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Computer Guidance Corporation Successfully Passes SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II Audits

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Computer Guidance Corporation Successfully Passes SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II Audits For Its Cloud Hosting Systems, Services, and Associated Processes
Assurance provided by CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP in Accordance with Attestation Standards Established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Scottsdale, Arizona – August 29, 2023 – Computer Guidance Corporation, the leading developer of cloud-based ERP solutions for the construction industry, today announced receipt of its annual System and Organization Control (SOC) SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II attestation engagement reports for the eCMS Hosting Service system that was designed and implemented throughout the period January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022.

The trust services reports provide independent validation that Computer Guidance Corporation’s security, availability, and confidentiality controls operated in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountant (AICPA) applicable Trust Services Criteria (TSC) as a result of an examination of the description of a service organization’s system and the suitability of the design and operating effectiveness of controls involving a number of factors such as security, availability, and confidentiality outlined in the audit report.

The audits reviewed several processes and procedures that have been implemented by Computer Guidance to proactively manage the cloud environments that host the eCMS system, associated Tier III data centers.

“The successful completion of our SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II examination audits provides Computer Guidance’s clients with the assurance that the controls and safeguards we employ to protect and secure their data, systems and cloud hosting environments are in line with industry standards and best practices and that we are committed to and making every investment to establish and maintain the most stringent controls needed to ensure the highest level of security and compliance,” stated Michael Bihlmeier, President, Computer Guidance Corporation.

About Computer Guidance Corporation
With over 20% of their clients represented on top ENR lists, Computer Guidance Corporation delivers the leading construction enterprise resource planning solution including financial and project management, #1 business intelligence, mobile, and enterprise content management.  Scalable, customizable, and cloud hosted, CGC serves thousands throughout North America. Computer Guidance Corporation is part of the JDM Technology Group, a global construction-specific software conglomerate that serves more than 500,000+ in 40 countries and 6 continents.

A complete guide to cloud computing for construction

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A Complete Guide to Cloud Computing for Construction Companies

How to Evaluate Cloud Computing for Construction Companies

Successful construction project management requires attention to a lot of details, and that means that managing the technology to keep track of your information can become a full time distraction.  

How can you manage your information, grow your contracting business, and reduce the amount of time and money you spend on IT administration? 

Maybe it’s time to consider cloud construction ERP software. 

You’ve likely heard that cloud computing has been growing in importance, but what is cloud computing and how can you leverage the technology to benefit your construction company?  

Why is there rapid growth in cloud computing in the construction industry? 

In construction, digital innovations like BIM, 3D printing, drones, AI, robotics, cloud computing, and mobile are driving a new era of productivity and providing solutions to some of the challenges faced by today’s contractor.

There’s a shortage of workers in construction, which has forced companies to look for tools to help their employees be as productive as possible. Additionally, the average age of construction workers is rising, prompting some companies to use the incentive of digital technologies in order to attract younger, skilled workers.  

At the same time, projects are becoming more complex with new safety standards to follow and different materials in use. Contractors are looking for new ways to handle the changes in their industry.  

Cloud computing is growing in usage because the technology has reached a level where it’s effective and favorable for the construction industry. The fact is cloud computing provides secure access to business data for construction’s remote workforce which is distributed among multiple projects. Now that there are powerful and affordable mobile devices available for everyone, pervasive wireless access, and highly sophisticated cloud computing options, it is the right time for contracting companies to take advantage of those gains and implement cloud based construction management software.  

What is cloud computing? 

Cloud computing enables you to run software applications on stronger, more powerful machines and connect to your data using the internet, rather than at an on premise server. What that means in practice is that the labor and cost associated with maintaining company computing hardware and software would change from an internal responsibility to the responsibility of your software provider. 

Here are 10 ways that cloud computing can benefit your construction business: 

#1 Cloud computing is safe and secure 

Security is likely to be one of the first concerns you may have when you’re thinking about moving your construction ERP software and your business data to the cloud.  

Ransomware attacks and data breaches involving medical records and credit card information have focussed attention on data security. These news items are bound to create anxiety over the safety of your construction data, but these types of cybercrimes are relatively rare.  

Now a majority of security experts says that cloud computing is actually more secure than holding your important business information on a server on your premises. The risk of successful hacking at a data center is lower than on a business server. Moreover, onsite data is vulnerable to physical theft or accidents such as an electrical surge or flooding.  

Cloud computing also allows your contracting company a great deal of control over who has access to your business data.  

Software makers should build security controls into their cloud based applications. Check to see that you’ll have the ability to control user access to sensitive data (like construction payroll), assign passwords, and send encrypted data.  

There are multiple levels of security protection required of any cloud software company. Make sure your software provider follows industry best practices. Here are some questions to ask: 

  • What is the level of security between your provider’s data center and the internet? Do they meet ISO9001 standards or better? 
  • Is their data standard built to Tier III design, meaning that there is built in redundancy to account for routine maintenance, cooling, and equipment upgrades? 
  • Are they certified UL 2755 so that their data components are working together as a single system that’s ready for deployment? 

#2 Eliminate costly compliance and maintenance costs

Maintaining and managing your IT systems so that they meet industry requirements is a complex process that takes away time and resources from your primary business. Most construction companies add to their IT infrastructure as they grow, and over time upkeep of legacy systems will grow more convoluted and provide less direct return on investment.  

Additionally, contracting companies that work on Federal government projects are required to comply with strong security and IT standards as a condition of the contract, further stretching your IT expenditures and requiring more staff devoted to IT compliance.

With cloud computing, you can offload the risk, time, and costs associated with management of the systems that are critical to your business. In exchange, your IT team will be freed to focus on the best management of the data generated by your daily business.

Here are some benefits to moving your infrastructure maintenance to the cloud:

  • Eliminate time and costs for IT management and upkeep.
  • Offload repair and support for your outdated legacy hardware.
  • Streamline internal IT efforts to analyze and capitalize on the data from daily business.
  • Offload compliance risks to your solution provider.

#3 Make upgrades seamless with the cloud

Looking to the future, construction companies are taking advantage of new digital technologies and seeing benefits including long term cost reductions, increased employee productivity, and streamlined business process.

More and more construction companies now utilize powerful software to analyze project data and make their businesses more efficient. Rapid digitization has provided construction companies with a competitive advantage over old manual processes, but high costs for the maintenance of data and hardware can eat into your profits.  

Construction companies know that reducing costs helps their business thrive. It makes sense for contractors to target spending on business areas that driver greater ROI. Instead of devoting financial and human resources to the management of your computing systems, you can shift your staff to data analysis and process management to make the most of your competitive advantage.  

Moving to the cloud means you can transfer responsibility for much of your system management to an expert third party for a single line item expenditure. You can review your IT budget to see whether you could recoup some spending gains in the following areas:

  • Data storage and service infrastructure. 
  • Backups, upgrades, and software maintenance. 
  • Security software and maintenance. 

Reducing unnecessary overhead empowers your team to work with the latest, most up to date software and guarantees you’ll never run out of storage capacity for your critical business data.  

  • Eliminate performance monitoring and security management. 
  • Reduce overhead spent on unnecessary equipment. 
  • Re-calibrate human resources to managing data instead of systems.  

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#4 When it comes to safety, the cloud provides built in peace of mind

When you invest in digital technologies to help you improve your business, you want to ensure that they are always available for you. Your digital tools should be as safe and consistent as any tool in your toolbox.  

There are risks to keeping your key business data in your office, including natural disasters such as fire or flood, theft, mistakes, and equipment malfunction. The COVID pandemic revealed the limitations of having key project and client data housed in your on premise servers when your key team members were working remotely.  

Cloud computing ensures data redundancy so that your key business information is protected automatically and provides business continuity you can rely on. 

If data recovery is necessary, built in system redundancy in the cloud ensures there is virtually no down time. Data centers are often housed in geographic areas less prone to natural disaster, so they are safe repositories of your critical information.  

Costs for data redundancy and continuity are bundled into your computing costs along with everything else and you never have to worry about backups, or paying for backup and recovery services, which are specialized IT functions. 

Here are some questions to ask if you’re thinking about moving your critical applications and data to the cloud:

  • Does your service offer risk management? 
  • What is the rollback policy in the event of a problematic release? 
  • Where are the data servers located? 

#5 Grow your data capacity at the pace that’s right for you

Most contractors are small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and are reluctant to take on the extra cost of IT investments like increased storage until absolutely necessary. Cloud computing is flexible and scalable, which means you can add to your data storage capacity as you need it.

On demand scalability is an advantage for contractors and construction companies that have periods of relatively less business, such as companies that are driven by seasonal workforce or project changes. If your storage capacity is limited by the hardware and systems on site, your productivity can be limited, which might constrain your ability to finish projects faster and preserve your profit.

Scalability is also important for companies that are beginning to grow, whether they are growing organically or by acquisition. Instead of managing a sprawling server system, a cloud based system means you can simply purchase extra data storage as your system demands increase.

Furthermore, cloud storage frees you from the limitations of your legacy hardware systems, so that you can run the most up to date software applications to manage, analyze, and store the critical data you generate in your business. With a switch to cloud computing, you can use this opportunity to overhaul your IT system so that you’re working with the tools that provide the competitive edge you need.  

More scalable data storage means: 

  • No up front investments. 
  • Increased capacity to create and manage libraries of your project materials

#6 Cloud computing is more reliable. Period.

Although there are occasional cloud service outages that receive a lot of attention in the news, reliability is one of the main reasons that construction companies choose to invest in cloud computing. Most cloud service providers provide Service Level Agreements that pledge 99.99% uptime.

Cloud computing offers a single, reliable way to ensure your database is available from the office and the field. That means that your software will work more effectively, efficiently, and consistently in the cloud, compared with an existing on premises solution.

Here are 3 ways to ensure that you get the most reliable cloud service:

a. To ensure the most reliable systems for your team, and to make sure you have a contingency plan in case you encounter an outage, you can and should work collaboratively with your hosting provider to plan, assess, and analyze the most critical processes in your business. Together you can design and optimize your cloud environment for your working conditions.

b. Working with your hosting provider, you can build out test instances and environments to account for additional reliability.

c. Ensure that your IT departments have a recovery backup plan so that no outage will severely impact your business.

#7 Cloud computing is more reliable. Period.

Construction is a mobile industry by definition. Each project is managed in a different location, meaning that the unique infrastructure of a project is assembled as the job progresses. With these kinds of complexities, how do you offer access to key project data to the distributed construction workforce, who have differing needs for software access?

You can transform your ability to connect and access your data with software solutions that are available and accessible in the cloud. That means you can benefit from access to onsite reporting without delays – allowing you to make critical business decisions more quickly.

There are practical benefits of managing your jobs using a cloud computing solution that’s mobile and accessible. For example: ensure the ability to line up key construction deliveries with important project milestones, or you can increase collaboration between your office and work site with mobile timesheets.

But cloud computing offers perks beyond the practical. With truly mobile, accessible construction ERP software applications, you can more easily extract timely intelligence like productivity figures or determine your profitability by construction stage. As well, with a cloud computing system there’s improved capability to store, share, and analyze data from anywhere with any device that can connect to the internet.

Because you access your data via an internet browser, your information will always be available at your fingertips. State of the art or Modern Cloud computing solutions are:

  • Device agnostic.
  • Data access on demand.
  • Reliable, secure and truly available anytime, anywhere.

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#8 Data storage in the cloud makes project preservation easy

Construction documentation is notoriously extensive. Contractors are using more digital technologies in construction including building information modeling (BIM) files, site photos, drone footage, and more, the data produced by every construction project is ballooning.

Additionally, storing and managing project data from past jobs can consume huge amounts of hardware space or physical filing space. Nevertheless, contractors are mandated to store documentation for past projects in case of disputes.

With an increasing library of data to manage, many contractors choose to move their data libraries to the cloud. Growing and managing large amounts of data is more feasible with a cloud based computing scenario than managing storage growth on your own premises.

Within the cloud, the key limiting factor for the amount of accessible storage is cost, although cloud data storage costs remain lower than traditional server hardware. That means that even if you’re not ready to adopt a full cloud solution, you can still reduce your costs by moving your oldest files to low cost data storage in the cloud.

Some construction companies with large content management data, larger payroll, or complex business workflows may need more data than others.

#9 No waiting, no lagging, just faster access to your data

Will cloud computing improve productivity?

The short answer is yes. Cloud computing provides better results in latency and speed, and that makes it an ideal environment for the distributed workforce and data demands of construction. Cloud systems are low latency. That means they are fast and can process a lot of data without delay. This is true even when data processing demand increases.

Efficiency is critical in construction. With faster communication and better collaboration, your projects will experience fewer costly delays. Instead of waiting for critical information to be delivered manually from the worksite, cloud computing solutions like Rendra’s StreamBIM make it possible to upload and immediately share project data, such as specs and measurements, building plans, and photographs of jobs in progress, to authorized users.

Any authorized person on your team will have instant access to the work data, which creates big time savings and ensures that jobsites and project managers are fully connected to the back office.

  • Cloud based systems are automatically upgraded so hiccups related to outdated software are a thing of the past.
  • Eliminate the need to regularly take servers offline for scheduled maintenance.
  • Always access the best tools and latest releases, technologies and fixes so you won’t fall behind your competitors.

#10 Boost your competitive edge with cloud computing

In less than a decade cloud computing has become increasingly more important for construction companies in a rapidly digitizing industry. If you have been wondering about the right time to move your construction IT systems and software to the cloud, here’s a quick summary of the benefits you can count on:

Cloud computing means you can shift responsibility for management of your IT systems and instead focus on what you do best: your construction business.

With your hardware and software maintenance and management transferred to a third party, you can be sure that your IT system runs at high availability, and that your data is reliable, scalable, and accessible.

You work with subcontractors all the time because they’re experts at plumbing or flooring or cement work. In the case of cloud computing, you’re essentially subcontracting your data processing, storage, and applications to more powerful means. That means you can be assured that you’ll work with the most up to date, accurate information, and ensure your software tools are up to date and functioning ideally within your existing IT infrastructure.

Finally, contractors can improve their overall productivity and efficiency by using a transition to cloud computing as an opportunity to review existing processes and identify methods of streamlining their business.

The Power of Construction ERP Systems

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Construction projects are becoming more complex and more detailed, and today’s projects generate a great deal of data. This information can be a competitive advantage for construction companies that incorporate construction workflow automation.

Construction workflow automation refers to the implementation of technologies and processes to streamline and optimize various tasks and activities involved in construction projects. By automating workflows, construction companies can enhance efficiency, reduce manual labor, minimize errors, and improve overall project management.

Construction companies need to automate and integrate their workflows and create a closed loop that relies on data. Picture the series of activities that construction companies complete to finish a project. This ongoing loop of activities can be automated and integrated with other workflows and data to make your company more efficient and productive.

Construction ERP (enterprise-resource planning) systems are centralized software systems that distribute data across your organization, automate repetitive workflows, and provide tools for every employee to work from the latest data.

Read more at https://connectedworld.com/the-power-of-construction-erp-systems/

Computer Guidance Welcomes Mobile-Punch to JDM Technology Group

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Scottsdale, Arizona—July 11, 2023—JDM Technology Group, the parent company of Computer Guidance Corporation, a leading global software business of best-in-class software providers, has acquired Lévis, QC based Mobile-Punch. Mobile-Punch is a mobile application that helps businesses across multiple sectors manage timesheets, work schedules, and projects in real time. The transaction closed on June 30 after approval from owners, Jérôme Guay and Bryan Porter.

With over 35,000 daily users, the easy to use Mobile-Punch application allows teams in sectors including construction, security, cleaning, and repair to generate timesheets, pinpoint geolocations, create employee schedules, and more on any mobile device.

“I was a construction business owner for many years and couldn’t find a simple yet effective time management solution that my team could use, so I built Mobile-Punch. Our team is always looking to optimize, innovate, and evolve. Joining JDM is the next step in this evolution. I believe this is the right choice for our business because on our own we could have gone fast, but together we will go far,” said Jérôme Guay in a statement on the transaction.

JDM Technology Group is a private, family owned business focused on long term growth.  It is known for creating exceptional software solutions for the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations sectors. JDM has a proven strategy for integrating acquired companies into its existing infrastructure. Mobile-Punch will continue to operate as its own brand. Guay and Porter will stay on to lead the business in their roles as President and Vice President, respectively.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Mobile-Punch to the JDM family,” said JDM CEO Jim McFarlane. “We have always invested in robust, easy to use technology that helps our customers succeed. Mobile-Punch is a great addition, and we look forward to working with Jérôme, Bryan, and the entire team to build upon their foundation of innovation, growth, and integrity.”

About Mobile-Punch
Mobile-Punch is a mobile application that helps businesses manage timesheets, work schedules, and projects in real time. Available in French and English, the easy to use application allows teams to generate timesheets, pinpoint geolocations, create employee schedules, and more on any mobile device. Headquartered in Lévis, QC Mobile-Punch has over 35,000 daily users worldwide. It services businesses across various sectors including construction, security, cleaning, repair, and more.

About JDM Technology Group
JDM Technology Group is a global software business focused on delivering business software systems for the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations industries with over 150,000 users served in 40 countries on 7 continents, employing over 550 staff. The JDM Technology Group’s core philosophy is a long-term commitment to customer support and service coupled with providing the best possible solutions to customers. JDM Technology Group companies include CavSoft, CSSP, CostCon, LEVESYS, Nimbus, Plusfactor, and Spearhead Software in Australia and New Zealand; Builder Software Tools, Computer Guidance Corporation, ConEst Software, Explorer Software, EPAC, IndustrySmarts, JOBPOWER, Maestro Technologies, MicroMain Corporation, MPulse Software, TeamWORKS, and Vision InfoSoft in North America; and Estimate, Integrity, RedSkyIT, Rendra, and Safran in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.

About Computer Guidance Corporation
With over 20% of their clients represented on top ENR lists, Computer Guidance Corporation delivers the leading construction enterprise resource planning solution including financial and project management, #1 business intelligence, mobile, and enterprise content management.  Scalable, customizable, and cloud-hosted, CGC serves thousands throughout North America. Computer Guidance Corporation is part of the JDM Technology Group, a global construction-specific software conglomerate that serves more than 500,000+ in 40 countries and 7 continents.

4 Tips for Controlling Construction Project Costs

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4 Tips for Controlling Construction Project Costs

A perennial challenge for construction companies is keeping costs under control. But there are additional challenges that increase construction project costs. Inflation, high materials prices, and an ongoing labor shortage have stretched construction budgets. It’s a fact, construction projects have become more complex since the start of the 21st century.

Most Construction Projects are Completed Over Budget

In a 2015 report, KPMG said that only about 31% of all construction projects come within 10% of their initial budgets. Those figures are direr for the largest and most complex projects. As many as 80% of large projects are over budget, according to a McKinsey study. What’s more, nearly every single megaproject is delayed or over budget.

How Can You Control Construction Project Costs?

While many construction obstacles such as weather, labor complexities, and materials and equipment costs fall outside of your control, project managers can control systems and workflows.

The best way to control construction costs is to use Construction Project Management Software to implement these controls on their projects and workflows.

What is Construction Project Cost Management?

It’s the project manager’s role to keep your jobs on budget. Effective cost management helps keep your spending at a level where you will still make a profit. The key is to implement cost management processes at every level of the job, from planning through specialty contractors, change orders, and project delivery.

Showing employees reviewing reports and data to effectively control Construction Project Costs

Four Ways to Control Construction Project Costs

  1. Improve communications between the construction project manager and your back office.

    Project Managers need to have the latest, most accurate budget figures so they can make decisions when it matters. Using Construction Project Management software or Construction ERP software to track key figures including costs for labor, materials, equipment, and supplies will help you to identify if wasted materials, equipment going unused, or less-than-ideal work schedules could be contributing to a higher than the estimated project budget.

  2. Ensure change orders are processed and never forgotten.

    Some surveys suggest that as much as 20% of a building contract’s value comes from change orders, and if the change order is billed incorrectly, the project will eat the cost. You’ll want to make sure that you pass along any extra costs that you didn’t incur, like additional requirements following an inspection or owner’s visit, incomplete work, or damages caused by subcontractors.

    Tracking change orders with integrated made-for-construction software ensures they will turn into meaningful income and could be the difference between a profitable project and a money-losing project.

  3. Implement construction document control.

    Construction produces a lot of paperwork, like contracts, plans, change orders, punch lists, RFIs, and more, which can be overwhelming, especially when working with outdated plans or missing change orders can mean a hit to your project budget. Digital documents are easier to search and mean that the information is available to everyone on the project who needs the information. Use document management software to handle version control and make search and document recovery faster and easier.

  4. Rely on up-to-date project controls and tracking.

When there’s an issue on a project, you can measure the likely impact of the mistake by how quickly you’re able to react. In other words, the faster you can spot any issues and course correct them, the more likely you will be able to stay within or near your budget expectations. Make sure you have a reliable system for tracking and controlling suppliers and subcontractors. You’ll also want to ensure you have processes in place to identify if you’ve been overcharged or double invoiced.

How Can You Improve Construction Cost Controls?

Construction project management software can make all the difference when it comes to efficiently managing construction project costs. Here are the features that will help you manage project oversight and tighten cost controls.

Look for software with the ability to proactively manage, track, and process temporary labor time. Projects employ multiple types of labor including many temporary workers like specialty contractors. For some construction jobs, labor will account for as much as 50% of the project costs, so it’s critical to track these labor costs as they are incurred.

Because labor costs represent such a large portion of total project costs, you’ll want software that includes detailed reporting and calculations for project labor. Some contractors still use spreadsheets to track specific job costs like labor, but integrated software can show you incremental changes that could affect your budget. Your reporting should reveal how labor is adding to job costs each day so can adjust schedules and understand where budgeted and actual are different so can make corrections.

Key metrics you may want to track with the reporting include:

  1. Completed labor hours on the job.
  2. Actual/completed labor hours compared with budgeted hours to identify whether there is a difference and why.
  3. Forecasting of total expected labor hours at the current labor hour rate.

Monitor Equipment Productivity

Equipment costs add to the project budget whether it’s in use or idle, so it’s important to monitor equipment productivity. Project managers need to know whether an asset is productive or not. High demand for certain types of equipment has meant that certain machinery is not readily available for rent or lease or purchase. And when it is available, equipment costs are rising rapidly. Tracking productive versus idle time can provide data that will help you plan for future projects. It’s also cost-effective to provide your team with alerts about equipment downtime.

Is your equipment idle or not operating? You’ll need to adjust work schedules to ensure that people are onsite when the equipment is available.
Similarly, contractors that frequently use rented or leased equipment should track and manage the productivity of rented equipment, to identify where the equipment is idle or otherwise nonproductive. Heavy highway and civil contractors are most likely to use equipment rentals or leases to complete projects.

Capture Data

Capture data from the field and distribute the information to other departments. When information like field labor time, crew time, and receipt of Purchase Orders is entered from the job site, it’s more likely to be complete and accurate. Your construction software should integrate information from remote sources and distribute the data to every department that needs it so that it can be used for executive reporting, dashboards, billing, payroll, and more.

Keep Your Team Safe

Keeping your team safe is a critical responsibility of any contractor. Your team is the foundation of your success, and due to the current labor shortages, potential employees can choose to work with a company that enacts and uses great safety processes. Risk management is part of construction, and with so many people laboring on various projects, it’s critical to make sure you’re a stickler for safety processes.

Your software should help you manage certifications, onboarding, training on safety processes, alerts for missing information, and alerts for missing or expired safety training so you can avoid any penalties for violations.

Manage Materials

After labor costs, materials costs are the biggest item on a project budget. Your software must help you track and manage your materials so you can limit delays from not having the correct materials on site. Choose software that can track material deliverability, item backlog, and keep you updated so that you’re able to adjust your schedule in advance when necessary.
Field-based construction software tools are ideal for tracking materials, especially if your project manager is also your procurement officer. Mobile tools enable your project manager to be on-site and purchase materials, handle billing and receiving, and assign project codes to manage cost departments.

Track Fuel Costs

With projects in many different locations, and amid rising fuel costs, construction project management software that tracks fuel costs and enables fuel card purchasing can help streamline costs and means approvals will be processed in a more timely manner.

Use Construction Scheduling Software

Does your software integrate with comprehensive construction scheduling software? Your project manager must stay on top of where contractors are working and where materials will be sent so you can line up work appropriately. It can be very costly to schedule a crew to a project site if the materials are not ready.

Summary

If you’re still using spreadsheets, it’s virtually impossible to track all the costs of a construction project. Using construction project management software can help you better control construction project costs. With integrated features that help you collect information and deliver the data to the departments that need it, you’ll be able to look at your data more critically and create processes and workflows that minimize waste and create efficiencies.

Computer Guidance Welcomes AllMax Software to JDM Technology Group

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Scottsdale, Arizona—February 3, 2023—JDM Technology Group, the parent company of Computer Guidance Corporation, a leading global software business of best-in-class software providers, has acquired Kenton, OH based AllMax Software. AllMax makes wastewater, water, CMMS, and pre-treatment software. The transaction closed on January 31, 2023 after approval from AllMax owners Russell and Patricia Maxwell.

Since 1994, AllMax Software has delivered first class operations and maintenance management software. AllMax helps plants and facilities increase performance, efficienty, and profitability by delivering critical information quickly and accurately.

“AllMax Software has been a leader in the Water and Wastewater industry for over 28 years and when we decided to sell the business, we looked for companies that aligned with our approach to sales and supporting our clients. JDM was selected since we believe that it will be a great fit for our customers and our employees. With the support of JDM’s global resources and industry expertise, AllMax Software will continue to create value and new opportunities for its customers.”

JDM Technology Group is a private, family owned business focused on long term growth. It is known for creating exceptional software solutions for the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations industries. A key differentiator from other players in the market is its commitment to never “end-of-life” its software so customers are never forced to stop using their preferred solution.

“We’re thrilled to welcome to AllMax to the JDM family,” said JDM CEO Jim McFarlane. “The deep industry expertise of its people and its robust operations and maintenance software further strengthens our existing facility management portfolio. We look forward to working with the AllMax team.”

AllMax joins, AerieHub, EPAC, MicroMain Corporation, MPulse Software, and TeamWORKS as part of JDM’s facility management software group. Randall Brous, President of MPulse Software, will lead AllMax and oversee day-to-day operations of the business.

About AllMax Software 
AllMax Software helps facilities efficiently manage maintenance and operations data. Established in 1994, the company delivers critical information quickly and accurately so plants and facilities can improve performance and profitability.

About JDM Technology Group
JDM Technology Group is a global software business focused on delivering business software systems for the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations industries with over 150,000 users served in 40 countries on 7 continents, employing over 550 staff. The JDM Technology Group’s core philosophy is a long-term commitment to customer support and service coupled with providing the best possible solutions to customers. JDM Technology Group companies include CavSoft, CSSP, CostCon, LEVESYS, Nimbus, Plusfactor, and Spearhead Software in Australia and New Zealand; Builder Software Tools, Computer Guidance Corporation, ConEst Software, Explorer Software, EPAC, IndustrySmarts, JOBPOWER, Maestro Technologies, MicroMain Corporation, MPulse Software, TeamWORKS, and Vision InfoSoft in North America; and Estimate, Integrity, RedSkyIT, Rendra, and Safran in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.

About Computer Guidance Corporation
With over 20% of their clients represented on top ENR lists, Computer Guidance Corporation delivers the leading construction enterprise resource planning solution including financial and project management, #1 business intelligence, mobile, and enterprise content management.  Scalable, customizable, and cloud-hosted, CGC serves thousands throughout North America. Computer Guidance Corporation is part of the JDM Technology Group, a global construction-specific software conglomerate that serves more than 500,000+ in 40 countries and 7 continents.

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