Posts Tagged ‘Earned Value Reporting’


Strategies Group Inc. Announces Partnership with Hard Dollar

by PCM Guru on December 7th, 2009

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.

“Strategies Group seeks to form partner relationships with companies whose technology solutions stand out from all the others, will solve clients’ problems and bring real value to their businesses.  As a market leader, Hard Dollar’s innovative solutions and their commitment to outstanding customer service makes them a perfect fit for us,” says Craig Trussell, VP of Sales and Marketing for Strategies Group. “We are also pleased to announce that Strategies Group is now a Hard Dollar Authorized Training Facility so clients from throughout the southeast can come to our state of the art training center in Georgia for all of their training needs.”

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Instant Visibility Into Project Progress and Performance With HD

by PCM Guru on December 4th, 2009

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.

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Hard Dollar Announces Verano as New Partner

by PCM Guru on November 9th, 2009

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.

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Catalyst Announced as New Hard Dollar Partner

by PCM Guru on November 4th, 2009

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.

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BIM Goes “5D,” Dramatically Reducing Construction Costs

by PCM Guru on April 21st, 2009

Hard Dollar Introduces 5D-BIM Server Uniting Design, Resources, Cost, Schedule and Project Control to Deliver Centralized Project Management and Connectivity

April 21, 2009 – Scottsdale, AZ – Hard Dollar Corporation, the industry innovator of Project Cost Management, today announced the industries first 5D-BIM Server (Building Information Modeling) providing dynamic “Oneness” integration between CAD designs, estimating, scheduling, project controls, and accounting; fulfilling the industry’s vision of elevating BIM to the 5D level. According to McGraw-Hill Construction’s SmartMarket Report on BIM, “Contractors reported achieving up to a 1,000% ROI using BIM” and should experience even greater returns once 4D and 5D capabilities become available.

BIM represents an evolution from traditional 2D CAD design to a dynamic 3D model built around a database of a project’s physical and functional characteristics. To date the advantage of using BIM in building projects has been for visualization and clash detection. Hard Dollar’s latest 5D-BIM Server delivers 4D (scheduling) and 5D (cost) capabilities simply and automatically to drive rapid adoption by Contractors, Construction Managers and Owners.

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New Mobile Device Support Helps Contractors

by PCM Guru on February 5th, 2009

Hard Dollar Releases Wireless Hand Held Software for Microsoft CE and Other Hand Held Devices

February 5, 2009, Scottsdale, AZ – Hard Dollar today announced the release of its Field Data Collection software for use on Microsoft CE platform devices, smart phones and other wireless hand held devices. The new mobile wireless software enables field based employees for contractors to rapidly and easily collect time sheet information, expenses, equipment usage, project notes, material usage and productivity data and instantly update the corporate Project Cost Management.

Rob Trulson, president of T&T Construction in Fountain Hills Arizona stated “the remote data entry capabilities has saved us thousands of dollars in fuel costs, employee time and dramatically improved our cash flow and project profitability. Having job specific data daily, almost in real-time, has improved our per project profitability by more than 15% and invoice to cash collections have improved by half. Plus we were able to free up administrative staff because the field data flows directly from Hard Dollar into our Timberline accounting system which eliminated the entire data entry process. Customers have responded very positively to our ability to provide daily reporting and updates on job progress and earned value reporting.”

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