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This recording of a live webinar for an update on Viewpoint support during COVID-19 and walk through recommendations on how to manage these measures using in your Vista payroll system.

The main reason Snyder purchased Viewpoint was for its service management portion. They are able to track profitability as well as costs on a company scale, a departmental scale, and are also able to track it on the individual work order.

An on-premise Vista customer since 2013, Precision Concrete Construction implemented Trimble Construction One™ to replace manual processes and software disconnected from Vista, and to transform their business by hosting data in the cloud. The use of a Procore® developed Vista connector for job financials, which was not comprehensively and bi-directionally integrated, resulted in a disconnect between accounting and operations.

F+F Mechanical Enterprises, Inc. is a New England-based HVAC, plumbing, sheet metal, and equipment contractor. Family owned and operated since 1982, F+F’s leadership strives to continuously improve operations by integrating state-of-the art technology, promoting staff training, and continuously improving for a safe work environment for all its employees. When the company needed better project visibility and integrated workflows between the field and office, it turned to Trimble Construction One™.

In this episode of A Viewpoint on Construction, we dive into the complex topic of cost segregation with Frank Giudici, director of business development with Bedford Cost Segregation, LLC. Bedford performs detailed cost segregation studies on real estate properties for clients, finding assets like construction components or even discarded materials from building demos or remodels that can be used to advance depreciation.

In this episode of A Viewpoint on Construction, we explore the intricacies of big data and the role that business intelligence is — and will be — playing in the construction industry.

Time and materials for work performed was captured in spreadsheets and transmitted to the office where the information was entered into the accounting ERP. A heavily manual process, the consolidation of T&M data into field tickets for owner submission took around 30 days. Complexity, the sheer volume of tickets and spreadsheet-based tracking meant there were many dollars of T&M billing that was going unbilled. Cash flow was impacted as work-to-billed-to-paid time stretched out to 50 days or more. Billing consumed an outsized proportion of the accounting team’s time and resources and project managers lacked daily cost data to ensure that projects stayed on budget.

In this episode of A Viewpoint on Construction, Chuck Schwartz, Director of Business Development with Marcum Construction Services, discusses the benefits and challenges of connected jobsite and of getting accurate, real-time data to and from the field. “We’ve all heard the saying the money is made in the field, and it’s true,” Schwartz said. “Money is made and lost in the field.”

Anirban Basu, chairman and CEO at the Sage Policy Group, Inc., joins the podcast and discusses the economic trends and leading indicators that contractors need to watch in order to be successful. Basu, who serves as the chief economist for the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) and the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) notes that while the short-term outlook for the construction industry remains solid, overall indicators point to a potential slowdown over the next couple of years. Effective cash flow management is critical to enduring a recession, and Basu points to new technologies that maximize efficiencies, boost productivity and replace traditional processes. Hear why he doesn’t see a traditional way out of the skilled labor shortage and why a technological revolution is necessary to fill the gaps and keep contractors productive.

Tellepsen Builders was struggling with manual processes for HR management. Find out what happened when they implemented Viewpoint HR Management. Spoiler alert: they saved 3-4 hours of processing time for over 3,000 new hires!