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Dan Ramsbottom of Forbes Bros. Powerline Construction discusses how the Vista by Viewpoint suite of modules gives his business a complete technology solution.

After a rigorous process, the‘The Good Guys’, as Winvan is known in the industry, realized their software was not keeping up. As a result, they chose a software solution equipped with the features and functionality best suited for a busy heavy highway contractor. Winvan’s Controller, Colin Siemens shared a few reasons why Vista™ by Viewpoint was selected as his company’s new software suite.

After evaluating several systems and visiting customer sites, Chandos chose Vista by Viewpoint for its contemporary Microsoft SQL/ .NET platform and time-saving efficiencies. Viewpoint’s experienced consulting support and technical teams, along with a lowmaintenance update process were also deciding factors.. Chandos noted that these benefits provided a major advantage over the Sage software they were previously using.

As Lehman Roberts Company learned, implementing new software is only half the battle. “Having worked on such an antiquated system for so long, the computer proficiency here was reasonably behind,” explained Lehman Roberts Vice President, Patrick Nelson. “We naturally had some basic and simple questions to get the team up to speed.”

The evaluation process for a new technology and partner was extensive, explains Paul Walker, Hoar’s Vice President of Information Technology: “It was important for us to find a software partner that can meet our technological challenges, is forward-thinking, and meshes well with our company culture. We interviewed many with cultures that simply did not align with ours.”

Continued growth and innovation drives Bassett Mechanical forward to best serve their customers and support their Lean principles and processes. Having outgrown their outdated and custom software program to manage accounting and project management, the company explored new options and opportunities to help them improve.

The company’s Controller, Mark Ames, explains how Atlantic Electric has seen time-savings over the last two years using Vista by Viewpoint to have all job costing done in one system: “I have great visibility into not only finances, but projects as well. With the solution, I see what’s happening and help keep things on track.” It also gives me visibility into change orders with a very easy workflow and process. Also, the reporting with Vista is better than what we’d had before.”

Delnor recognized the need for a new software solution as access to critical data was delayed and cumbersome to collect from teams across the organization. Accounting and Project Management were working in isolation and a unified and integrated solution was needed to ensure teams were working collaboratively and that information was easily shared. With the company’s previous solution, it could take up to 4 weeks to deliver job costing data, leaving project managers with little to no information on whether their projects were on budget. It became critical to help ensure project managers could readily see where the labor and supply costs were on a job to help support course correction and faster, better decision making.

Dennis 7 Dees knew its current system couldn’t keep up, so they reviewed Viewpoint against several other leading software providers. As part of a rigorous evaluation process, which included consideration of the size and concentration of the software vendor, development track record and technology platform, Viewpoint was the clear choice.

Concord General Contracting, Inc. is a mid-sized construction management firm with offices in Mesa and Tucson, Arizona. Concord has successfully completed hundreds of projects from educational, religious, medical, municipal and historic renovation to green building.