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Risk Analysis and Go/No-Go Decision Process using Outlook Forms
  
 
The exceptional services and the quality of deliverables at USAT saved a great deal of cost and efforts in building our software product.
 
CEO, Crane Care Inc. MI
 
Your method of analysis and approaches to problem solving are impressive. We would not be able to develop our customized operations management software without your help. All our employees are very happy with the final outcome. The product we are now using and is saving tremendous amount of  time and cost in running our business. 
 
President
GemStone Real Estate Inc. MI
 
The quality and the stability of the project management system you developed is greatly appreciated by our Project Managers around North America. We recommend USAT to any company without reservation. The continuity of your support is helping our operations. 
 
We want to thank you for your help in entire project life cycle and continued support.
 
Sr. National Ops Manager
Building Technologies division of fortune 500 company.  


Client:

Construction division of fortune 500 company

 

Client's Industry:

Construction

 

Services Provided:

Automating Risk Analysis and Pre-Bid approval process using Outlook Forms.

 

CASE STUDY

 

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Challenge: Building Technologies division of a fortune 500 company was interested in streamlining the Risk Analysis and Bidding Approval Process so that the sales in North America can be improved. This also help company to take right decision in pursuing the opportunities with an appropriate risk analysis and to gather more information upfront. And also to help the organization in reducing the sales cost.

Solution: At the time and with the available technology in the market, we identified that Microsoft Outlook Forms was the best option to address the challenge. USATInc the premium Business IT Solutions provider, took the challenge and worked with the client in finding the efforts and hurdles involved. The team of experts at USATInc analyzed the variables in the initiative and brainstormed with the client in deriving the right approach to meet the given task. Project execution is started upon the definition of the scope, schedule, budget and Quality measurements. The systematic approach and Project Management methodologies were put in place during the course of meeting the challenge. 

Result: USATInc was able to deliver the desired result while meeting the scope, time and budget constraints . The project lasted approximately six months from the kick-off meeting to the completion of project deliverables. The sales team at the client organization who are the end users of the outcome were very happy about the system implemented. This is a great improvement and quicker way to conclude the decision on the identified opportunities. Tremendous amount of their time is being saved and as well the internal business process is streamlined. This system is enabled the supervisors to understand who is accountable in the event of delay while coming to the decision on the pursuing opportunity. The traditional paper work is replaced with the automatic escalation using Microsoft Outlook helped us to, collect and track the opinion of  every individual party involved in decision making process. Analysis was reported automatically to the higher officials at the end of every month on all the opportunities that are pursued during the month and the approach the field organization taken to get the right projects on board. Print versions of the forms are generated in Microsoft Word Document format and are saved for auditing purposes.

Technology: The technologies used by the project team at USATInc include  Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Outlook 2003. VB Script, ADO, Outlook Forms, Visual Basic, Crystal Reports. Microsoft Office 2003 Automation is used in generating the print versions of the forms and data entered in the forms. Report generation features of the application developed using Crystal Reports.