Hard Dollar's budget- and performance-based construction management software has been used around the globe to manage projects totaling more than $1 trillion, according to the vendor.

The Scottsdale, Arizona-based vendor recently unveiled Hard Dollar version 2008.1, which is designed to ease the transfer of project information through additional integration points with Microsoft and Primavera software.

Enhancements to Hard Dollar integration with Primavera give end users the ability to do the following:

• create a new job from an existing Primavera project so that customers can leverage project scope and WBS information already entered in Primavera, and retain construction schedule logic while using Hard Dollar to produce a detailed estimate and budget for the project
• map Hard Dollar tags to Primavera fields
• manage duration discrepancies between Hard Dollar and Primavera
• add and maintain activities in Primavera that are not affected by synching with Hard Dollar
• bullet transfer Hard Dollar account codes to Primavera

On the Microsoft front, Hard Dollar formally supports Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Project 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Windows Vista.