ELECTRICAL ESTIMATING SOFTWARE REVIEWS
Electrical estimating software can significantly shorten the amount of time it takes you to put together an estimate. The right estimating software package can save you time and energy, increase bid accuracy, and ultimately help you win more jobs.
If you’re an electrical contractor, you need to know which estimating software is right for you – and you have the luxury of finding a package that is specifically made to address electrical issues. Read on for product overviews, unbiased end-user reviews from construction professionals and competitive analysis about an array of electrical estimating software tools.
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AspenTech
Some of the world’s largest petroleum and chemical companies depend on AspenTech’s aspenOpen suite of construction planning software and services to help them reduce the cost of goods, improve customer satisfaction and achieve regulatory compliance. A core component of this far-ranging suite is Aspen PIMS...
Autodesk Constructware
Autodesk construction solutions enable architecture, engineering, and construction firms to use digital design data and content across their extended teams. By leveraging the power of building information modeling (BIM), architecture, engineering, and construction firms can use information to perform quantity takeoffs, visualize...
Bid4Build
Bid4Build prides itself on its low cost and versatility. Their construction estimating software can be used by all types of general and subcontractors for both residential and commercial construction as well as remodeling and insurance estimating. The solution also contains job costing accounting and scheduling features...
BuildSoft
BuildSoft's stated business goal is to allow small and medium-sized construction firms to focus on building homes -- not on the critical, time-consuming back-office tasks associated with successfully running a company. Constellation HomeBuilder Systems Inc., which acquired the BuildSoft and Builder 360 product lines in 2006, specializes in...
Deltek
Deltek's Cobra suite was designed, broadly speaking, to streamline project processes and methods, to improve collaboration and to assure that project, IT and corporate governance guidelines are met. Specifically, Cobra is built to accomplish tasks such as construction cost estimating...
EPOCH
Faithful+Gould has more than 60 years experience in the consulting industry. It puts this knowledge to use to support clients of its range of commercial, consulting and program managements services. These customers range from General Mills, which recently selected Faithful+Gould to act as the construction project management firm for a new plant being built in California, to a three-year cost-engineering contract with a Washington state energy producer...
HCSS Heavybid
HCSS delivers construction software solutions in the areas of estimating, field management and resource management. By integrating HCSS's HeavyBid, Heavy Job and Dispatcher modules, you will be able to accurately estimate, manage and supply jobs with the necessary materials. This integration enables you to reduce waste and...
Maxwell
Maxwell Systems' construction business management software offers a variety of construction business management and property management products. Their products, such as Quest Estimating software, are used in the following construction segements: general construction, subcontracting, specialty trades, heavy construction, and property management. In addition...
Management Computer Controls (MC2)
From pie-in-the-sky projects to contracts with firm start dates and financial backing, Management Computer Controls, better known as MC2, and its Interactive Cost Estimating (ICE) solution was designed to deliver construction cost estimating assistance from the conceptual phase to design/build to hard bids...
Meridian Prolog
Meridian Systems has the highest market share of all the construction project management software providers in the industry with more than $100 million in revenue. Meridian's software solutions target contractors in the real estate, construction and facility management fields, and provide tools needed to manage projects and portfolios...
Microsoft Excel
According to the latest CFMA technology survey, 14% of construction contractors tap the capabilities of Microsoft Excel, a component of the popular Microsoft Office business suite, to create, manage and communicate construction estimates. Since so many companies already use Excel and the full Office suite as part of their day-to-day operations, startup and training costs are minimal when compared to custom construction estimating programs...
Pharaoh
Pharaoh Information Services Inc. is a provider of computer software designed specifically for the needs of builders and developers. Pharaoh enables builders and contractors to outsource their computer needs so that they can focus their efforts on growing their business. With the help of expert consultants, users no longer have to worry about...
Sage Software
Sage's construction division services construction firms ranging from fewer than 25 employees to more than 500. The company acquired Oregon-based Timberline and immediately began expanding its construction software offerings. Today Sage offers three packages to the construction industry - Sage Timberline Office, Sage Master Builder, and...
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WennSoft
When the operations department of a construction services company desired to find a better way to manage large construction projects, the answer that they found was WennSoft Solutions. WennSoft Solutions are designed to supplement and improve the functions of existing software solutions which ultimately increases business efficiency...