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Copyright © B2W Software Inc. 1993-2017 All Rights Reserved 0314 "What used to take us four days to bid, now takes us less than a few hours with B2W Estimate," says Thoudsanikone. "If you have errors and you underestimate, you're behind the eight-ball from the beginning. There's no way to recover, no matter how efficient or productive you are in the field." The team at Kitsaki also previously established its own paper-based process to get better and consistent visibility into productivity, labor and materials in the field. That solution produced incremental improvements, but it quickly became apparent that it was too slow and cumbersome to keep the company competitive over the long-term. "We were getting data from the field two weeks and sometimes four weeks after the fact, and it's too late to make project management decisions by then," recalls Thoudsanikone. With B2W Track, field crews at Kitsaki can complete daily field logs and enter labor hours electronically with instant, accessible data. With B2W Estimate and Track in place, Kitsaki immediately began to evaluate B2W Maintain for equipment maintenance and B2W Inform for data capture and analysis. "We think it's better to go with a unified approach from a single supplier rather than piecing together different solutions from different software vendors," notes Thoudsanikone. He also has high praise for B2W support and credits their user-friendly interfaces for fast acceptance among his estimating and field teams. "Our only regret is that we didn't get started with the B2W Platform sooner," Thoudsanikone concludes. Kitsaki Projects is an Aboriginally-owned and operated service provider under the Kitsaki Management Limited Partnership Group of Companies. The group manages economic development activities for the Lac La Ronge Indian Band and includes businesses operating in the transportation, construction, insurance, environmental, hospitality, mining and agriculture sectors. CONTACT US B2W Software empowers and inspires heavy civil construction companies to win more work and complete it more profitably. The company's ONE Platform includes unified applications to manage estimating, scheduling, field tracking, equipment maintenance, data capture and business intelligence. b2wsoftware.com • (800) 336-3808 "We think it's better to go with a unified approach from a single supplier rather than piecing together different solutions from different software vendors," Headquarters: • La Ronge, Saskatchewan, Canada Work Types: • Civil Construction • Vegetation Management • Powerline Construction • Labor Services

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