Company:
Hydrock
Sector:
Engineering Consultancy, Civil & Structural Engineering, Building Services, Ground Engineering, Nuclear, Transportation.
Location:
21 locations, including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol, Glasgow, and Auckland, New Zealand
Website:
Rapport3 modules used:
Job Costing
CRM
Human Resources
Gekko
The client
Hydrock
is a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy, working within Civil & Structural Engineering, Building Services, Ground Engineering , Nuclear, Transportation and more. They pride themselves on delivering a fresh approach to projects and are passionate about creating high-performing buildings and infrastructure.
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Hydrock migrated over to Rapport3 in September 2019. There were many challenges in deploying their previous Practice Management solution Workspace from Union Square at their Almondsbury HQ and connecting it to their 15 other offices. The Hydrock team worked hard to make it work for them, but as the business continued to expand it was clear that Hydrock needed a solution that could deal with the varying workflows across the different disciplines and functions and could be easily used by all staff.
Dave Lawes, Director of Programme Delivery commented “The functionality of Union Square worked but it didn’t suit us in terms of its speed for users, reporting was difficult to use and it took a long time to input data.”
Hydrock conducted an extensive search for a new intuitive project management software, with 10 companies invited to Tender and 2 being shortlisted. This meant that for Hydrock, “It was a choice between CMAP and Rapport3, and we felt the functionality and the company culture of Rapport3 was what we wanted. We have been using Rapport3 for two years now.”
The client
Hydrock
is a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy, working within Civil & Structural Engineering, Building Service s, Ground Engineering , Nuclear, Transportation and more. They pride themselves on delivering a fresh approach to projects and are passionate about creating high-performing buildings and infrastructure.
Hydrock migrated over to Rapport3 in September 2019. There were many challenges in deploying their previous Practice Management solution Workspace from Union Square at their Almondsbury HQ and connecting it to their 15 other offices. The Hydrock team worked hard to make it work for them, but as the business continued to expand it was clear that Hydrock needed a solution that could deal with the varying workflows across the different disciplines and functions and could be easily used by all staff.
Dave Lawes, Director of Programme Delivery commented “The functionality of Union Square worked but it didn’t suit us in terms of its speed for users, reporting was difficult to use and it took a long time to input data.”
Hydrock conducted an extensive search for a new intuitive project management software, with 10 companies invited to Tender and 2 being shortlisted. This meant that for Hydrock, “It was a choice between CMAP and Rapport3, and we felt the functionality and the company culture of Rapport3 was what we wanted. We have been using Rapport3 for two years now.”
The client
Hydrock
is a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy, working within Civil & Structural Engineering, Building Services, Ground Engineering , Nuclear, Transportation and more. They pride themselves on delivering a fresh approach to projects and are passionate about creating high-performing buildings and infrastructure.
Hydrock migrated over to Rapport3 in September 2019. There were many challenges in deploying their previous Practice Management solution Workspace from Union Square at their Almondsbury HQ and connecting it to their 15 other offices. The Hydrock team worked hard to make it work for them, but as the business continued to expand it was clear that Hydrock needed a solution that could deal with the varying workflows across the different disciplines and functions and could be easily used by all staff.
Dave Lawes, Director of Programme Delivery commented “The functionality of Union Square worked but it didn’t suit us in terms of its speed for users, reporting was difficult to use and it took a long time to input data.”
Hydrock conducted an extensive search for a new intuitive project management software, with 10 companies invited to Tender and 2 being shortlisted. This meant that for Hydrock, “It was a choice between CMAP and Rapport3, and we felt the functionality and the company culture of Rapport3 was what we wanted. We have been using Rapport3 for two years now.”
Requirements
For Hydrock it was vital that their system would integrate their data and give them better insight into their team profitability, WIP and project revenue projection.
Rapport3 provides this seamless functionality for the Hydrock team. Using the Rapport3 ODATA feed, our integration allows easy access to all Rapport3 data from within Microsoft Power BI, providing you with the tools to produce graphically rich dashboards and reports in one place.
“We now have a much better picture than we have had in the past. It helps us produce month end reports, measure head count and staff turnover. It has also given us a much better understanding of the age profile for prospects, showing the future pipeline, orders and prospect information”
Dave explained.
Rapport3’s reporting has ensured quality data can be utilized across the team to help across different management teams. “We developed a suite of reports suited to our company, to measure and monitor, including the WIP report that is used every month for a progress check. We also run this report at month end to assess costs brought in, status of jobs and a 6 month projection of invoicing.”
Dave continued,
“The Power BI dashboards with Rapport3 have given us a much better picture of invoicing for the coming months. The step forward with Rapport3 is undoubtedly the forecasting and the data and that is the key difference with union square and rapport3.”
Requirements
For Hydrock it was vital that their system would integrate their data and give them better insight into their team profitability, WIP and project revenue projection.
Rapport3 provides this seamless functionality for the Hydrock team. Using the Rapport3 ODATA feed, our integration allows easy access to all Rapport3 data from within Microsoft Power BI, providing you with the tools to produce graphically rich dashboards and reports in one place.
“We now have a much better picture than we have had in the past. It helps us produce month end reports, measure head count and staff turnover. It has also given us a much better understanding of the age profile for prospects, showing the future pipeline, orders and prospect information”
Dave explained.
Rapport3’s reporting has ensured quality data can be utilized across the team to help across different management teams. “We developed a suite of reports suited to our company, to measure and monitor, including the WIP report that is used every month for a progress check. We also run this report at month end to assess costs brought in, status of jobs and a 6 month projection of invoicing.”
Dave continued,
“The Power BI dashboards with Rapport3 have given us a much better picture of invoicing for the coming months. The step forward with Rapport3 is undoubtedly the forecasting and the data and that is the key difference with union square and rapport3.”
Requirements
For Hydrock it was vital that their system would integrate their data and give them better insight into their team profitability, WIP and project revenue projection.
Rapport3 provides this seamless functionality for the Hydrock team. Using the Rapport3 ODATA feed, our integration allows easy access to all Rapport3 data from within Microsoft Power BI, providing you with the tools to produce graphically rich dashboards and reports in one place.
“We now have a much better picture than we have had in the past. It helps us produce month end reports, measure head count and staff turnover. It has also given us a much better understanding of the age profile for prospects, showing the future pipeline, orders and prospect information”
Dave explained.
Rapport3’s reporting has ensured quality data can be utilized across the team to help across different management teams. “We developed a suite of reports suited to our company, to measure and monitor, including the WIP report that is used every month for a progress check. We also run this report at month end to assess costs brought in, status of jobs and a 6 month projection of invoicing.”
Dave continued, “The Power BI dashboards with Rapport3 have given us a much better picture of invoicing for the coming months. The step forward with Rapport3 is undoubtedly the forecasting and the data and that is the key difference with union square and rapport3.”
The solution
With Rapport3, Hydrock have become more efficient. The growing teams are more unified with accessible data from an intuitive system to support their project work across multiple industries.
Dave explained "With Rapport3 we are able to be more efficient with work stages, projecting, fee forecasting and resource planning, which before were quite time consuming. ”
With Hydrock's rapid growth from acquisitions and increased demand across industries, having a software that can adapt to meet client demands is essential for Hydrock. Following Hydrock's rapid growth over the past two years from acquisitions and increased demand, it is important Hydrock have a system in place that will continue to support their growth. Dave explained, “As we grow, we know Rapport3 will grow with us”.
“Initially union square helped us get an understanding of our billing process. However, Rapport3 has enabled us to speed up that process of getting details of the project including the draw down and cash flow into the system so there is much better quality of data.”
When asked what Hydrock's secret to success with Rapport3 has been, Dave commented, “ Our success in the implementation and take up, has been clearly defining our processes as opposed to implementing new technology with no processes in place .”
For anyone new looking at Rapport3, “ Having a process to what you will input and not input is essential, define these before you implement. We did this successfully with Rapport3, with their customer success team. Support has been very attentive; exactly as described during the sales process. Users are reporting back on how easy to use Rapport3 is.”
The solution
With Rapport3, Hydrock have become more efficient. The growing teams are more unified with accessible data from an intuitive system to support their project work across multiple industries.
Dave explained "With Rapport3 we are able to be more efficient with work stage's, projecting, fee forecasting and resource planning, which before were quite time consuming. ”
With Hydrock's rapid growth from acquisitions and increased demand across industries, having a software that can adapt to meet client demands is essential for Hydrock. Following Hydrock's rapid growth over the past two years from acquisitions and increased demand, it is important Hydrock have a system in place that will continue to support their growth. Dave explained, “As we grow, we know Rapport3 will grow with us”.
“Initially union square helped us get an understanding of our billing process. However, Rapport3 has enabled us to speed up that process of getting details of the project including the draw down and cash flow into the system so there is much better quality of data.”
When asked what Hydrock's secret to success with Rapport3 has been, Dave commented, “Our success in the implementation and take up, has been clearly defining our processes as opposed to implementing new technology with no processes in place.”
For anyone new looking at Rapport3, “Having a process to what you will input and not input is essential, define these before you implement. We did this successfully with Rapport3, with their customer success team. Support has been very attentive; exactly as described during the sales process. Users are reporting back on how easy to use Rapport3 is.”
The solution
With Rapport3, Hydrock have become more efficient. The growing teams are more unified with accessible data from an intuitive system to support their project work across multiple industries.
Book a demo
Dave explained "With Rapport3 we are able to be more efficient with work stage's, projecting, fee forecasting and resource planning, which before were quite time consuming. ”
With Hydrock's rapid growth from acquisitions and increased demand across industries, having a software that can adapt to meet client demands is essential for Hydrock. Following Hydrock's rapid growth over the past two years from acquisitions and increased demand, it is important Hydrock have a system in place that will continue to support their growth. Dave explained, “As we grow, we know Rapport3 will grow with us”.
“Initially union square helped us get an understanding of our billing process. However, Rapport3 has enabled us to speed up that process of getting details of the project including the draw down and cash flow into the system so there is much better quality of data.”
When asked what Hydrock's secret to success with Rapport3 has been, Dave commented, “Our success in the implementation and take up, has been clearly defining our processes as opposed to implementing new technology with no processes in place.”
For anyone new looking at Rapport3, “Having a process to what you will input and not input is essential, define these before you implement. We did this successfully with Rapport3, with their customer success team. Support has been very attentive; exactly as described during the sales process. Users are reporting back on how easy to use Rapport3 is.”
