Our Custom Applications

What are Custom Apps and Why Do I Need Them?

As time goes on and we try to stay organized, we get caught in the spreadsheet jungle!  What do we mean by that?  How many of your project managers have different versions of multiple spreadsheets that do not give you any amount of consistency in your management of your company?  Well that's a lot of words, but our focus is helping you to be better organized by worrying more about the information your are trying to track, and less about the designing and maintaining of the spreadsheet itself.

Not only do we understand your challenges, because we have been there, but we understand the best way to present these challenges to your team so their job gets easier and are more likely to keep up to date with the progress of your projects and the money that they represent to your success as a company!

Even though we have offered some typical examples of some of the sheets we typically do, we are very good at designing and programming a sheet that is specific to your needs.  Give us a chance to show you what we mean.  Paying someone week after week to repeat the same tasks over and over again is not the way to go, our solutions will save you money right from the start!

Project Management

Project Management these days is a huge task to do it properly if you're not prepared.  The problem that we all have if the bits and pieces of the needed information is scattered around everywhere, and getting one answer sometimes takes you hours!

It is also a challenge to get the constantly changing information in  place, up to date, so you can make effective and well-informed decisions.  Point here is how many different spreadsheets do you maintain and how many things do you do repetitively week in and week out?

We have a customizable Project Management system that will end all of that!  Our systems keep track of your estimates right through your final billing.  Bid Register, Job Lists, all of your contacts, subcontracts, suppliers, purchase orders, submittals, and much more.

The repeated tasks become much simpler since you are now working with a database and the set-up time and maintenance is now automated.  Check it out, you will like what you see and this system will save you thousands in productivity savings alone!

Safety Reporting

Who needs Safety Reporting?  Really?  Well the short answer is we all do, if we are all trying to do the things that OSHA requires!

Who else has sometimes daily requirements on our companies in the name of safety?  How about our customers?  There are very few industrial clients anymore that don't have daily reporting required to not only make sure our people remain safe, but it is also required for our contract requirements as well.

Things like Daily Inspections, hazard assessments, accident reporting, training records, certification tracking, and on and on!

Your customers will continue to come up with new ways to challenge you, and if you take a proactive approach to your reporting, you will keep and maybe even stay ahead  of your competition!

Don't forget, the most important thing here is keeping your workers safe and sending them home in tack.  Don't let Safety Reporting bog you down, let our OHSA experts help you stay one step ahead.  Give us a call and we will put together a program that will help you!

Bid Register

Our Project Management Software has a Bid Register included in it, but what if your just looking for a way to track your progress in your estimating department?

Do you know how many jobs your estimators bid last year? Last month? Do you have a good understanding of your Pending Projects List?  Do you know WHICH customers you did the most work with?  Or even better, do you know which customers never gave you one project bid?

If you don't know these answers, how can you effectively make adjustments to improve your odds?  It might be important to know you "hit rate" or where you do the best and in what sector?

Our Bid Register Program tracks all of these things with detailed reports like a Current Bid Register so you can keep track of the projects coming up for bid along with Pre-bid meetings and when they are being held.

Pending project reports, bidding activities by estimator, success rate, and much much more!  We can also incorporate

Time is Money!

How many times have you asked yourself, why isn't there a way to automate this task in excel?  Why are you still doing manual tasks over and over again, week after week, to get the reports you need to manage your business.

Let us program a solution for your business that can produce your reports automatically, program your solutions so your job becomes easier and more efficient.  Time is money, don't keep doing things over and over again when we could help you eliminate hundreds of hours for good!

Submttals

Submittals over the years have evolved, wouldn't you agree?  More often than not, in most of our projects there is an electronic way of doing things.  Thank goodness!!

How many of you remember 14 copies of paper going out for approval, on every little piece of material, equipment and intended use items.  Then the nightmare of rejections, revise and resubmit, approvals that had to be tracked and then used in the OEM's. 

Yes it has changed but so has the speed in which we have to perform all these tasks.  We have devised a system that helps you keep track and simplifies the process.  Have you ever went diving into your email to find that LAST approved submittal so you can get it released?

We can help you get organized and stay that way fro the beginning.  Just ask us how using our Submittal Register Program can help you!

Field Reporting

Daily reports, safety issues, change requests, field authorizations, test reports, timesheets and the list goes on ...

We all have these forms that we have used for years, manually, let's not do that anymore!

Our guys in the field can all have Pads and Phones and computers that can handle all these things electronically, and can be submitted instantly with internet access.

Let us show you how to step into this century with Project reporting.  General Contractors, Customer Sites, OSHA, Billings, all these and more what instant gratification, to be able to do that it takes a little of upfront work and planning.

We can help you do this quickly and effectively.  We will recreate your forms or help you create new ones, and you are on your way!  Welcome to the electronic age!

Progress Reporting

Does your cash flow suffer at times because your not getting accurate reporting?  Do you code work activities to compare to your bids?  Do you have equipment sitting around on your projects too long costing your project and hurting your bottom line?  Do you wish you had more time to get all this more organized?

Welcome to the club!  Most mechanical projects these days are moving faster and changes are more rapid than ever before in history.  If you're not keeping up your loosing money, and sometimes missed changes can add up to thousands of dollars!

We can help put you in a position to be the one at the job meeting telling the General Contractor what is needed next to make the schedule, not the other way around.  Hire a team that can help you build schedules, develop execution plans, and make you progress reporting make sense.  Let us know how we can help, but don't wait!

Data Integrity - Don't Let It Cost You Big

So ... Are you still using "open" spreadsheets?  What are "open" spreadsheets?  It is a spreadsheet that was designed with formulas and is used over and over again for your projects, but it is unprotected and uncontrolled.  If you are, then you understand how easily mistakes can be made and they will happen, guaranteed!

With our help, we can help you stop those mistakes with controlled data entry and Excel Custom Designed Solutions.  No matter what your need is, there is a custom solution that will help you preserve your data and help you save time doing your daily work.

Change Order Log

Change Order Log?  We were asked this recently, "what is a change order log?"  Let's start there ...

As changes occur on any given project, it is critical to track the occurrence, submission, approval, received, and billed if you expect to get them through and accomplished.  We believe all of us understand the need for this, but usually it comes down to time, and that is the one thing we all seem to have a shortage of daily.

We can help.  We have a program being developed that will help you price and track your changes so you don't lose out on the money that could make the difference between making and loosing money.

Check back with us soon and see what we have come up with to help your managers better plan and chase your money!  Let us know how we can help you gat this accomplished at your place!

Change Pricing

Along with changer order logs, comes change order pricing.  Most companies have a standard way of going about this day ion and day out.  This is where we come in.

We are a custom application business and we are here to help you be better at yours!  Let us help you with you forms and erase the likelihood of simple mistakes that can cause you thousands of dollars.

One miscue can delete a key field and remove a subcontractor cost or a material cost that was substantial.  Our approach is controlling your managers input with input forms and controlled data so this does not happen.

These sheets are sometime relatively inexpensive considering the downside of loosing money and at the same time making your managers more efficient!

Utility Programs

We all have spreadsheets that do work at our places of business.  They get passed around, changed, modified, and then you end up with several different versions and sometimes several different "bad" versions.

The answer is quite simple really in our view, let us help you develop spreadsheet solutions that put your managers back on track with doing their jobs and gives the spreadsheet development to us so we can build you a strong solution that will not cause you problems.

You now have a solution that is easier to use and maintain, and everyone is using the same things for consistent success and it is properly programmed so you same time and effort every time you use it!

Send us one of your problems and let us show you how we can make a difference!

Think It - Do It!

What is possible with our custom Excel applications?  You name it and we can do it.  Our EmJay Industrial Estimating System has millions of lines of code and considers and computes hundreds of thousands of formulas in the matter of seconds! 

If you can think it ... We can do it!

If you have a need, give us a try ... we think you will like what you find!