HeadsUp Technologies LLC
HeadsUp Technologies LLC
Overland Park, Kan.
www.headsuptech.com
Years voted a “Hot” company: ‘05, ‘07, ‘08
Dann Kroeger, president, HeadsUp Technologies, believes the biggest challenge for contractors these days, when it comes to technology, is separating fact from fiction. While some vendors claim to provide project management, what they are really providing is simply accounting document management. He says true project management requires the ability to pull scheduling, document management, resources, field reports, notification alerts, and collaboration into a single system that allows users to operate in a realtime environment.
HeadsUp’s Web-based iCPM solution fits the bill, as it manages bid solicitation, CPM scheduling, field reporting, document management, resource management, cost accounting, and profit management. iCPM imports budgets from estimating and synchs information with accounting systems in order to make all data easily accessible for everyone.
This Web-based model has enabled the company to continually roll out upgrades without any requirements on the part of the end user. This trend continued in 2007, as HeadsUp rolled out eight new releases covering a range of user-requested functionality, including user definition of Gantt Chart appearance; personal task and approval lists; a virtual plan room for bid documents and specifications; hourly weather alerts; new punchlist alerts added to existing task and document alerts; and the ability to search across projects by resource to view resource allocation.
HeadsUp continued to grow revenue and add new customers in the past year. All this while continually educating the marketplace on what true project management means—no small task indeed.