Quietly Re-Thinking Out Loud

I’m very happy to announce that Patrice Hanigan, PMP® has joined the Paradigm-360 team.

Patrice is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) having earned her credentials from the Project Management Institute . With Paradigm-360 Patrice uses the expertise she’s gained to integrate Professional Project Management techniques and practices into the training and programs we develop for contractors and other building and remodeling professionals.

Back in college Patrice began her education as a Psychology major before switching over to Business Management & then Computer Studies. In a 26 year career working for a company with one of the one of the most widely recognized names in computer services she has worked in the realms of help desk management, information technology deployment, and most recently Patrice has spent the last eight years of her career working as a Project Management Executive in the field of Customer Relationship Management.

Patrice is also now involved with our 360 Difference line of FileMaker Pro software solutions working on our plans for a SaaS deployment (Software as a Service) and the further development of the Production and CRM modules as well as a new 360 Difference product we have in the pipeline that will allow Homeowners to better plan and track their project ideas and it’s progress.

by: Jerrald Hayes

Not April Fools Day joke at all, we have just released 360 Difference Estimating 2.0 the Estimating module componnent that part of our FileMaker based enterprise suite and it available for download downloading on our 360Difference.com web site.

To say thanks to all of our current users for their support we’re making this release a free upgrade for anyone with 360 Difference 1.x and Simple Estimate Worksheet userlicenses.

To potential new users joining our ranks this April we’re offering the program at $299 plus new users will also get to be involved in the development program for the Version 2 Production, Accounting, CRM, Human Resources, and Digital assets modules and get them for FREE to when they are released to the public.

The program allows users to very accurately build a production cost library of items performed internally by a contractors own personnel based on the contractors actual real costs of doing business rather than what some estimating data book says their cost are supposed to be.

The program does the same thing with respect to building a library of production costs based on what your contractors actually charge you or you can build you own cost items based on the billing rates your subs charge you and what you know the real material costs to be too.

And for the times when you do need to pull data from a third party estimating database you can do that too and we’ll be offering them from various providers in the coming months.

Come May 1st 2007 we’ll be raising the standard single user price on the Estimating module to $365.00

by: admin

Welcome to the WordPress powered version of the Quietly Re-Thinking Out Loud Blog. As of Wednesday, April 4, 2007 I made a switch here from Blogger to WordPress.

It’s spring cleaning time here and as part of the reorganization and remodeling I plan to do on this web site I switched from the Blogger powered blog I had over to one powered by WordPress and I very happy with the way things are going and I’m actually looking forward to an increased level of blogging.

Blogger was and is still a really good tool but since WordPress uses a mySQL database that installed and running on my web server the response time when I post is almost instantaneous. There’s no clicking to upload and then having to wait for the publishing to take place like I had to with Blogger.

by: admin

Okay I’m just getting set up here to start blogging on the issues I’m interested in the realm of Building and Remodeling and we’ll see where all this goes..

by: admin