Professional Services – Weekly Project Status

What is a Weekly Project Status Report? Weekly Project Status Reports are considered status tracking tools and are used by Project Managers (PMs) and Consulting Managers to display a quick status on each active project to give leaders internal dashboards and reports to show the overall health (e.g. green, yellow, red) across projects. Some of the main functionality in this type of report is that it can reduce or eliminate the need for other, manual project status tracking to give managers a quick health check on the company's active projects. The report displays the status as a color (seen as the background color in the first columns) along with key project data. Fields to display can include: Client, Project status, Consulting, Light (status), PMO assigned, Consultant, Priority, Start date, and Last update. You find an example of this type of report below.

Purpose of Weekly Project Status Reports Professional Services organizations use Weekly Project Status Reports to give service leaders a clear picture of the health of their delivery services. When used as part of good business practices in PMO and Consulting departments, a company can improve its ability to easily inform managers about project statuses across all clients to speed up tactical decisions, and it can reduce the chances that managers don't notice important issues as early as possible.

Who Uses This Type of Report? The typical users of this type of report are: Service Leaders, Project Managers, Consultants. Other Reports Often Used in Conjunction with Weekly Project Status Report Progressive PMO and Consulting departments sometimes use several different Weekly Project Status Report, along with Consultant billing reports, billing revenue dashboards, project dashboards, detailed project and summary reports, revenue forecast models, annual budget models and other management and control tools.

Where Does the Data for Analysis Originate From? The Actual (historical transactions) data typically comes from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems like: Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) Finance, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC), Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Sage Intacct, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage 500, Sage X3, SAP Business One, SAP ByDesign, Acumatica, Netsuite and others. In analyses where budgets or forecasts are used, the planning data most often originates from in-house Excel spreadsheet models or from professional xFP&A solutions.

Built for professional services finance teams and aligned with Solver's xFP&A platform, this Solver report template connects directly to your ERP data via the Solver Data Warehouse, enabling near real-time analysis with minimal setup. Designed for QuickStart deployment, it can be activated rapidly so your team can focus on analysis and decisions — not data preparation.

What is the Professional Services – Weekly Project Status in Solver? The Professional Services – Weekly Project Status is a pre-built xFP&A report template in Solver designed for professional services organizations. It delivers key financial and operational metrics in a single, easy-to-use interface — purpose-built for professional services finance workflows.

Who uses this Solver report template? Cfos, project managers, and professional services finance teams in professional services organizations rely on this Solver report template to replace manual spreadsheet-based processes with automated, near real-time analysis. It is especially useful during month-end close, budget cycles, and board reporting.

Where does the data come from? Data is sourced automatically from your ERP system through the Solver Data Warehouse, which integrates with platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Dynamics 365 Finance, Acumatica, Sage Intacct, and other leading ERP solutions. Once connected, the template updates in near real-time with no manual data entry required.

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