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Be Confident that Your Environment is Always Available
Secure your data in enterprise-class data centers and infrastructure, with high-availability engineering, and let HCSS manage your data backups and disaster recovery.
Secure and Compliant Hosting
Ensure your data is secure and protected from continually evolving cyber threats. Our data centers are ISO 27001, SSAE16/SOC compliant.
Focus on What’s Important to Your Business
Host and manage your applications without any IT overhead. With 24/7/365 support, we support your managed hosting applications better than anyone else.
Eliminate Expensive IT Hardware expenses
Free up your cash by moving from a capital expense to an operating expense model. Know and plan for your monthly hosting costs.
Instant 24/7 Customer Support
Extend the legendary HCSS Support for your HCSS applications to your cloud hosting and let us be your IT partner for all your hosting solutions.
A True Mobile Workforce
Enjoy the true power of mobility. Get instant and secure access to your applications anytime, anywhere, from any device or operating platform.
Perfect Solution for Joint Ventures
Allow multiple offices or business units to share access to your hosted HCSS applications, while keeping company-specific data secure. Help eliminate intercompany job tracking and billing issues, as well as the need for additional IT resources.
How HCSS Cloud Fits Into the HCSS Suite
YOUR BUSINESS
HeavyBid
- Unit price & lump sum bids
- Rapid estimate creation from:
- Libraries
- Past estimates
- Calculation routines
- Assemblies
- DOT imports
- RSMeans data (option)
- Richardson data (option)
- Analysis tools
- Rapid change tools
- Comparisons to estimate and actual production history (w HeavyJob)
- Invitation to bid
- Quote management
- Cost spreading routines
- Multiple pricing options
- Multiple bid proposal formats
- Electronic bid submittals
- Budget export to accounting
- Budget export to HeavyJob
- RFIs (2018)
HCSS Plans
- Quantity takeoff
- Annotation capabilities
- Document control
- Version control
HeavyJob
- Simple & easy interface
- Diaries
- Time cards
- Progress quantities
- Photos
- Materials & subs
- Production analysis
- Real-time cost feedback
- Production planner
- Needs requests
- Skills & certifications
HCSS Plans
- Quantity takeoff
- Annotation capabilities
- Easy attachment to submittals, etc.
- Instant field to office communication
- Responsibility assignments
- Record “As-Built”
- Document control
- Version control
HCSS Safety
- Meetings
- Inspections
- Observations
- Near misses
- Incidents
- JHAs
- Skills & certifications
HCSS Employee App
- Simple interface
- Clock in/out
- Payroll hour verification
- Equipment inspections
- Safety observations
- Custom items such as “not injured”
- Multi-employee time clock kiosk
- Upcoming schedules (w/ Dispatcher)
- Cost code hours (2018)
HCSS Trucking
- Easy smartphone truck identification
- Easy recording of loads/dumps
- Quantity capture
- Foremen/operators as ticket takers
- Unattended site logging
- Internal & external trucks
HeavyJob
- Time card approvals
- Production reports
- Change orders
- T&M billing
- Forecasting
- Pay estimates
- Job cost reports
- Payroll hour reports
- Accounting TrueUp (w/ DIS)
- RFIs (2018)
- Submittals (2018)
- Document tracking (2018)
- HCSS Plans integration
HCSS Plans
- Quantity takeoff
- Annotation capabilities
- Document control
- Version control
HCSS Safety
- Inspections, Near Misses, Incidents
- Free safety observations for all employees
- Leading indicator analysis from field data
- Closed-loop follow-up process for issues
- 1,000 standard meetings, inspections, JSAs
- Meetings, inspections, & JSAs are customizable
- Critical meeting topics can be pushed to field
- OSHA reporting
- Skills and certifications
- Quality reports (2018)
HCSS Dispatcher
- Electronic “Magnet Board” Scheduling of people, equipment, materials, trucks, inventory, and small tools
- Snapshot of past, present & future
- True up locations vs HeavyJob timecards
- Driver move assignments
- Rentals
- Management of future “needs”
- “Needs” import from HeavyBid
- Foremen “needs” from HeavyJob
- Crew export to HeavyJob
- Dispatching report to HeavyJob
- Show up instructions to employees
HCSS Safety
- Inspections, near misses, incidents
- Free safety observations for all employees
- Leading Indicator analysis from field data
- Closed-loop follow up process for issues
- 1,000 standard meetings, inspections, JSAs
- Meetings, inspections, & JSAs are customizable
- Critical meeting topics can be pushed to the field
- OSHA reporting
- Skills and certifications
- Quality reports starting in 2018
HCSS Inspections
- Equipment Inspections
- Field Equipment Inspection Data
- Drive Vehicle Inspection Reports
- Pre and post-trip inspections
- Customized inspections
HCSS Forms
- Free with HeavyJob or Safety
- Customizable mobile forms
- PDF fillable forms
- Autofill from Time Cards (w HeavyJob)
Equipment Maintenance
- Preventive maintenance
- Work orders
- Work order Assignment/Scheduling
- Mobile mechanic app
- Equipment repair history
- Equipment inspections
- Field equipment inspection data
- Field maintenance requests
- Automated meter readings (w/ GPS)
- Telematics data reporting (w/ GPS)
- Warranty tracking
- Inventory/parts management
- Utilization reporting
- Idle time reporting
- Replace or repair dashboard
Fuel Tracking
- Mobile phone app
- Fuel & fluid tracking
- For fuel truck drivers, foremen, lowboy drivers, etc.
- Transactions to/from trucks/tanks
- Third-party fuel card interfaces
- Fuel charged to equipment/jobs
- Fuel analysis report
Telematics/GPS
- Mixed fleet data in one location
- HCSS GPS hardware
- OEM GPS data integration
- Aggregated HCSS + OEM GPS data
- Interface to other HCSS Software
- Location, meter, idle time, fuel level, fault codes
- Stolen equipment alerts
- Geofence entry/exit logs
- Mobile geofence reporting
- Cycle time reporting
- Equipment utilization reporting
- Customized alerts:Speeding, hard braking, etc.
Trucking
- Automation of truck tickets
- Simple & accurate verification of loads
- Quantity capture
- Fewer payment conflicts & discrepancies
- Possible elimination of ticket takers
- Unattended site logging
- Internal & external trucks
- Integration with HeavyJob
- Broker portal with real-time reporting
- More (2018)
D.O.T. & Other Interfaces
- Nearly all state DOTs
- Download of biditems
- Download of avg. bid prices
- Upload of bid prices
- Some cities & counties
- Private services such as Amtek
- Spreadsheets
Payroll & Accounting Interfaces
- Budget export from HeavyBid
- Payitem export from HeavyBid
- Vendors and subs from HeavyBid
- JD Edwards (custom)
- Labor & equipment hours from HeavyJob
- Quantities from HeavyJob
- Jobs, equipment, employees & cost codes to HeavyJob
Accounting Systems
- Viewpoint family
- Dexter & Chaney
- Sage family
- JD Edwards (custom)
- CMIC (custom)
- Foundation
- Explorer family
- Quickbooks
- PeachTree
- Most Others
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What Our Cloud Customers Are Saying
HCSS Cloud helps us in such a way that we now can ensure all of our bids get submitted, and you can’t win a bid that you can’t submit.
Reed Greehill
Estimator
Allen Company
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We’ve saved money and time from internal I.T. calls when we moved to the Cloud.
Jeff Saunders
Estimator/Performance Manager
CRH
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Frequently Asked Questions
Your company can host Equipment360 licenses and data on your company’s server, allowing for multiple users to be in the system at one time and have access to the same data. Or you can allow HCSS Cloud Services to host your Equipment360 licenses and data on our highly secure servers. We’ll take care of all the technicalities behind the scenes, including security maintenance, data backups, and HCSS product updates. All you have to do is connect to your HCSS products through an internet connection on any device.
Our Enterprise version allows companies with multiple business units to share Equipment360 Manager licenses, while maintaining completely separate data sets. Fleet managers can see data across the entire organization to report against all business units, which are managed independently. However, each business unit sees only the assets, jobs, and employees that matter to them.
Your company can host FuelerPlus Manager licenses and data on your own server or cloud, allowing for multiple users to be in the manager system and have access to the same data at the same time (or separately). If you’d prefer to let someone else handle the IT side, the HCSS Cloud can host your FuelerPlus Manager licenses and data on our own highly secure servers. When you purchase HCSS Cloud Services, we’ll take care of all the technicalities behind the scenes. We’ll perform regular security maintenance and data backups, and we’ll also perform all HCSS product updates when you’re ready.
Our enterprise version of FuelerPlus is perfect for large companies with multiple divisions doing different types of work. Enterprise allows companies with multiple divisions to share software licenses while maintaining completely different data sets.
Your company can host HCSS Dispatcher licenses and data on your own server or cloud, allowing for multiple users to be in the system and have access to the same data at the same time (or separately). Or if you’d prefer to let someone else handle the IT side, the HCSS Cloud can host your licenses and data on our own highly secure servers.
If you are part of a large company with multiple divisions doing different types of work, our enterprise version of HCSS Dispatcher allows companies with multiple divisions to share software licenses while maintaining completely different data sets.
For those companies that would like to share one license for several users, a single-user network version is available.
Your company will continue owning your software licenses. HCSS Cloud Services simply makes it easier to host and access the software you already own.
Visit the HCSS Help Center at https://help.hcss.com to read articles on all of our HCSS products, including an entire section on Estimate and System setup for HeavyBid and HeavyJob and Library setup for HeavyJob. The Help Center also features the ability to live chat or start a remote session with a Technical Support Analyst.
There are Help sections in HCSS HeavyBid, HeavyJob, Equipment360, and HCSS Dispatcher that can give you guidelines to set up your system as well.
For helpful how-to videos, visit our YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/hcsssoftware. Video playlists are separated by product.
For specific questions regarding setting up your equipment, crews, or jobs, please call HCSS Support at the following numbers:
HeavyBid: 1-855-231-7876
HeavyJob & HCSS Safety: 1-855-231-7878
Equipment360, HCSS Dispatcher, FuelerPlus: 1-855-231-7877
HCSS Telematics: 1-855-231-7874
General Support: 1-800-444-3196
Your company owns any application data you put into your HCSS or other software. We make no claims to it.
Although your environment’s specific requirements may differ, HCSS recommends the following workstation requirements: Windows 7/8 operating system, i7 processor, and 8GB or more of memory, as well as a 10GB HDD hard disk. Your network should be 1Gbps NIC. Recommended server requirements: Server 2012 operating system, Xeon Quad-Core processor, 8GB of RAM, and 5GB 15k RPM SAS hard disk, 1 Gb NIC Teamed or SAN 2Gb+ Dedicated Fiber network, and a Physical/VM environment. Recommended transfer method is FTP/HTP.
HCSS recommends Apple mobile devices, including the latest-generation iPad or iPad Pro 10.5-inch tablets and the latest generation iPhone (either size), with iOS 9, a minimum 8GB of storage, and 3G cell service or better.