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Our analysis of business steering, billing, e-invoicing and growth in professional services firms.
Your teams already log their time in Jira. Re-keying it into a management tool is the most common source of discrepancy in a services business. Here is what the connection does, what it does not, and the five points to settle before setting it up.
Read moreEvery request you make to a vendor falls on one side of this line or the other, and the side decides the timeline, the cost, and what happens at the next upgrade. Here are the criteria that settle it and the questions to ask before signing.
Read moreEvery vendor advertises custom fields. The useful question is not whether you can create one, but where it turns up afterwards: screens, reports, API, exports, business rules. Here are the six questions to ask during a demo.
Read moreWhen an employee moves between business units, most tools reassign their entire past to whichever unit they sit in today. The comparison between units starts drifting with nothing to flag it. Here is where the error comes from, how to spot it, and what historised tags change.
Read moreChoosing an ERP system for a service company, an IT services firm, a consulting firm, or an engineering firm is about more than just comparing lists of features. The right tool is one that aligns with the company’s business model (time-and-materials, fixed-price, or hybrid), its size, and its growth trajectory.
Read moreWhen an IT services company or consulting firm accelerates, the IT system quickly becomes either your best ally or your biggest obstacle. At first, you “tinker” around: a CRM here, an HR tool there, production monitoring in another software program, and a few Excel files to tie it all together. Then comes the moment when the organization reaches a turning point: more consultants, more projects, more fixed-price contracts, more subsidiaries… and therefore more dependence on the quality of your data.
Read moreAlibeeZ addresses the complexity of managing and forecasting fixed-price projects by moving from simple time tracking to proactive management of project health and profitability. Whereas many solutions are primarily designed for time and materials billing, AlibeeZ is designed to manage the specificities of fixed-price projects using several key levers.
Read moreProduct guides
How AlibeeZ actually handles steering, invoicing, time, expenses and customisation: what you see, what happens, what it changes.
The AlibeeZ capacity plan combines committed engagements, planned assignments and approved leave to project each person’s workload week by week. Here is what it reads, what it shows, and what becomes of a period that nobody is covering yet.
Read moreIn AlibeeZ, a project’s forecast gross margin exists from contract creation, then is recomputed on every hour booked, every expense approved and every contract amendment. Here is how forecast and actual are compared continuously, and how an overrun alerts you before project close.
Read moreIn AlibeeZ, an invoice is not typed: it is generated from approved timesheets, rebillable expenses and reached milestones, in the model set by the contract. Here is what feeds a draft, how the review works and which guardrails fire before issuing.
Read moreFew services contracts are pure time and materials or pure fixed price. AlibeeZ carries plain and capped time and materials, milestone billing and progress billing in the same engine, contract by contract, with their payment terms, VAT and currency.
Read moreFrom approved time to payment, here is what AlibeeZ does with an e-invoice: produce it with no re-keying, hand it to iopole, our Plateforme Agréée, and bring its statuses back into your receivables tracking. And what is left for you to do: almost nothing.
Read moreIssuing fast is pointless if payment drags. In AlibeeZ, each invoice’s state, receivables by age and the dunning still to do read from a single view, payments are reconciled against open invoices, and DSO flows into the project’s margin.
Read moreA late timesheet means a late invoice and a margin read too late. Here is how AlibeeZ brings time entry down to three clicks: pre-filled from assignments, an entry unit per activity, automatic reminders and a complete audit trail.
Read moreAn employee on leave who shows up as billed, or as available in the capacity plan: that is the symptom of two tools that do not talk to each other. Here is how AlibeeZ links absences to time entry, leave balances, the capacity plan and payroll.
Read moreA project that drifts is too often discovered in the post-mortem, when there is nothing left to recover. In AlibeeZ, every approved entry feeds consumed effort by project, person and activity, compared continuously with what was sold. Here is how.
Read moreIn AlibeeZ, an expense is entered once, with its category, currency, receipt and project. It arrives already attached to the right cost centre and already flagged as rebillable or internal. Here is how entry works, and what it saves you further down the line.
Read moreIn AlibeeZ, the amount, the expense category or the cost centre decides who approves an expense claim. The manager decides in seconds, a second approver is added above a threshold, and the export goes to accounting with its ledger codes already applied.
Read moreIn AlibeeZ, an expense flagged as rebillable at entry reaches the project invoice on its own once approved, with or without margin depending on the contract. Here is the mechanism step by step: the flag, the rule held on the contract, the generated line and the effect on margin.
Read moreEntry unit, VAT per country, numbering per entity, a second-approver threshold: in AlibeeZ these specifics are business rules that already ship, which you switch on and tune. Here is what they cover, how they are set and where they apply.
Read moreTimesheets, expense claims, invoices, internal requests: in AlibeeZ every process follows an approval chain set by role, amount, entity or project type. Here is how a chain is built, what runs around it, and what it feeds once approval is given.
Read moreTraining request, equipment request, one-off remote work: in AlibeeZ you design the form and what it triggers. The request then has a status, a history and a place in your reports. Here is how it works, on an example.
Read moreIn AlibeeZ, the data your business needs is added as a real field, on the record that carries it. Here is where fields can be created, the two routes to do it, and the five places the field then exists: screens, reports, API, exports and rules.
Read moreIn AlibeeZ, you create your own tag categories, put them on your entities and can make them mandatory. Each value keeps the period it applied to. Here is how it works, and where those axes are used afterwards.
Read moreIn AlibeeZ, a report is composed: columns, filters, groupings, pivot table, chart. The figures are the application’s own, read when it opens. Here is how one is built, why it stays current, and what you do with it next.
Read moreOn the AlibeeZ home screen, everyone finds the alerts that concern them, pinned reports, your internal announcements and your LinkedIn posts. Here is how an alert is set, what gets pinned, and why newsletters are not a mailing.
Read moreWhen a need falls outside what configuration can do, AlibeeZ follows four steps: map the need out, tell you what it involves, let you try it on a test base, then fold it into the foundation. Here is each step in detail, and what is included or quoted.
Read moreSubsidiaries, countries, currencies, languages and inter-site engagements: how AlibeeZ gives each entity its own space and rules, while keeping one repository and consolidated steering for the group.
Read moreVideos
Short format, full transcript on every page. New ones land on the YouTube channel first.
By the time the numbers arrive, the decision has already expired. This 46-second video makes one point: the problem is not how many indicators you have, it is how old they are. Full transcript, plus the three weekly numbers to hold.
Watch it, read the transcriptA sloppy timesheet does not cost you a correction. It costs you a late invoice, a disputed bill, a wrong payslip and three months of cash. The video follows the chain, error by error. Full transcript included.
Watch it, read the transcriptOverloaded teams on one side, people waiting on the other. That is not a willingness problem, it is an anticipation problem. The video names the four symptoms of an unmanaged capacity plan and what each one costs.
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Case studies
More than 10,000 person-days of projects a year, a project repository already living in Jira, and client invoicing to trigger at the end of every period. Here is how Actency joined the two without asking anyone to key the same day twice.
Read moreAs it expanded, Zenika — an IT consulting, training and delivery firm — was looking for a management solution that could match the complexity of its business.
Read moreThe demonstration starts from your organisation: your entities, your engagement types, your approval chains.
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