{"id":443,"date":"2014-06-16T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portfolio-perspectives.planview.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2017-12-14T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T23:38:00","slug":"nasco-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/nasco-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study: NASCO Transitions to Deliverable-Based Billing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PPM for Professional Services Organizations is Used to Manage 1,700 Billable Resources and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/managing-craziness-change-portfolio-management\/\">Support New Business Evolution<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The transition toward meeting the client expectation of deliverable-based billing \u2013 as opposed to the more typical, billing by time and materials \u2013 is a common issue within professional services. Within a wide array of industries, whether as an internal, embedded organization or a stand-alone project-based business, client expectations are challenging PSOs to be ever-more diligent in itemizing the exact number of billable or field hours toward a specific milestone.<\/p>\n<p>NASCO needed to do just that and make this transition with limited resources. They did their research and realized that their current implementation of Planview Enterprise (that was being used to manage their resource management and capacity planning of their billable IT services) had, not only all of the information they needed, but also the reporting and invoicing capabilities that could be leveraged to accomplish their goals.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Planview Case Study: NASCO\" href=https:\/\/www.planview.com\/resource-center\/?resource_language[]=english&#038;resource_category[]=case-studies target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In this case study<\/a>, learn how NASCO made this major organization shift with success and saw:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduction of manual, time-consuming processes helping to streamline and grow the business<\/li>\n<li>New, real-time access between quote and cash in order to identify milestones to collect revenue<\/li>\n<li>Improved fiscal management of projects<\/li>\n<li>Strengthened project and program management and performance for improved return on investment and customer satisfaction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more about NASCO\u2019s story visit the <a title=\"Vibrant Customer Community section on Planview.com\" href=https:\/\/www.planview.com\/why-planview\/ target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vibrant Customer Community section on Planview.com<\/a> and access <a title=\"Planview's NASCO Presentation\" href=\"https:\/\/go.planview.com\/professional-services-nasco.html?tactic=perspectives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASCO\u2019s 30-minute presentation<\/a> on how they wrangled 1,700 billable resources into a system of managed projects and designed clear stages for billing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PPM for Professional Services Organizations is Used to Manage 1,700 Billable Resources and Support New Business Evolution The transition toward meeting the client expectation of deliverable-based billing \u2013 as opposed to the more typical, billing by time and materials \u2013 is a common issue within professional services. 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