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Yes, in 2018 four customers returned their HeavyBid and in 2019 there were 11 who did so. About half of those found that it was not going to work for their type of work and the rest for an assortment of reasons. At HCSS, we believe that you should be delighted with both our software and support, and that it should be a dramatic improvement over your current process – if it is not, we don’t expect you to pay for it.
HCSS Cloud is a ‘Desktop as a Service’ solution that will transform your work model and empower your employees to be more mobile and productive. HCSS Cloud has all the accessibility of the typical managed cloud service, with the power of a desktop to support the complexity of your computing environment. We host your HCSS software and data on highly secure servers and take care of all the technicalities behind the scenes with 24/7/365 service, including security maintenance, data backups, and product updates. All you have to do is connect to your HCSS Cloud through an internet connection, whether from your desktop in the office, on a laptop in the field, or on your handheld device – leaving you with more flexibility and time to focus on doing what you do best.
HCSS Cloud Services is a fully-managed hosting solution presented through a Desktop as a Service. In a Saas Model, you pay one fee to get service, licensing, and more. Cloud is an add-on service. We take perpetual licenses and provide you with a highly resilient hosting environment so that you don’t have to worry about the IT hosting requirements.
Estimate entry into HeavyBid is typically nearly instant, regardless of estimate size, and reports rarely take more than one minute to produce. Major changes throughout a large estimate (such as a change to a labor rate that is used 300 times) may take a minute or so, and the bid summary process (summarizing the bid and running cost-spreading routines to arrive at unit prices) might take 7 or 8 minutes on an estimate with many thousands of resources.
HeavyBid, HeavyJob, Equipment360, Dispatcher, FuelerPlus and other non-HCSS software.