Southern Home Builders, LLC, one of Tennessee’s fastest growing homebuilders, plans to uphold their integrity, vision and commitment to excellence while continuing to grow by implementing the Integrated Homebuilder Management System (IHMS) from MARK SYSTEMS. Building some of the finest quality homes throughout the Nashville metropolitan area for the past 30 years, Southern Home Builders plans on closing over 135 semi-custom, single-family detached units in 2004, an 80% increase from 2003.

Before selecting IHMS, Southern Home Builders, under the leadership of CEO John Gill, was utilizing non-trade-specific software to address accounting and other departments throughout the company via various stand-alone applications. Without an efficient means of transferring the information gathered to update the applications used by those departments, John felt the only way to successfully grow and for each department to stay informed, was to keep all departments automated, but get everyone on the same system. The intent is to lessen the time spent on manually re-entering data. Much of the entry originated in the front end in sales, where selections are made. Software should then integrate the required information with specific modules in use in each department, thereby streamlining the complete process.

After reviewing a number of software packages available to homebuilders, Southern Home Builders was unsuccessful in finding a product that would provide them with tools specific for each department while at the same time keeping them all under one roof. In addition, none of the packages were capable of providing them with the reporting capabilities they were searching for. When Clint Gill, acting as the software review team leader, read about Palmetto Traditional Homes in May’s issue of Builder Magazine and saw how Palmetto used MARK SYSTEMS’ IHMS to streamline the flow of information throughout their organization, while saving over $500,000 annually, he was intrigued enough to give IHMS a closer look and scheduled a personalized demonstration. Then, through a follow-up demonstration and after speaking with a number of MARK SYSTEMS’ clients, Clint was assured that IHMS offered today’s homebuilder the essential tools necessary to run their business in an effective and productive manner. In addition to IHMS offering single SQL-compliant database management, Southern Home Builders was pleased that IHMS could already provide nearly all the reports they were looking for, and additional custom reports could be generated quickly from their IHMS database. This helped seal the deal with MARK SYSTEMS.

MARK SYSTEMS’ Integrated Homebuilder Management System is the industry’s finest software package developed exclusively for residential builders and developers. Fully integrated from Sales Agreements and Traffic Analysis through Contract Management, Cost Accounting, Scheduling, Warranty and Customer Service, the software provides high-end information processing tools for every homebuilding function. MARK SYSTEMS software is used by hundreds of homebuilders with thousands of users throughout the nation, and will help manage the construction of nearly 40,000 homes in 2003.

For additional information contact John Rogovich at 800-972-7444, or on the Web at www.marksystems.info.