Join us to discover how Aktion’s DataAnalytics, powered by Phocas, can help you make the most out of your Sage data and empower your growth strategy.
In this session we’ll explore:
Are you struggling to manage your projects, track bids, and log communications? Join us for a webinar to learn how Sage Construction Management can help you streamline your operations and maximize the efficiency of your company. This new solution was built to handle pre-construction, project management, and finances for construction companies large and small.
With Sage Construction Management, you can:
• Easily manage your leads and estimates from anywhere.
• Save time by handling the entire bid process all in one place.
• Improve profitability with project management and collaboration tools.
• Get robust functionality at an affordable price.
• Seamlessly integrate with existing tools.
Whether you’re a small contractor or a large construction firm, Sage Construction Management can help you achieve greater success.
Don’t miss out! Register for the webinar today and take the first step towards a more efficient and profitable business.
Construction is getting more complex, from multi-province jobs to tighter budgets and shrinking talent pools. If you’re still running Sage 100 Contractor or Sage 300 CRE and managing jobs in decade-old spreadsheets, you’re holding your business back instead of setting it up up for what’s next (more…)
Construction is becoming increasingly complex, with projects spanning multiple states, tighter budgets, and shrinking talent pools. If you’re still running Sage 100 Contractor or Sage 300 CRE and managing jobs in decade-old spreadsheets, you’re holding your business back instead of setting it up up for what’s next (more…)
For General Contractors, profitability often comes down to one thing: visibility. Without timely insight into job costs, issues can go unnoticed until it’s too late—tightening already razor-thin margins.
Join us for a live webinar to see how Sage Intacct Construction delivers the real-time control and financial clarity contractors need to protect margins and scale with confidence.
You’ll discover how to:
Instead of relying on static reports or delayed updates, see how Sage Intacct empowers contractors with live dashboards and flexible reporting—putting accurate job performance data at your fingertips, whether you’re in the office or on the job site.
Reserve your spot today and learn how to turn real-time visibility into long-term profitability.
In 2025, tracking the productivity of your labor force isn’t optional—it’s essential. Between rising costs, skilled labour shortages, and high client expectations, every hour on-site needs to count. When productivity data is captured and used well, it can boost profitability across every job.
For many contractors, labor is the biggest cost. That is why so many construction owners devote the time and resources to measure the productivity of every type of labor that goes into a job.
This will enable you to calculate team performance on each task. Having this data will help you in real time (on each current project), and in the future when you bid for and take on new jobs.
On each project, job costing provides visibility into how labor productivity measures up to the estimated budget, and helps you identify areas that need attention. Here’s another real-time bonus to productivity tracking: when an unforeseen event occurs, such as a pandemic or disruptive weather, you have the data you need to make your case for a change order.
Once you have a storehouse of reliable productivity data, that data becomes an asset for every future project you bid on. Your data will inform every facet of your business. It will give you a benchmark for estimating, budgeting, and scheduling, as well as for performance-based bonus programs. Each step in the process relies on the prior one: estimating informs your budgeting, scheduling, and then labor on the job. Your data can make your bids more competitive – and insulate your profits.
An investment in the right construction technology is step one in mastering how to track your labor productivity. If you have just recently started looking at your software options, Sage Intacct Construction software is a flexible financial management solution that adapts to your workflows and reporting requirements. This next-gen cloud platform gives you real-time visibility with built-in and adaptable dashboards, reports, graphs, and charts. Multidimensional reporting and dashboards provide faster and deeper insights into accounts, helping to save hours per month.
You can learn more about how to avoid unexpected cash flow issues by governing your spending against a budget here. Interested in learning more about using data to maximize your profitability, job after job? Take the first step by talking with Aktion Associates to find the best technology solution for your unique needs.
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in 2022 and was updated for accuracy and relevance in June 2025.
As a Sage Estimating user, you’ve likely heard about Sage’s investment in new, powerful cloud estimating capabilities. Join us for a chance to see what all the buzz is about.
At Aktion, we know how important it is for companies to take advantage of innovative software to stay productive and competitive. This is especially true when it comes to estimating. We also know that companies like yours are constantly keeping an eye on future technologies and how they could benefit your teams.
Webinar focus:
We’ll discuss Sage’s native-cloud strategy and Sage product representatives will give a live demonstration of what Sage has already accomplished, including an estimating environment that includes:
Presenters:
Are you struggling to manage your projects, track bids, and log communications? Join us for a webinar to learn how Sage Construction Management can help you streamline your operations and maximize the efficiency of your company. This new solution was built to handle pre-construction, project management, and finances for construction companies large and small.
With Sage Construction Management, you can:
• Easily manage your leads and estimates from anywhere.
• Save time by handling the entire bid process all in one place.
• Improve profitability with project management and collaboration tools.
• Get robust functionality at an affordable price.
• Seamlessly integrate with existing tools.
Whether you’re a small contractor or a large construction firm, Sage Construction Management can help you achieve greater success.
Don’t miss out! Register for the webinar today and take the first step towards a more efficient and profitable business.
Why is real-time data so important in today’s construction industry?
In today’s fast-paced construction industry, a modern financial management system will almost always mean cloud-based financials. It’s tempting to put off change, to stay with the systems that your teams are comfortable with using. However, that approach may come with some risk. As systems become outdated, they require investment – time, money and skill – to maintain. Internal teams may not be connected and working with real-time information, management is unable to make decisions with accurate data.
To stay competitive, construction and real estate companies’ technology strategies are evolving. The real-time data trend has been studied by industry leaders, which is telling for the future. Forward-thinking businesses are architecting a modern technology strategy that includes cloud accounting financials. A recent Deloitte study discusses both these technology strategies and other construction industry trends to keep on your radar.
Here are my top three signs it’s time to move to cloud-based financials:
It’s hard to overstate the importance of real-time data access that you’ll find in cloud-based financials. One single source of truth gives people in the office and field the ability to view job costing, tools and equipment allocations and overall project status updates. Quick and easy reporting makes it much less likely that you’d miss warning signs that a project is losing money or going to take longer than projected.
Contractors who adopt a cloud-based platform that meets all their needs report that they immediately see improvements in workflows and communication. These forward-thinking business leaders have recognized the risk of delaying change and the advantages that a cloud financial system brings to their business.
Aktion Associates has teams of experts who understand the construction industry’s unique demands. We are ready to review your business needs and determine which cloud platform will fit you best. One popular and powerful choice among our customers is Sage Intacct Construction. Because Sage Intacct was born in the cloud, the accessibility and scalability are unrivaled in the construction industry.
Contact us today to begin your journey towards cloud-based financials, real-time data and position your company for growth.
Today, most general contractors subcontract out up to 80-100% of their work. In a competitive bid, or design/build project, the race is to find qualified sub-trades that can cover the scope of work on projects. It’s not just dollar comparisons, but also “scope checking” the sub’s “quantities” of systems so you can qualify the validity of their “price.”
Here are some common examples of this:
How do you prepare your estimate, and “scope check” your subcontractors (subs)?
At Aktion Associates, we created a Divisions 1-48 specifications driven estimating database for Sage Estimating. Our estimating database has 4,653 Spec Sections as cost items, waiting for you to enter the price from “scoped checked” subs on bid day. Beyond Spec Section items, we also created 260 Scope Check items to check quantities, which are expandable.
Here is Aktion’s quick and easy process using our Division 1-48 Spec Section Database.
Grow your business with Aktion’s proven Specifications Estimating Database, paired with the most widely used estimating platform in the United States, Sage Estimating. This combination becomes the major difference between you and your competition. Best of all, Sage Estimating integrates with all Sage Construction Accounting products. With Aktion Associates, you get real fast, and real easy solutions that produce winning results.
