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Challenge
You've got to go to the cloud—that's
where business is going. It's better,
it's faster, it's more secure and it
gives you more flexibility. You see
the vision Trimble Viewpoint has
and it made perfect sense.
— Dennis Heinle, Director of IT,
Guarantee Electrical
With fast-moving projects, tight timelines and the increasing
need to dig deeper into data to scrutinize work and progress,
Guarantee Electrical knew it needed a modern software
solution to keep pace with demand. The company relied on
Trimble Viewpoint's Vista construction management software
for more than a decade and it worked well. But Dennis Heinle,
the company's director of information technology said there
were a lot of on-premises systems in place and work involved to
manage the company's data, workflows, software updates and
push new installs out.
"We tried to centrally locate as much as we could here in
St. Louis. Our main data center and disaster recovery (DR) site
are both here. We were running Citrix for remote access of our
core applications like Vista, but we keep growing, and up until
about a year ago, we were still doing everything the old-school
way, which was a challenge," Heinle said.
When Trimble Viewpoint began offering Vista in the cloud,
Heinle said he saw opportunity for Guarantee Electrical to
improve its operations. The primary challenge—processing
speed—was an issue that made moving to the cloud
particularly appealing. Years of data storage and processing
in on-premise servers and software instances had slowed its
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