With Ewing’s proprietary commercial services site, contractors can submit their projects via a portal. It may have seemed a bit like looking for a unicorn – until Ewing found STACK. It was also extremely important to Ewing to choose an evolving tool with a responsive product team that would be flexible and continue to develop the platform according to their feedback and needs. Even as such a major irrigation supplier, Evan says, it seemed that no one wanted to take Ewing seriously. As they searched, Evan says, they found that a lot of the takeoff software options that have been around for a long time are just not willing to do integrations, or if they were, the cost was so steep that they’d never see a return on their investment. Each estimator was responsible for counting, quoting, and keeping the CRM up-to-date – the amount of manual data entry across platforms was unsustainable.Įwing built their new commercial services site to handle scheduling and project loading, and then began seeking out a takeoff tool that would integrate seamlessly with it. Evan says there was constant duplication of work, and so many steps in a process that Ewing recognized was unnecessarily complicated. With the volume of takeoffs performed by their estimating department, getting the integration right was crucial to the company’s continued success.Īs it stood, Ewing was using a CRM, takeoff software, and quoting software. Evan Mecham, Commercial Services Manager, explains that when Ewing was preparing to revamp their commercial services site, they noted just how much duplicate work was being done and knew they needed to make a change.Īt this point, the Ewing team knew the answer would be a web-based solution that would integrate with all of their existing systems.
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