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First in on the jobsite, Subsurface Construction Company, LLC, of Raleigh, North Carolina, has no problem digging in and shoring up to ensure a sound and solid foundation. They\u2019re a geotechnical contractor with over 20 years of experience, and being employee-owned and operated by professional engineers also describes their ethos. They take ownership of their work, from planning to process to completion.<\/p>\n\"eBook<\/a>\n

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Their small business accounting software<\/a> wasn\u2019t giving them the reporting they needed, the way they needed to see it. They recognized it was time for a change with their contractor software. Now regional manager of their new Greenville office in South Carolina, Jodie was a project manager at the time and remembers one of the obstacles he was facing on their old contractor software system: \u201cOur manager had challenged us with the task of measuring certain key metrics for our performance on a weekly basis, and that was very difficult to do through our contractor software at the time. Its reporting style just didn\u2019t have the information we needed to make those calculations efficiently.\u201d<\/p>\n

As their office manager Kirsten recalls, \u201cWe got to a certain size where we knew we needed something that was more industry-specific.\u201d At the same time, Subsurface was looking to transition from a pretty manageable and user-friendly system, and they weren\u2019t about to create more work for themselves. \u201cWe weren\u2019t looking for anything obscure,\u201d Jodie says, \u201cand we weren\u2019t willing to pay for a custom system.\u201d The hunt was on.<\/p>\n

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Subsurface\u2019s search brought them to Foundation Software. They viewed a free video demo of FOUNDATION\u00ae<\/a> online, and that caught their interest. There was a lot more they could do, it seemed to them, especially with reporting job data. To get a closer look, they scheduled a live tour of the contractor software with a member of Foundation\u2019s fully in-house sales staff. Jodie, along with the rest of the team, liked what he saw. \u201cFor me as a project manager<\/a>, the number one selling factor was its versatility. Being able to have that flexibility, we were sold on FOUNDATION.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Subsurface takes advantage of that flexibility on a daily basis. \u201cThrough that versatility and freedom, almost every report we look at as a company is a custom query,\u201d Jodie says. That means that Subsurface\u2019s staff uses FOUNDATION’s powerful Microsoft\u00ae SQL Server\u00ae database<\/a> and convenient Excel\u00ae integration to pull custom datasets and organize them in easy-to-manipulate dashboards<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s been very helpful,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Subsurface\u2019s penchant for queried reports isn\u2019t exactly typical. But it\u2019s one FOUNDATION\u2019s date-sensitive, relational database affords them. Any data they want over the course of their system history is available to them, exactly as they want to view, measure and analyze it. FOUNDATION comes loaded with countless reports and financial statements, as well as custom report designers<\/a>, but Subsurface isn\u2019t limited even to these, and why should they be? Just like on the jobsite, they want to dig right in, and FOUNDATION lets them dive deep. \u201cFor year-end, we created all new job cost reporting. Our contracts and progress schedules are all queried from FOUNDATION into Excel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sound complicated? Subsurface doesn\u2019t find it so \u2014 far from it. Entry is simple, Kirsten insists, and very user-friendly. As for the reports, \u201cThey\u2019re all customized but super simple to do,\u201d Jodie says confidently. \u201cAll our profit and loss and balance sheets are customizable for any date range you want to look at, and you just change the date and get the data you\u2019re looking for.\u201d Speaking of year-end and month-end reporting, he adds, \u201cWhat used to take us days just takes hours now. It\u2019s a much less stressful time.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/span>Building on an Education<\/span><\/h3>\n

Reporting from custom queries may not be for everyone \u2014 but it can be, as Subsurface has learned. And Foundation Software supports that learning any way they can, from educational webinars to two- and three-day Foundation College classes around the country, even on-site consulting for advanced training. Subsurface has taken advantage of Foundation College to keep their staff\u2019s skills sharp, in addition to the software\u2019s regular user conference. \u201cThe ability to go to a class to learn how to query is great,\u201d Kirsten says. \u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s ridiculously helpful now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a few of the webinars, and they were helpful,\u201d says Jodie, and these are now part of Subsurface\u2019s resource library that they can refer back to at any time. Like Kirsten, he also attended a Foundation College on Excel queries, led by one of Foundation Software\u2019s senior consultants. He took a tremendous amount away from it. \u201cThat was absolutely the best money we ever spent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over time and with some personal investment, he\u2019s proud of the system he was able to help build at his company with FOUNDATION. Kirsten sees it too: \u201cWe plan better. It allows more of the data to be captured, and it\u2019s easy to go back and research something in the past very quickly.\u201d Jodie recalls a time when they hired a project manager from one of the largest global contractors in their field. \u201cHe came to work for us, and he was amazed at how much information was at his fingertips, without compromising security.\u201d Subsurface always knew their company was up there with the biggest players; now they know their accounting is too.<\/p>\n\"Watch<\/a>\n

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\u201cThe information available at your fingertips saves our project managers and estimators a tremendous amount of time. I\u2019d call it a game changer in the way we do things,\u201d concludes Jodie. \u201cI\u2019d buy it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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