BOSS® Announces Winners of the 2022 Elevation Awards
St. Louis, MO (February 9, 2023) – The Integra Group, the innovative force behind BOSS Software the landscape industry’s original enterprise business management software, announces the winners of the 2022 BOSS Elevation Awards.
The BOSS Elevation Awards are given annually to users who have taken their knowledge of the industry-leading software to the next level to manage their businesses more efficiently and profitably.
For the third time, Greenscape Land Design, Inc. of Raynham, Massachusetts has earned the BOSS Elevation Award for producing the best BOSS Scorecard Report. The report audits a BOSS user’s performance in deploying as many system features and functionalities as possible in their operations, as well as maintaining the cleanest data.
A BOSS user since 2015, Greenscape credits the software with helping increase the company’s gross profit margin some 14 points over this span by allowing the company to easily segment data to measure against its KPIs, and more effectively communicate those results with their team and customers.
“Our team takes great pride in how we use BOSS Software to help make important day-to-day business decisions that drive our growth and allow us to better serve clients,” says Nate Patnaude, vice president of Greenscape. “We’ve us the data in Boss to make day to day , and year to year business decisions, and we work hard to maintain the integrity of that data so that it is reliable and accurate.”
Nashville-based Gardens of Babylon – a BOSS user for 12 years – was named the BOSS Fast Track Award for achieving the highest revenue growth. Owner Marcus Kerske credits BOSS with enabling his company to better manage the details that come with a sharp increase in sales – 35 percent since 2020 – it experienced over the last two years.
“BOSS has become the backbone of our landscape division and has allowed us to make sure we are more accurately tracking job costing, material usage and labor hours,” said Kerske. “We have been able to create processes, including generating valuable reports, in one centralized software to support our growth.”
BOSS Software is recognized for its adaptability and ability to tailor programs to meet the ever-expanding needs of companies. BOSS stands alone when it comes to delivering return-on-investment and unmatched levels of client service and support.
BOSS is designed to solve shared challenges and barriers to growth for business owners in multiple field service markets including landscape construction, landscape maintenance, snow removal services, interior maintenance and cleaning.
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About The Integra Group
Founded in 1999, The Integra Group provides cloud-based solutions and custom software consulting services throughout the U.S., England, Canada, and Australia. BOSS industry-specific solutions are mission-critical business management services that are enterprise-wide in scope.
Kraatz, most recently a branch manager with Bluegrass Landscaping & Snow Management in Hazelwood, Missouri, brings a decade’s worth of experience building client relationships and knowledge of the landscape contractor and snow removal markets to his new role with BOSS sales team. He will work closely with contractors looking to switch to or introduce business management software to their operations.
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, a dozen Integra Group team members, traded in their laptops and monitors for hammer and drills to help Habitat for Humanity St. Louis build a new home for a family in need. The company has been a partner with the local Habitat chapter building homes since 2015.
Habitat for Humanity offers a homeownership opportunity to families living between 25 and50 percent of the area median income, who are generally unable to obtain conventional house financing. In addition to purchasing their home and paying an affordable mortgage, partner homeowners contribute 350 hours of “sweat equity” on the construction of their home or another Habitat Saint Louis home and take educational courses to help them succeed at owning a home.
“The cloud-based feature gives our snow and maintenance teams the ability to clock in from the job site and to view and adjust schedules to respond to client’s needs faster,” said Grummert. “The route optimization feature gives us the ability to streamline the client billing process by combining service tickets because we bill daily for snow.”
“Joining BOSS allows me to work with green industry professionals all over the country to help them grow and improve the overall performance of their businesses and continue to be a part of and contribute to this industry that I absolutely love,” said Leveling. 
“BOSS software is not an off-the-shelf product with limited functionality. Rather, it is customizable and scalable to meet the needs of growing landscape and snow removal entrepreneurs,” said Mike Cossins, president and founder of The Integra Group. “The new website is more than a fresh coat of paint. It allows us to highlight our client-focused solutions and to tell the world what makes us different. BOSS software is a solution designed and built for your industry by your industry!”