something is going south and can address it now
before it becomes a long-term issue. Because of
that, there is a lot less rework, fewer cost and budget
overruns, and fewer time and labor overruns. That
allows us to deliver projects on time and on budget
more easily than ever."
Drouin recognizes that many contractors are still
wavering on whether to move to cloud-based
construction software but added the longer those
companies hesitate, the greater the disadvantage
to their business.
"Hands down, the cloud is the only way to go
nowadays. There's a stigma in the construction
industry to not have your financials in the cloud.
But if banks can handle the security to do it, I think
we can too," he said. "The benefits are endless. We
have immediate data access as things happen in the
field. A project manager can have his coffee in the
morning and check the exact status of where his job
is—from labor hours to material costs to subcontract
costs and more. Before, we were literally looking a
month to three months back in time to find out why
something happened and what could we do about
it after the fact. Now, instead of the rear-view, we're
looking ahead and projecting ahead of the curve
within our system."
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