Get Ready Its coming and FinancialForce Awaits

Dear Members,

Welcome to the latest version of your Newsletter!

GUILD UPDATE:  some important Guild of Project Controls News

The Guild standards - our version of a complete reference guide to PROJECT CONTROLS has for many weeks been available to download in its entirety providing the user is a registered Guild or PP member. We did this fundamentally to repay PP members for their loyalty to the cause and their help. 

Of course, The Standards (we need to come back to this later) were a MAJOR effort and are a Guild asset.

A fact is though that standards have to form part of The Guild offering so at the end of March access to the (possibly updated as they are a document in progress) standards will only be to Guild Members as part of their membership package.

Further...

Guild standards - what should we call them?

Thank you to many for their suggestions.... you have collectively proposed a favourite - here it is....

We remain open to ideas and welcome further suggestions....keep sending your ideas or comments to: ppadmin@planningplanet.com [1]

Our issue with a large Project Management organisation over the name of 'the standards' is now settled.....!

Great News for PlanningPlanet members! The latest industry research shows that the professional services industry is enjoying 10% growth for the fifth year in a row! (Source: SPI 2016).

This is great news if you are in the business of delivering projects and services. But many organisations are still facing real obstacles in their growth path that could be avoided. 

Join us for a webinar [2] on 17th March to hear Austin Rohr, PSA Product Marketing Manager from FinancialForce who will update you on top industry trends from the latest SPI professional services industry benchmark report. Neil Langford, Global Programme Manager at Unify will share his experiences of adopting a single cloud platform to streamline their professional services business. 

Webinar: 5 Ways Cloud Software Streamlines Services

• Register now [2]

• Reducing project cost
• Optimising resources
• Improving revenue forecasting
• Improving transparency
• Preparing for growth

FinancialForce

FinancialForce is the leading Cloud ERP vendor with apps built entirely on the Salesforce App Cloud. The company’s Financial Managemen [3]t, Professional Services Automation [4] (PSA), and Human Capital Management [5] (HCM) offerings provide services-centric businesses with a platform that organizes sales, services, finance and HR entirely around their customers. 

Unify

Unify [6] is one of the world’s leading communications software and services firms, providing integrated communications solutions for approximately 75 percent of the Fortune Global 500.