Suwanee, GA – December 7, 2009 – Strategies Group Inc. is pleased to announce their partnership with Hard Dollar, a leading provider of Project Cost Management software to the Infrastructure, Environmental, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Industrial, and Mining industries. Hard Dollar’s award winning Project Cost Management software provides Estimating, Job Controls, Field Data Collection and real-time integration to Scheduling, Accounting, and Design resulting in complete project visibility and control.
Scottsdale, AZ – December 4, 2009 – Hard Dollar Corporation, the leader in Project Cost Management today announced the release of Advanced Progress Tracking, adding instant visibility into progress and performance on planned activities, with side-by-side comparisons of the most critical factors that affect project success. Advanced Progress Tracking measures progress while increasing visibility to owners and contractors, increasing profits by 9% on average on every project, with real-time cost and productivity status and direct integration into finance.
Existing HD users can leverage the system to view side-by-side estimate vs. progress comparisons with direct integration to accounting, without adding additional systems or infrastructure. “Users can proactively correct potential productivity issues with transparent visibility into production trends, truly managing the project,” states Ron Babich, Hard Dollar VP of Sales and Marketing. “Accounting integration enables man hours, equipment hours, and quantities to be imported into accounting software for payroll, without duplicating entry. Owners and Construction Managers can now receive accurate information faster, satisfying regulatory and contractual requirements,” said Babich.
Tempe, AZ – November 27, 2007 – Hard Dollar Corporation, the leading provider of budget-and performance-based project management solutions announced a new webinar series (free to qualified industry professionals) to provide construction and energy organizations with best practices in improving project productivity and eliminating costly re-work across project planning and execution phases. Expert speakers will provide from-the-field experience to demonstrate how valuable project process improvements can be achieved through the connection of Primavera project schedules with costs and budgets in Hard Dollar software.
How can you afford not to Track Actuals in today’s economy?
Tracking actual values – costs, man-hours, equipment hours, production units, etc – at the activity level – is the key to being able to close the loop between project estimating and project execution. I cannot tell you how many times, during my interviews with construction companies, people will say “We estimate that activity at x cost / manhours / equipment hours / productive units per shift because that’s the way we’ve always estimated it.”
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Scottsdale, AZ – November 9, 2009 – Hard Dollar Corporation, the leader in Project Cost Management systems delivering Increased Cost and Productivity Visibility, announced a partnership with Verano, the largest Oracle Primavera representative in South America. Both Hard Dollar and Verano are industry leaders in Construction and Engineering with clients in Mining and Oil and Gas, making this an ideal partnership.
“Partnering with Hard Dollar will provide a new integrated solution for managing projects in the South American market. The integration with Primavera will help provide clients the tools needed to save money and resources while giving them confidence in managing projects,” states Jorge Rossini, Commercial Director of Verano.
Many of the world’s leading engineering and construction companies use Hard Dollar software to estimate and control project costs. Discover how the software’s live, 2-way integration with Microsoft Project and leading design tools can bring together all the critical aspects of a capital project, including 3-D design, cost, and schedule.
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Scottsdale, AZ – October 16, 2009 – Hard Dollar Corporation, the leader in Project Cost Management systems delivering Increased Cost and Productivity Visibility announced a partnership with Catalyst, the largest Oracle Primavera representative in the United States serving the engineering and construction industry. Catalyst has a nationwide team of Primavera experts serving the market for more than 15 years. Teaming with Hard Dollar is a natural extension of Catalyst’s core competency and brings strong value to the traditional Primavera customer.
“This partnership gives us the ability to serve our clients by making it easier to connect project information resulting in simplified management of complex construction and capital projects, increased return on investment and more predictable project results,” states Paul Heidkamp, Executive Director of Sales.
Scottsdale, AZ – August 25, 2009 – Hard Dollar is pleased to announce the presentation of an educational track on “The Advantages of 5D-BIM” at the upcoming 5th annual Microsoft Project Conference being held September 14-17, 2009 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, AZ.
Hard Dollar Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Partner, is the only Project Cost Management system that provides dynamic integration between detailed historical costing, estimating, productivity, and actual progress reporting capabilities into the industry leading scheduling system Project™ from Microsoft™.
Many times the effort involved in creating a pre-bid schedule seems not to be worth it. We are so busy just getting the quantity take-off done and the direct and overhead costs determined, any time to do a schedule just doesn’t seem to be available. We would like to know:
With Hard Dollar Project Cost Management Software creating a pre-bid schedule is fast. Hard Dollar has the Cost Breakdown Structure that you determined, so all that is necessary is to send it out to a schedule system. The only time involved is in setting up a schedule with all the activities. Since Hard Dollar has the activities (Cost Items), the “setup” of data is already done.
A very preliminary schedule can be created with just the Level One (higher level of Cost Items) items. In just a few minutes, the linking can be done, and a rough schedule created. Instead of taking days, just a few minutes is needed.
The impact is to have a more complete picture of the job and all of its costs, so better decisions can be made before the proposal (tender) is submitted.
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Scottsdale, Arizona – August 4, 2009 – Hard Dollar Corporation, the creator of Project Cost Management systems, announced Ms. Nicole Stephano will assume the position of Vice President of Product Strategy and Management. Additionally, Ms. Stephano will establish and manage a new Hard Dollar office in the Philadelphia area to support the exploding growth of large customers located in the Eastern part of the country.
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