Project Management
 Microsoft Dynamics™ SL

 Renown's Dynamics™ SL Enhancements


Improve your project profitability by providing project managers with accurate and meaningful information needed to maintain tight control of project revenue, expenses and profits. The Project Series is the strongest suite in the Dynamics SL application with unrivalled functionality for managing projects. The key to the strength of the Project Series is its sophisticated, flexible, yet easy to use, functions for Allocating Labour Costs, Recognising Earned Revenue and Flexible Billing Projects.

The Dynamics SL Project Series is well suited to a broad range of industries including; Professional Services, Engineering, Architecture and Construction. There is wide range of screens and functions avaliable to provide essential features needed for Time, Cost and Billing across these industries.

With extensive integration to  Microsoft Project Server the Dynamics SL Project Series provides genuine Enterprise Project Management and Accounting.

 Project Modules  Dynamics SL

 Renown

 Allocator

 
 Analyzer

 Communicator

 Contract Management

 Employee Utilization

 Flexible Billings

 Project Budgeting

 Project Controller

 Time and Expense

 Renown's Financial Module's Enhancements


Refer to the  Microsoft Dynamics™ SL Web Site for more information; and Demonstration Videos.
Refer to the  Renown Software page for more information on Dynamics SL enhancements by Renown.

Module

Features

Project Controller

Flexibly design the Project Work Breakdown Structure WBS to match the way you estimate and manage projects. User definable account categories can be created to deliver greater visibility to project performance and enable easy reconciliation of project balances to corporate and business unit profitability.

Time and Expense

Take control of your labor, project, and travel expenses. Accurate, timely cost information gives you the precise information you need to increase your productivity and make better, more effective business decisions.

Contract Management

Streamline time-consuming contract management tasks and increase the productivity of subcontractor interactions for even the most complex projects. By improving control over change orders, document tracking, and subcontractor disbursements, you can help ensure timely completion, enhance cash flow, and boost profitability.

Project Budgeting

Manage your project finances with powerful budgeting tools that allow you to track original budgets and unlimited variations. By tracking your budgeting process you can view the impact of budget changes on profitability and manage the information you need to make your project successful.

Flexible Billings

Shorten billing cycles and improve cash flow by taking control of unbilled Work In Progress and convert it more quickly to revenues. Streamline invoicing with automatic generation, and draft approval routing; then easily note needed corrections, finalize invoices, and post receivables.

Allocator

Gain precise control over project finances by creating flexible, multi-tiered hierarchies to reflect the spectrum of labor rates and billing structures you need. Then automatically allocate charges and revenues, account for work-in-process, transfer or consolidate transactions, and record accurate data for billing and posting to general ledger accounts.

Communicator

Enhance control of project progress and profitability by increasing awareness of changes in key indicators or documents awaiting action. Automated alerts keep you informed of pending deadlines, required approvals, escalating costs, and eroding margins.

Employee Utilisation

Get the information necessary to improve the profitability of service professionals and other human resources. Track personnel availability, billable time, revenues, and the realization of established utilization goals. View timecard line-item detail, or speed up analysis by customizing and summarizing data in a variety of groupings and time periods.

Analyser

Enhance business decision-making with efficient access to comprehensive data about project performance and profitability. Quickly collect and summarize data for key metrics, selectively pinpoint details for analysis, and present results in intuitive and practical formats.

Project Server Integration