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Communications & Utilities
ComNet Communications
ComNet Communications is one of the nation’s leading providers of turnkey voice, data and video infrastructure support, from outside plant to inside structured cable installation. They are using Xora to keep track of hours logged by technicians and monitor overtime.
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Network Cabling, Inc.
Network Cabling, Inc. is a California based tel/data cabling contractor with over 22 years experience. Along with increasing business relationships, Xora has also provided valuable reports to process payroll, track employee production and critical job data over 60% more efficiently then other services used in the past.
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On Target Utility Services
On Target Utility Services saves money, gets expanded functionality and support and simplified billing. The company projects it will save $40,000 or 25% over its previous solution. Future expected cost savings include reduced fuel
and maintenance costs.
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Construction
Accent Building Restoration
National construction firm thrives in tough times.
When the recession hit, Accent Building Restoration knew it needed to both increase productivity and cut costs to survive. With more than 80% of its employees working offsite at job sites, accurate time reporting became more important than ever.
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Custom Door Manufacturing and Installation
One of the Southwest’s premiere custom door manufacturers is using Xora to increase visibility of its installation team and enforce accountability for its drivers and installers.
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D&R Framing Contactors
D&R Framing Contractors performs framing services for residential and commercial customers. With Xora, D&R can collect real-time information from the field and ensure accurate billing for their customers.
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Kavin Construction
Kavin Construction operates in the greater Los Angeles area, specializing in large residential remodeling and custom home projects. Since deploying Xora, the increased accountability of project managers has led to an improvement in overall project efficiency, and mileage reimbursements have dropped by approximately 30%.
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Lloyd’s Construction
Lloyd’s Construction Services has provided demolition, excavation and waste management services to the construction industry for over 20 years. They are saving $109k per year by automating in-vehicle paperwork.
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NE Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation
The NE Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation saved approximately one hour per worker per day in travel time and increased their payroll accuracy by integrating Xora with ADP ezLaborManager®.
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Pete Miller
“We looked at many different automated systems that were advertised in the construction journals and the trade fairs and Xora was the only one that was flexible and robust enough to allow us to collect the data that we wanted.” -Owen Mueller, CFO
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Peterson Sheet Metal
Since 1997, Peterson Sheet Metal has been fabricating, delivering and installing architectural sheet metal to commercial customers in San Ramon, California. Xora helped Peterson increase accountability amongst its installation staff, improve its job costing processes, and ensure that time records are accurate.
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Phipps Enterprises
Xora helps Phipps Enterprises, a general contractor in Salt Lake City, Utah, keep their construction projects on time and under budget.
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Pro Design
Pro Design Inc. is a supplier, fabricator and installation contractor for the natural stone and tile industries. The company is saving $200K per year by shaving 10% from its field force payroll and saving on worker’s compensation and liability insurance.
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R&J Construction
New home builder stays “above water” during the recession.
A steep drop in housing starts and customers spending less on luxury home construction forced R&J Construction to layoff experienced and valued workers. To avoid future layoffs, the company knew it had work harder and even more important, work more efficiently.
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Rose Drywall
Rose Drywall is an installation and repair company serving residential and commercial customers throughout Marin County and San Francisco, CA. With the help of Xora, job costing for time-and-materials and contract work have never been more accurate.
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Staybright Electric
Staybright Electric needed to eliminate the manual entry of employee time sheet data into QuickBooks, which was a time-consuming, error-prone process that made it difficult for Staybright to accurately calculate payroll and job costs. Since deploying Xora, they have saved up to $1,000 per month on payroll alone and have improved operational efficiency by saving their administrative staff 10 hours each pay period.
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Westwind Contracting
Westwind Contracting has been a reliable and innovative contractor in Florida since 1986. They are using Xora with ADP’s ezLaborManager® to manage payroll and time and labor processing.
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Field Services
Accurate Heating
Accurate Heating, Inc. (AHI), is a bustling, full-service commercial and industrial HVAC contractor in Wilsonville, Oregon. AHI is saving 25% a month in fuel costs and increasing revenue by $58k a year.
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Ambient Edge
Ambient Edge operates the largest fleet of HVAC technicians in Arizona and Nevada. They wanted to improve productivity and operational efficiency by automating job dispatch, capturing time sheet information, and tracking field worker activities. Since deploying Xora, they have re-gained 8 billable hours per day.
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CI Thornburg
The C.I. Thornburg Co, Inc. is a family owned and operated water and wastewater solutions company based in Huntington, West Virginia. With Xora, C.I. Thornburg is operating more efficiently in the office and in the field. By automating time sheet capture, payroll is not only more accurate, but is a quicker process overall. The process, which once took an entire day to complete, has been reduced to an hour or two per pay period.
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Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
Handling cemeteries is a serious business. That’s why Cypress Lawn Memorial looked to Xora and ADP to help maximize the time spent servicing customers, and to trim time spent on overhead-related tasks such as manually filling out time sheets and payroll.
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Del-Air Heating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
Del Air offers heating, air-conditioning and plumbing services to thousands of customers in Central Florida. With over 600 field-based workers filling out time sheets everyday, Xora has helped Del-Air move to mobile timecards and save significant amounts of time and money.
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Geese Police
New Jersey Nuisance-Goose Control Company saves about $17,000 a year by eliminating handwritten timecards alone.
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Greenways of America
Greenways of America provides commercial and residential customers in Florida and Georgia with design, installation and maintenance services for landscaping and irrigation projects. With Xora and ADP, Greenways is saving 10 billable service hours per week and has reduced payroll processing time.
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Marriott Textile Services
Xora has helped Marriott maintain an efficient workflow, allowing for better allocation of office resources that resulted in decreasing downtime by 80 hours per week or more than 4,000 hours each year.
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Morrison
Better insight into the locations of their drivers had helped Morrison to adjust more quickly to schedule changes, improve customer service, and manage its field operations more efficiently.
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Real Estate Investment Firm
A private U.S. real estate investment company specializes in purchasing distressed or opportunistic investment properties. They are using Xora to speed the estimation process in order to reduce time to bid.
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Roto-Rooter
Roto-Rooter is the nation’s largest plumbing company, employing more than 1,800 field service technicians.They are saving a whopping $640K per year by eliminating manual forms.
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RQA, Inc.
RQA, Inc. provides world class services to the food, beverage, personal care and consumer product industries. With Xora, RQA has seen a decrease in payout for time-on-the-job and in mileage reimbursements.
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Southern Protection
Southern Protection is a family owned and operated security company in Georgia. By automating time sheet capture and job data collection, they have improved the accuracy of their payroll and now have the ability to verify that officers are completing their hourly rounds on schedule.
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Health Care
Alexander’s Abilities
By integrating Xora GPS TimeTrack and ADP ezLaborManager®, Alexander’s Abilities is saving more than $3,500 in overtime costs, nearly 100 hours of office work, and 1,300 hours of driver time per year.
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Mental Health Care Agency
A mental health agency in the southern U.S. provides counseling, education and
assistance to persons who are struggling with mental illness or substance abuse. They are using Xora to enhance communication between case workers and office staff, increase the safety for case workers, and improve the accuracy of reimbursement records.
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Oakwood Home Care Services
Oakwood Home Care delivers high quality healthcare to hundreds of residents throughout southeast Michigan. With GPS TimeTrack they were able to achieve more efficient field operations and improved customer service by being able to respond more quickly to patient needs.
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PRN Medical Services
PRN Medical is a home respiratory and DME equipment supplier to homes throughout Arizona. With Xora, PRN has reduced fleet fuel costs, increased driver safety and greatly improved equipment and inventory tracking.
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SuperCare
SuperCare is a comprehensive health care organization providing sleep diagnostics, respiratory equipment, durable medical goods, and a complete line of medical supplies. Xora has helped them trim overtime expenses by 15%.
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Public Sector
Arizona Department of Weights & Measures
The ability to document how funds are spent is critical to securing future budget for the ADWM. With Xora, the ADWM can easily and accurately allocate costs to the correct fund as each inspection is completed.
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Baltimore Police Depsrtment
Xora helps nation’s 8th largest municipal police force stay productive even when they’re out of their vehicles.
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Cardinal McCloskey Services
Cardinal McCloskey needed a tool to strengthen communication with field staff while reducing the amount of paperwork each employee had to fill out. With Xora they’ve done that, and they improved compliance with program mandates.
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City of Chicago
The City of Chicago’s Department of Building division is responsible for building code compliance. With Xora’s JobPix feature, the city is able to improve the efficiency of its inspectors and easily capture code-related images.
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City of Chicago Dept. of Transportation
The City of Chicago has several dozens CDOT offices and field staff responding to the city’s 311 non-emergency services center. CDOT did not have a way of locating field staff and had difficulty responding quickly to 311 calls. Since implementing Xora, CDOT has significantly improved customer service by reducing response time from 20 days to 3 days.
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City of Jacksonville
The sharp rise of newly constructed homes in Jacksonville has left the budget constrained, and the Building Inspection Division searching for ways to increase productivity. Xora has helped the division perform an additional 22,500 inspections each year.
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Goodwill Industries
Goodwill Industries International is one of the world’s largest nonprofit providers of education, training, and career services for people with disadvantages. With Xora, Goodwill improved payroll accuracy and increased employee accountability.
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Jones Fuel
Based in Columbus, Ohio, Jones Fuel Company specializes in selling and hauling sand, gravel, topsoil, and asphalt for residential and commercial customers in central Ohio. The company is saving $135K annually by improving communication with field staff.
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Large U.S. Airport
Since this large U.S. airport implemented Xora to improve the productivity and accountability of its maintenance staff, the city government is confident that tax dollars are being well spent.
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North Little Rock School District
To fulfill its mission of becoming a world class school district, North Little Rock has taken measures to ensure the safety and well-being of its students with Xora.
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Total Transit
“We improved customer service by resolving customer complaints quickly, Xora made us look good.” -Jim Stenger, Director of Administrative Services”
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Transportation & Distribution
Air Liquide
Air Liquide, of Etiwanda, Calif., distributes compressed air canisters throughout the Los Angeles area and has witnessed first hand the impact of fuel price increases on their fleet vehicles. Their weekly fuels costs have doubled and they needed to control fuel consumption.
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Auto Parts Distributor
A leading factory-authorized distributor of auto parts and supplies is using Xora to increase the accountability of its mobile sales team and improve communication with drivers.
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Beverage Distribution Company
One of the largest beer distributors in the country, representing Miller, Molson-Coors, Crown Imports, Heineken and many more. This company relies on Xora to maximize merchandiser productivity and to automate payroll by integrating Xora with ADP.
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Butler Johnson Corporation
Butler Johnson distributes flooring and surfacing products to more than 5,000 retail stores, fabricators and installers in Northern California. With Xora, Butler Johnson is saving $140,000 annually on payroll, insurance costs and overtime.
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Graybar
Graybar is a leader in the distribution of high quality electrical, telecommunications and networking products. With Xora, Graybar has significantly cut overtime, saved on administrative costs and reduced data errors. More importantly, their customers are more satisfied with the service they provide.
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Keeney Truck Lines
Keeney Truck Lines is a contract and common truckload carrier of dry van freight, refrigerated and frozen freight, and commodities in dry bulk. Since deploying Xora Keeney has significantly increased driver accountability, improved customer service and enhanced driver safety.
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Major Furniture Distributor
Xora works closely a nationally-known furniture manufacturer. The company designs, manufactures and markets a line of adjustable-firmness mattresses, and its products are sold nationwide. Xora helped the company get its delivery schedules back on track.
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Major U.S. Bottler
Xora works closely with one of the nation’s largest bottlers. The multi-billion dollar organization distributes a variety of beverages, merchandising and delivering product to retail stores from more than 100 plants. The merchandiser expects $1 million in annual savings by reducing driver hours.
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NES Rentals
Chicago-based equipment rental company keeps better track of inventory in 80 locations across 30 states, and is more responsive to customers.
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Ohio Eastern Express
Ohio Eastern Express provides refrigerated delivery of meats to the Midwest, Southeast and the East Coast. Since deploying Xora, OEX has improved fleet visibility, increased driver accountability and greatly reduced customer billing disputes.
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Pearlstine Distributors, Inc.
As an Anheuser-Busch® wholesaler, Pearlstine serves more than 2,000 retail customers in South Carolina. With Xora, Pearlstine has improved productivity, increased payroll accuracy and significantly reduced mileage reimbursement costs.
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Stock Building Supply
A $4 billion distributor of building materials, Stock Building Supply transports construction supplies to residential home builders. With Xora, Stock Building Supply was able to increase revenues by more than $16 million dollars annually.
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Wayne Dalton
Wayne Dalton manufactures, distributes and installs garage doors for customers across the country. Since implementing Xora, the company estimates that 90% of calls between drivers and dispatchers have been eliminated and communication between fleet and office has improved dramatically.
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InVehicle Case Studies
On Target Utility Services
On Target Utility Services saves money, gets expanded functionality and support and simplified billing. The company projects it will save $40,000 or 25% over its previous solution. Future expected cost savings include reduced fuel
and maintenance costs.
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