Gillam Group is a progressive construction management company established with a view to raising the bar in the planning, management and delivery of construction projects. Their mission is to provide high quality, customer-oriented construction services, resulting in successful projects and long term business partners. With the goal in mind of running a more streamlined and efficient operation, Gillam Group wanted a construction software solution that could meet the needs of their business today, as well as in the future. While their previous software system, QuickBooks, was able to perform basic accounting functions, it simply did not have the capabilities to grow with them as a company. Gillam Group quickly realized that if they wanted to better manage and operate their company, they would require a complete software solution that could handle all aspects of the business. With that being said, Gillam leveraged Jonas Premier Construction Software to improve upon the areas in which QuickBooks lacked and provide them with a truly integrated, cloud-based, construction software solution.

RECOGNIZING THE PROBLEM

Prior to partnering with Jonas Premier, Gillam Group was using QuickBooks to handle their construction software needs. While QuickBooks was able to perform basic accounting functions, it lacked in many of the construction-specific areas Gillam Group required. As Aziz Allana, Director of Finance & Accounting at Gillam Group stated, “With QuickBooks, we performed a lot of double entries, which were quite time consuming, because QuickBooks was unable to provide reporting for project management.  Therefore, we had to use Microsoft Excel, which could not provide us with the real-time information we needed.” Having information spread out across multiple software programs really posed a challenge for Gillam Group, which was one of the main reasons why they ultimately decided to go with Jonas Premier, a fully integrated and automated software solution.

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