Services & Project Based Firms

Managing People, Pipeline & Efficiencies

Inside Info works with service and project based firms including construction, engineering and professional service firms to provide visibility into core business processes to deliver a consolidated view from multiple data sources to enable effective management of pipeline, work in progress, projects, people and performance in a timely and simple-to- use way. 

Inside Info works with service and project based firms including construction, engineering and professional service firms to provide visibility into core business processes to deliver a consolidated view from multiple data sources to enable effective management of pipeline, work in progress, projects, people and performance in a timely and simple to use way.  We work with service and project based firms providing:

  • A one-screen view of all the facts: To ensure cross functional visibility, integrating operational, financial, customer, project, CRM and other business data so you have a clear view of where to optimise for efficiency and growth. 
  • Project Analysis: Clearly understanding individual projects and components including status, project team, utilisation, billings, clients and other key metrics to keep on top of activity and project performance.
  • Work In Progress Analysis: Providing detailed analysis of cash flow and work in progress activity to ensure you’re billing regularly and delivering services effectively.  
  • A 360% view of customer behaviour: Understanding clearly client management, opportunities, pipeline and service consumption so that you can quickly react to changing trends, pre-empt demand and optimise operational efficiencies.
  • Workforce Utilisation: Interactive, on-demand analysis of workforce and resource planning to better match client needs, assessing resource labour costs across all departments and facilities and how it varies.  
  • Interactive Financial & Profitability Analysis: Tracking P&L views from the enterprise to individual cost centres, providing dashboard style profitability analysis across any area of the business including by project, customer, region or division. 
  • OH&S analysis:  The ability to easily monitor and understand OH&S impacts tracking to budget lost time, injury rates and incidents.
  • Near real-time visibility into operations: instead of out-of-date reports. On-demand self-serve analysis of data, often replacing hundreds of OLAP based reports and empowering business users to perform their own analysis reducing IT support by up to 90%. Users report 54% less time accessing information and 51% less time analysing it. (IDC).

Inside Info works with service and project based firms including construction, engineering and professional service firms to provide visibility into core business processes to deliver a consolidated view from multiple data sources to enable effective management of pipeline, work in progress, projects, people and performance in a timely and simple to use way. 

Bianco is a leading supplier of structural steel, reinforcing, building hire, construction equipment, tools and services to the building, construction, civil, Government and mining industries.  Bianco automates analysis sales, margin, dispatch, customer trends and impacts across its business at the click of a button.  With Inside Info’s Inside Lawson Dashboard sales, operations and management teams now have granular analysis of sales and logistics, delivered in just 30 days.  As a result improving IT staff productivity, saving at least 500 hours each year.

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“  We have interactive visibility into sales, profitability, logistics and supply chain performance. Our initial applications were delivered in just four weeks with excellent results  ”

Wayne McIntosh, Finance Director
“  We can measure and work to continuously improve profitability, targeted delivery, superior service & quality performance. Until now, we never had true gross margin analysis by customer; this has improved servicing of accounts  ”

Rob Pyne, General Manager, Australasia Corporate Services
“  QlikView delivered value fast for Amcor – with Inside Info working with us to design & deploy our BI applications we saw a significant return in a few months  ”

Rob Pyne, General Manager, Australasia Corporate Services
“  Senior management are now analysing living information themselves with QlikView… saving our IT team at least 500 hours a year in manual report development  ”

Peter Crescitelli, IT Project Manager, Bianco
“  We realised value from our investment within days. We built a powerful profitability analysis application that was back on the desks of business managers in 6 days, showing for the first time an integrated view of customer profitability at a material level  ”

Tim Hogan, Manager, Business Intelligence
“  It’s not a trivial exercise to go into an organisation, understand the business need and solve it. Inside Info’s ability to translate our needs into easy to use data models first time and every time has been invaluable. The whole relationship is simple  ”

Haydn Jones, IT Operations Manager
“  Inside Info using QlikView gave us a 15% improved return on rebate investment, while also helping us to better manage promotions, stock, customers and resources to fuel future growth of the business  ”

Nick Vasic, Financial Controller
“  QlikView is the best management tool I’ve ever used  ”

Kim Naylor, CEO, Fujitsu General, NZ
“  Using QlikView, Inside Info has allowed our customers to more easily identify health market trends through more effective geographic and gender profiling, better management of medicines and identification of prescription anomalies and their impact on consumers  ”

Jon Marshall, Managing Director
“  In one example Inside Info & QlikView streamlined a data process from what was days or weeks, or so complicated it wouldn’t be considered, to seconds and that means a better value proposition for us and our customers  ”

Jon Marshall, Managing Director