Streamline processes for design and bid specs for campus-wide projects.
Whether you are in facilities management at a higher-ed institution or an integrator aiming to serve that market, D-Tools software can enhance your ability to design and install solutions for high-tech facilities.
Explore How D-Tools Meets the Needs of the Higher-Ed Market
CRM to Track Higher-Ed Clients
Integrators can track higher-ed client interactions and key details to better understand customer needs for their on-campus facilities, and use customer data to personalize their services and proposals using the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functions in D-Tools. Ensure proposals receive appropriate follow-up, quickly respond to questions, and promptly address requests to nurture relationships and convert leads into customers.
Time-Saving Proposals / Bid Specs for Campus Projects
Integrators can turbocharge their higher-ed proposals using templates with stunning multimedia to target campus projects such as dorms, lecture halls, administrative facilities, sports venues and more. Both integrators and educational institutions can use D-Tools’ integrated product library with product information to save hours of research time and data entry.
Online Collaboration
Facilitate online collaboration across your sales and service teams when working on single-campus or multi-campus projects. Allow your teams to quickly access customer data, prepare proposals, and follow up with leads to win more bids. Provide consistent communication and leverage staff talents across all of your teams, then receive proposal notifications to keep the whole team updated.
Organized Documents
Keep your documents organized and easily accessible for array of campus projects including academic buildings/lecture halls, administrative buildings, research centers, cafeterias and dining halls, dormitories and more. View the latest updated versions of proposals, contracts, designs, and change orders in one place to help avoid miscommunication and errors.
Professional Design Tools
Use provided industry-specific shapes and in-app markup to save time creating professional, accurate drawings for student centers, parking structures, on-campus sports complexes, dorms and more. These tools support precise system design and visual quoting, helping you create clean and visually appealing materials you can proudly share with stakeholders.
Accurate Documentation for Campus Projects
Access up-to-date, dealer-specific product information through the D-Tools Integrated Product Library. This product information allows for highly accurate documentation and budgeting for campus projects.
End-to-End Business Management
Integrators serving higher-ed institutions can utilize a single dedicated system to manage their products, tools, and platforms. D-Tools acts as an end-to-end business management system, fully integrating your tools and platforms and giving you a unified view of your business operations. This management system makes it easier for higher-ed integrators to track installation progress, change orders, maintenance, and other services, maximizing your efficiency so you can better meet deadlines.
Streamlined Scheduling and Workflows
Integrators can smoothly coordinate installations and service calls in a single management system to avoid scheduling conflicts and inefficient resource use, which is especially important for large campus projects where multiple technicians are on site and for multi-campus projects. Maintain your scheduling through a single platform and streamline intricate workflows, such as installation and post-installation maintenance.
Mobile Access from Campus
Technicians on site at higher-ed campuses can access information on the go via D-Tools. They can add site notes and photos, track completed work, collect signatures, and view or update project details remotely. This mobile access keeps your entire team up-to-date and makes for more seamless operations.
Improved Service Process
Detailed customer data tracking allows you to better identify customer needs to sell service contracts, charge for design services, quote accurate and appropriate prices, and cultivate recurring revenue streams for campus-wide edifices with your technology solutions.
Enhanced Communication with Higher-Ed Clients
Integrators can connect their entire team for enhanced communication with higher-ed clients. From quickly responding to requests to identifying and addressing client needs, this enhanced, team-generated communication can boost customer satisfaction and help you sell AV service add-ons.
Manufacturer Warranty Tracking
Use SI’s custom date fields to easily track manufacturer warranty timetables on every product installed in a campus project. Save time on recordkeeping and enjoy more accurate, organized, and accessible warranty information so you can promptly and appropriately respond to any issues.
Enhanced Reporting and Analytics
For integrators working on large projects in the education market, performance of the team is critical. Data aggregation and analysis provide insights to evaluate labor utilization, identify strengths and weaknesses among your team members, and improve your employee management for enhanced productivity and employee morale.
Integrate with Leading Accounting Systems
Accounting integration with applications like QuickBooks, Xero, and NetSuite helps eliminate double data entry to keep your books accurate. For payment on projects or recurring fees for monitoring and service agreements with higher-ed clients, the software has integrated credit card and ACH processing to streamline the payment process.
Avoid Data Confusion
Working with a large campus in which an integrator has performed installations at multiple facilities or in a multi-campus environment, it’s easy for project and customer data to end up stored within different departments. Facilitate cross-company collaboration, ensuring team members can access the information they need when they need it for more efficient and accurate operations.
CRM to Track Higher-Ed Clients
Integrators can track higher-ed client interactions and key details to better understand customer needs for their on-campus facilities, and use customer data to personalize their services and proposals using the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functions in D-Tools. Ensure proposals receive appropriate follow-up, quickly respond to questions, and promptly address requests to nurture relationships and convert leads into customers.
Time-Saving Proposals / Bid Specs for Campus Projects
Integrators can turbocharge their higher-ed proposals using templates with stunning multimedia to target campus projects such as dorms, lecture halls, administrative facilities, sports venues and more. Both integrators and educational institutions can use D-Tools’ integrated product library with product information to save hours of research time and data entry.
Online Collaboration
Facilitate online collaboration across your sales and service teams when working on single-campus or multi-campus projects. Allow your teams to quickly access customer data, prepare proposals, and follow up with leads to win more bids. Provide consistent communication and leverage staff talents across all of your teams, then receive proposal notifications to keep the whole team updated.
Organized Documents
Keep your documents organized and easily accessible for array of campus projects including academic buildings/lecture halls, administrative buildings, research centers, cafeterias and dining halls, dormitories and more. View the latest updated versions of proposals, contracts, designs, and change orders in one place to help avoid miscommunication and errors.
Professional Design Tools
Use provided industry-specific shapes and in-app markup to save time creating professional, accurate drawings for student centers, parking structures, on-campus sports complexes, dorms and more. These tools support precise system design and visual quoting, helping you create clean and visually appealing materials you can proudly share with stakeholders.
Accurate Documentation for Campus Projects
Access up-to-date, dealer-specific product information through the D-Tools Integrated Product Library. This product information allows for highly accurate documentation and budgeting for campus projects.
End-to-End Business Management
Integrators serving higher-ed institutions can utilize a single dedicated system to manage their products, tools, and platforms. D-Tools acts as an end-to-end business management system, fully integrating your tools and platforms and giving you a unified view of your business operations. This management system makes it easier for higher-ed integrators to track installation progress, change orders, maintenance, and other services, maximizing your efficiency so you can better meet deadlines.
Streamlined Scheduling and Workflows
Integrators can smoothly coordinate installations and service calls in a single management system to avoid scheduling conflicts and inefficient resource use, which is especially important for large campus projects where multiple technicians are on site and for multi-campus projects. Maintain your scheduling through a single platform and streamline intricate workflows, such as installation and post-installation maintenance.
Mobile Access from Campus
Technicians on site at higher-ed campuses can access information on the go via D-Tools. They can add site notes and photos, track completed work, collect signatures, and view or update project details remotely. This mobile access keeps your entire team up-to-date and makes for more seamless operations.
Improved Service Process
Detailed customer data tracking allows you to better identify customer needs to sell service contracts, charge for design services, quote accurate and appropriate prices, and cultivate recurring revenue streams for campus-wide edifices with your technology solutions.
Enhanced Communication with Higher-Ed Clients
Integrators can connect their entire team for enhanced communication with higher-ed clients. From quickly responding to requests to identifying and addressing client needs, this enhanced, team-generated communication can boost customer satisfaction and help you sell AV service add-ons.
Manufacturer Warranty Tracking
Use SI’s custom date fields to easily track manufacturer warranty timetables on every product installed in a campus project. Save time on recordkeeping and enjoy more accurate, organized, and accessible warranty information so you can promptly and appropriately respond to any issues.
Enhanced Reporting and Analytics
For integrators working on large projects in the education market, performance of the team is critical. Data aggregation and analysis provide insights to evaluate labor utilization, identify strengths and weaknesses among your team members, and improve your employee management for enhanced productivity and employee morale.
Integrate with Leading Accounting Systems
Accounting integration with applications like QuickBooks, Xero, and NetSuite helps eliminate double data entry to keep your books accurate. For payment on projects or recurring fees for monitoring and service agreements with higher-ed clients, the software has integrated credit card and ACH processing to streamline the payment process.
Avoid Data Confusion
Working with a large campus in which an integrator has performed installations at multiple facilities or in a multi-campus environment, it’s easy for project and customer data to end up stored within different departments. Facilitate cross-company collaboration, ensuring team members can access the information they need when they need it for more efficient and accurate operations.
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Utilize D-Tools for all of your higher education projects
-Academic Buildings/Lectures Halls
-Administrative Buildings
-Research Centers
-Cafeterias & Dining Halls
-Student Centers
-Parking Structures
- Multi-Location Campus
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