Posts Tagged ‘PSA’

PSA Coverage: CA Clarity PPM

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

CA Clarity PPM

CA Clarity PPM: Insight into Services Initiatives

For our second report in the PSA (Professional Services Automation) and PPM (Project Portfolio Management) space, we examined CA Clarity PPM. This product has its roots in the Niku solution that CA bought several years ago. Our assessment of the product line remains bullish as the product possesses considerable functional depth and is well-suited to internal service organizations. The software also integrates well with a number of other CA products and is, therefore, a core product for the company. 

The report has the following sections:

  • Overview
  • Who is CA Clarity PPM?
  • Solution Functionality
  • CA Clarity PPM in the Federal Government
  • The CA Clarity PPM Difference
  • The CA Clarity Customer
  • Prognosis

The report is available for purchase for $395. Orders can be placed via our site’s request page or via email at: contact@vitalanalysis.com.  

PSA Coverage: OpenAir

Monday, July 14th, 2008

New OpenAir Report

We recently completed the first in a number of PSA (Professional Services Automation) and PPM (Project Portfolio Management) reports that will be produced this summer and fall. We have started with OpenAir, a firm we have watched for some time. OpenAir has consistently received good word-of-mouth recommendations from users and was recently acquired by NetSuite (NYSE symbol: N).  

Here is an excerpt from the Summary section of the report:

On balance, we like OpenAir’s broad functionality and integration to numerous front and back office solutions.  We are generally optimistic about the acquisition by NetSuite but will watch this over time to ensure that OpenAir’s market reputation does not slip post-acquisition.

 

We believe that for OpenAir to move further up-market, it will need to develop additional internal capabilities or relationships with third-party integrators to serve the very largest service organizations in the world.  The scale of some of these significant “whale sales” could swamp either OpenAir or NetSuite.  We also believe that firms such as Primavera or CA will present a formidable competition in the highest levels of the marketplace with their Evolve and Clarity products, respectively.

This report is available for download immediately. It is priced at $395 and can be ordered via our online request form or by email: contact@vitalanalysis.com .  

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OpenAir Web Seminar

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Point of View Selling in Professional Services

On June 11 (1 pm EST), Brian Sommer from Vital Analysis will be leading a discussion on Selling Professional Services via a Point of View style. The web-based seminar is being hosted by PSA (professional services automation) vendor OpenAir. Registration information and call-in details will be found soon at: http://www.openair.com/home/newsEvents.html .

Title: “Point of View & Other Selling Styles – Winning Sales Practices in Professional Services” If your services sales teams aren’t delivering the results you desire, maybe it’s the approach they use. Do they engage with the prospect or talk about your firm? Do they come back feeling they’ve validated critical client needs and can develop winning, relevant proposals? If not, attend this short but intense webinar by Brian Sommer. Brian was a long-time, successful Accenture partner who has trained thousands of sales professionals at leading software and consulting firms globally. He’ll discuss a selling style, Point of View selling, that’s far more deadly with CXOs than any other approach. In a tight economy, can you really afford to miss this? Briefly, Brian will use humor, facts, experience and more to discuss:    – the four common styles of selling services and where these are most appropriate    – how CXOs (not service professionals) define how a consultative sale should work    – the key elements of a point of sale approach    – what should/shouldn’t go into your sales decks