CARM SUMMIT
Digital Construction for
Canadian Industry
Among the many operational challenges businesses
and organizations face, accounting and technological
changes are often in the mix, and often the two go handin
hand. A desire to help business owners and organizations
overcome these obstacles and simplify day-to-day operations
has become the focal point of Cloudtric.
Ginger Fleury-Hunter, Bradley Adams and Garnet McBurney
are the executives behind Cloudtric Inc., a cloud-based software
development company. Their goal is to develop and market software
applications for business and non-profit organizations that
are intuitive and easy-to-use, making the user experience more
pleasant and more efficient. They are committed to providing the
necessary building blocks and tools which can become the blueprints
for managing a business.
Cloudtric was built on a foundation firmly set in entrepreneurial
experience. Sister companies Venture Accounting Group Ltd., a
bookkeeping/consulting firm in Brandon, and technology service
firm Prairie IT Services Ltd., along with previous ownership and
management in a plumbing and heating company all provide the
backdrop for the strength of Cloudtric. By merging the extensive
assortment of skill sets and unique talents, coupled with superior
customer service, Cloudtric has set out to change the digital world.
The company tagline, “Elegantly Simple Applications; Simply
Outstanding Workability,” is meant to speak directly to the dedication
to ease of use, elegance and efficiency. It’s not just lip service.
It’s become Cloudric’s mission statement.
Developing software that combines practicality and functionality
that is unique to one’s own business is an art form, like designing
and building a new home or construction project. It involves consultation,
design and drafting, calculating and fabricating, and
finally working-out the intricate details of the finished product.
Cloudtric’s initial commercial software release was faManager, a
software application for tracking, depreciating and budgeting fixed
assets. Accurate asset records are an integral component of any
business or organization’s balance sheet, but are often neglected.
faManager is, “the software that every ongoing business or
organization needs, but doesn’t realize they need it.” It is designed
for tracking a few assets or tens of thousands of assets and is meant
to replace the tired spreadsheets most companies use. Features
include serial number and location tracking, market and/or
replacement value comparisons, time-saving calculations and automatically
prepared journal entries. This flagship product is praised
by users as being fast, intuitive and superbly simple to use.
A second product, Praxis MS contains a full modular suite of
applications including job cost timekeeping for payroll and billing,
scheduling and calendars, reminders and deadline management
and data vault.
Fostering a new business relationship in 2019, Cloudtric and
CARM embarked on an exciting new journey. Between the two
organizations, a design team was formed consisting of Cloudtric,
CARM staff and a member-based committee. Extensive consultation
and planning centred around the development of a new
tendering software platform. The objectives requested by CARM’s
members included ease-of-use, speed and seachability. The result
bore a unique online tendering application: PlanPoint.
PlanPoint was launched to CARM’s membership in February
and CARM’s executive committee is confident that PlanPoint will
add significant value to its member offering.
Through this valued partnership between the two organizations,
PlanPoint was developed for members, by members. Cloudtric is
very appreciative of the opportunity to have worked with such a
progressive organization as CARM on the development and release
of PlanPoint.
Cloudtric is also excited for the opportunity to expand their
tendering application to other construction associations across
Canada who may be looking for a fresh approach for managing
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Reach Cloudtric at 204-650-0667, by email at info@cloudtric.ca or
visit their website at www.cloudtric.ca.
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