Category: About IVO

For a company of the right size, IVO Systems is an improvement over Excel or Google Spreadsheets. These tools are often used to manage equipment, preventative maintenance schedules and employee information and they are helpful for keeping track of data. But with these tools, you’re bound to have errors, and tracking history when issues arise can be challenging.

By using IVO Systems and aggregating all of this information- your equipment, your preventative maintenance, employee schedules- it is much easier to figure out where things are and what needs to be done.

IVO Systems allows you to have a historical record that you can go back to and review any actions taken in the past- something that can be a problem trying to figure out on Excel or Google spreadsheets. With IVO, your aggregated information is all in one single platform that is always there for you to review.

If you’d like to learn more about what IVO Systems can do for you, visit our website and schedule a demo with us.

At a minimum, we do one-year contracts with new customers who want to use our software. This is a long-term commitment by both parties, and we want to provide our operational software for your company and give adequate time to use it and understand how it works.

We want partners who understand what it’s going to take to implement the software and are actively trying to use software to improve their operations. Although one year is minimum for us, we’ve had customers that have found that IVO Systems is a good fit for them and vice versa, and have signed contracts up to ten years.

Longer contracts often come with a discount for long-term signing, but as a new company we appreciate those who see value in us.

We are specifically trying to serve the heavy civil market, and if you are a heavy civil company using our features everyday and feel as if you have suggestions that would improve our software, we love having open and honest conversations with our customers. Our goal is to serve you as best as we can, and make your operations as efficient as possible.

We’ve been careful to not add too much to our software- because we want to keep it simple. However, we are definitely looking for partners to help us grow, as we help you grow. We value customers who are mutually beneficial, and as a new company we’d love if you gave us a chance to show you what IVO Systems is all about.

Many of our customers already use HCSS products, specifically HeavyBid and HeavyJob. We recommend those products for bidding your work and tracking how your bid is playing out with daily time cards for each bid. Those products are great, and we are not competing in the bidding or detailed time card market.

We see our value in providing services that help you track, dispatch and maintain your equipment. We provide a price for your entire company to have access to the software- for tasks such as scheduling employees, any project notes, and many other features. We focus on improving and tracking your operations in the field, where your profits are generated. 

With that access, your company is provided with better and more up-to-date information that will help you make informed decisions and improve productions, profitability and operations from the field or office.

That is the difference between IVO Systems and other platforms like HCSS and B2W- we provide company wide access and only what you need. 

Bob Lien is one of the co-founders of IVO Systems. His background is in the heavy civil construction industry, and he has experience as a web software developer. At his last position, Bob helped manage the heavy equipment fleet and dealt with a lot of software, including leading the implementation of HCSS Equipment360.  

Bob was not satisfied with the options that were available for software, due to their high costs and their lack of features that were necessary. He and Eric then partnered to create IVO Systems- a software solution that would fill these gaps. 

IVO Systems help customers get a better handle on their equipment and operations, and Bob is pleased with the amount of customers IVO has been able to successfully help so far. 

Eric Christensen is one of IVO Systems co-founders. He was born and raised in Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville with a degree in civil engineering. He started as a design engineer and inspector and then became a senior estimator at a construction company in Cottage Grove, just outside of Madison, Wisconsin. 

During his time there, he became a professional engineer, master plumber and certified soil tester. He felt that these certifications made him a more well-rounded and knowledgeable engineer when working with and presenting to other engineers and owners. 

While working in a technologically advanced company, Eric was exposed to the software that was being used and saw a need to bring the industry forward with his own ideas and software. Using the same methods that have been used for decades is no longer the best way to get things done, and that’s why Eric and Bob started IVO Systems. Eric truly believes that IVO Systems is helping bring the industry forward and wants to help as many companies as possible. 

Below are videos on various topics to help guide you while you use IVO Systems. For any further questions, please contact us at (608) 509-7431 or support@ivosystems.com.