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Welcome to RedSky IT

RedSky IT has over 30 years experience supplying the construction industry supply chain with over 2000 customers throughout the UK. Their industry focused applications include: Financial Control, Estimating, Project Accounting, Small Works/Maintenance, Knowledge/Content/Document Management, Facilities Management, Time & Fee billing and E-Procurement, including a comprehensive range of Managed Services.

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Accounting, Finance & Payroll Software, Content Management, CRM, Document Management, ERP Software, Estimating Software, Knowledge Management, Project Accounting, Project Planning

 

Who are RedSky IT

 

RedSky IT are a software solution provider to the construction industry, supplying both construction companies and the professionals that service the industry, architects, engineers and consultants with customers located in the UK, Ireland, Middle East, Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Australia.

We have the largest installed base of accounting systems in construction companies in the UK, with 1300+ installations, with 32% of the top 100 contractors using our contract costing software, 14 of the top 50 consultants using our project accounting suite and Over 120 house builders and developers. It is calculated that one in every hundred people employed in the UK is paid by a RedSky IT payroll system.

We have several offices in the UK and Dubai and all of our software is developed supported and owned by us, enabling us to respond directly to our customers needs.

RedSky IT and its predecessor companies have been providing solutions to the industry for almost 30 years and have over 100 staff, providing support and development services to our large customer base.

We became part of the Explorer Software Group of companies in January 2007, Explorer is a global software business that is exclusively in Construction with a customer base of 4,000 construction businesses in 4 continents, employing 200 staff. Explorer's core business philosophy is a long term commitment to customer service, coupled with providing the best possible solutions to customers.

At RedSky IT, we are committed to long term relationships with our customers, we want all of our customers to be customers for life. We endeavour to provide an excellence of service combined with a promise to support all of our products for as long as our customers want us to. We will not end of life a product to force customers to upgrade to a new product. Our aim is to make every customer a reference site.

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Case Study - Baxall Construction Ltd

Baxall Construction use Summit 5000 to achieve total integration from Estimate to final account

Baxall construction has been a long term user of RedSky IT's software starting with a text based solution called Micabuild.They migrated to AXiM a fully integrated windows system and have now moved up to RedSky's ERP solution Summit 5000. As a forward looking company they chose to migrate to the enterprise level fully integrated Summit 5000 product as they could see the clear business benefits of have complete end to end control of the operational as well as financial management of their projects.
They use the system to manage the complete lifecycle of a contract starting with estimating, where Summit imports the unpriced bill supplied by the client directly into the system. They then tag this up by trade and sent out the subcontractor packages to be priced. This pricing goes back into the system along with resource build ups for items they are directly pricing. They then add their overhead and profit adjustments to the bill and submit the priced bill to the client.
When they win the job, they then manage the valuation and variations process through Summit. They produce the client valuations and also the subcontractor valuations, which then automatically update the accounts system, creating the subcontractors payment certificate and handling all the CIS requirements. Because both the client valuation and subcontractor valuation detail is in the system, Summit then provides for them the subcontractor liability figures for each subcontract on the project, so at all stages of the project they can see the true profitability.
Baxall use the purchasing functions of Summit to control all their purchasing and matching of invoices. All of the committed, actual costs and sales details feed through into the Contract ledger giving them a clear view of the position at any time.
Summit job costed payroll pays the employees as well as feeding accurate costing to the projects.
The general ledger is updated in real time by all the subsidiary ledgers ensuring accurate consolidated financial reporting.
As a single fully integrated system running on an Oracle database (SQL option available as well), information only needs to be keyed in once and is then available throughout the system.
The integration with excel has enabled existing excel based management reports to be configured to take live data from the system rather than being manually entered from offline records held by the surveyors.


Jonathan Exall, Baxall's finance director commented about the system that
"The detailed feedback of information will enable us to control our costs more closely and improve accuracy of tendering and ultimately increase our profitability."