFRS 15.
- Generate accurate revenue forecasts and plan out your future.
Flexible Bill Plan and Rates
- Utilize project-specific, user-level, role-based rates or create custom ones to generate billing and costing information.
- Leverage our versatile bill plan modeling to accommodate various client/project billing needs – fixed-bid, time & materials, flat or any combination.
- Leverage effectivity dates to manage rate structures and align them with ongoing cost and margin requirements.
- Build rate cards with effectivity dates for each role to model long-running client engagements.
- Model hourly, daily, or monthly rates to capture billing information at the required level of granularity.
Business Governance
- Standardize projects, resources, billing, revenue and other processes across your services organization.
- Define projects with configurable project stages to ensure business process adherence.
- Manage full resource lifecycle from forecasting resource needs to managing allocations and utilization.
- Model billing and revenue plans as per your business needs to enhance collaboration between project and finance/billing teams.
- Oversee documentation requirements in projects, expenses, time off and timesheets to capture needed details as part of process.
- Get everyone on the same page to ensure consistent execution and growth.
Managing Your Clients
- Manage customers, vendors, fund sources, service partners or internal departments using the client entity.
- Leverage actionable insights with a consolidated view of all client-specific projects and engagements.
- Access real-time metrics like costs, billing, profitability, and more to better assess your client relationships.
- Bring transparency into project delivery by providing visibility to clients into what work is being done through configurable reports and views.
- Streamline costing, billing and consolidation processes w.r.t clients.
Managing Your Practices
- Roll-up similar projects into programs/practice and manage a variety of professional services practices in your organization.
- Set up key attributes for every practice including hours, costs, billing and more.
- Centrally view and manage all projects associated with a practice in real-time and gain instant visibility.
- Make proactive decisions and manage your service delivery in-the-now.
- Gain full visibility into practice profitability and performance.
Collaborate with Your Project Leaders
- Automatically pull and plan for projects from your CRM.
- Truly manage your projects in real-time with live resource inputs around effort and completion estimates.
- SmartBeats gets instant reports from project users about work done, remaining work, EAC and completion date.
- Project managers can approve/edit user beats and give feedback to users on work done, remaining work and estimates to complete.
- Project Pulse helps PMs evaluate for early warnings based on user beats, task beats to take necessary action to take control of project delivery.
Collaborate with Your Resource Leaders
- Determine current and future allocation levels with a global resources’ view.
- Track skills, certificates and expertise levels for each resource as needed by your services firm.
- Improve collaboration between project and resource managers with a comprehensive resource requisition workflow.
- SmartMatch provides intelligent recommendations with ideal resources for the job based on all the requirements making the allocation process simple.
- Generate resource forecast reports to gain visibility into future resource availability and requirements.
Capture Time and Expense for Resources
- Capture client project time and expense data anytime, anywhere as per your needs.
- Track billable and non-billable hours by project even when mobile.
- Create and automate intelligent approval workflows with all the stakeholders.
- Leverage real-time notifications on any device to ensure timely submission for processing.
- Consolidate all the time and expense details to understand the true costs for making informed billing decisions.
Getting Your Project Financials Right
- Leverage our versatile bill plan modeling to accommodate various client/project billing needs – fixed-bid, time & materials, flat or any combination.
- Build rate cards with effectivity dates for each role to model client engagements.
- Track financial health, understand WIP and improve visibility into cashflows.
- Configurable invoicing engine with multiple templates takes care of all your client billing needs.
- Leverage revenue recognition built as an extension of the billing and invoicing platform.
Seamless Integrations
- Quickly and easily integrate Polaris with any CRM, ERP, PM, HRMS system that your company uses.
- Share critical data with your ecosystem to enable project and resource planning, billing, and revenue recognition.
- Easily implement, deploy, and upgrade with turnkey and seamless cloud-based integrations.