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Why Construction ERP Feature Checklists Fail: What Contractors Should Test Instead Construction

Why Construction ERP Feature Checklists Fail: What Contractors Should Test Instead

Most ERP evaluations test features. Contractors should test the financial chain of a real project. A contractor can spend eight months evaluating construction ERP software, score five vendors against the same feature matrix, and still choose a system that creates problems after go-live. Months later, finance may still reconcile project costs outside the ERP, while […]

Tim Tucker · 9 min
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ProjectPro vs. Viewpoint Vista: Which ERP Architecture Fits Your 5-Year Growth Plan? Construction

ProjectPro vs. Viewpoint Vista: Which ERP Architecture Fits Your 5-Year Growth Plan?

Two contractors run the same demos, score the same feature matrix, and choose opposite systems. Both can be right. ProjectPro and Viewpoint Vista cover much of the same core ground. What differs is the foundation underneath: ProjectPro is built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, while Vista sits within Trimble Construction One. That affects more […]

Tim Tucker · 8 min
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Business Central AI Agents: What They Can Read, What They Can Change, and Who Decides Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Business Central AI Agents: What They Can Read, What They Can Change, and Who Decides

Business Central AI agents all start in the same place when they connect through the MCP server: read-only, across every exposed page of data, with no exceptions. Nothing about those changes until an administrator deliberately turns something on. Not the AI agent, not a default setting, not a vendor configuration. A named person, in an […]

Bruce Scott · 10 min
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Certified Payroll Is Where Construction ERPs Quietly Fail Construction

Certified Payroll Is Where Construction ERPs Quietly Fail

A certified payroll report ends with a signature, not a submit button. On the Statement of Compliance section of Form WH-347, someone at your company certifies that a specific week’s hours, wage rates, classifications, fringe benefits, and deductions are accurate for every worker on a federally funded job, and that the underlying records are complete […]

Ed Williams · 11 min
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How ProjectPro Deploys Subcontractor Management in 60–120 Days (Without the Usual Implementation Pain)

How ProjectPro Deploys Subcontractor Management in 60–120 Days (Without the Usual Implementation Pain) Most construction firms don’t fail at subcontractor management because they picked the wrong features. They fail because the software took 12 months to implement, the team never fully adopted it, and by the time the system was live, three projects had already […]

admin · 12 min
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