Growing companies know the right technology implementation is a balancing act: Address users’ expectations today while planning for tomorrow’s business demands. As a technology modernization firm, SPR helps companies strike that balance. We specialize in custom s...
Growing companies know the right technology implementation is a balancing act: Address users’ expectations today while planning for tomorrow’s business demands. As a technology modernization firm, SPR helps companies strike that balance. We specialize in custom software development, cloud, data, and user experience solutions, working alongside companies to develop or modernize their digital products and platforms. Integrating our experts with our clients’ staff, we work collaboratively and provide proactive, pragmatic advice. Our 100+ clients cover 10 industries, ranging from corporate finance and global logistics to local breweries and Chicago startups.
SPR has been named one of Crain’s Largest Private Companies in Chicago and is on the Built in Chicago Top 100 List of Digital Tech Companies in Chicago.
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Project Management
Aon, the world’s largest insurance brokering firm, has employees around the world. Aon employees needed a quick and convenient way to locate colleagues with precise expertise in a company of 50,000 people. SPR created a streamlined and intuitive Peo...
Aon, the world’s largest insurance brokering firm, has employees around the world. Aon employees needed a quick and convenient way to locate colleagues with precise expertise in a company of 50,000 people. SPR created a streamlined and intuitive PeopleFinder mobile app that offers secure access to employee data stored onsite. Employees can search for, read about, and contact colleagues around the globe who can help their clients be more successful.
To enable greater scalability and flexibility, SPR:
Extracted Aon’s data away from the business logic and putting it in a different tier, using smaller microservices as a layer between the data stored onsite and the receiving device
Tested for compatibility using Xamerin Test Cloud to show that the app would deploy successfully on the majority of phones employees have. Xamerin made it possible to run automated compatibility tests whenever there were major changes throughout the project.
In the service industry, Sharing excel sheets via emails is not only ineffective; it prohibits everyone from looking at the bigger picture and can potentially cause mistakes. They use traditional methods to administer their overall work processes such as lead scoring, schedule tracking, documenting, inventory, human resource, payroll and more. Due to these complicated approaches, businesses tend to face pressing issues that can contribute to inadequacies, dissatisfaction and lack of insight. Here are the reasons which outline why you should deploy powerful project management tools instead of using the old techniques;When your team creates multiple version of spreadsheets There are times when you and your team juggle between emails, cloud storage and computer files to track a document. In such a scenario, you often lose your important data and then invest more time into creating a new one. A central location is essential to securely store all job-related or project-related files to save time and protect your files from any alteration. When you are not able to track the progress of your projectThe profitability of service businesses is highly dependent on the timely execution of projects and the resolution of clients’ concerns. When you work with conventional tools like spreadsheets, you lose sight of the performance of the project - its real-time data, milestones achieved, bottlenecks, budget allocation and more. Job management software provides you exceptional visibility into every aspect of your project. You can schedule jobs, get work-in-progress reports and make data-driven decisions.Lack of business intelligenceNowadays, every decision is taken by leveraging the power of data. Promising data analysis helps you identify the opportunities and discrepancies of a project. If you want to carry out a cost estimate of a future project, then you are required to conduct a deep study of previous projects. Doing this manually needs a significant amount of time and people. Project management tools automate these tasks and gather critical insights for you to make informed decisions. Lack of inconsistency and efficiency in business processesWhen we talk about consistency, spreadsheets do provide decent levels of flexibility when it comes to financial modelling. But, the same cannot be said for other processes. If your end goal is to scale the business to new heights, then it is crucial for other systems and processes to work in conjunction with each other. Project management tools let you synchronize, gather and analyze data across multiple job processes. It helps you in;Project planning and SchedulingCommunication and collaborationDocumentation and data analysisResource and budget allocationSeamless workflow managementStreamlined project trackingAll things considered,If your business is experiencing one of the aforementioned challenges, then it's time for you to switch to project management tools to improve task and process management while increasing profitability.
In the service industry, Sharing excel sheets via emails is not only ineffective; it prohibits everyone from looking at the bigger picture and can potentially cause mistakes. They use traditional methods to administer their overall work processes such as lead scoring, schedule tracking, documenting, inventory, human resource, payroll and more. Due to these complicated approaches, businesses tend to face pressing issues that can contribute to inadequacies, dissatisfaction and lack of insight. Here are the reasons which outline why you should deploy powerful project management tools instead of using the old techniques;When your team creates multiple version of spreadsheets There are times when you and your team juggle between emails, cloud storage and computer files to track a document. In such a scenario, you often lose your important data and then invest more time into creating a new one. A central location is essential to securely store all job-related or project-related files to save time and protect your files from any alteration. When you are not able to track the progress of your projectThe profitability of service businesses is highly dependent on the timely execution of projects and the resolution of clients’ concerns. When you work with conventional tools like spreadsheets, you lose sight of the performance of the project - its real-time data, milestones achieved, bottlenecks, budget allocation and more. Job management software provides you exceptional visibility into every aspect of your project. You can schedule jobs, get work-in-progress reports and make data-driven decisions.Lack of business intelligenceNowadays, every decision is taken by leveraging the power of data. Promising data analysis helps you identify the opportunities and discrepancies of a project. If you want to carry out a cost estimate of a future project, then you are required to conduct a deep study of previous projects. Doing this manually needs a significant amount of time and people. Project management tools automate these tasks and gather critical insights for you to make informed decisions. Lack of inconsistency and efficiency in business processesWhen we talk about consistency, spreadsheets do provide decent levels of flexibility when it comes to financial modelling. But, the same cannot be said for other processes. If your end goal is to scale the business to new heights, then it is crucial for other systems and processes to work in conjunction with each other. Project management tools let you synchronize, gather and analyze data across multiple job processes. It helps you in;Project planning and SchedulingCommunication and collaborationDocumentation and data analysisResource and budget allocationSeamless workflow managementStreamlined project trackingAll things considered,If your business is experiencing one of the aforementioned challenges, then it's time for you to switch to project management tools to improve task and process management while increasing profitability.
In the service industry, Sharing excel sheets via emails is not only ineffective; it prohibits everyone from looking at the bigger picture and can potentially cause mistakes. They use traditional methods to administer their overall work processes such as lead scoring, schedule tracking, documenting, inventory, human resource, payroll and more. Due to these complicated approaches, businesses tend to face pressing issues that can contribute to inadequacies, dissatisfaction and lack of insight.
Here are the reasons which outline why you should deploy powerful project management tools instead of using the old techniques;
When your team creates multiple version of spreadsheets
There are times when you and your team juggle between emails, cloud storage and computer files to track a document. In such a scenario, you often lose your important data and then invest more time into creating a new one. A central location is essential to securely store all job-related or project-related files to save time and protect your files from any alteration.
When you are not able to track the progress of your project
The profitability of service businesses is highly dependent on the timely execution of projects and the resolution of clients’ concerns. When you work with conventional tools like spreadsheets, you lose sight of the performance of the project - its real-time data, milestones achieved, bottlenecks, budget allocation and more. Job management software provides you exceptional visibility into every aspect of your project. You can schedule jobs, get work-in-progress reports and make data-driven decisions.
Lack of business intelligence
Nowadays, every decision is taken by leveraging the power of data. Promising data analysis helps you identify the opportunities and discrepancies of a project. If you want to carry out a cost estimate of a future project, then you are required to conduct a deep study of previous projects. Doing this manually needs a significant amount of time and people. Project management tools automate these tasks and gather critical insights for you to make informed decisions.
Lack of inconsistency and efficiency in business processes
When we talk about consistency, spreadsheets do provide decent levels of flexibility when it comes to financial modelling. But, the same cannot be said for other processes. If your end goal is to scale the business to new heights, then it is crucial for other systems and processes to work in conjunction with each other. Project management tools let you synchronize, gather and analyze data across multiple job processes. It helps you in;
Project planning and Scheduling
Communication and collaboration
Documentation and data analysis
Resource and budget allocation
Seamless workflow management
Streamlined project tracking
All things considered,
If your business is experiencing one of the aforementioned challenges, then it's time for you to switch to project management tools to improve task and process management while increasing profitability.
