Construction Software Companies & Consultants in Tucson, AZ

Automation Centre, L.C. is a Tucson, Arizona software developer whose copyright notice dates its work back to 1994. It builds and sells Tracker Suite, a family of modular business applications. Tracker Suite is not designed only for construction. Its project control, purchasing and job costing tools fit organizations that run capital projects, track spending against budgets and coordinate crews and other resources. Its customer base ranges from government agencies to manufacturers.

Project and Cost Control

The core of the suite is Project Tracker, a project management system. It routes new project requests through approval workflows that depend on project type and budget size. Each project keeps its budgets, milestones, resource plans, status reports, documents, emails, risks and issues together in one record. Teams can import and export Microsoft Project files.

Resource availability can be viewed by week or by month, with drill-down into individual staff. Combined with Time Tracker and Purchase Tracker, it compares budgeted and actual costs line by line across projects, tasks and account codes. This supports job costing, and the suite also reports on earned value.

Modules Buyers Can Combine

Organizations choose only the applications they need and assemble them into a solution. The company suggests a capital projects and budget management package made up of Project Tracker, Purchase Tracker and the data warehouse. Other modules include:

• Purchase Tracker, which assigns PO numbers, routes approvals with electronic signatures and keeps a vendor database
• Payment Tracker and Expense Tracker for payables and expense reporting
• Time Tracker and Invoice Tracker for timesheets and client billing
• Asset Tracker and Personnel Tracker for equipment and workforce records
• Customer Tracker and Support Tracker for client relationships and help desk tickets
• Audit Tracker for audit management
• Tracker Data Warehouse, a web reporting engine for executive analysis

For firms that need strong financial oversight, purchases and payments can be tied directly to projects, cost centers and account codes. A role-based interface separates ordinary users, managers, administrators and accounting staff, so that only authorized people can review and process financial items. The system also keeps audit trails of financial activity.

Platforms and Integration

Tracker Suite runs fully in a web browser, so nothing needs to be installed on desktops. Automation Centre also offers versions built for Microsoft Outlook and for Lotus Notes/Domino. The applications work with email systems such as Outlook, Lotus Notes and Gmail. They support single sign-on through Active Directory and can connect to existing accounting and other legacy systems.

A Salesforce.com integration was added in 2016. The interface adapts to mobile screens. For licensed customers, the source code is open, and the company describes the configuration options as unlimited.

Prospective buyers can sign up for an unlimited 30-day trial. They can also review video demonstrations built around a fictional company called Bizco, as well as process flowcharts and screenshots. Version 7.0 of Tracker Suite was released in 2023. In 2020 the suite was named one of ten top workforce management solutions, and it appeared in HR Tech Outlook. The company has also sponsored conferences held by state auditor and comptroller associations.