HR, Finance and Other Business Processes

A major commercial construction company in California faced challenges with their manual forecasting processes for costs and revenue in support of their Viewpoint Vista WIP reports. Collaboration among executives and the time-consuming nature of the monthly forecasting were issues. There were also concerns about forecast accuracy. To address these challenges, Nobious developed a custom web-based app that tightly integrated with their Viewpoint Vista ERP system. This app reconciled with the job cost module and WIP reports, simplifying data collection from project and executive teams. The solution automated forecasting calculations and generated reports using Microsoft Power BI. As a result, the company now has professional-looking forecasts that facilitate cash flow and key metric analysis for the next 24 months. The company’s forecasting process is now highly efficient, accurate, and modern thanks to this integrated tool, improving overall operational efficiency.  

Our client, a large concrete remix company based in Central Iowa with numerous locations across the greater Midwest, faced challenges in generating and maintaining reports from their Viewpoint Vista database. The existing reporting process was time-consuming, costly, and increasingly difficult to manage. To address these issues and streamline their reporting and data management, they turned to Nobious for a solution. Nobious developed a centralized data reporting warehouse that consolidates Viewpoint Vista data into a separate database on a nightly basis. This warehouse optimized the data for reporting and other business intelligence needs. In addition, Nobious introduced Microsoft Power BI solutions to enhance the company’s report creation capabilities, making it easier to generate reports. The data within the warehouse was tailored for the company’s dashboards and external system integrations, including third-party cloud providers. A comprehensive data dictionary was provided, empowering the company to understand its data and create reports independently when necessary. As a result, the company can now rapidly develop

Our client, a prominent concrete construction company specializing in multi-level building projects in the Chicago area, faced challenges in monitoring employee safety training using Viewpoint Vista’s existing VU.1 tools. Their previous solution relied heavily on manual data entry, making it difficult to verify employee attendance at safety training sessions—a crucial requirement to meet OSHA safety standards. They sought a more efficient solution to automatically track safety training within their organization and turned to Nobious for assistance. Nobious proposed a solution that leveraged SMS texting technology to send attendance lists to crew members’ personal phones, allowing them to check in at safety training events. This approach eliminated the need for crew members to have usernames and passwords, instead using custom URLs sent to their phones for recognition. The solution not only tracked attendance but also managed training materials, including reading materials and videos. Crew members could conveniently watch training videos on their personal devices and take quizzes to confirm their comprehension.