Customer Success Stories
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The Client
Modern Niagara has seven divisional offices and 11 companies.
They provide comprehensive mechanical contracting and service solutions to both large-scale and local customers.
The Benefits
- Daily analysis and information in an easy-to-consume format
- Time to produce reports reduced from hours to seconds
- Common language between project management, accounting, and other key decision-makers
- Easily accessible web browser interface to project information
- New business dashboard including reports, scorecards, grids, drill-down to costs, AP invoices, and project forecasting
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The History
Modern Niagara helps building owners, managers and general contractors meet the mechanical, electrical and Integrated Building Technology needs of their properties.
Their delivery model includes bid and specification, design-build, and public/private partnerships. Additionally, their service group provides comprehensive maintenance programs and energy solutions to a wide variety of industries.
Modern Niagara began working with Anterra Technology in an effort to create a single, accurate source of reporting data and a common reporting language across its various companies and employees. Anterra helped Modern Niagara to achieve this goal by providing real-time views of project data by company, division or project manager.
One of the many benefits of the solutions provided by Anterra is that we are now able to reduce the amount of back-end resources required to grow. We have the best of both worlds now. We are able to embrace the business advantages of working in a decentralized model while simultaneously enjoying the strategic benefits of a centralized understanding of our business. This has increased our competitiveness and created new opportunities for growth. Anterra has put us a level well above our competition.
The Challenge
Over time, Modern Niagara’s decentralized business model had resulted in differing reporting methods for evaluating project performance, particularly among project managers. Each project manager might have their own unique way of analyzing their projects. These various reporting practices were time and labor-intensive. Firstly, in the effort to consolidate the information into a company-wide view. Secondly, in developing responsive business strategies as it took time to get everyone on the same page.
Modern Niagara needed a single source of truth for reviewing and analyzing project information as well as a way to produce reports faster, eliminate time spent creating spreadsheets, and extend the capabilities of their existing Timberline job costing system.
We were searching for ways to make our Timberline data more flexible when we were referred to Anterra Technology.
What started as an effort to establish quick consistent views of our project information has become a single source project management tool that is fully integrated with real-time Timberline financial data. Additional and unexpected benefits include the browser-based user interface, standardization of reports that can be exported to Excel, and the visibility of project financial data. We now spend less time trying to agree on where we are and more time planning for improvement.
The Solution
Modern Niagara implemented AnterraDataCenter™ which consolidates data from multiple Sage 300 CRE (Timberline Office) folders into a single Microsoft SQL™ data warehouse. They then implemented AnterraBI™ to produce reports that align staff to key performance indicators through intuitive dashboards, scorecards, and reports. This provides their construction and finance teams a clear understanding of project status, work in progress, project cost, and project margin and creates an in-depth look at other critical data including profitability and profit gain or erosion by company, division, project manager, or project.
