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Comprehensive Consulting Services for Elite Customers that Deliver Maximum Value
Elite Consulting Services consultants team with Elite customer representatives to achieve the goal of optimal utilization of a firm’s investment in financial and practice management systems solutions. Elite consultants and firm personnel work together to:
- Assess and evaluate business process needs to ensure maximum Elite application leverage.
- Evaluate system health and architecture requirements to leverage current technologies and changes.
- Enhance system application and process knowledge and best practices awareness.
- Deploy in-depth, methodical project management, application and technical expertise to optimize resources and to ensure a project’s critical path.
- Determine information distribution methodologies that meet performance measurement objectives.
With the knowledge and expertise offered by Elite Consulting Services, firms can achieve the greatest value from Elite solutions. Comprising a well-respected team of application, technical and project management experts, Elite Consulting Services provides unmatched Elite product knowledge and professional services market sector expertise. Whether firms are seeking to optimize or enhance an existing solution, migrating to a new operating system, looking to create custom templates or simply seeking advice on how to use the system more efficiently, the Elite Consulting Services team can meet the needs of any firm. Elite Consulting Services should be considered for any Elite application and/or system consulting needs.
Elite Consulting Services Highlights
- Project management expertise for hundreds of Elite user projects and initiatives; Elite’s Project Quality Model ensures the most efficient and well-organized execution of consulting projects, throughout the entire project lifecycle.
- Proven track record, with the successful completion of over 75 platform migrations and more than 100 Elite Enterprise system upgrades.
- International expertise with implementations in over 35 countries - with co-existing data that can be dissected to meet either global financial reporting requirements or local statutory needs.
- Highly skilled team members, including legal and professional service firm experts, CPAs, MBAs and other specialists who understand and consult in accordance with industry standards and best practices.
- Unsurpassed Elite product expertise and access to Elite technical, support and development resources.
A Comprehensive Range of Service Offerings
The Elite Consulting Services team has been structured to meet the growing consulting needs of our clients, and is prepared to provide services to meet all of these requirements. Our consulting offerings fall within four primary service categories:
- Product consulting and training
- Globalization services
- Consulting projects
- Technical services and training
Product Consulting and Training
Elite Consulting Services provides product consulting services and technical expertise to help clients achieve business objectives. The scope of services in this category can range from simple to complex. For example, Elite can provide general consultation to help clients discover the most efficient ways to use Elite products in a manner consistent with their business process requirements, or can assist with developing customized solutions for clients. Consulting service examples within this category include business process reviews, reports review, interface reviews,
database reviews, template creation, and supplemental training.
Another area of product consulting focus is financial reporting, business measurement/analytics and information distribution. Clients who wish to leverage the advanced financial capabilities within Elite products can benefit from consulting services related to balancing, masking, general ledger and financial reporting, as well as identification and reporting of leading indicators and the
corresponding method of distribution of this information.
Globalization Services
Elite Consulting Services has also developed international consulting expertise to address the needs of our growing global, multi-national client base. Clients can engage Elite to provide globalization services that transform an existing Elite solution into one that will transcend internationally, across the firm’s global enterprise. In addition to providing services to deploy Elite solutions in different countries, Elite can configure existing systems to support the multi-currency, multi-company and multi-language needs of global firms.
Consulting Projects
Elite Consulting Services offers project-based consulting services to manage Elite system optimizations, upgrades, migrations and mergers. Clients that engage Elite Consulting Services to manage these efforts benefit from Elite’s extensive experience, proven track record and knowledge of how to efficiently optimize an Elite solution and ensure that it continues to perform to its maximum potential.
Consulting projects often fall into one of the following sub-categories:
- Pinnacle Program - encompasses a comprehensive Elite solution optimization effort and potentially may also include product upgrades, platform migrations, and new product(s) installation and implementation.
- Project management of Elite product upgrades, platform migrations and system mergers.
Elite’s Pinnacle Program is designed for clients that have previously implemented an Elite solution, and whose business needs or processes have grown or evolved over time. The goal of the Pinnacle Program is to deliver maximum long-term value to clients, and involves a complete business process review and system reconfiguration, and sometimes even the installation of new products, in order to ensure that the Elite solution is optimized and performing as efficiently as possible.
Elite Consulting Services also provides project management and technical services to assist clients with requirements for software upgrades and release changes, system platform migrations , system mergers and data conversion /integration efforts.
Technical Services and Training
Elite Consulting Services provides a wide variety of technical services and training offerings for clients. These include interface development and maintenance, server upgrades, on-site release upgrades, custom programming, system reviews and system maintenance training.
Additionally, client training and knowledge development sessions are held in various cities around the country, which focus on product enhancements included with software upgrades, and as new features and functionality that have recently become available in Elite’s solutions.
Maximizing Your System Investment Over Time
To provide long-term value, a financial and practice management solution must be able to fulfill the ever-changing needs of a professional services firm. Inherently flexible, Elite solutions earn high marks in this area. Whether you are seeking to optimize or enhance your existing solution, are migrating to a new operating system, need to create custom templates or simply need advice on how to use your system more efficiently, Elite Consulting Services provides unmatched expertise, performance and value.
Your Partner for Financial and Practice Management Solutions
Thomson Elite is a worldwide leader in enterprise software for the professional services industry with solutions for organizations in the accounting, IT and management consulting, legal, marketing services, corporate and government sectors. More than half of the Am Law 100, more than a third of the top 1,000 U.S. law firms, and over a third of the top 100 UK law firms use Elite financial and
practice management solutions. Contact Thomson Elite to learn more about Elite’s financial and practice management solutions that deliver firms a unique combination of comprehensive functionality along with world-class service and support.
The Elite Consulting team is dedicated to providing quality services.
For further information, please contact:
econsulting@thomson.com
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