Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate vs SkySlope

Likelihood to Recommend

Sage is not at all well suited for small companies who want an agile, nimble setup for quick moving situations and mobile use. These type of companies should look elsewhere such as a SaaS offering from another vendor. In addition Sage is very expensive both in its initial outlay and ongoing support.Medium and larger sized companies benefit from a Sage install much more than the smaller constructor. Having the modules all work in unison is important when a company is of a certain size as is having the long tenured support structure. In addition Sage requires the terminals services setup to use it remotely and the larger companies are more likely to have the infrastructure and support for that type of setup

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Manager in Information Technology

Construction Company, 51-200 employees

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SkySlope is most suited for real estate firm document management. I cannot think of another industry that it would be suited for; it is pretty specific. If you have less than 20-30 transactions a year, it wouldn't probably be worth the money versus just scanning. Our company does ~150 per year, and it saves me so much time. It is great for managing brokers of any sized firm with a fair number of transactions.

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David Renberg

Broker/Owner

Foundation RealtyReal Estate, 1-10 employees

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Pros

There are a lot of ways to drill down into information. The ability to run inquiries that can be easily exported into Excel is incredibly useful.
The help desk is very helpful. There are multiple ways to get a hold of someone and it is extremely useful.
The knowledgebase articles are very helpful and provide a lot of great detail.

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Lindsay Helmick

CFO (Chief Financial Officer)

Allen ConstructionConstruction, 51-200 employees

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Broker compliance checklists
Email to upload documents
Emailing documents out of system
eSignature

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Len Nevin

Founder

Loyalty Home GroupReal Estate, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Although Sage is much easier to use with the new upgrade, it still could use improvement with load times with invoice searches.
Sage 300 could also include drone uploads to view inventory snapshots.
Upgrades can also be less complicated and not require higher-level support to implement.

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Technician in Information Technology

Construction Company, 51-200 employees

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Their task manager is not good at all. It is clunky and not very intuitive. In principle, I like the ability to assign tasks to new transactions, but overall this functionality lacks.
If a file is created, it canNOT be deleted. This is very annoying in the case of accidental file creation; it jumbles the archive. Seems like a very easy thing to implement, but support said there isn't currently a way.
The quick audit function is great when files are new, but it is not available for completed files to do the final review. Again an easy implement you would think, but not having this makes reviewing files in the final stages very clunky. It takes forever. Support gave me a workaround, so that helps.

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David Renberg

Broker/Owner

Foundation RealtyReal Estate, 1-10 employees

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Usability

Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate 9.5

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Sage is somewhat easy to use as far as its simplicity, however, when I first started using it I really wished there were more training materials available. As I did research to figure out what resources were there to learn how to use the paid software, all I found were courses you have to pay for. In my personal opinion, I don't think you should have to pay to learn how to use a software you bought.

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Caitlynn Dickerson

Administrative Coordinator

Johns Hopkins HospitalHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate 9.4

Based on 7 answers

Their support services are strong once you start talking to them. There is often a long wait for support if you try to call them on the phone. I also find it challenging to do support via e-mail because of the time lag and the simplex form of communication.

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Robert Giddens

CIO (Chief Information Officer)

Millbrook PropertiesReal Estate, 51-200 employees

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SkySlope 10.0

Based on 2 answers

They have always been quick to respond to any potential issues I may be having.

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Len Nevin

Founder

Loyalty Home GroupReal Estate, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We currently have Sage in place which handles the majority of our business needs on the back end, but compared to some others that are on the market like Builder Trend, it does lack the client facing side of the house. To make it a better product, a client facing portal would be best so they can be up to date.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Construction Company, 51-200 employees

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SkySlope just has a lot more functionality over this software. All three have a comparable digital signature and templating capabilities. but SkySlope has many additional purposes. I have not found another software like it. Other software I demo-ed was not even close, so SkySlope seems to have the market cornered, but I haven't evaluated again for a couple of years.

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David Renberg

Broker/Owner

Foundation RealtyReal Estate, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Sage has completely changed our culture at my company. At first, our field reports were not detailed, as they were not giving us quantities to actually track the job. We had no clue what the progress of activities was, because it was a general 'How are things going?' "Good" conversation. Now we track our progress quantitatively.
We have been able to track and organize our change events to actually recognize revenue on particular jobs. We had so many Change events being lost and this simplified that. It allows us to pursue these events and actually recognize revenue. Overall this is an amazing benefit of Sage.
As an organization, we have been able to identify losing bid items and avoid those in the futures.

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J. Mickey Merguerian

Project Controls Coordinator

Underpinning and Foundation SkanskaCivil Engineering, 10,001+ employees

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Positive as its ease of use has allowed us to scale back hiring to realize more profits.

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Len Nevin

Founder

Loyalty Home GroupReal Estate, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No