31 - March - 2008

Latest Jobmaster Accounting Solution Released at User Day

The latest version of Jobmaster Accounting (JMA) was released at a customer event hosted during March at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. Existing users of JMA attended to review the updated product and see how the solution integrated with other Causeway solutions.

The JMA solution is one of the most well developed construction accounting software products on the market, with over 20 years of development.  Since Causeway acquired the Jobmaster business, the team have focused on refreshing the user interface and adding a powerful business intelligence tool to make the Microsoft SQL Server based solution modern and easier to use.  With over 18 functional modules including core financial ledgers, plant management, purchase order management, payroll & personnel, contract costing, subcontractor management and cost value reconciliation (CVR), all contracting business processes are catered for.  Customers attended the 1 day briefing to hear from the Causeway team about the plans for future development of JMA and the integration with other solution areas including estimating, electronic trading, vendor management and content & document management.

Paul Madeira, Director of Sales & Marketing comments, "JMA is a strong functional accounting solution for the industry with an excellent reputation for support.  The acquisition of Jobmaster was a strategic decision to compliment our larger enterprise level Causeway Financials offering and ensures that Causeway can offer a construction accounting solution to all sizes of construction and contracting firms across the industry. With the recent refresh and development work now completed we are now talking to a number of contractors who are interested in JMA which offers a modern yet functionally rich solution to replace their current accounting packages.  Many firms are looking to change providers due to poor customer support and products that lack functionality required to run and report on their operations and JMA has attracted a lot of interest and all of this before we proactively promote the solution to the industry."

Following the JMA user day customers including John Doyle Group, Anglo Holt Construction, JF Finnegan and Thomas Barnes are now looking at other complimentary Causeway solutions to help win more work, improve margins and increase efficiency of operations.

Mike Fanthome from Phoenix Electrical Contractors summarises the JMA day, "I would like to thank everyone at Causeway for a great day. The venue was nice, fantastic hosts and the content was very interesting. I look forward to the next event."

Contact Causeway to find out more about the Causeway Financials JMA solution.

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