Setting up Key Performance Indicators
This Youtube video is Part 1 of setting up KPI’s. In the Advanced and Comprehensive versions you can customize these values and even send these up to Insights to compare across estimates. Highly recommended. Be looking for Part 2 in this Youtube series. Youtube Video
The Pipeline Podcast – Worth Listening To
Scott Jennings, a consultant (and HeavyBid trainer), contractor and engineer, has a great podcast that addresses estimating theory, legal issues, and many other construction subjects in short podcasts. In the future, when I am blogging on a subject, I might link to a particular podcast…
HCSSAPPS.com – a website you should be visiting
If you are using any HCSS product then you should visit on a regular basis the above-referenced website LINK. It is your one-stop connection to Insights, Credentials, HCSS Academy (instructional videos), HCSS Community, and all your HCSS Web Applications. This is not a site just…
HeavyBid Setup to Date? Quick Test
Here is a quick test to see if you are taking advantage of what is the top major improvement in HeavyBid in the past 10 years. Estimating teams get so busy that they don’t take the time to learn or just don’t update. Here is…
Advice for these Times
I thought I would do a blog on my advice to construction companies who have been affected by the COVID 19 virus. I know many companies have closed their offices and employees are working from home. Obviously estimators have to remote in to work on…
HCSS HeavyBid Insights
If you have the Advanced or Comprehensive Versions of HeavyBid and don’t know what the title is referring to stop what you are doing and get this set up. It takes 10 minutes to connect and once you grasp all the features of Insights you…
Access HeavyBid Reports from Insights (Web Based)
So lets say your company has four HeavyBid licenses and they stay pretty tied up. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone like a PM or owner could print some reports on an estimate without getting into HeavyBid (and having to force someone else off)? This…
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