December 9th, 2009
We are proud to announce the successful completion of Subcontractor Tracking enhancements! The enhanced Subcontractor Tracking features now allow you to detail specifically what each subcontractor’s activities were for a specific day. This new feature was driven from general contractor feedback, by itemizing each subcontractor’s work performed it is easier for the Superintendents to recall all activities completed for that day. We also included this information in the project’s Weekly Status Report. When you click the button to create your Weekly Status Report, we will automatically pull in a detailed list of all work performed by your subcontractors.
In addition to these new enhancements, we have added Subcontractor Change Order Management to each subcontractor’s profile. This gives a general contractor the ability to enter and track subcontractor change orders, associate them with a Request for Information (RFIs) add photos, backup documentation and approve the Change Order. All Subcontractor Change Orders rollup to a project report for quick review and action.
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October 12th, 2009
We are proud to announce our successful move to the Qwest Cyber Center this past weekend! Moving to a new co-location, is a direct result of our acquisition by Expesite. As Jeff Sopp, CEO of Expesite, and I talked about the benefits of the acquisition, we pin pointed early on that moving our servers over to Expesite’s environment at the Qwest Cyber Center would be a huge benefit to us and our users. Our users will benefit from improved performance as a result of faster connection speeds. In talking to Geoff Cook, Senior Vice President of Technology for Expesite, one of the biggest benefits users will experience is increased bandwidth. With the move we increased our mbps by 500%!! In addition to speed, security and redundancy have been improved. To learn more about the Quest Cyber Center please click here
Brian Gunnoe
President
Report Hawk, LLC
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August 23rd, 2009
We are proud to announce the release of Recent Actions. Recent Actions is found on your company home page and displays all recent activity that has occurred on your projects.
The goal of the feature was to create a simple method for our users to view recent activity without scrolling their inbox messages.
The Recent Actions feature was a community request. As a majority of our users travel from jobsite to jobsite and can be away from Report Hawk for extended periods of time they asked us for a simple solution for “catching” up on their projects when they login.
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June 22nd, 2009
Columbus, OH— Report Hawk, a leading web based project management company, is lending a virtual helping hand to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Columbus. Earlier this year, Report Hawk (recently acquired by Expesite) approached Habitat for Humanity offering its online services to provide the organization an area where all stakeholders could remain updated on project developments and progress.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Columbus is the only housing agency in Franklin County consistently providing opportunities for families, earning less than 50% of the median income, a chance to own a home. Habitat homes are designed to cultivate communities and Habitat for Humanity helps to break the cycle of poverty and hopelessness.
“We are very excited to implement Report Hawk as we execute our build plans for 2009. Leveraging technology to streamline our building processes will allow us to build more homes for our partner families.” said Erik Lambert, Director of Construction for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Columbus.Brian Gunnoe, President of Report Hawk stated, “Our hope is that by using our application, Habitat for Humanity can reduce their costs, simplify their communication processes, and ultimately, build more homes!”
Please visit http://www.reporthawk.com/more/giveback.php, to learn more about the philanthropic spirit between Report Hawk and Habitat for Humanity.
About Report Hawk:
Founded in 2005, Report Hawk is an affordable pay-as-you-go web-based, collaborative project management tool for contractors, architects and construction managers. The system allows users to track construction projects from pre-construction through warranty stages. Report Hawk enables 24/7 communication with project teams and streamlines the building process to reduce costly errors, increase profits and deliver an exceptional user experience. Report Hawk is a subsidiary of Expesite, www.expesite.com and is headquartered in Columbus, OH. The company supports projects throughout the United States and Canada. For more information please visit www.reporthawk.com.
About Expesite:
Founded in 1999, Expesite is a privately held company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Expesite provides a secure project management application for multi-unit construction and real estate development. Over $6 billion in real estate activity moves through the Expesite system. Expesite fosters lasting relationships with some of the world’s largest retailers, chain restaurants, banks and commercial real estate developers. Considered a world-class leader in program and project management, Expesite streamlines communication and accelerates project delivery. To learn more about Expesite products and services visit their web site at www.expesite.com.
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April 29th, 2009
It is with great fanfare that we announce our acquisition by Expesite – an online project management provider that has some of the world’s most brand-recognized retail & retail banks as clients. Over the past six months we have had the pleasure of working with Jeff Sopp, CEO of Expesite, and his leadership team on getting to this important milestone.
We will operate as our own subsidiary, but plan to relocate to Expesite’s headquarters in downtown Columbus to foster collaboration and create efficiencies across the two companies by using a shared services model for ongoing sales, operational and development support.
Here’s a “sneak peek” of the draft press release that will be launched later today to multiple media outlets, including local & national news services as well as leading industry trade publications.
The best news is that we will continue to provide “pure awesomeness” to you and your teams!!!
Brian & Kevin
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April 27th, 2009
You may have noticed a new look to our Home Page this week. We have added a “Connect with Us” feature that allows people to network with us on Facebook and LinkedIn. A lot of people have asked us, “Why did we add these features and what are the benefits we hope to see in these additions?” Below are the three main goals we considered when adding these features.
Pages are Public: Most of Facebook and LinkedIn are behind a login, preventing search engines from indexing. However, our pages are not behind a login making it available for search engines to index our Facebook and LinkedIn pages. We purposefully did this hoping people will stumble across our page as a result of their search, and visit our Facebook or LinkedIn page, and then navigate to www.reporthawk.com via the links in these pages to learn more about our company.
Stay Connected: In these economic times staying connected with our users is very important to us. As companies continue to downsize, we believe staying in touch with our users as they find new employment is a strategic growth opportunity for us.
B-Side Communication: Our Facebook Page also gives us another way to communicate with our users. Some of the information we share on these pages are what we call B-Side information. If you a familiar with music albums, the B-side tended to be the material that didn’t make the cut for the album. Therefore, this is where we are free to show the goofy and fun side of our company while delivering useful information and tips to our users.
We invite you to take a look at our LinkedIn and Facebook pages and get connected with us!
http://www.linkedin.com/in/reporthawk
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Columbus-OH/Report-Hawk/75724453249
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April 8th, 2009
Our newest release is the completion of our Warranty stage and Warranty feature for Owners. In the past, we have broken down a project’s lifecycle into three stages: Preconstruction, Bidding and Construction. With the release of our newest feature we have added Warranty as our fourth stage.
“The new Warranty stage and feature is truly a value-added service that we are happy to offer to our owners”, said Brian Gunnoe, Report Hawk President. “The ability to track a project’s warranty expiration date and ensure warranty items are corrected by the Contractor or Owner-supplied vendors is a simple method for reducing maintenance costs.”
Upon the passing of a project’s turnover date or the setting of a project’s Certificate of Occupancy date via the last weekly report, your project will now transfer into the Warranty stage. Your project will be located in the Warranty stage for 365 days. During this time the project can be accessed through the use of our Warranty feature.
The Warranty feature allows an Owner to submit warranty items to the project’s General Contractor and if applicable, the Owner vendors.
When a warranty item is created, the warranty item and its related issue are e-mailed to the responsible party notifying them of the warranty issue and recording the it in our warranty history table.
The responsible party can then take action on the warranty issue and once corrected, can send updates back to the Owner, detailing the corrective actions taken to resolve the issue. In addition, photos of the corrective measures taken can be uploaded with the response to better clarify the work completed.
The owner, when satisfied with the corrective measures can close the Warranty Item.
To learn more or to schedule an on-line demo of our product please visit us at: www.reporthawk.com/contact/
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March 18th, 2009
REDMOND, Wash. — March 18, 2009 — Today Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of Windows Internet Explorer 8, the new Web browser that offers the best solution for how people use the Web today. It can be downloaded in 25 languages at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 starting at noon EDT on March 19. Internet Explorer 8 is easier to use, faster and offers leading-edge security features in direct response to people’s increasing concerns about online safety. A new study commissioned by Microsoft and the National Cyber Security Alliance and conducted by Harris Interactive Inc. shows that 91 percent of adults in the U.S. are concerned about online threats in the current economic climate, and 78 percent are more likely to choose a Web browser with built-in security than they were two years ago. Read More.
We have seen a few issues with how Report Hawk displays in the new browser. The following article from details the issues we face. http://infotech.indiatimes.com/quickiearticleshow/4304825.cms
If you are a Report Hawk user and you have installed Internet Explorer 8, please check the Compatibility View button when accessing Report Hawk. To learn more about setting the Compatibility View click here.
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March 11th, 2009
Late again!
Late for dinner. Late for a date. Late for the soccer game. Late picking up the kids. Why does it seem we are always playing catch-up no matter how many “time savings” books we read?
The answer:
Communication!
Within the construction industry, individuals face a daily barrage of communication devices and methods: e-mail, office phone, cell phone, office fax, e-fax, text, instant messaging, voicemail, and so on and so forth.
A study, conducted by SIS International Research, involved 513 respondents in Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S. The respondents were “knowledge workers” employed by companies of up to 400 employees in the fields of communications, finance, health care, insurance, manufacturing, “professional,” real estate and wholesale or retail trade. The survey asked respondents how much time they wasted in overcoming various obstacles to communication. Their answer was an astounding average of 17.5 hours per week, or more than 40 percent of their time.
The wasted time took several forms. Inefficient coordination among team members was experienced by 68 percent of respondents and resulted in spending an average of 3.7 hours per week to address this issue. Another big problem was waiting for information from others, which wasted 3.5 hours per week. Other top time-wasters included: dealing with unwanted communications (2 to 3 hours per week); coping with customer complaints about employees’ being unreachable (3.3 hours); and the inaccessibility of, or inability to collaborate with, other employees (3.3 hours).
As Part of our WLB (Work-Life-Balance) methodology, we continue to find areas where we can save you and your team time.
Our newest feature is a simple, but often overlooked, process that occurs on every project sent out for bid. The answering of bid questions submitted by contractors.
No matter how detailed you are in your bid documents, invariably a question will arise during the bid process. This will require you to respond to the question and as well, communicate the question and response to all of the contractors bidding on the project.
Report Hawk’s latest feature continues our focus on increasing time savings, reducing communication errors and redundancy, and ensuring apples-to-apples bid comparisons.
Our new Bid Questions Feature allows bidding contractors, during the ITB stage, to submit bid questions to the owner’s project team. All questions submitted are kept anonymous, thus keeping private the number and names of the contractors bidding on a project.
When a bid question is submitted, the question is e-mailed to the owner’s project team and all bidding contractors. Once a response is provided, it is e-mailed to all bidding contractors. This simplifies the communication process while keeping all bidding contractors in the loop.
To access the bid question feature, login to Report Hawk, select your project and click on the Bid Question Icon to open the feature. To learn more or to schedule and on-line demo of our product please visit us at www.reporthawk.com/contact/ and complete the contact us form.
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February 24th, 2009
By popular demand we have upgraded our Project Subcontractors to include specific detailed trade names
Included in this new upgrade we now import the subcontractor’s contact information into the Project Directory.
If you have a new subcontractor trade name you would like added, please email us at support@reporthawk.com
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