AFA Burn Report with Baselineᐩ
Manage Margins WITHIN Workfront by Project, Department, role, and User
AtAppStore’s AFA (Approved, Forecast and Actuals) Burn Report solution tracks Rates, Hours, Hour Costs, Margins, and provides Burn Projections by Project and breaks them down to by Department, Role, and User, in either the default or project currency, in real-time, right within Workfront. Project managers can choose the desired date range, set the desired level of hierarchical detail and choose a +/- Delta Cutoff to then visually highlight opportunities (green) and problems (red). By then identifying those levels of most interest (e.g. a Department that heading towards being over budget), they can drill down to see which Roles and/or Users in particular need corrective action.
The AFA Burn Report leverages both native Workfront functionality and AtAppStore’s Baselineᐩ technology, includes up to 8 hours to install, configure, and train, and is eligible for a paid trial so users can confirm its value against their own data. The AFA Burn Report is designed to work in collaboration with the AFA Burn List (licensed separately), which provides a similar functionality by Project and rolling up to the Program, Portfolio, and Total levels.
TARGET CLIENT:
This is an ADVANCED solution for WORKFRONT SPONSORS who are committed to a Workfront-based business, invest at least USD$100K/yr on Workfront licenses, recognize Workfront has limitations holding them back, understand that additional solutions could help, acknowledging that extra costs will be required, and are prepared to invest funds, time and energy to judge such solutions value using ROI and then license, endorse, and improve it accordingly.
CLIENT USE CASE:
The phrase “you can’t do financials” has been the disappointing but standard response to those business owners seeking to manage and make decisions based on profit margins, rather than just hours. That is about to change.
CLIENT SOLUTION:
AtAppStore’s AFA Burn List
solution will allow our mutual clients to track financial margins on multi-currency projects in a drill down fashion at the portfolio, program, and project level. Our sponsor and mutual client Ross Allmark, VP of Transformations at Vice Media is extremely pleased with the results, asserting that “every professional services or marketing client needs this”, and predicting “Adobe will be coming to you for this one, Doug!” See our website for more details.
COMPETITIVE POSITION:
Most clients in need of this functionality currently resort to Excel, with disappointing results. Some might use Fusion and/or other external solutions, but NONE of those match our distinct competitive advantage of real-time margin calculations from directly within Workfront.