By
Jyoti Tejpal
Web-based customer service application build stronger relation with customers Workflows automate Email alerts Task assignments & Field updates
Enables agility via automation Create powerful automated workflows Best way to plan, track, automate, and report on work User creates, no coding required, complex formulas
Scalable Extensible & Sustainable solution Feature-rich automation Designs workflows visually, Auditing capabilities Advanced Analytical customizable Dashboards
These Software’s helps in enabling the tracking, planning, management, and billing of services offered by independent contractors and services organizations. Professional services automation software is generally used by lawyers, auditors, IT consultants, and professional project managers. It is viewed as a small-business alternative to enterprise resource planning software to serve bigger businesses and tends to be costlier.
Polaris is the first self-driving PSA software that is a complete and easy-to-use Professional Services automation solution. Our high-performance Cloud platform follows the highest security protocols and privacy controls. Polaris integrates seamlessly into the existing ecosystem. Polaris is developed by Replicon to make the market’s most innovative and easy-to-use Solutions.
Diminishes cost of project life cycles: Provides users to track time, expenses, and progress on many projects, from conception to completion.
Streamlines resource allocation: Helps in distributing manpower, machinery, software, across projects where each will add the most value.
Eases customer collaboration: Manages various aspects of customer relationships, that include projects and contact details.
Project management: Planning and coordinating all the resources, funds, and time required for executing projects.
Billing and invoicing: Creating and managing monetary interactions between parties like bills and invoices.
Time and expense tracking: Logging and recording hours worked and costs spent for assisting them with billing and invoicing.
Collaboration tools: Sharing media files, communicating, and working together in a channel dedicated for all the team members.
CRM: Tracking interactions and noting things about clients and prospects with contact and helping in lead management features.
Resource management: Enabling capacity planning per project by allocating resources (manpower, machinery, software, etc.) where they will become most valuable.
Most products in the market are priced on a monthly basis. Pricing can be divided into three pricing tiers based on their starting price.
Standalone software vs. integrated suite: The simplest PSA software provides time sheets, billing, and very basic project management features. In contrast to it, more advanced and often more expensive systems also provide customer relationship management, capacity planning, knowledge management, and more. If your business already has a wide range of tools and just requires a system to manage projects, then it is wiser to pay less for fewer features. In case you are looking for single software tool to organize the health of your whole business, manage an integrated suite of tools.
Stage of business growth: PSA software entitles a wide range of business requirements. It should be one of the first few tools that your business adopts, as such and any vendor you choose should offer continuous customer support.
Move to cloud software from on-premise. The introductory costs of cloud computing software have declined in recent years. These decreased costs have also lowered barriers to entry for small and midsize businesses which require PSA software, but could not afford it in the past. Over the next few years, PSA software will move away from on-premise servers to generally cloud-based solutions.
PSA software growth will come from rural regions. Advances in technology such as PSA software have decreased the total costs to initiate a business and offered entrepreneurs to do so from anywhere. North America has historically is a pioneer in the world in PSA software adoption by moving forward, most future growth will come from rural areas of the market.
