Developer from Kazakhstan: services from MACRO – that “magic button”!

Jetisu was one of the first in the construction market of Kazakhstan to switch to highly efficient cloud solutions from MACRO, Sberbank ecosystem partner. About six months ago, the developer began to introduce two products under this brand among its core divisions – MacroERP and MacroCRM.

About the company and its “IT pains”

The Jetisu company from the Republic of Kazakhstan has been offering residential and commercial real estate since 2003. The developer builds houses from aerated concrete blocks using monolithic frame technology. Jetisu’s portfolio includes more than 33 completed projects in the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana. Member of the Association of Developers of Kazakhstan.

Until recently, Jetisu employees did not use comprehensive IT solutions aimed at automating construction work, marketing and sales. All reporting, budgeting and media plans were conducted using Google and Excel spreadsheets. As for CRM systems, previously the director of Jetisu, Kudaibergen Darinov, worked with different of them, but in none of them did he find the optimal tool suitable specifically for the needs of the developer.

Meanwhile, the need to switch to new software has matured several years ago, which required:

– digitalization of the construction process;

– creating a unified digital platform for internal communications;

– more effective sales management organization;

– faster reporting and analytical work.

It so happened that the management of Jetisu saw the satisfaction of all four needs in the products of the Russian company MACRO, whose cloud services are now used by every fourth developer in the Russian Federation, as well as a number of developers from Central Asian countries.

How the “commander’s decision” to buy MACRO was made.

Figuratively speaking, the dream of any construction company manager is to receive a report with the click of one button. Over my 17 years of work in finance, I have encountered various automated data management systems. But all of them left much to be desired.

KUDAIBERGEN DARINOV
Director of Jetisu

He went on to share how at one event held at the Association of Developers of Kazakhstan with the participation of colleagues from Russia, the latter introduced him to MACRO’s software solutions for developers.

And then it hit me: I saw “that magic button,” and it was the MACRO system. There were no doubts left, and immediately after the meeting the commander’s decision was made to purchase two MACRO products at once – MacroERP (software for managing the construction process) and MacroCRM (software for managing real estate sales and development marketing).

KUDAIBERGEN DARINOV
Director of Jetisu

The founder of the Jetisu company, Zhanat Tolegenov, emphasizes in MacroERP that it allows you to control all processes on a construction site, from drawing up estimates to the delivery of equipment and building materials, and also helps to track the stage of completion of all construction work.

According to the founder of Jetisu, previously the situation at a construction site was based on the principle “we bought a brick, and two months later we found out that it was superfluous…”.

Therefore, we just needed a system thanks to which we could protect ourselves from unnecessary purchases, and therefore from unnecessary expenses.

ZHANAT TOLEGENOV
Founder of Jetisu

The company’s management also noted that thanks to MacroERP, “it has become very easy” to calculate all the parameters for the construction of the second stage by convenient digital adjustment of the first stage.

All project documents are on one table; for each project, the system allows you to keep a protocol and set tasks, which allows you to have a powerful electronic knowledge base in the future.

KUDAIBERGEN DARINOV
Director of Jetisu

Systems were implemented one after another.

As for sales, the employees of the relevant Jetisu department took MacroCRM literally with a bang. The company’s management decided to implement this system first. It aroused great interest (“the eyes lit up”) among the marketing department employees, noted Kudaibergen Bakhytbekovich.

After that, with a short time gap, MacroERP was implemented, according to Darinov, to automate and optimize the supply and construction processes.

I decided to implement MACRO among our employees gradually. According to the principle: first sit inside the Mercedes for a while, and then turn on the ignition, gear and start driving. About half a year has passed since those exciting moments, and now we can say: we are racing with this car.

KUDAIBERGEN DARINOV
Director of Jetisu

However, Darinov admits that some employees of the sales department and other departments of the company have not yet fully mastered all the system settings related to reporting. In this regard, the head of the construction company asks the MACRO developers to provide additional consultations.

What the company received as a result of implementation.

MacroCRM allowed Jetisu sales employees to:

– quickly adjust pricing processes;

– it is more comfortable to extract and present (for the purpose of reporting or presentation) data on the lots being sold;

– carry out lead generation several times faster;

– make management decisions, since all data can be seen in real time;

– create parameters and settings of the “inventories map” with a focus on real estate agencies involved in sales;

– prepare reporting and analytical documentation several times faster;

– interact with technical support service several times faster.

MacroERP provided the following key capabilities for employees of the company’s core departments:

– fully manage the economics of the project;

– control the supply of construction equipment and construction materials;

– optimize electronic document flow;

– significantly reduce construction costs;

– eliminate downtime in construction.