What makes Dayshape the better alternative to ProStaff?
Dayshape optimizes resourcing, enhances workforce planning, and maximizes profitability, while driving both employee and client satisfaction.
With a unified interface for demand planning, Gantt-based scheduling, and AI-powered allocation, Dayshape facilitates quick decision-making and revenue optimization. Real-time engagement economics ensure best-practice budgeting and mid-project adjustments to prevent overruns and write-offs, while fully customizable reports enable forecasting & future planning.
Seamless integrations with existing systems and industry expert support make the transition to Dayshape smooth—a critical advantage over ProStaff. For firms looking to maximize efficiency and reduce revenue risk, more are choosing Dayshape over ProStaff.
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Why customers choose Dayshape as an alternative to ProStaff
Next-level intelligent AI, on your terms
- Customizable suitability scoring and automated multi-project scheduling co-pilot
- Allocates huge pools of resources across many projects, ensuring firm-wide optimization with intelligent combinatorial optimization AI
- Accommodate talent needs and client outcomes with suitability scoring including weighted skill preferences
- Gain firm-wide demand and supply visibility, and make capacity decisions swiftly with the unified resource Gantt and demand planner view
Continuous innovation with our customers and a modern, evolving UI
- Ongoing Dayshape innovation and customer-led enhancements, with update releases every 6 weeks
- A large percentage of turnover is re-invested into the product, typically resulting in over 100 user-facing improvements annually
- Faster onboarding and adoption through enhancements driven through our customer discovery programme
- Helping users perform tasks faster and reducing their learning curve through streamlined elements that are easy to navigate
Seamless integration with a broad range of 3rd party providers and solutions
- Avoid duplicate data entry errors and make strategic decisions with confidence when integrating Dayshape into your existing ecosystem
- Leverage the knowledge of professional services experts for tailored support to help integrate with complex legacy solutions
- Workday packaged solution powerfully integrates PSA, ERP, and HCM systems with Dayshape’s advanced capabilities
Optimize your firms’ margins with leading engagement economics
- Drive results through live engagement financials
- A complete picture of real-time and future engagement performance alongside scheduling
- Forecast financial performance before confirming schedules with real-time revenue projections
- Combine planning with a single view of resource availability against engagement & financial data
- Prevent overruns and write-offs by setting profitability controls and automated alerts
Predict the future using firm-wide insights and reporting dashboards
- Make better strategic decisions with critical insights from powerful reports
- Transform talent, engagement, and financial data into powerful insights with highly configurable reporting
- Have complete visibility over scheduling options with our optimal UI and Gantt chart view
Build a sustainable business, keeping your people at the forefront
- Predict supply and demand changes and invest in staffing to smooth out peaks and troughs with access to future insights
- Strengthen productivity and client service by driving a happy workforce with the autonomy to suggest changes to their schedules
- Improve project quality and reduce overruns by ensuring projects are well-staffed with better-skilled people working on preferred projects
- Reduce regulatory risk and increase client retention to build a firm’s market reputation & credibility
Dayshape vs ProStaff feature comparison
| Dayshape | ProStaff |
|---|---|
| Offering | |
| Dedicated, modern solution for professional services firms, designed for strategic and scalable resource management | Solution designed for smaller accounting firms with low-volume scheduling needs |
| Scalable cloud-based system provides access to real-time data anytime, anywhere | Not fully cloud-supported |
| Scheduling | |
| All-in-one view combines demand planning, Gantt-based resource scheduling, and AI allocation to facilitate quick decision-making & optimized planning | Demand planning and resource view presented in different panes with poor UI hinders decision making |
| AI suitability scoring uses weighted traits, skills & preferences to quickly highlight the best resources per project | No suitability scoring increases manual, administrative workload |
| AI engine immediately proposes optimal resource allocations across many projects, driving firm-wide optimization | No automated scheduling which increases admin time and hinders process efficiency |
| Skills | |
| Integrates with your skills database, using suitability scoring and automated scheduling to identify skill gaps and help people build their careers | Limited skills functionality—skills are manually added as notes, aren't graded, and aren't integrated into scheduling, making it hard to identify gaps and match the right person to the right task |
| Engagement economics | |
| Live engagement economics calculate project profitability in real-time during planning and compare this year to prior year and 3rd party comparators for accurate budgeting & mid-project adjustments | Missing real-time engagement economics and comparative analyses with past years or third-party benchmarks, leading to less accurate budgeting and preventing mid-project changes to prevent overruns |
| Integrations | |
| Seamless integration with a broad range of 3rd party providers including Iris Star and an out-the-box Workday packaged solution | Slightly fewer integrations increase integration friction |
| Dedicated customer support with extensive professional services industry expertise | Customer support lacks professional services industry expertise |
| Controls | |
| Highly configurable workflow system for unique approval processes, with profitability controls and alerts to mitigate overruns, write-offs, and compliance risks | Insufficient performance alerts and missing profitability controls compromise engagement management and governance |
| Audit trail to track projects effectively and ensure compliance with quality standards e.g. ISQM1 | No audit trail functionality |
| Reporting | |
| Comprehensive reporting across all data points delivers firm-wide insights in real-time for confident decision-making. Available in Dayshape Dashboard or via Excel/API export | No self-serve configurable reporting and lacks dashboard which hinders future planning |
| User Experience | |
| Modern, intuitive user interface with in-built accessibility saves user's time | Outdated user interface lacks a search function and drag & drop features which increases friction |
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