"Retain Cloud has completely transformed how we manage our workforce. Engagement costing is now available in real time, scheduling is effortless, and remote access has made resource planning significantly easier."
Engineering firms know the challenge well: hitting high utilisation rates is harder here than in almost any other discipline. In fact, just 4.5% of engineering firms achieve 90%+ utilisation, compared with 16.8% across the wider consulting market.
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Can effective resource management benefit your accountancy firm?
For accountancy firms, where skilled staff represent both their biggest cost and biggest source of revenue, effective resource management is critical to creating client value, enhancing profitability and maintaining a competitive edge...
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Avoid These 4 Resource Planning Mistakes
Resource Planning, if done well, can have a hugely positive impact on any business: a more streamlined planning process, overall efficiencies, and breaking down of business silos being amongst them...
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The Importance of Talent Management
When firms first started adopting resource planning software over two decades ago, the need was rather straight forward: how could software be leveraged to make the most of available resource. Furthermore...
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Best-of-breed software and why you should consider deploying it
In the past, best-of-suite enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have reigned supreme. Businesses purchased these all-in-one, large-scale solutions with the promise of one source for all the data and information that powers their organisation.
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The pros and cons of best-of-breed versus ERP
Compare the pros and cons of best-of-breed vs ERP. See why specialised solutions like Retain often provide better functionality, UX, speed, and flexibility.
