Kova Solutions Delivers Complete Production And Financial Operational Solution To Oakwood Homes

May 19, 2010 - PRLog -- Oakwood Homes is Colorado’s largest privately held hometown builder dedicated to providing the best new home value in the marketplace.

“We selected Kova because they truly understand the residential and commercial construction industry and have created a package that provides us with a complete production and financial management package that provides us with a competitive advantage over our competition,” said Ray Appel, Senior IT Manager of Oakwood Homes.
In order to meet those goals, Oakwood has contracted with Kova Solutions to develop a unique, interactive web-based experience for prospective homeowners that guides them through product and community options including plotting their home, selecting their home site, choosing their home’s color scheme, picking their elevation and determining which options they would like from the convenience of their home computer.  When they are done with their choices, their options may be saved and a brochure can be printed directly from their computer to take to the sales office where a sales representative has already been assigned.

“Before implementing Microsoft Dynamics SL and Kova Solutions, we relied on several different software solutions that were unable to communicate with each other, leading to several processes that were duplicated. Cardamel Consulting, Microsoft Dynamics SL and Kova Solutions gave us an integrated accounting solution that allowed us to minimize our input time,” said Henrietta Cordero, Assistant Controller of Oakwood Homes.

With Kova, the sales order seamlessly transfers into Production, Bills of Material, activities, scheduling, purchase orders and change orders are processed.  Activities can be viewed on an as needed basis by the field and vendors through web-based portals.  The accounting integration, designed by Kova and Cardamel Consulting, a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner specializing in construction, identifies all touch points and provides two-way communication between the office and the field eliminating redundant data entry and providing superior reporting and multi-company functionality.  

Upon completion, a Customer Service Module will allow the homebuilder to manage service requests from homeowners, service orders for getting service work done, scheduling of service calls and costing and payment of service orders.  These documents will be kept as a service history providing a complete cradle to grave software solution for Oakwood Homes.

For more information on Kova Solutions, go to www.kovasolutions.com or visit us at the 2010 International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas January 19-22, 2010, Booth #C352.

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Kova Solutions provides software solutions for residential homebuilders. They are committed to developing high quality IT solutions utilizing the latest industry standard server and web technologies and development methods. Kova Solutions is utilizing a unique application framework and code generation engine, which allows rapid and reliable development of robust applications and is built on Microsoft technologies.