Cosential

It is designed by our industry, for our industry. That’s huge because we don’t fit into the product/sales mold. Cosential understands where we come from, and helps us capture knowledge and a business process that’s going to create a sustainable firm for us. It helps us meet our business development and strategic company goals of being more of a business-centered practice instead of a practice-centered business going forward.

I think one of the big benefits that we’ve seen from Cosential is our ability to search our national database of personnel experience when we do large, national searches. Before, the local marketing offices would literally have to go through everyone’s resume individually and tabulate the projects they’ve done, and now we can simply run a report in Cosential and find out what project managers we have nationally, and give that to the project team in a matter of minutes.

At DPR Construction we have about 1,400 employees, and we are a general construction firm. Cosential is a one of a kind product in its industry – the only software that met our requirements. As our company grows and our needs grow, Cosential will have the ability to grow with us.

My favorite part of Cosential is the opportunity database, the way it stores data, especially with value lists. It has changed the way we pursue work. I work directly with all of the marketing coordinators, and we’re constantly looking at our hit rates, and the fact that we have all this information directly at our fingertips so quickly, so easily, so accurately—it’s very important to us. There’s so much data you have, and you need to find a place to put it. C

Cosential has streamlined our proposal process, made it much more efficient. I love the publisher module, we can produce profiles, project lists and resumes quickly and know that the information is accurate and consistent.

One of the best things about Cosential has been the top-notch customer service. We are always able to get help from a real person and from someone that is extremely knowledgeable. Any issues we’ve raised have been dealt with immediately or in a timely fashion with good feedback in the interim on the status of the solution. Awesome customer service!

Cosential is a huge time-saver when all I have to do is make one change to a project on my dashboard and it populates all the associated records within Cosential. It keeps me focused on my pipeline instead of data management.

Recently, our CEO was able to experience the benefits of using Cosential directly. He received a call about an opportunity before any formal RFP process was initiated and was able to triangulate our relationships across people and companies quickly. Within five minutes, he had enough confidence with our information to start placing meaningful and productive phone calls.

Using Viewpoint and Cosential together has allowed us to streamline our submittal process and ensure consistency. We’re thrilled to be a part of the ongoing collaboration and development discussions to enhance the existing integration.

My favorite part of Cosential is the dashboard widgets and reporting. Cosential allows us to ensure all our departments can share and compare data points easily and make it easy for our executives to evaluate our business development and marketing efforts.