Viewpoint Spectrum

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A complete construction ERP solution offering strong job cost accounting and project management capabilities.

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A complete construction ERP solution offering strong job cost accounting and project management capabilities.

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Spectrum®: Your Complete Web-Based Construction ERP Solution

Discover the power of Spectrum®, the leading-edge construction ERP solution with a range of tools for accounting, project management, equipment and materials management, service management, document control, HR and payroll, inventory, reporting, and more.

With real-time access from any location, Spectrum® enables contractors to work seamlessly on the go. Representing over three decades of continuous innovation and investment in the latest technologies, Spectrum® is designed specifically for the cloud, offering convenience and user-friendly interface.

Experience true cloud computing with complete control over data security and user access. Streamline your construction business with Spectrum's comprehensive suite of applications and tools for communication, collaboration, and enhanced project management.

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Effective Cost Center Tracking

3.3
What do you like?

Spectrum is completely web based, and has great functionality for importing and exporting data.

What do you dislike?

There is no process to automatically charge overhead to jobs. Also, revenue recognition must be manually posted to the general ledger. The payroll time entry may not work for everyone.

What problems is it solving?

Spectrum makes it much easier to create and/or customize reports as compared to our previous software.

Nick
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VP Finance

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Accurate Balance Sheet Generation

3.3
What do you like?

The ability to modify the "canned" PDF reports using CrystalReports makes my job SO much easier. Also, the ability to create custom, easy-to-read reports using real-time-data in Excel with InfoLink, is honestly the reason I will never (willingly) leave Spectrum. Once you learn to use CrystalReports and InfoLink, you'll never want to leave either.

What do you dislike?

The customer support used to be incredible and super fast. Now it is extremely lacking

What problems is it solving?

Report writing and analysis is 10000% easier

Marjie
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Payroll Supervisor

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Quick and Easy Bank Reconciliation

4.8
What do you like?

Spectrum is very easy to use and user-friendly.

What do you dislike?

I don't have any issues with anything in Spectrum

What problems is it solving?

It is a great platform to assist us with accurate job costing. The report automations saves a lot of time in analysis so we can focus on growing the business

Elizabeth
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Project Accountant

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Streamlined Vendor and Supplier Management

4.9
What do you like?

What I like best about Spectrum is how user-friendly it is. This system is AMAZING! It helps me stay organized and on top of what is happening with each job we have going. Being able to upload to the cloud is great as well as the app.

What do you dislike?

There is nothing I dislike about Spectrum. This system is easy to use and track what is happening with jobs and what we have to track for Project Management time and job costs.

What problems is it solving?

Spectrum is solving a lot of problems for us in the past. We are benefiting from it in so many ways. I really love the chart display the show jobs being 90 days on going and helping us stay on track.

Kimberly
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Administrative Assistant

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Efficient Expense Approval Workflows

3.6
What do you like?

Dashboards have been invaluable. They offer user-friendly visuals for important data and KPI's which appear immediately when logging in. Viewpoint support can create custom dashboard cards for any data you want to monitor.

What do you dislike?

The canned reports do not offer enough parameters. You are limited to just a few options in most reports. I have to resort to custom report building, which is not an easy task in Spectrum.

What problems is it solving?

Spectrum offers a wonderful Job Cost Overview that brings all the data for a particular job into one place. Drilling down into the data is quite simple, and data can be exported to Excel for further review.

Amy
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Controller

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Real-time Cash Flow Projections

3.8
What do you like?

Does both company accounting and real-time project accounting and Project Management all in one software

What do you dislike?

There is a lot to know and sometimes may become overwhelming to new employees. The Help and Videos are beneficial, though.

What problems is it solving?

Single source company and project accounting.

Dustin
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Senior Project Manager

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Multi-Device Compatibility

4.5
What do you like?

Having all information accessible regardless of the module you are in. Easy to navigate

What do you dislike?

The amount of clicks you have to do in order to update.

What problems is it solving?

Our data entry processing has become much more stream lined. A low entry error ratio

Louise
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Administrative Supervisor

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Simple Charting and Graphing Tools

4.9
What do you like?

I think the best thing I like about Spectrum would be the speed and the ease of use. Spectrum is the fastest system I have used, I no longer need to sit and wait for reports it is definitely a time saver. To add to this point, Spectrum is constantly getting better and better, they always strive to upgrade their system to be improved regularly. I also love the training and support they have. The Viewpoint Academy always has new things for you to learn and gain more knowledge of the system.

What do you dislike?

There is really very little I dislike about it. If I had to say something I guess I would say the AR process when having to revise invoices, you can't revise invoices at all really, you need to reverse the original draw which then creates a credit memo you need to apply to the original invoice and then just start over with the new revised invoice you need to create. You can't keep invoice #'s and or invoice dates. Kind of stinks.

What problems is it solving?

We used to be on the slowest system ever, so I guess we have sped things up quite a bit and we are no longer on two separate systems, all of us are in Spectrum and it has really helped our field employees and our project managers have more access to information. The ability to write custom reports has been very beneficial to us also, as well as query developer.

Erin
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Operations Controller

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Secure Data Backup and Restoration

3.5
What do you like?

The ease of use. The new help features are also great for figuring out new things. Having The Network to bounce questions off of other users has come in handy several times.

What do you dislike?

There isn't much that I don't like. It did take a while to learn, but I feel like that's the normal process when learning any new software program and starting from the beginning.

What problems is it solving?

The automating pf the accounts payable process is a big one for us. It will take some work on our end to figure out how to make it work, but once we do it will save a ton of time!

Liz
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Staff Accountant

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Positive Impact on Accounting Efficiency

4.1
What do you like?

As the Dir of IT, one of the most helpful areas is the ability to import data using their Data Exchange, which can save a great deal of time, which uses Excel, and they also have Import features for Material Management and Inventory. Another great feature is creating your reports using Crystal Reports. If you are into SQL, you can also garner data that way as well, where I have modified data using SQL in their system that was imported incorrectly. They have continued to develop their help features online, where you can direct new users. We still use the on-prem version of the software, and by March of 2025, they will stop supporting the on-prem version and we will be required to move to the cloud. I have had to participate within every department, mainly focusing on Accounting, HR, Job Cost and Material Management as the majority of my work. Those modules are all pretty solid and work very well, and I will get to some drawbacks on the other side. They allow Multi-Companies.

What do you dislike?

Data Exchange: They don't have enough formats for a program of this size. If they don't have one, they push their development team at a hefty price. We are a Heavy Highway Construction company, and our asphalt prices fluctuate on the price of oil, if you have special pricing for customers (which they have a section for that), but you have to modify all those prices by hand because they do not have a Data Exchange for Customer Special Pricing, which is perplexing that they wouldn't, as we have a large number of customers with special pricing based on their levels of qty. I believe, every table should have a data exchange and a modify for one-time import ones. Not every field in the Data Exchange is error checked. If the data is wrong on some of the one-time imports, you have to use SQL to correct your mistake. Crystal Reports: If you want to modify one of their reports, they use temp tables for almost every report, which does not lend itself to those of us who write Crystal Reports, as you can not always get to the raw data as they use temp tables to create raw data you cannot use, and you cannot always add other tables or parameters because the report may fail. It would have been better for them to use the base tables to make it easier for the companies to modify their reports. Many times I have to start from scratch to determine what data they used to create their temp table. On-Prem vs Cloud: I know many industries are moving in that direction, though the cost savings they calculate for you don't equate to what we pay directly. Moving to the cloud will cost our company more as we still have servers and must maintain them, as well as backups. If is not like Spectrum is the only software our company uses. Departments: One of the issues I have is the inconsistencies of the different screens from the different modules. They say this is due to different programmers working on different modules throughout the years, but they don't have a standard, which can be frustrating when you want to see what data you will need to enter, some screen populate (greyed out as it awaits you to enter the main piece of data) where other screens remain completely blank with only the entry for the main piece of data. The other drawback is the system is click happy. You have to click through some areas that you shouldn't need to click so many times to complete a task. Inter-Company Billing and Sharing : The software is weak on procedures of sharing data and invoicing between companies. We have had to write Crystal Reports to create Data Exchange FIles to import Invoices from 1 company to another. All Equipment and Employees have to be entered in all companies they work in as opposed to our old software that these could be flagged as to which companies they could be accessed by.

What problems is it solving?

Allowing us to integrate our 5 plants with our Job company, and giving us the ability to import data from our Bid and Field software into our ERP. By giving us a central platform and source of truth allows us to better see all aspects of the company.

Les
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Director of Information Technology

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