Projects and Profitability

We combine project planning, resources, work hours, costs, and billing into a single process. This makes it easier to monitor project progress, team utilization, and project profitability.

A project becomes profitable when time, cost, scope, and invoicing form a single process.
+20%
team productivity
−50%
Time from order to invoice
+25%
billing accuracy
Distinguishing Features

Why is a project's profitability not known until after it has been settled?

The margin is quietly declining

The budget, actuals, and commitments are tracked in separate files. The variance becomes apparent after the period is closed, when there is little room for maneuver.

Supply is not driven by demand

The sales team promises a deadline without confirming capacity or expertise. The project starts off with a shortfall, and the cost of overtime or subcontractors erodes the margin.

The work hours are posted too late

Timesheets and expenses are reported after several days or weeks. The manager sees an incomplete cost picture, so forecasts and decisions are based on underestimated data.

The forecast overlooks the risk

The forecast copies the budget or the manager's opinion without a history of variances or scope changes. Management receives a false sense of certainty instead of a risk range.

What's Changing

From Post-Facto Monitoring to Active Project Margin Management

The project-to-profit process integrates the proposal, baseline, resources, execution, actuals, changes, settlement, and forecast. Every variance has an owner and a decision.

The cost estimate, project plan, and financial budget are based on different assumptions, so the projected margin disappears when the project is transferred from sales to delivery.

A winning bid establishes a controlled baseline for scope, revenue, cost, and resources, and any deviation remains visible in the margin forecast.

The sales team confirms the deadline without checking the current availability of roles and competencies, and the resource manager does not resolve the conflict until just before the work begins.

Demand from the pipeline and active projects is compared with capacity, allowing the timeline, team composition, and cost to be verified before a commitment is made.

Time, expenses, and purchases are entered into the accounts with a delay, so the manager compares the budget with incomplete cost data and outdated progress figures.

Regular reporting and approval of actuals update costs, usage, work in progress (WIP), and readiness for invoicing according to an agreed-upon management schedule.

The monthly report shows how the budget is being executed, but it does not indicate how much it will cost to complete the project or what margin will remain after accounting for risks.

A rolling forecast combines actuals, commitments, remaining effort, and risks to update the EAC, ETC, and the margin at the end of the period.

Technologies

A single architecture integrates design, finance, analytics, and forecasting

Project Operations It manages the project cycle; Business Central handles accounting; Power BI supports decision-making; and Fabric , with AI forecasting, develops portfolio forecasts.

Project Operations

Dynamics 365 Project Operations integrates project-based sales, planning, resources, execution, and billing. We help you manage your budget, team utilization, and project profitability from quote to invoice.

Business Central (ERP)

Dynamics 365 Business Central is an ERP system for finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, and manufacturing. We help you migrate data, integrate processes, and gain real-time control over cash, inventory, and margins.

Power BI

Microsoft Power BI transforms data from multiple systems into reports, models, and KPIs, all accessible in one place. We help build business analytics that streamline reporting and support decisions based on reliable data.

Fabric

Microsoft Fabric is an integrated data and analytics platform that includes integration, lakehouse, data warehouse, real-time analytics, and Power BI. We help streamline your data architecture and shorten the path from source to decision.

Services

From an economic audit to scaling the project-to-profit model

We start by defining margins and decisions. Next, we organize the process, data, and roles; implement the solution; and develop forecasting and portfolio management capabilities.

Case Study

Billing time reduced by 50% and invoice accuracy increased by 25%

A global consulting firm was consolidating acquired companies and various accounting systems. After implementing Project Operations, Finance, Azure Analytics, and Power BI , productivity increased by 20%, time to invoice decreased by 50%, and invoicing accuracy increased by 25%.

INDUSTRY

Consulting firm

REGION

Globally

PRODUCTS

Dynamics 365 · Project Operations · Power BI
How We Work

First, the economics and baseline. Then, the system, forecast, and scale.

Project Economic Audit

We agree on the definition of margin, contract models, decisions, roles, data sources, and KPIs. We measure the baseline and identify process gaps.

Project-to-Profit Implementation

We design the workflow from quote to billing, integrate data, and launch a pilot of the portfolio, including roles, controls, and training.

Scaling and Optimization

We develop rolling forecasts, analytics, and governance. We measure adoption, forecast error, margin, and decision time, and we refine the model.

Numbers, not slides

What Works for Clients Who Have Placed Their Entire Company's Trust in Us

Five end-to-end projects from various industries. The same Microsoft tools, different results—because the initial questions were different.

LET'S TALK

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