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"When you can service more customers more efficiently, you've got the groundwork for building your business. That's what Columbus IT Service solutions offers you." -- Steen Hagengaard, CM, Columbus IT Denmark.
There are a wide variety of service businesses and service industries, but no matter which one you're in, the fundamentals stay the same.

Customer service, speed, and service costs are the key factors to manage to ensure your profitability. Your business has to be centered around turning over customers as quickly and economically as possible, while providing excellent service so that they come back and become lifelong customers.

 

So many aspects of your service business, aside from the actual work itself, are repetitive - invoicing, administration, payroll, and others. With a Columbus IT Service solution, your systems will take care of the administration, leaving your employees more time to take care of the customer - and your profits.

 

Automating Your Service Business

Columbus IT provides you with a range of solutions, depending on your company size and needs. And, no matter what solution you choose, it can be easily customized to work exactly the way you do. Because we have a library of over 5,000 custom modules, chances are we've already done the customization work before. Even better, we also have the configurable vertical solutions software developed by our own in-house software division. You save time and money during implementation, and get the highest quality assurance by buying right from the source. We know your industry enough to know that no professional service organization is alike. We also know that, chances are, you struggle with increasingly complex projects and challenging competition, and your need is greater than ever to make the best use of your internal resources.

 

Handling Every Aspect of Your Service Operation

Our solution is designed to take over or assist you in your everyday service tasks, including:

  • Service contracts
  • Payment plans
  • Exchange management ("loaners")
  • Usage tracking
  • Service jobs
  • Help desk system
  • Up-selling and cross-selling
  • Job planning
  • Resource allocation
  • Project management
  • Barcode management

With the To-Increase solution for professional services, you can:

  • write more effective proposals in less time
  • maintain better management of contracts and projects
  • track and achieve strategic goals
  • identify and solve the problems that lead to late deliveries and cost overruns
  • invoice faster
  • and more

Features include tools such as Assignment Management, which enables companies to plan time and resources for multiple assignments in the same project, Project Management, which allows users to track documents in and out of the project, and Time and Expenses, which makes it easier to accurately manage bills, allowances, resources, and more.

 

Industry-Standard Solutions

Columbus IT Service solutions are based on one of the following, depending on your needs:

  • Columbus Service Manager for Microsoft Dynamics AX, developed by Columbus IT Partner.
  • Service Management for Microsoft Dynamics NAV
  • A mobile computing solution from Expandit A/S that handles ”electronic service reports” on the Web, laptops, or PDAs/handheld units.

If you need to handle processes, planning and time registration over the Internet, we offer a web-based solution.

 

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Vraa Dampvaskeri Vraa Dampvaskeri
Vraa Dampvaskeri launders and provides work clothes and other laundry services to 5,000 companies across Denmark. Before Dynamics AX, registration was performed manually, which was slow and inefficient. Information between head office and the production facilities was only transferred once a day. In 2000, Columbus assisted Vraa Dampvaskeri with...
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