NetSuite OpenAir understands how important it is for your information to flow from a single point of entry throughout all of your existing business systems. While you’re looking to the cloud to support your professional services automation (PSA) needs, you have existing systems in place. It is critical that systems new and old work together to contribute to profitability, project margins, resource utilization, and the visibility provided by an end-to-end integrated services resource planning (SRP) solution.

To meet this need, OpenAir Connect provides a set of pre-built integrations with customer relationship management (CRM), sales force automation (SFA), human resources (HR), financial/enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications and more.

Available as a powerful addition to NetSuite OpenAir’s advanced PSA software, OpenAir Connect ensures that you get all the benefits of the cloud, without sacrificing your existing technology investments and business processes.

Front office system integration
OpenAir Connect helps make the flow of information from pre-sales to forecast to execution seamless via pre-built integrations with customer relationship management (CRM) and sales force automation (SFA) systems, including:

Salesforce.com
OpenAir Connect for Salesforce.com is a set of pre-built integrations to share valuable information across your PSA and CRM systems, including project, opportunity, client and workspace data. Create a streamlined flow of information, eliminate double entry and improve operational efficiencies through integrated workflows to increase profit margins, real-time visibility and the number of projects you can manage while decreasing your project cancellation rates.
NetSuite
NetSuite and OpenAir integrate seamlessly, sharing pre-sales and project planning and management information as projects flow through the sales cycle. With an automated flow of information between NetSuite CRM+, and OpenAir, you can more effectively forecast projects in the pipeline and optimize resource management ahead of the curve. Easily grow to get complete Services Resource Planning and run your entire services business on a single platform by simply adding NetSuite Financials down the road.
Siebel/Oracle
OpenAir Connect for Oracle allows you to connect with Oracle’s leading customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, including Oracle’s Siebel platform. Manage your customer and prospect-facing operations with Siebel while flowing information directly into OpenAir to automate your project management, resource management, timesheet and expense management, view powerful services KPIs, manage complex project accounting and invoicing and more.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

With OpenAir Connect, you can leverage the power of the #1 PSA solution to address resource management, project management, timesheets and expenses and advanced project accounting with OpenAir and look to Microsoft Dynamics CRM to track sales performance and customer and prospect interactions and other valuable CRM functions. OpenAir Connect allows that CRM front-end information to be sent directly to OpenAir, automating the project management lifecycle.
OpenAir also integrates with standard Microsoft® applications including Excel®, Word®, Project®, Outlook®, as well as human resources systems.

Back office system integration
OpenAir Connect helps continue the flow of information straight through to your back office via pre-built integrations with financial applications, including accounting packages such as:

NetSuite
NetSuite and OpenAir integrate seamlessly, sharing information from project delivery through project accounting and invoicing, all in a single, web-based system. With an automated flow of information between OpenAir and NetSuite Financials, you can expedite your invoicing cycles, improve project profitability, forecast services revenue and more. Easily grow to get complete Services Resource Planning, and run your entire services business on a single platform by simply adding NetSuite CRM+ down the road
Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains
OpenAir Connect allows you to connect OpenAir’s industry leading professional services automation (PSA) software with Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) for accounting, revenue recognition and other financial processes. Seamlessly share project accounting, invoicing and expense management information between the two systems.
Sage MAS, Peachtree, Accpac and Sage Pro (SBT)
OpenAir Connect lets your professional services automation (PSA) solution and Sage’s MAS 90 and MAS 200 products, Peachtree, SagePro (SBT) and Sage Accpac share valuable project accounting, invoicing, expense management information and more.
Epicor
OpenAir Connect and Epicor’s ERP products can directly exchange information on valuable project accounting and financial information for your services business, including project accounting, invoicing and more.
QuickBooks
With OpenAir Connect’s direct integration with QuickBooks, small and medium sized organizations can expedite the project accounting and invoicing cycles by automatically sharing information.
Intacct
Integrate professional services automation and accounting applications in the cloud when you connect OpenAir and Intacct, sharing valuable project accounting, invoicing and expense management information.
Proprietary accounting systems
OpenAir Connect leverages open APIs and Web connectors, allowing you to connect your proprietary accounting systems directly to OpenAir.
For services businesses who have invested in ERP systems for the enterprise, OpenAir Connect integrates with leading ERP systems, including:

NetSuite

Looking to manage your entire services business on a single platform? NetSuite Services Resource Planning combines the power of OpenAir’s industry leading PSA solution with NetSuite, the #1 Web-based business software suite.  Share and manage information from pre-sales and project management and delivery through billing, invoicing and revenue forecasting and recognition, NetSuite SRP allows you to run your entire professional services business in the cloud.

SAP

Whether you use SAP for CRM, manufacturing or ERP/financials, OpenAir Connect allows you to share services information across the entire services lifecycle to increase project margins, expedite project accounting and invoicing and boost resource management.
Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards
No matter the Oracle Application you use for your ERP and financial management needs, OpenAir Connect has got you covered, from Oracle Financials and JD Edwards for accounting and ERP to PeopleSoft to maximize your team’s productivity. Share valuable project management information across your enterprise, including project accounting, resource management, billing, invoicing and expense management.

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Seamless integration to enterprise applications
NetSuite OpenAir understands how important it is for your information to flow from a single point of entry throughout all of your existing business systems. While you’re looking to the cloud to support your professional services automation (PSA) needs, you have existing systems in place. It is critical that systems new and old work together to contribute to profitability, project margins, resource utilization, and the visibility provided by an end-to-end integrated services resource planning (SRP) solution.

To meet this need, OpenAir Connect provides a set of pre-built integrations with customer relationship management (CRM), sales force automation (SFA), human resources (HR), financial/enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications and more.

Available as a powerful addition to NetSuite OpenAir’s advanced PSA software, OpenAir Connect ensures that you get all the benefits of the cloud, without sacrificing your existing technology investments and business processes.

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On-Site Training and Consulting

We can bring our classes to you! Customize the class to fit your specific business or role-based needs. The customized course can be delivered at the client’s location-of-choice or in Orlando (Maximum capacity = 10 participants). Per-day pricing includes 10 laptops preloaded with the training database, manuals for up to 10 students and one instructor. Additional fees include instructors travel, lodging and per diem. We also offer Primavera P6 training!

EVMS Implementation Services

748 makes project management simple by accelerating implementation and refinement of process with a three step approach:

1. Define who does what when. We have a recommended starter package that can be tailored to your business needs.
Below is a sample baseline development process:

2. Embed governance and workflow into the applications so that your processes do not sit on a bookshelf.

3. Document work instructions and embed into the instruction library so details of how to follow process within the applications is easy.

Systems implementation:

integration and interface requirements
software implementation
financial and other systems integration
EVMS process and tools training
enterprise rollout
Process consulting:

requirements definition
organizational readiness assessments
EVMS process design and documentation
ongoing surveillance
Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBRs)
EVMS mentoring and support
Data Integration

Many times our clients have a need for data integration solutions, especially during earned value implementations.  Data integration scenarios include but are not limited to:

Integration of EVMS software with legacy or commercial financial systems including Oracle, SAP, NetSuite, and others.
Integration with material, manufacturing and procurement systems 
Custom web dashboards built to show composite business information customized by role.
Integration between ERP systems and project management applications.
We have seasoned developers that are capable of developing customized applications for your business needs.
Enterprise Project Management Implementations

Our clients are unique, so we do not have a cookie cutter approach to implementations.

In the design phase of the implementation, we assist our clients in structuring their project management system data structures based on their specific business needs. 
Subsequent to design is the prototype stage where test business processes  as they relate to our tools and integration products.
During the pilot phase, the prototype is refined and tested on a small dataset using real business information.
During rollout, the implementation solution is carried through to the entire business.

Project Portfolio Management
Our staff has deep experience in a broad base of PPM software tools. 748INC possesses the knowledge and expertise to help you succeed with your implementation project.

Capital, Maintenance and Turnarounds – We also provide the following plant intensive services.

Resource capacity planning and management
Team collaboration best practices
Low cost data integration with work order and financial management systems
Role based dashboard setup
Risk management and analysis
Productivity management and forecasting best practices
Staff augmentation
Application Hosting
748INC application hosting services can optimize performance, reduce server downtime, restore and recover data, and protect the application from potential virus or hacker attacks. The offering includes installation and maintenance of a database/application server environment to support the customer’s deployment of their project portfolio management solution. Turnkey solutions available when combined with 748INC’s PPM solution design, configuration and deployment service offering.

NetSuite OpenAir Training and Consulting

748INC has consultants that have many years of experience in NetSuite OpenAir implementations and training.

Costpoint Data Integration Services

We offer data integration between NetSuite OpenAir and many other applications.

Planning & Scheduling

Accurate planning and scheduling is paramount to delivering projects on time and on budget. The Primavera solution helps planners and schedulers develop fast, accurate project plans that can be easily adapted as situations change. We give you the tools to bring your projects in on target.

Plan projects quickly and realistically
Model resource pools and skills
Allocate resources efficiently
Experiment with what-if scenarios
Capture status updates from remote workers via the Web
Model risk
Integrate contractor schedules
Provide project templates and standards
Managing Risk

Risks are best managed as a team. Primavera provides a formalized risk management solution to allow the whole team to proactively identify, track, and mitigate project threats and opportunities:

Centralized risk repository
Cross-program risk visibility
Mitigation planning and control
Risk accountability
Cost Management

Stories of projects running way over budget are all too common. With the right tools, costs can be closely controlled and potential overruns spotted early. The Primavera product suite contains marketing-leading cost management capabilities to help you centralize and manage cost data with minimal effort.

Easy integration with most scheduling, accounting, and purchasing tools
Manage contract changes, quantities, and calculate costs with confidence
Cash flow management
Earned value and trend analysis for forecasting based on past performance
Management by exception and early warning indicators
Summary and time phased reporting
Output reported directly to Excel® spreadsheets
Real-time Reporting

To meet the needs of the many stakeholders who need visibility into project status, Primavera offers portal access to all participants via a browser. Dashboards provide executives and customers with real-time Key Performance Indicators and high-level project health information.

Role-based views and reports
Customizable dashboards
Integration of data from multiple systems
Drill-down reporting
Clear accountability
Team Collaboration

Successful projects often require collaboration between disparate teams. Each team member, engineer, and contactor needs access to the latest information and a clear outline of roles and responsibilities. Primavera �s collaborative portal connects all participants to ensure optimal team-work.

Share information, documents, and ideas
Create project home pages and share status updates
Track individual responsibilities and action items
Manage issues and risks
Create standards and processes
Capture progress updates remotely
Relevant Products

Globalization, broadband, deregulation. Today’s telecom companies face many challenges and changes that will affect the way the world communicates tomorrow. Successful project portfolio management is critical to succeed in this increasingly competitive market. Primavera provides solutions to help you choose the right project investments and then manage those projects for maximum efficiency and results. And when things change, our products help you adapt quickly to capitalize on new opportunities and avoid risk.

New Product Development / Portfolio Management
The Primavera solution helps portfolio decision-makers prioritize projects based on real-time metrics and objective criteria. Primavera gives you the tools to:

Make fast, informed portfolio decisions
Assess the right portfolio mix of products and projects
Plan realistically based on objective priorities
Align projects with business strategy
Adapt portfolios quickly in response to market trends and opportunities
Project/Program Management

Whatever the nature of your projects, you need the right tools to maintain control, manage effectively, and ensure successful delivery. To ensure project success, the Primavera solution provides all the necessary tools to:

Optimize resource usage across all projects
Plan efficiently and quickly
Control project cost, quality, and delivery closely
Provide visibility into project status for all stakeholders
Measure performance and earned value
Manage by exception
Improve time to market
Risk Management

Unmanaged risk can endanger any project. To minimize risk exposure and avoid unexpected surprises, Primavera recommends involving the whole project team in the risk management process. We provide a complete solution for formalized risk management and the proactive reduction of project risk. The Primavera solution allows you to:

Centralize all risk information
Achieve enterprise-wide risk visibility
Plan, control, and measure mitigation strategies
Define and ensure risk accountability
Collaboration and Communication

The Primavera solution connects everyone in your project environment (team, contractors, partners, and even customers) to ensure maximum synergy and real-time collaboration by allowing you to:

Ensure timely communication with all project stakeholders
Keep everyone updated on all projects via a single interface
Combine multiple applications into custom dashboards and reports
Relevant Products

Cost Management

Energy projects rely on a diverse team to plan and manage program costs, typically using spreadsheets. Unfortunately spreadsheets usually do not talk to each other or to other corporate financial systems. Dual data entry and data integrity problems are all too common. The Primavera solution gives energy companies the ease-of-use and flexibility of spreadsheet reporting with the power of a centralized data source. With all project information in a central location, you can perform cross-project reporting, control cost calculation formulae, and automate integration with other systems.

Easy integration with most scheduling, accounting, and purchasing tools
Management of contract changes, quantities, and costs
Cash flow management
Earned value and trend analysis for forecasting based on past performance
Summary and time phased reporting
Output reported directly to Excel spreadsheets
Maintenance & Outages

Plant maintenance and outages can cost companies highly in terms of delays and lost production. Primavera ‘s solution provides sophisticated scheduling and resource management capabilities that help you minimize turnaround time. Our tools help you to ensure that the required manpower is available when needed and that equipment is utilized as efficiently as possible. Once the shutdown is underway, the tools provide a rapid cycle-time for progress collection, analysis, and exception reporting. When problems are identified, alternative solutions are easily modeled providing the visibility you need to deliver turnaround results.

Hierarchical project scheduling
Real-world calendar modeling including shifts
Flexible scheduling down to the minute
What-if modeling
Integration with other systems, such as MRO or work order systems
Project templates
Project Collaboration

With project teams often spread around the world, streamlining communication on energy projects is no small task. To ensure close collaboration betweens disparate teams, the Primavera solution can help you to:

Collaborate, exchange ideas, and share information
Keep track of all responsibilities, risks, and action items
Update project status remotely
Share data from multiple applications, including dashboard reporting
Risk Management

Risk management has never been more important than in today’s uncertain world. Project managers need the tools to efficiently capture and share risk information and proactively mitigate project threats. Primavera provides a formalized risk management solution for the systematic identification, mitigation, and reporting of project threats and opportunities. The Primavera solution gives you:

Centralized risk repository
Cross-program risk visibility
Mitigation planning and control
Relevant Products

New Product Development / Portfolio Management

Primavera can help portfolio decision-makers prioritize projects based real-time metrics and objective criteria. The Primavera solution gives you the ability to:

Make fast, informed portfolio decisions
Assess the right portfolio mix of products and projects
Plan realistically based on objective priorities
Align projects with business strategy
Adapt portfolios quickly in response to market trends and opportunities
Risk Management

Unmanaged risk can endanger any project. To minimize risk exposure and avoid unexpected surprises, Primavera recommends involving the whole project team in the risk management process. We provide a complete solution for formalized risk management and the proactive reduction of project risk.

Centralize all risk information
Achieve enterprise-wide risk visibility
Plan, control, and measure mitigation strategies
Define and ensure risk accountability
Project/Program Management

Whatever the nature of your projects, you need the right tools to maintain control, manage effectively, and ensure successful delivery. The Primavera solution provides the necessary tools to allow you to:

Optimize resource usage across all projects
Plan efficiently and quickly
Control project cost, quality, and delivery closely
Provide visibility into project status for all stakeholders
Measure performance and earned value
Manage by exception
Improve time to market
Cost Management

The Primavera solution gives manufacturing companies the ease-of-use and flexibility of spreadsheet cost reporting with the power of a centralized data source. With all project information in a central location, you can perform cross-project reporting, control cost calculation formulae, and automate integration with other systems.

Integrate seamlessly with MRP, Purchasing, and project schedules
Manage original budget and changes
Calculate bulk material items from direct tasks
Budget and forecast costs associated with overtime, waste, and rework
Collaboration and Communication

The Primavera connects everyone in your project environment (team, OEMs, partners, and even customers) to ensure maximum synergy and real-time collaboration. Primavera gives you the tools to:

Ensure timely communication with all project stakeholders
Keep everyone updated on all projects via a single interface
Combine multiple applications into custom dashboards and reports
Relevant Products

Portfolio Analysis

The Primavera solution provides a structured approach to evaluating, selecting, and prioritizing projects so that resources are always invested in the right projects – those that best fit with current business strategy. The entire project portfolio management process is improved by helping you to:

Consolidate key project information across the organization
Align portfolios with business strategy
Apply objectivity to project selection and prioritization
Rank and prioritize projects
Assess capacity to take on new projects
Track real-time project performance metrics
Risk Management

Unmanaged risk can endanger any project. To minimize risk exposure and avoid unexpected surprises, Primavera recommends involving the whole project team in the risk management process. We provide a complete solution for formalized risk management and the proactive reduction of project risk.

Centralized risk repository
Cross-program risk visibility
Mitigation planning, control, and measurement
Risk accountability
Resource Optimization

Skilled resources are a constraint on many IT projects. The Primavera solution can help you make optimal use of available resources and facilitate close collaboration between all participants.

High-level capacity planning
Cross-project planning and leveling
Skills definition
Collaborative portal for all team members
Issue and action item management
Successful Execution

Once the right projects are selected, Primavera helps you ensure successful execution throughout the project life-cycle. From accurate planning to cost control and issue management, the Primavera solution provides the IT project manager with the right tools for the job.

Fast planning and scheduling
What-if scenarios
Cost management and performance measurement
Management by exception
Management of issues, documents, and processes
Dashboard reporting for all stakeholders
MSP Integration

Many companies use Microsoft Project to plan and status their IT projects. The Primavera solution provides seamless integration with MSP to allow you to build a complete project portfolio management solution alongside your MSP investment.

Importing and exporting MSP schedules for multi-project management
Producing real-time status reports from MSP via the Web
Statusing MSP schedules remotely via the Web
Tracking portfolios of MSP-based projects
Linking risk management to MSP project structures
Relevant Products

Planning & Scheduling

Accurate planning and scheduling is paramount to delivering projects on time and on budget. The Primavera solution helps planners and schedulers develop fast, accurate project plans that can be easily adapted as situations change. We give you the tools to bring your projects in on target.

Plan projects quickly and realistically
Model resource pools and skills
Allocate resources efficiently
Experiment with what-if scenarios
Capture status updates from remote workers via the Web
Model risk
Integrate contractor schedules
Provide project templates and standards
Managing Risk

Risks are best managed as a team. Primavera provides a formalized risk management solution to allow the whole team to proactively identify, track, and mitigate project threats and opportunities:

Centralized risk repository
Cross-program risk visibility
Mitigation planning and control
Risk accountability
Cost Management

Stories of construction projects running way over budget are all too common. With the right tools, costs can be closely controlled and potential overruns spotted early. The Primavera product suite contains market-leading cost management capabilities to help you centralize and manage cost data with minimal effort.

Easy integration with most scheduling, accounting, and purchasing tools
Confident management of contract changes, quantities, and calculate costs
Cash flow management
Earned value and trend analysis for forecasting based on past performance
Management by exception and early warning indicators
Summary and time-phased reporting
Output reported directly to Excel spreadsheets
Real-time Reporting

To meet the needs of the many stakeholders who need visibility into project status, Primavera offers portal access to all participants via a browser. Dashboards provide executives and customers with real-time Key Performance Indicators and high-level project health information.

Role-based views and reports
Customizable dashboards
Integration of data from multiple systems
Drill-down reporting
Clear accountability
Team Collaboration

Successful projects often require collaboration between disparate teams. Each team member, engineer, and contactor needs access to the latest information and a clear outline of roles and responsibilities. Primavera ‘s collaborative portal connects all participants to ensure optimal team-work.

Share information, documents, and ideas
Create project home pages and share status updates
Track individual responsibilities and action items
Manage issues and risks
Create standards and processes
Capture progress updates remotely