| | NOVEMBER 20186CIOReviewIn today's business environment, where data volumes are increasing exponentially, advanced technologies are playing a more significant role in maneuvering the ever-changing relationships between projects, people and finances. Given the constant mergers and acquisitions and robust market environments, decision-makers have realized the role of Professional Services Automation (PSA) solutions in ensuring success--through tight budgets, resource constraints, and scope changes. Through efficient end-to-end project lifecycle, PSA solutions have uncovered better efficiency, streamlined operations, and higher productivity and profitability. One of the biggest areas of improvement that from the implementation of an end-to-end PSA solution is the replacement of the volume and complexity of spreadsheets, helping organizations fulfill their audit and legal requirements.Professionals such as lawyers, insurance brokers, IT consultants, and auditors have a growing affinity to technology that can fuse their different tasks into a single, integrated interface to provide a higher degree of visibility and hence efficiency in their respective workplaces. The latest PSA offerings will help these professional services companies optimize efficiency, streamline some operations, and attain higher productivity and profitability. Going beyond the traditional norms, several PSA solutions today will allow ERP, CRM, HR, and sales collaboration, uncovering fresh opportunities for overall business efficiency.As providers actively increase their automation repertoire, PSA will find more uses in other industries such as mining, oil, and gas, and construction too. In this edition of CIOReview, we are featuring a list of key players in the professional service automation space along with insightful articles from thought leaders in the domain. We believe this edition will help you in evaluating and formalizing effective strategies for your organization.Let us know your thoughts.Jeevan George Managing Editoreditor@cioreview.comEditorialIntroducing TransparencyCopyright © 2018 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewNOVEMBER - 14 - 2018Contact Us:Phone:510-556-2402Fax:510-894-8405Email:sales@cioreview.comeditor@cioreview.commarketing@cioreview.com November - 14 - 2018, Vol 07 SE 84 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc.To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com CIOReviewEditorial StaffSalesAaron PierceCarolynn WaltersJustin SmithKhyati Dubal Shirley FaithRussell ThomasALISON SAMUELSalison@cioreview.comVisualizersIssac GeorgeJohn GouthamManaging EditorJeevan GeorgeProfessional Services Automation Special*Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staff
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