Case Study: Bird Construction achieves integrated reporting, paperless approvals and improved visibility with Vista by Viewpoint

Bird Construction Gets Flexible Reporting and Reduces Duplicate Entry with Viewpoint

Bird Construction is a coast‑to‑coast Canadian general contractor with over 90 years’ experience and about 1,600 employees. In 2009 the company was constrained by its legacy Jonas accounting system and needed more flexible reporting and tighter integration between finance and operations, while avoiding heavy disruption to its large operations and project management teams.

Bird implemented Vista by Viewpoint and rolled out project management and finance modules across the enterprise, creating a single source of truth accessible via Citrix. The result: paperless invoice workflows and faster approvals (often same‑day), reduced duplicate data entry, easier exports and custom reporting, a unified Work Center view of RFIs/change orders/contracts, major payroll and AR/AP efficiencies, strong user adoption (~80%), and measurable time and cost savings plus improved decision‑making.

Bird Construction

Linda Greenwood

Accounting