Assignar is a cloud based compliance, asset and workforce management platform for highly regulated industries. Assignar, headquartered in Denver, states its goal is to deliver its customers increased efficiency, transparency and significant management cost savings.
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Score 8.6 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
HCSS is a construction software suite. It includes functionality for bidding, time card and project management, safety, planning, scheduling, equipment management, and data warehousing and reporting. Each module can be purchased separately. The suite can be hosted in the cloud.
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Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Assignar
4.0
1 Ratings
55% below category average
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Organization and location management
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Payroll Management
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Assignar
5.0
1 Ratings
31% below category average
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Support for external payroll vendors
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Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
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5.0
1 Ratings
30% below category average
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Tracking of all physical assets
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Reporting & Analytics
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Assignar
4.3
1 Ratings
56% below category average
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Dashboards
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Standard reports
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Custom reports
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Data exportability
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Construction Project & Field Management
Comparison of Construction Project & Field Management features of Product A and Product B
Assignar handles basic like asset and time allocation in line with expectations. Frustration is their focus now on "Assignar Pay". Their current system requires a lot of manual workarounds and does not provide enough exception reporting or quality management or dashboard reporting. We spend significant time on manually reconciling data and chasing users for actions.
Our operation uses several pieces of what we call specialty equipment (not used every day on every job). The foreman when finished will give a location of where this equipment is left, this many times can be very vague and lead to a lowboy driver trying to block around to find the piece or driving down a street he cannot get turned around in. With the GPS devices, the driver can pinpoint exactly where the unit is and if he has room to turn around at that location.
#1 is support! HCSS is by far the best software support of any product we have ever used. Unlike most software companies HCSS utilizes their support calls to help upgrade their software. When you here them tell you that they will write down a particular issue you come across during a support call if they can't help you then and there they will research and get an answer to you extremely fast. If the software will not do it, you can bet there is a good chance it will be on the list of enhancements you will see come out in the near future.
Estimating software is very extensive. Their software is capable of handling the smallest estimate all the way to the largest joint venture estimate. It has advanced features that make it extremely useful for analyzing job materials, subcontractors etc.
HeavyJob is an extremely useful tool for the field to keep the office up to date with job costs. Everything is at the Foreman's fingertips on Tablets to allow the information from the field to get uploaded to HeavyJob manager which then can export to accounting. We are also able to give our Foreman the ability to deal with the Daily and weekly safety needs (Tailgate Meetings, incident Investigation, observations etc.) right on the Tablets thru HeavyJob.
All their apps are on mobile devices. Although there is not a clear company policy on Android versus iPhone. Updates for features lag behind on Android. Some apps are exclusive to one platform making it hard to fully interconnect all programs.
Assignar is reasonably easy to use at an individual user level and quite intuitive for field personnel. It is less intuitive for white collar users. In addition its Management Information is poor and does not provide easy to use data or information. The differences between the App and website are not clear for users
As mentioned, user interface appears messy and complicated at initial onset. Training is necessary but becomes easy to maneuver through after solid daily use.
I have never had a bad experience or heard of one in 4 years of doing business with HCSS. That is unheard of even with the hurricanes and flooding in Houston area it feels like HCSS was always there and willing to help in every way.
I was not employed with PPI upon implementation. I would prefer to reference my previous statement, that each company needs to evaluate its culture and address your implementation accordingly. The purchasing company should assign an employee as point person and really take charge of not just the technical side of the implementation (HCSS pretty much handles that), but focus on company culture and training.
Other estimating products I have used consist of ICE/MC2 and MS Excel. ICE was not a good fit for our company, as they have awful technical support and offer very poor training. MS Excel is great for simple estimates where there is not a lot of data being compiled. However neither hold a candle to the power of HCSS Heavybid
Because of the codebooks (bid item codebook for DOT's specifically), we're able to carve off significant time in "stick-building" estimates
It's very easy to train newer estimators with HeavyBid due to the abundance of resources available on HCSS Academy and elsewhere (i.e. Arthur Nix's material)
The KPI's and Insights that Pre-Con offers helps us to make better decisions on Bid Day.
