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Manufacturing
The advantages of automation, AI, and machine learning have caused a shift toward smart factories and data-driven manufacturers. We help you to become competitive, innovative, and resilient.
Financial Services
How to navigate intense competition, stay in compliance with ever-changing regulations and leverage commercial opportunities. We help you create an IT landscape that enables efficient operations and connects processes and data.
Professional Services
People-centered, client-focused and project-driven: that’s professional services in a nutshell. We design and implement technology solutions that enable better decision-making and effective working.
Retail & Distribution
We modernize the retail workplace, bringing previously unseen insights to the business, implementing intelligent order management and get you closer to your customer.
Public Sector
HSO helps public and government organizations to meet and leverage increasing expectations for digital service, responsiveness and transparency.
Non-Profit
We support Non-Profits by modernizing applications, automating processes, and providing insight. Through technology, we nourish successful relationship management and enable greater impact.
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HSO is one of the world’s top business solution and implementation partners, large enough to serve, small enough to care. Through our services, we help companies transform the way they work and improve business performance.
Business Applications
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Applications for ERP and CRM are leading in the industry. But their real strength is in the integration. Combined, they deliver even more value.
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HSO has a proven track record in supporting our customers in their cloud journey. With your business in mind, we offer a comprehensive suite of services to help you gain value from the cloud.
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We help customers build an operational and future-proof data platform, ready to realize business value from AI and machine learning technologies.
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HSO develops industry-specific solutions that leverage the latest cloud and AI technologies from Microsoft, accelerating our customers' digital transformation.
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We are a global community of people with an entrepreneurial spirit, in an environment where you can really make a difference and have your voice heard. We constantly challenge ourselves to be better. Come join the journey with us!
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Skyrocket your career with our graduate programs and accredited certification opportunities at HSO around the world!
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From technical skills, soft skills, mentorships, leadership coaching, masterclasses, informal knowledge sharing and globally recognised certifications - HSO Academy is your personal and professional knowledge accelerator.
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Find opportunities in Consultancy & Technology, Project Management, Leadership, Sales and Business Development, Marketing, Legal and HR.
Join HSO
Our workforce is a growing dynamic, unique, and diverse global community that is quality and performance-driven. For every stage in your career, we offer challenging opportunities. We look forward to meeting you!
Life at HSO
We are a global community of people with an entrepreneurial spirit, in an environment where you can really make a difference and have your voice heard. We constantly challenge ourselves to be better. Come join the journey with us!
Graduate Programs
Skyrocket your career with our graduate programs and accredited certification opportunities at HSO around the world!
HSO Academy
From technical skills, soft skills, mentorships, leadership coaching, masterclasses, informal knowledge sharing and globally recognised certifications - HSO Academy is your personal and professional knowledge accelerator.
Vacancies
Find opportunities in Consultancy & Technology, Project Management, Leadership, Sales and Business Development, Marketing, Legal and HR.
AEC firms go with aec360 rather than re-platforming with Deltek or BST
Firms that use BST or Deltek software have a decision to make: do I re-platform my ERP system with the same software developer? Or is there a newer, fresher approach to my AEC ERP needs?
In speaking with firms who have recently decided to stop using Deltek or BST and implement aec360 by HSO and Microsoft Dynamics 365, we uncovered a long list of reasons why they avoided staying with Deltek or BST. In this article, we’ll share the 10 most popular responses from these AEC firms.
It’s interesting that investing in Microsoft came up as the #1 reason. AEC firms using other ERP software made the decision to move to Microsoft and aec360 is because they understand the overwhelming power of Microsoft’s $19B annual R&D budget. Microsoft recognizes professional services as a major growth market and will continue to invest in solutions designed for the industry. Other AEC ERP software providers must write their own software and, as a result, have a slow pace of development. aec360 clients will benefit from Microsoft’s unparalleled R&D effort.
AEC firms are certain that the key to their success is to work as a team on every project. Collaboration is essential. The second most popular reason for firms to leave their current vendor is the lack of collaboration functionality. Microsoft Teams has become one of the most popular ways for firms to communicate and collaborate. Having an ERP system that works inside of Teams is a natural fit and has an incredible impact on system adoption.
The high response rate to this particular reason is a sign of the times. It’s clear that AEC firms are demanding this technology and the increased efficiency and functionality it delivers. While their present software providers talk about being able to use AI and develop Bots, it’s already there with Microsoft and aec360.
Many firms have experienced a low adoption rate with their ERP software. What was supposed to be firmwide ERP solution has become an “accounting” system. No one from Operations wants to use the software! Firms that have made the decision to implement aec360 are focused on serving Project Managers and supporting Operations.
All the firms we spoke with acknowledged their desire to customize the system. Although their current software was designed for an AEC firm, not everything was a perfect fit. The real problem was the complexity of the tools required to make the system a firm specific, perfect fit. aec360 takes advantage of Microsoft’s Power Platform – the low code/no code development tool that those AEC firms are looking for.
Most firms understand the popularity of Excel in their organization. Many of their employees prefer to use Excel than most other applications, especially their ERP system! For these users, aec360 doesn’t need to fight that preference. Whether it’s input or output, most application areas in aec360 have direct links to Excel.
This was also important in our client’s selection criteria. The natural and seamless integration that a Microsoft based solution provides was comforting in that it will ALWAYS work. Enhancements in one application area are taken advantage of in the other applications. All your Microsoft investments work in lock step.
Being truly connected is important to all the firms we spoke with. Their current ERP vendors don’t really address and deliver important applications areas the firm requires. As a truly end-to-end system, aec360 is a more complete ERP solution. Your firm requires a strong front-end marketing application to manage campaigns and lead generation activities, so we’ve built that into aec360. Any AEC firm needs to manage their talent, so aec360 also has full Human Resources application.
Our new clients recognized that, although they have complex project management needs, they didn’t want to give up ANY functionality when it came to their complex financial management requirements. aec360 uses the same financial management foundation as some of the world’s largest companies. If you need a sophisticated approach to a financial requirement, Microsoft Dynamics 365 very likely has a solution.
Most firms we spoke with had this reason on their list. They wanted to make a true Cloud, evergreen software investment for their new ERP system. That’s understandable given what they’ve been through. They made the decision to avoid being pushed to a new platform down the road. They’ve “future-proofed” their ERP investment with aec360 and Microsoft Dynamics 365.
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Those are the top 10 reasons why our new clients made the decision to move away from their previous software vendor and adopt a fresher, more appealing AEC ERP system. If you’re a Deltek or BST client, let us demonstrate how aec360 is different, and why it’s now the most popular ERP system for the AEC industry.
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