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Summerset has an in-house model for the development of its villages where the department serves as the client, developer, architect, contractor, operator, and owner. This unique model led to the creation of a design practice in 2011 to help realize the organization’s goal of offering outstanding architectural solutions for the market and its residents. #### The Challenge Summerset works exclusively with Autodesk products and recently recognized the need to **provide robust support resources** for those products to its staff. The organization worked with Cadpro, a New Zealand-based technology provider and Eagle Point Software partner, to find the support solution that would be the best fit for its unique business model. Kevin Hagen, business performance manager for Summerset, worked with the team at Cadpro to identify and develop a class-leading learning solution that would help realize the design teams’ vision and business goals. “It had to be affordable… it had to be customizable and fully-integrated,” Hagen recalls. “More importantly, the freshness of the content needed to keep up with the demands of the market.” ![](https://eaglepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/summerset-1.webp)Summerset already had a corporate learning suite, but the system was reliant on creating specific technical content that the team didn’t have the capacity to create themselves. “Our vision is to provide industry-leading design solutions to our residents and to equip our staff to enable them to do that,” Hagen explained. To give its team the tools to fulfill its corporate vision, the Summerset team made the decision to look externally for an industry-leading technical learning solution that would help them keep up with the demands of constantly-evolving technology and complex projects. Summerset provided its goals and what it hoped to achieve with a learning management system to Cadpro, and the vendor only had one recommendation: Pinnacle Series by Eagle Point Software. #### The Solution Cadpro demoed Pinnacle Series for the Summerset team, assisted with the creation of a proposal, and helped Hagen develop a business case to bring to Summerset’s leadership in March 2022. “Cadpro has been fantastic. They’re super knowledgeable, approachable, and a real key partner for us as a success,” Hagen said. “We’re developing something special here as a practice, and Cadpro has been a key partner in that.” > The integration with Pinnacle Series and KnowledgeSmart was amazing, and we’ve had 35 of our technicians go through fundamental KnowledgeSmart courses… Summerset’s Development team leadership approved the proposal, which set in motion what Hagen called an “aggressive timeline” to promote engagement with the solution ahead of its full rollout in June 2022. “The integration with Pinnacle Series and KnowledgeSmart was amazing, and we’ve had 35 of our technicians go through fundamental KnowledgeSmart courses and complete and work through the custom learning pathways,” Hagen said #### The Results Although Summerset’s implementation of Pinnacle Series is still relatively recent, Hagen said the organization has seen great engagement with the platform and looks forward to the next stages of the project. Since the solution’s introduction in June 2022, more than 1,400 pieces of educational content have been accessed by Summerset staff. Hagen credits Summerset’s Pinnacle Series Customer Success Manager with the success of the implementation at the organization and creating a rollout timeline that “was on our terms, and our time, to deliver our goals. The Pinnacle Series team created a custom interface within the solution for Summerset, which the organization has dubbed ASPIRE, or “Academy for Summerset Design Professionals to Inform, Revolutionize & Empower Your Development.” > You don’t feel like in six months you’ve reached the full potential of what you can do on the platform — there’s still so much more for us to tap into. Up next on the organization’s timeline is growing its custom content and role-based learning within ASPIRE, as well as increasing the number of live training events it puts on. “But even as it stands currently, without that content, we can deliver a fast, stronger, and high-quality experience… because of the support and input that we have within Pinnacle Series,” Hagen said. As Summerset looks forward to its future using the Pinnacle Series solution, Hagen said its customization capabilities and its ability to grow with an organization are what truly make the platform a class-leading solution. The goal is to continually grow the platform so it becomes a “one-stop shop” of technical development learning for staff. “You don’t feel like in six months you’ve reached the full potential of what you can do on the platform – there’s still so much more for us to tap into,” Hagen explained. “[Pinnacle Series is] just stunning in terms of the support and the work that we can do to collaborate to really push and drive engagement.” ### Thousands of on-demand resources at your fingertips With Pinnacle Series, your team gets on-demand access to libraries of learning content covering the software skills they need to know to work efficiently and productively. ![](https://eaglepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/sketchup.png) ![](https://eaglepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/solidworks.png) ![](https://eaglepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rpro.png) ![](https://eaglepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/adobe.png) ![](https://eaglepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/autodesk.png) ![](https://eaglepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/c3d.png) ![](https://eaglepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/fusion360.png) ![](https://eaglepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/lyt.png) ![](https://eaglepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/trk.png) [Search Course Library](/content-catalog/) ## Site Description Eagle Point Software is the creator of Pinnacle Series and Pinnacle Lite, an e-learning employee training system for architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and multidiscipline industries. ## Company FAQ **What content do you provide?** The Pinnacle Series comes pre-loaded with thousands of assets covering the products listed below. You can subscribe to one library, or all libraries! This interactive catalog allows you to browse all asset libraries available in Pinnacle Series. In addition to pre-loaded content, the Pinnacle Series interface allows you to customize any content or upload your own. - Adobe - Autodesk - Autodesk Construction Cloud - Bentley - Bluebeam - Business & Management Skills - Enscape - Global BIM Standards - Health and Safety - Ideate Software - Lumion - McNeel - Microsoft - Pinnacle Series - SketchUp - V-Ray Drill deeper into the catalog – https://eaglepoint.com/course-library **How long has Eagle Point Software been in business?** We officially launched in 1983. We have been helping organizations in the AEC space become more efficient for nearly 40 years, and we’re looking forward to continuing that mission for years to come. **Who creates your content?** Pinnacle Series content comes from two key sources. First, Eagle Point Software’s own team of industry experts creates original content designed specifically for AECO and manufacturing professionals. Second, we partner with leading software vendors to bring their official training, workflows, and best practices directly into the platform. This blend of vendor-supplied and in-house content ensures our customers have access to both authoritative resources and practical, applied learning tailored to real-world projects. --- **About this site:** Eagle Point Software — Eagle Point Software is the creator of Pinnacle Series and Pinnacle Lite, an e-learning employee training system for architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and multidiscipline industries.. 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