Construction Management Software
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Do any of you guys have any construction companies as clients? It seems finding legit reviews of construction software packages are few and far between on the internet from what I've found. Client in question would like me to help them pick out a software package, alas I have no prior experience with this area.
Some I've come up with (probly cause they spend the most on marketing)
Procore and Sage
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We have a client who uses ProCore (we only do project work for them so we don't support it).
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I normally avoid sage at all cost, but they seem to have quite the offering for construction.
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what kind of volume do they do? commercial, residential, contracting? would you mind asking them how they feel about it or giving me their contact to do so?
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I worked for a heavy highway paving company who had a sister company that did bridges and road construction, and another sister company that does large corporate buildings. We used Heavy Bid, Primavera for cpm scheduling, PlanSwift for takeoffs, and some custom Lotus Notes apps that were developed by a company we acquired.
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was the company happy with those products? how was supporting them?
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I think that QuickBooks has a module for construction companies. Would not recommend them, just throwing that out there.
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Never looked at PeachTree, but they seem like they would be an obvious choice to check out.
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Talk to other building companies and ask them what they use? Some of them might tell you where to go, others might be friendly and share.
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@hubtechagain said:
was the company happy with those products? how was supporting them?
As far as I know, they still use all of them and they work well. I was a project engineer so I didn't have to support any of them. I haven't personally used HeavyBid, but it's very capable. I've used the others and they work well. Planswift is very easy to use. For just cpm scheduling, Primavera is kind of overkill, but PennDOT required it.
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A friend of mine was just tell me about a product his construction client moved to.
I'll ask him the name.
they have no experience on it yet though, FYI - they are still in the process of implementing it. -
@hubtechagain said:
what kind of volume do they do? commercial, residential, contracting? would you mind asking them how they feel about it or giving me their contact to do so?
They do commercial stuff... I will ask if they would be willing to talk to you.
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great @Dashrender and @Minion-Queen lemme know
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Not sure if you have picked anything yet but here are two that my clients use:
- Spectrum - http://www.dexterchaney.com/index.php/spectrum-software
- ComputerEase - http://www.construction-software.com/
Both are very strong products. Not sure what you budget is but both I believe are a little pricey.
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@hubtechagain said:
great @Dashrender and @Minion-Queen lemme know
Client is on vacation (winter) so not answering me. I will let you know as soon as I hear something.
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@syko24 client likes to throw around big numbers. they are slow payers though.. so we will see.
