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CASE STUDY BARRIERE CONSTRUCTION HEAVY CIVIL CONTRACTOR REPLACING PAPER FORMS, CAPTURING BETTER DATA IN REAL TIME & USING IT TO OPTIMIZE OPERATIONS "Information is power," according to Health Wahden, CFO at Barriere Construction. The opportunity to collect it more effectively in the field, access it in real time across the enterprise and leverage it for business decisions drove the fourth- generation family owned contractor to adopt the B2W Inform solution for data capture and analysis. Barriere relies on nearly 500 employees to complete paving, heavy civil and industrial construction projects for public and private customers across Louisiana and Mississippi. The company also relies on the B2W Software ONE Platform for a unified approach to managing estimating, field operations, equipment maintenance and business intelligence. "We added the Inform piece to complement the B2W platform because we had a vast amount of paper forms out in the field that were not getting turned in in a timely manner," Wahden summarizes. "The lag time and the paper format limited us from accessing and leveraging the vital information on the forms to manage our business more effectively." B2W Inform makes it quick and easy for Barriere to generate customized electronic form templates. The cloud-based system allows employees to access and complete the exact forms they need anytime, anywhere and on any device. Hitting "submit" makes the data accessible enterprise wide in real time, bypassing the long, labor-intensive path between paper forms and actionable intelligence. "Data from our forms is now timely, electronic, and structured in one system, so we can identify trends and provide predictive analytics to better manage field operations, fleet maintenance and other workflows," Wahden explains. Streamlining Inspections, Safety and Other Processes Barriere has used B2W Inform to take its aggressive equipment auditing and inspection program paperless. The move has closed the gap between the field and the office as well as the gap between identifying a problem and correcting it. "We're a big company on auditing and inspecting, because they put accountability in place and help our maintenance team keep equipment on the job earning money," says Ben Tucker, director of equipment and facilities. B2W INFORM • Electronic data capture and analysis delivering "game changing" advantages • Paperless processes improving equipment maintenance, safety and other workflows • Real-time data from digital forms providing actionable intelligence

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