Dont give your competitors an advantage.
Todd 01-31-2014
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The worst thing that a Concrete Pumping company who does not run Pump Magic can do is compete with another Concrete Pumping company that is running Pump Magic. The only other thing a Concrete Pumping company can do that is worse is write your own software and here is why.

If you spent a $500.000 you could not write a comparable program. If you undertook such a project and started today, it would take you about 5 years to come close to what we offer right now in Pump Magic 3.0. By then Pump Magic would be 5 years ahead of your program. I promise you this, Pump Magic will always be the best, most efficient way to run your Concrete Pumping business. Even if you spent 5 million dollars I do not believe anyone could duplicate what we have done and here is why.

68% of all Software projects fail outright, and of those that succeed 50% are runaway projects spending 160% over budget. That means if the budget was $200,000, 68% of you would fail and those that succeeded would spend $520,000 on a $200,000 project and that is nothing compared to upgrades, updates, computer operating system updates and bug fixes. The few that succeed normally get under 70% of what they asked for.

Now get this, companies that have a dedicated IT development team or management (not a concrete pumping company which normally does not have an IT development team) will eat up 41% of the budget due to poor communication and the IT team not fully understanding the how, why and what you ultimately desire your program to accomplish.

 

Here is why so many IT companies fail to develop a successful and useful software program. The vast majority of projects surveyed did not utilize sufficient business analysis skill to consistently bring projects in on time and budget. The level of competency required is higher than that employed within projects for 70% of the companies surveyed. We are not talking about Concrete Pumping Companies here, we are talking about huge Companies with dedicated IT departments.

Building your own software program to manage your concrete pumping company is one of the most impractical things a concrete pumping company can do. You need to consider that you will pay 3 times what you thought, your chance of success is only about 30% and likely far less if you are in the Concrete Pumping industry. Unfortunately, during the time you will spend developing your own program you will be competing with companies running Pump Magic. Companies that are able to make savvy business decisions based on our comprehensive business software.

You have just given your competitors a great advantage over you.

I know 4 companies that have tried to write their own software, they all now run Pump Magic.

Remember the only person who says they can develop a software program for the agreed price and time is the salesman.

 

Sources:

 

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/study-68-percent-of-it-projects-fail/1175

 

http://www.cio.com/article/744168/Why_Are_So_Many_IT_Projects_Failing_

 

http://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/why-tech-projects-fail-5-unspoken-reasons/d/d-id/1109399




Todd 01-31-2014
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What Makes Pump Magic the best and only real option for Concrete Pumping Companies?

Our first Pump Magic Sale was in April of 1996 to CF&T Concrete Pumping. It took us almost two years to come out with our first version of Pump Magic. Now with almost 20 years of development we have the best, most advanced Concrete Pumping Software in the world.

Why would other companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars writing their own software and end up buying Pump Magic? It is because it takes much more then money and knowledge of the Concrete Pumping industry to write a software program, it takes time and the ability to work with a developer who is dedicated to the industry. That is what we have at Pump Magic and no money or time will be able to compete with us because our Programmer is dedicated to the Concrete Pumping Industry. All Pump Magic users can talk to our programmer, give their input and help with development. Pump Magic has many market advantages.

For a free demo Please give us a call 817 394-4745 ask for Todd.


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