Production and Accounting Software for Home Builders

The audio podcast for the Coping with Financial Distress online panel discussion has been posted.

In case you missed it previously, this session included a candid discussion about how home builders can work with bankers, lawyers, and restructuring specialists to ensure they make informed business and personal decisions.

Please feel free to post comments and questions after you view the event and we’ll get the panelists to respond.

You can listen the audio-only recording or view the complete session at the following link.

http://www.constellationhb.com/landing/chsbmitcoping.php

If you have any questions about home building software, please don’t hesitate to contact Constellation Home Builder Systems.

On Tuesday, October 7, 2008, Constellation CRM is pleased to invite you and your staff to our one-day Regional User Conference at the Hilton Suites in Anaheim, CA.

The agenda is the following:

Click here to register or obtain additional information.

Thanks to everyone that attended our session on Coping with Financial Distress.  If you were unable to attend, you can view the recording at the link below.

Online Archive – Coping with Financial Distress

As a key partner with many home builders, Constellation is please to provide over 1,400 builders with one or more homebuilding software solutions.

We appreciate the assistance of the NAHB Builder Management and Information Technology Committee and the contributions of each panelist.

Financial Services – Moderator – Ron Robichaud
Robichaud Financial Services
LACONIA, NH
(603)293-2332
ron@robichaudfinancial.com

Banker – Panelist – Tom Flowers
Leawood, KS
(816) 522-1034
tflowers392@yahoo.com

Restructuring – Panelist – Troy Taylor
Algon Group
Atlanta, GA
(404) 423-8086
troy@algongroup.com

Builder – Panelist – Randy Noel
Reve Inc.
LaPlace, LA
(985) 652-4663
REVEDEV@aol.com

Lawyer – Panelist – Harley Riedel
Stichter, Riedel, Blain & Prosser, P.A.
Tampa, Florida
(813) 229-0144
hriedel@srbp.com

Mark Jarasek from Professional Builder interviews Craig Schweikart on the floor at PCBC. 

Click here to watch the video

Craig gives a great overview of Constellation’s products and provides some advice to help builders get a handle on their information mangement systems.  With a strong focus on cost management and cash flow, builders need to ensure that their home building software production and accounting systems are providing the information they need to run their businesses.

When: August 21, 2008 @ 1PM Eastern

Where: Online via WebEx (Register Now)

Home builders, vendors and trade contractors are experiencing a severe market downturn. Bankruptcy is the only option for some, while others have closed their doors. As the economy struggles, the companies that survive must take a proactive stance to address the problems they are certain to encounter in a cash crisis, with impaired assets and a credit crunch. The first step is to seek education about their options. To help, Constellation HomeBuilder Systems is offering a program to begin that education process with a 90 minute online conference hosted by a panel of experts including a veteran builder, an experienced bankruptcy attorney, a restructuring specialist and a banker.

This event is supported by NAHB’s Business Management & Information Technology Committee

Learn how to:
- cope and survive
- communicate and work with bankers
- deal with bankruptcy
- survive financial restructuring
- protect your assets

In this 90 minute session, panelists will provide prescriptive recommendations to minimize confusion and cope with the current state of our industry. A question and answer session will follow.

While attending a session entitled Creating and Maintaining Company Value presented by Ron Robichaud at the 2008 Pacific Coast Builder Conference in San Francisco he says Information management systems are the second most important components in operational excellence.

“The second most important tool to achieve and maintain operations excellence is information. Now there are a number of providers who are actually successfully electronically integrating the full complement of sales and marketing, operations, production, service and financial functions into a seamless flow of live information readily accessible and useable to all parties as well as customer friendly.  Every builder is painfully aware of the costs generated by inaccurate plans, incomplete budgets, poor schedules, information slipping between the cracks, poor communication within the organization as well as with vendors, trades, and homebuyers.  All of the above is a function of information management.  The role of effective information processing, distribution and flow in creating and maintaining a well run company cannot be over-emphasized.  A consistently superior financial performance is not usually the result of some single secret formula or weapon, but rather the result of doing many things right, and the single most important way to do that is by managing information.”

Ron Robichaud
2008 PCBC
San Francisco

Constellation HomeBuilder Systems has added San Francisco to its list of regional user conferences for NEWSTAR customers.  For additional information and the conference agenda, please refer to the 2008 NEWSTAR Regional User Conference page.

Here are the basic details.

Date:
June 24, 2008 8AM – 5PM
Location:
Embassy Suites
San Francisco Airport Burlingame
Fee:
$350 USD
Additional Information
Cathy Kotsopoulos
Phone:(888) 723-2222 x6140

Thanks to the tremendous response we received for our October Annual User Conference in Las Vegas– Constellation HomeBuilder Systems is pleased to invite you to our one-day Regional User Conference on January 22, 2008 in Toronto, Canada.

When: Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Registration: 8:00 – 9:00 am
Session Start Time: 9:00 – 5:00 pm
Reception: 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Where: Hilton Suites Toronto / Markham
Fee: $350.00

*Early Bird Special (special offer valid until January 16, 2008)
Register before on or before January 16, 2008 to be eligible for our Early Bird rate. Prices go up January 17, 2008 to $399.00 per registration.

Agenda:
- Welcome Greeting
- NEWSTAR Update
- New Product Development Roadmap
- Enhancements / Reporting / FOCUS
- Production Scheduling – OnLocation Schedule and BuildPro
- Overview – NEWSTAR Sales
- Overview – NEWSTAR LandDev
- The Power of SQL
- Database and Hardware Optimization

In spite of the current US economic challenges, Constellation has been able to win new sales and build our customer base to serve more customers than anyone else in the homebuilding software industry. By hiring the best people, investing in new technologies and delivering word-class support, we have been able to release exciting new products and achieve improved levels of customer satisfaction.

This is an ideal opportunity to hear stories about how homebuilders are working to meet the challenges of rising labor and materials costs, and how they use our software to help increase sales and grow their businesses. We will have experts available to answer questions about Constellation’s suite of products.  As well, attendees can learn from other builders and how they have utilized NEWSTAR to become more efficient.

On January 22, 2008, you are invited to attend a range of sessions covering new product development, future product direction, and best practices and optimization. We are presenting dynamic in-depth sessions on new product initiatives, production, scheduling, land development, sales and marketing and accounting solutions – all designed help you achieve success today and in the future.

Our User Conferences are an important part of our continuing commitment to be a responsive and valued partner to builders across North America. To benefit from our interactive user conference, now is the time to act.

For more information and to register, click on the link below, or contact Cathy Kotsopoulos at (888) 723-2222 ext. 6140.

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