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From Project to Profit: Unlocking Better Financial Insights with Rapport3 and AccountsIQ

Key Highlights:

  • How Rapport3 brings through your data to track project performance in real-time 
  • How AccountsIQ delivers deeper financial insights and control 
  • How Power BI brings data from both platforms together for real-time dashboards and smarter decisions 
  • PRP: lessons learned and benefits achieved
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    From Challenge to Change: David Chipperfield Architects’ Change Management & Rapport3 Success Story

    Key Highlights:

    • Learn from Innovia about the critical role of change management in selecting and implementing an ERP system.
    • Hear directly from Lex Schaul, Associate Director at David Chipperfield Architects, about their experience with Rapport3 and its impact on their efficiency.
    • Gain insights into the implementation process and explore how Rapport3's integration with Power BI reporting has empowered David Chipperfield Architects to make data-driven decisions.
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      Unlock Seamless Reporting for Business Success

      Key Highlights:

      • Project Reporting Reimagined: Ensure data consistency across platforms with seamless integration and gain real-time visibility into project performance with robust reporting.
      • A Great Customer Experience: Learn how we provide outstanding implementation and training support. Leverage our expertise to set up future-proof systems tailored to your needs.
      • Customer Story - PRP: Hear directly from PRP on how the powerful integration between AccountsIQ and Rapport3 transformed their reporting processes, enabling advanced capabilities with Power BI.
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        Streamlining Project Information Management with Rapport3: Automated Tools for Enhanced Collaboration

        Key Highlights:

        • Automating Project Creation: Simplify the setup of project folders, Outlook containers, and external team deliverables.
        • Enhanced Collaboration with DocuPing: Faster file access, automated registers, and distributed collaboration.
        • Email Management with Gekko: Efficiently file and manage project emails with advanced search and duplicate removal features.
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          Built environment growth companies: secrets of their success

          The pandemic was a catastrophe for many businesses, but some in the built environment avoided the worst: once government excluded construction sites from lockdown, confidence flowed back through the industry. For some, the last year has been the most productive ever.

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            However, even for these success stories, strains are emerging. While materials and supplies shortages may be a significant but temporary challenge, skills and labour scarcities are a more critical problem. And remote working is making absorbing and upskilling staff more difficult.


            Join this webinar to discover:


            • What lessons can we learn from the lockdown success stories? 

            • What fuelled their progress and can it be sustained?

            • How will the overcome temporary and permanent changes to our ways of working?


            Featuring


            • Pat Hayes, managing director, Be First

            • Dave Lawes, IT and estates director, Hydrock

            • Caroline Todd, head of people and culture, Civic Engineers

            • Toby Fox, managing director, 3Fox (chair)

            • Charles deVoil, Director, Cubic Interactive

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          The Future of AEC Cloud Solutions

          Jan 26, 2022 04:00 PM GMT

          As 2022 kicks off, AEC firms feel like they’re in a good position to grow. At the same time, they’re dealing with the challenges that come with today’s hybrid workforce, working with disparate systems and winning new business with a lack of resources.

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            Fortunately, cloud-based solutions can help firms work smarter, not harder. In fact, 74% of firms plan to implement new technology this year to help overcome key challenges. What solutions are making the biggest difference, and how do firms plan to leverage them?


            Join us for a panel discussion with Open Asset, Ryder Architecture and GHA to learn:

            • How AEC firms plan to overcome key challenges in 2022 and how you can apply these principles to your business
            • How digital is transforming the built world and actionable steps you can take today to help your firm digitise processes
            • The key technologies, like CRM, ERP, and DAM solutions, that can help your firm improve efficiency and the importance of integrating your tech stack
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          The Future of AEC Cloud Solutions

          Jan 26, 2022 04:00 PM GMT

          As 2022 kicks off, AEC firms feel like they’re in a good position to grow. At the same time, they’re dealing with the challenges that come with today’s hybrid workforce, working with disparate systems and winning new business with a lack of resources.

          • Read more

            Fortunately, cloud-based solutions can help firms work smarter, not harder. In fact, 74% of firms plan to implement new technology this year to help overcome key challenges. What solutions are making the biggest difference, and how do firms plan to leverage them?


            Join us for a panel discussion with Open Asset, Ryder Architecture and GHA to learn:

            • How AEC firms plan to overcome key challenges in 2022 and how you can apply these principles to your business
            • How digital is transforming the built world and actionable steps you can take today to help your firm digitise processes
            • The key technologies, like CRM, ERP, and DAM solutions, that can help your firm improve efficiency and the importance of integrating your tech stack
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          Built environment growth companies: secrets of their success

          Join this webinar to discover:

          • What lessons can we learn from the lockdown success stories? 

          • What fuelled their progress and can it be sustained?

          • How will the overcome temporary and permanent changes to our ways of working?

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          QA Webinar 

          A Cubic Interactive webinar  - Hosted by Liam Booth and Danielle Cahill discussing the QA module of Rapport3.

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          GDPR Webinar

          Review of the impact of GDPR on your business and Rapport3. Presented by Daniel Logiudice, Ian Mort and Matt Anslow of Citric Data Communications.

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          Change Management

          Organisational change post COVID-19, shifting leadership roles and barriers to change – but how can we manage this? Join us in partnership with Sim Thirunesan and Carla Dexheimer from Management for Design, as we discuss successful change management and its key role within organisational strategy.

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          Change Management

          Organisational change post COVID-19, shifting leadership roles and barriers to change – but how can we manage this? Join us in partnership with Sim Thirunesan and Carla Dexheimer from Management for Design, as we discuss successful change management and its key role within organisational strategy.

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          Inevidesk: Transforming How Your Team Works Post Pandemic

          We’re teaming up with our friends over at Inevitech to showcase a demo and live Q&A session for our clients in the AEC sector on how Inevidesk could improve flexibility in your practice and provide easily scalable solutions as your teams grow.

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            nevidesk is a virtual desktop platform for architects, engineers and other professionals working on complex, collaborative design files. In short, it’s a powerful workstation available wherever you go.


            Many of our clients also use Inevidesk to support their flexible working, removing the need for data syncing and replication between teams located worldwide.

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          Returning From Remote: The Post-Pandemic Workforce

          Flexible working, hybrid workspaces, and transitioning your team from isolation to your new post-COVID normal – but what does that look like? Join Sim Thirunesan and Carla Dexheimer from Management for Design , in partnership with Cubic Interactive as they discuss productivity, employee satisfaction, and the lingering effects of lockdown in a post-pandemic workforce.

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          Winning Work in a Digital Workflow

          Join Iain Godwin from Godwin Consulting for a 30 minute 'Panel' discussion with contributions from Matthew Nickerson from Flo10 and Charles de Voil from Rapport3. 

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            Intended for: Practice owners, directors, business improvement, practice managers, and marketing managers.


            The discussion will cover the following topics:


            1. What is Business Development and why is it important? 

            • What is your Business Development strategy and how do you create one?

            2. How can information management help deliver against the strategy? 

            • How do we measure value?
            • Increasing opportunities and breaking into new sectors. 
            • How do I keep on top of my pipeline of speculative work? 
            • Getting the right information to the right people at the right time.  

            3. Tips and Guidance from the panel: 

            • Common pitfalls to avoid. What guidance does the panel have to help clients find more time to 'deliver great projects' and avoid 'Losses'? 
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          Finance Fundamentals - Productivity Throughout Covid-19

          Guest Speaker, Carla Dexheimer, Finance Director at M4D , will talk through the financial pressures that Covid has caused businesses over the last year. An additional focus will be on Maximising performance/productivity across for businesses during this difficult time.

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            Using the 4 foundations:

            • Leadership
            • Skills and expertise
            • Project and resource management
            • Systems 

            We will also talk about how this ties into the fundamentals, for example, knowing your numbers/KPI’s.

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          QA - Preparing for ISO 9001

          Hosted by Danielle Cahill, with Special Guest Gavin Warran from QEC UK. The discussion will cover the following topics:

          1. What is ISO 9001
          2. Steps for Implementation
          3. External Audit
          4. Other standards
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          How Can I Simplify and Automate My 'Practice Finance Workflows'?

          Hosted by Charlotte Baldwin, Digital Account Manager at Wolters Kluwer (Twinfield) and Joanna Byatt, Implementation Consultant at Cubic Interactive (Rapport3)

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            Charlotte and Joanna will discuss the business challenges faced by customers like Stride Treglown, Chapman BDSP, Hyphen and MCORM, who have recently migrated to Rapport3 and Twinfield to manage both Practice and Project financial transactions.


            Charlotte will share how Twinfield have developed tools and experience to help customers migrate away from a variety of Accounting packages.


            Joanna will share feedback from clients on how Rapport3 & Twinfield have combined to improve their accounting and reporting capabilities.

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          Building a Project-Based Tech Stack for AEC

          This session examined how businesses have successfully navigated recent industry shifts, and how building an integrated tech stack can help prepare for the future after an unprecedented year. 

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            Our panel of industry experts included: OpenAsset Customer Success Director, Andres Morinigo and OpenAsset Customer Success Manager, Alex Bargus; Charles de Voil, Consultant from Cubic Interactive; Elinor Macdonald, Associate of Hawkins Brown Architects.


            The discussion covered the following topics:


            • The impact of remote work on firms’ software requirements
            • The benefits of using project-based systems for AEC tech stacks
            • Methods for improving data quality between systems
            • Workflow features of the OpenAsset Rapport3 Connector
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          Upgrading your Project Accounting System

           Hosted by David Stabler , Projects Director at Ryder Architecture and Mark Creamer, Consultant at Cubic Interactive. Conversations between David and Mark about the challenges of migrating away from a Project Accounting System that was difficult to use, inflexible, inefficient and outdated.

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            Webinar Agenda:

            • Why change and What are the benefits?
            • The Process - How long will it take? Requirements analysis/Review, Configuration & Testing, Data Migration, Training and Go Live
            • The Challenges
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          Weathering The COVID Storm

          Conversations between Danielle and Sean about the unexpected changes that have faced Business' since the start of the year. Sean will relate Stride's experience and how they have dealt with the sudden impact of COVID-19 on their staff. 

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            Discussing the importance of cultural change, working patterns, flexibility, communication and infrastructure across the practice.


            Webinar Agenda:

            • Introduction to Sean Peacock, Head of HR of Stride Treglown
            • Set-up prior to COVID-19
            • Adapting to the situation
            • What lies ahead?
            • How Rapport3 can assist?
            • Q&A Session
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          How Gekko's Project Email Collaboration helps your home workers

          Gekko our sophisticated project email management system, is helping our clients in a time where working remotely is so vital:

          • It has an outlook plug in, so it integrates with your current processes.
          • An advance search filtering feature that lets you pinpoint an exact email, fast!
          • Automatic duplicate removal to save storage space and time.
          • Forced filing for individual project emails so nothing is ever missing.
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          Getting the best from Rapport3

          Gekko our sophisticated project email management system, is helping our clients in a time where working remotely is so vital:

          • It has an outlook plug in, so it integrates with your current processes.
          • An advance search filtering feature that lets you pinpoint an exact email, fast!
          • Automatic duplicate removal to save storage space and time.
          • Forced filing for individual project emails so nothing is ever missing.
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          How to Keep Business Development & Marketing Activities Going

          We were joined by Chris Lunn, MD of Digity, who ran through his top tips for how to keep critical activities going to boost your business development opportunities. He shared insights from their recent experience working with a host of clients in these challenging times, how to embrace A.I.D.A. and what's working for their clients right now. 

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          Effective Cash Flow Management

          Run time: 20 mins

          In light of the current financial challenges that construction and professional service organisations are facing due to COVID-19 we partnered with Management For Design to host a webinar focused purely on Cash-flow Management during this pivotal time. 

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          Rapport3: Accounts Module. Twinfield Overview

          Run time: 20 mins

          Rapport3 is a practice management solution which directly integrates with Twinfield which is an Accounts solution developed by Wolters Kluwer. In this webinar we look at how the two systems works directly together, followed by a short presentation on Twinfield by Wolters Kluwer.

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          Time for a Change

          Run time: 15 mins

          ERP implementation tips: when to make a change and how to go about it with Danielle Cahill.

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          Company: Farrells

          Sector: Architecture and Interior Design

          Location: London

          Website: www.farrells.com

          Farrells London adopted Rapport3 in 2017, introducing our main Project Costing module and our HR module. Their previous processes had been slightly disjointed, with information in numerous different places.
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          Company: Ryder Architecture

          Sector: Architecture, Placemaking and Interior Design

          Location: Worldwide

          Website: www.ryderarchitecture.com

          Rapport3’s CRM module was chosen to bring greater coherence to Ryder’s management of client information and to assist in developing and maintaining relationships through business development.
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          Company: David Kelly Partnership

          Sector: Structural and Civil Engineering

          Location: Ireland

          Website: www.dkp.ie

          David Kelly Partnership took on our Rapport3 software in 2016, to address issues with timesheets, as well as fee proposals and project accounting. 
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          Company: McCarthy Keville O'Sullivan Ltd (MKO)

          Sector: Planning and Environment Consultancy

          Location: Galway, Ireland

          Website: www.mkoireland.ie

          MKO had a need for features such as budget planning, expenses, timesheets and resource planning, which Rapport 3 was able to provide. Our solution quickly became instrumental in their ongoing project processes.
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          Company: Glenn Howells Architects

          Sector: Architecture

          Location: London & Birmingham

          Website: www.glennhowells.co.uk

          As Glenn Howells Architects have seen first-hand, Rapport3 was created for and continues to be informed by the needs and demands of the AEC industry, and we focused on ensuring that they got the functionality they needed (and even more than that) from the software. 
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