Professional Services organizations know the importance of maintaining financial, material and human assets. Managing information and aligning operations is paramount to successful projects and overall business performance. Cost control and resource handling can only be accomplished through integrated efforts and efficient process management. Such a solution will allow you to focus on your core business, while searching for ways to innovate and improve your organization. You can support the full range of business processes, from specification and design to construction and manufacturing while you realize exceptional collaboration with your partners.
CGS’ solutions can improve the performance of all business processes within your project and plant life cycles. Collaborate more closely with suppliers, subcontractors, operators and customers, become more competitive, and achieve your business goals. CGS provides sophisticated technology solutions, including:
Microsoft Dynamics™ CGS specializes in delivering Microsoft Dynamics™, one of the most cost-effective ERP and Supply Chain Management solutions for organizations of any size. Leveraging the power behind Dynamics — Dynamics AX, Dynamics GP and Dynamics SL — CGS offers integrated solutions that support critical business processes and collaborative information management.
Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM CGS specializes in delivering Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM, an integrated, adaptable business management solution that automates and streamlines customer relationship processes to help drive business success.·
Microsoft SharePoint® CGS provides business solutions built on the new Microsoft Office System platform and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), which helps you realize the full potential of SharePoint and the complete value proposition of the Microsoft Office System for your enterprise.
Microsoft® Exchange™ As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, CGS delivers proven Microsoft Exchange upgrades (5.5, 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010) and migrations from Lotus Notes/Domino or Groupwise.
Networking and Hardware CGS can help you meet the ongoing challenges of network management by delivering comprehensive solutions designed specifically around your needs. We start by understanding your business goals and then assessing your current network capabilities.
Training CGS provides instructional solutions for both E-learning and Instructor-led Training (ILT), responding to tactical and strategic business challenges worldwide. With expertise among a broad scope of learning methods and modalities in catalog and custom development practices, CGS builds offerings crafted to be consistent with your desired outcomes.
Staffing CGS is committed to helping your company become more agile by offering a range of cost-effective staffing solutions. By leveraging our extensive database and nationwide recruiting organization, as well as an international network of business partners, CGS offers experienced consultants and instructors in virtually any technology platform.
Data Sheets
Microsoft Dynamics Fact Sheet As a leading Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Computer Generated Solutions (CGS) specializes in delivering Microsoft Dynamics™, one of the most cost-effective ERP solutions available for organizations of any size. Leveraging the power behind the Microsoft Dynamics suite of software CGS offers integrated solutions that support critical business processes and collaborative information management.
Microsoft Dynamics AX Fact Sheet If you want to get ahead and stay ahead in today’s competitive global market, giving your employees the right tools can help them significantly contribute to moving your company forward, overcoming complex business challenges, and adding to the bottom line.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Fact Sheet Redefine customer relationships with the complete, affordable customer relationship management (CRM) solution for driving measurable improvements across all customer management processes.
PSA Fact Sheet As clients push for lower implementation costs and faster timelines, partners find themselves short staffed or without specific skill sets to meet project demands. CGS Partner Services’ professionals already have the knowledge of Dynamics™ AX, and strong domain expertise with Professional Services organizations. This fact makes CGS the perfect partner to help you sell and deliver Dynamics AX solutions to Professional Services organizations around the globe.
Architecture & Engineering Fact Sheet Increase profitability and offer unmatched customer service that sets you apart from the competition by better managing your financial, human, and material assets. With Professional Services for Microsoft Dynamics™ AX, architecture and engineering firms can help better manage project teams, increase billable time, improve customer service, and accelerate billings while controlling time and material investments through tighter integration of client- and job-related information.
Time AX For a professional services company, the accurate collection of time is critical to business success. However, accessing and updating timesheets within a back-end system can be a painful and arduous experience, often resulting in errors and consuming valuable time that is better spent on billable work.To alleviate this problem, CGS has created a way to make timesheet management faster, easier, and more accurate.
Education
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Whitepapers
Why Professional Services Firms Need an Integrated ERP Solution| Dynamics AX Case Study Included (Registration required) Today’s ERP market is largely dominated by incumbent Tier One companies who deliver end-to-end software applications that are designed to monitor and integrate enterprise-wide functional requirements, such as Financial, Human Resources and Supply Chain Management, as well as some industry specific business functionality. Whether the ERP client’s line of business is manufacturing, logistics, or professional services, the software is assumed to have many of the features any customer would need -but does the software really support the customer’s specialized processes?
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 A New Generation in ERP (Registration required) Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012 is a leading example of a business management solution designed to optimize usability, improve user productivity, and meet the needs of people in a variety of roles to drive business success.
Gain Efficiency, Flexibility, and Insight with Professional Services for Microsoft Dynamics AX (Registration required) Microsoft Dynamics AX can help you to improve profitability, efficiency, and customer service, and adapt quickly to changing business conditions by breaking down boundaries between departments. The solution also enables you to connect and collaborate with customers and business partners effectively, which can result in improved customer satisfaction, increased productivity, and the flexibility to seize new market opportunities when they arise—all important requirements in today's business environment.
Construction- Building Success (Registration required) Successful contractors have a reputation for delivering projects on time and on budget. Contractors who invest in information technology are executing projects more efficiently, delivering a higher quality product, and improving employee satisfaction.
Key Performance Indicators Drive Best Practices for General Contractors (Registration required) Running a profitable construction firm is a difficult business.Faced with an unprecedented number of external pressures such as eroding profit margins, higher owner expectations,rapidly changing technology, and a dwindling workforce,only contractors who follow best practices will achieve a higher return on investment (ROI) and reduce their risk.
Recession Intervention: Why is ERP Critical Now (Registration required) Even with occasional glimpses of an upturn, the ongoing economic crisis shows little sign of loosening its choke hold on commerce anytime soon. As the resulting slump lingers, businesses are increasingly—some even desperately—searching for new ways to survive.
Case Studies
Ewing Cole - Case Study (Registration required) EwingCole provides design, architectural, and engineering services to clients throughout the United States. When Deltek discontinued support for its Sema4 system, EwingCole evaluated options for a more modern business management solution that would help eliminate duplicate data entry and provide employees with direct, secure access to project accounting.
Demos
Time Ax For a professional services company, the accurate collection of time is critical to business success. However, accessing and updating timesheets within a back-end system can be a painful and arduous experience, often resulting in errors and consuming valuable time that is better spent on billable work. To alleviate this problem, CGS has created a way to make timesheet management faster, easier, and more accurate. Review our demo to learn more.
Webcasts
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Optimize Resources, Maximize Profits - Effective Resource Management with Professional Services for Microsoft Dynamics AX (Registration required) Computer Generated Solutions has partnered with revered Professional Services industry analysts Service Performance Insight (SPI Research) to help educate professional services organizations on the importance of effective resource management and offer advice on how to effectively manage these critical assets with Professional Services for Microsoft Dynamics AX.
Comprehensive Business Solutions Drive Insight, Efficiency and Effectiveness for Professional Services Organizations (Registration required) CGS and Service Performance Insight (SPI Research) introduce Professional Services industry best practices through the recently-release 2009 edition of the Professional Services Maturity Model and explain how integrated solutions can enhance organizational maturity.
PSA Walkthrough (Registration required) Professional Services for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 (PSA) builds on its strong history, while leveraging greatly improved architectural and usability enhancements released in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. This release will bring customers a greater level of control over project accounting practices, resources and system design through a familiar "Office-like" interface, enhancing usability and acceptance
ERP SoftwareBlog Choosing an ERP System – So Many Things to Think About!
MS Dynamics World Welcome to the Microsoft Dynamics AX Resource Center on MSDynamicsWorld.com. Here you'll find news, analysis, and information on Dynamics AX products and add-on solutions, as well as other related offerings from partners, independent software vendors, and consultants.
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Self Assesment
PSA Survey How do your business operations compare to other professional services companies? By answering the questions candidly, you will not only gain an unbiased indication of where you stand compared to your peers, but will also be able to identify sereval key opportunities for you business.
