In this Acumatica Success Story: Roberts Glass & Service, specializes in designing, manufacturing, and installing glass curtain walls and systems for commercial customers. Run for years on legacy Sage 50; executives lacked insight into critical KPIs due to siloed information housed in the client-server application. Roberts Glass deployed cloud-based Acumatica Construction Edition, gaining remote access for its field team, real-time financial data, and instant visibility into project profitability.

When Matt Dodson and Jeff Hamilton purchased Roberts Glass and Service three years
ago, they inherited Sage 50 as its only financial software. The Indianapolis-based company
specializes in designing, manufacturing, and installing glass curtain walls and systems for commercial construction contractors, those building new hospitals, hotels, retail, office, and industrial spaces. The company’s instance of Sage was a legacy client-server application, which stored data locally on desktop computers. “Data was very siloed,” says Hamilton, president. “We also had paper spreadsheets scattered throughout the office.”

An IT professional, Hamilton determined a Sage upgrade wouldn’t give the company the mobile, project or construction functionality it needed, so he began his search for construction and accounting software that could provide those critical requirements and serve as a platform for
growth soon after purchasing the company.

He liked what he found in Acumatica Construction Edition with its robust Project Management features, a choice that the company’s accounting firm Somerset CPAs were familiar with and confirmed would be good. Acumatica Construction Edition implementation partner Aktion Associates deployed the software working with Hamilton’s internal team. Roberts Glass also implemented ExakTime, a third-party time and attendance application that seamlessly integrates with Acumatica Construction Edition thanks to Acumatica’s open API.

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