New Pricing Structure
HCSS has just rolled out its new option for its many software products. This is the SAS model (Software as a Service) where a company is paying a monthly usage fee as opposed to purchasing the software which requires a much larger one-time outlay. For…
HeavyBid Cloud Help
I took most of the Cloud articles found on the online HCSS Help website (help.hcss.com) and assembled them in a single page document. To link right out to the article press the Control key first then click on the link. The very first article is…
HCSS Product Offerings
This is really cool. A quick way to review all of HCSS product offerings. Highly recommended to just go through this entire presentation. I know clients who spent a lot of money elsewhere to only realize that HCSS has that product, and a better one…
Why Understanding how to calculate the Inverse of the Number is Important
In analyzing productivity it is sometimes better to look at the number in its inverse value. Don’t know what the Inverse is? Pretty simple and important math function to know. So let us say you have a number like 1000. What is its inverse? 1/1000…
Productivity Course
I have posted this before but since it is so important to understand in estimating productivity factors I felt compelled to post this again. Crew based production can be calculated in many ways and this course covers all of them. I am always surprised when…
Heavybid Cheat Sheet
I have posted this before. This is my one page HeavyBid cheat sheet. In the future I will work on page 2 of this sheet which will have more best practices.
Revised Checklist
I have gone back and revised my previous Excel spreadsheet for importing into HeavyBid to setup the Checklist feature. On a recent HeavyBid update the Checklist is now floating, that is it can be opened up and used while in the TreeView for example. Refer…
HCSS Projects: Admin vs User
I want to make a quick psa. My son and I recently noticed that his version of HCSS Projects is very different than mine. I have him designated as a user and I’m the admin. The user profile can only enter data in a form…
Resources in a Crew-Why?
One setting that you want to set in HeavyBid is found in Tools>Preferences>System Preferences?>Setup. It is the option to “Do not prompt for material resources to be added to crews”. This should really be checked as a default setting by HCSS but easy enough to…
HCSS Academy Courses
I try to keep updated on the postings on the HCSS Academy site. A highly recommended feature that HCSS rolled out several years ago that every HCSS user (not just estimators) should take advantage of. I just noticed that the UGM 2019 courses that were…
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