Real-time project profitability, resource utilisation, and billing automation. Fixed-price implementations for consulting and advisory firms.
Consulting firms live and die by utilisation, project margins, and client relationships. Yet most firms still track these in spreadsheets, disconnected timesheets, and month-end reconciliations that are weeks out of date by the time partners see them.
Dynamics 365 gives consultancies real-time visibility of project profitability, resource utilisation, and pipeline — in a single platform that connects finance, CRM, time recording, and business intelligence. No more waiting until month-end to discover a project is losing money.
Veriland delivers fixed-price D365 implementations for consulting firms of all sizes — from boutique advisory practices to 500-person management consultancies. We understand the economics of consulting: utilisation targets, bench management, pyramid leverage, and the difference between booked revenue and recognised revenue.
No real-time visibility of margins. Partners discover projects are losing money at month-end — too late to course-correct.
Under-utilisation, over-commitment, and skill mismatches. No single view of who is available, who is on the bench, and who is burning out.
Consultants recording time late or inaccurately. Billable hours lost because they were never captured. Revenue leakage of 5–15% is common.
Multiple billing models across the same firm — T&M, fixed price, retainer, milestone. Manual invoice preparation consuming finance team hours.
Sales pipeline disconnected from delivery. No forward view of resource demand, leading to last-minute staffing scrambles or idle bench time.
Revenue forecasting based on gut feel rather than data. Board packs assembled manually from disconnected sources.
Project accounting, time recording, billing, and finance for firms up to 200 people.
Pipeline management, proposal tracking, and client relationship management.
Multi-entity consultancies with advanced resource scheduling and intercompany billing.
Utilisation dashboards, profitability analysis, pipeline forecasting, and board packs.
“Veriland understood the nuances of project accounting for a consultancy. Our utilisation visibility went from monthly spreadsheets to real-time dashboards, and our billing errors dropped to near zero.”
Managing Director, Managing Director at UK Management Consultancy
Yes. D365 project modules track costs (time, expenses, subcontractors) and revenue in real time. You can see margin at the project, client, practice area, and firm level — updated as time is recorded, not at month-end.
D365 provides resource scheduling with skills-based matching, availability views, and utilisation tracking. For advanced scheduling, it integrates with Microsoft Project for Gantt-based capacity planning. Power BI dashboards show utilisation targets vs. actuals by team, individual, or skill set.
Yes. Billing rules are configurable per project or client. Time and materials, fixed price, milestone, retainer, capped, and blended rate models are all supported. Invoices generate automatically from approved time and expense entries.
D365 automates WIP calculations and revenue recognition aligned with IFRS 15 / FRS 102. Rules are configurable by project type — percentage of completion, completed contract, or milestone-based recognition.
A Business Central implementation for a consulting firm typically takes 5–8 weeks. Larger firms needing F&O with multi-entity, advanced resource scheduling, and multiple integrations may take 10–14 weeks.
Yes. D365 can integrate with existing timesheet tools, or you can use the built-in time and expense module with Outlook calendar integration. We also integrate with third-party PSA platforms where firms prefer to keep their existing front-end.
Yes. Our team has delivered D365 for management consultancies, IT consultancies, strategy firms, and specialist advisory practices. We understand utilisation targets, pyramid economics, chargeability rates, bench management, and the metrics that drive consulting firm profitability.
Yes. D365 supports subcontractor cost tracking per project, associate rate cards, purchase order management for third-party resources, and margin analysis that includes subcontractor costs alongside internal time.
Browne Jacobson deployed Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations as the backbone of their Matter Management System — giving fee earners, partners, and finance teams a unified view of matters, costs, and profitability.
Eurofins replaced their slow, in-house web ordering system — which queried Dynamics AX 2012 directly — with Veriland's MaxPortal commerce platform, dramatically improving performance and enabling customers to place orders online reliably.
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