Running Projects and Professional Services on Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
most firms don't have a precise, current number for internally because their tracking isn't good enough to produce one.
The gap between the traditional utilization benchmark and what firms are actually achieving has widened. Source: Mosaic,
2026.
That gap matters more than a few percentage points might suggest. Utilization targets vary meaningfully by role — client-facing staff are typically expected to hit 75-80%, while managers and senior staff, who split time between billable work and running the business, are more realistically targeted at 35-50% — and without accurate, role-specific tracking, it's nearly impossible to tell whether a shortfall is a staffing problem, a scoping problem, or simply an unrealistic target that was never achievable in the first place.
68.9%
global average billable utilization rate as of 2023, down from a traditional benchmark closer to 75% — a gap that represents real, uncaptured margin for a lot of project-based businesses.
Source: Mosaic, 2026
Where project management inside an ERP earns its keep
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP's project management and project accounting capabilities exist specifically to close this gap, by tying time entry, resource allocation, project budgets, and billing into a single system rather than leaving them scattered across a separate project management tool, a separate time-tracking app, and the general ledger. When a consultant logs hours against a specific project task, that entry doesn't just sit in a timesheet — it flows into project costing in real time, which means
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