ETEK JOB COST ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE OVERVIEW
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
FEATURED VENDORS
eTEK International Inc. specializes in Microsoft Windows-based job cost accounting software that is integrated with Microsoft Office and SQL Server. The vendor most recently developed eTEK XPress, a Web-based hosted accounting solution, for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), as well as a traditional networked job cost accounting software program for SMBs, called eTEK Accounting, for Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista.
Following its acquisition of MTX International in 1998, Greenwood Village, Colorado-based eTEK renamed and updated several programs. For example, MTX is now eTEK Accounting for Microsoft Office XP/2003, a network-based job cost accounting software system for SMBs based on those older versions of Microsoft Office. In addition, Millennium+ is now eTEK Accounting for Microsoft SQL Server. This network-based system is aimed at large-scale enterprises with multiple companies or divisions and large data volumes processed by a large number of concurrent end-users; it supports SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008.
Within each eTEK product, the primary application includes general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, budgeting, financial reports, cash management, databases, system utilities and online help. Users can also separately purchase modules for payroll for all 50 states, job costing with project management codes, report wizards, AIA billing, and supply chain management. Also, ePRO Project Manager, a project management and job scheduling tool, is also available to integrate with products from eTEK and Microsoft. Create-a-Check LE Pro enables customers to make checks, avoiding bank charges, and the vendor's job costing module lets users import estimates from third-party cost estimating software applications.
Since eTEK's job cost accounting systems feature the same user interface, smaller companies can easily migrate to enterprise editions as their businesses grow, the vendor said. Moreover, with eTEK's custom interface programming, businesses can add third-party construction estimating, construction project management and fixed asset accounting packages, according to the vendor.
PRODUCT DETAILS |
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BASIC COMPANY INFORMATION
| Support Offered: | |
| On site | Yes |
| Web | Yes |
| Phone | Yes |
| Core Product Areas: | |
| Collaboration / workflow management | Yes |
| Project management | Yes |
| Scheduling and resourcing | Yes |
| Cost estimating | Yes |
| Document control / management | Yes |
| Job cost accounting | Yes |
| Construction Types Supported: | |
| Commercial | Yes |
| General Contracting | Yes |
| Heavy and Highway | Yes |
| Industrial | Yes |
| Mixed Use | Yes |
| Residential | Yes |
| Specialty - MEP | Yes |
PROJECT MANAGEMENT DETAIL
| Document Management and Control: | |
| Log & track plan changes | Yes |
| Log & track contracts and contract changes | Yes |
| Log & track correspondence, memos, etc. | |
| Track submittals | |
| Track submittal revisions | |
| Submittal additions / changes trigger notifications | |
| Scan images | Yes |
| Read CAD files | |
| Capture / index image files | |
| OCR text images | |
| Direct links to documents (plans, drawings, contracts, etc.) | Yes |
| Change Order Management: | |
| User-defined status codes | Yes |
| Ability to consolidate multple requests into single CO | Yes |
| Link plans, notes, etc. to change order | Yes |
| Historical tracking and commending | Yes |
| Change order triggers events such as cost revisions | Yes |
| Approval management and tracking | Yes |
| Calendar Management: | |
| Schedule integration with Microsoft Outlook | Yes |
| Task notifications / updates | |
| Scheduling: | |
| Critical path management | |
| Exceptions and alerts | Yes |
| Cross-project roll-ups | Yes |
| Cross-project resourcing | Yes |
| Schedule variances | Yes |
| Dependencies analysis & management | |
| Resource Management (subs and suppliers): | |
| Customize standard subcontractor forms | Yes |
| Resource costing | |
| Resource leveling | |
| Time reporting and approval | |
| Contractor / vendor contact management | Yes |
| Vendor performance tracking | Yes |
| Reporting and Analysis: | |
| Reports sent by email | Yes |
| Key metrics reports | Yes |
| Cross-project reporting | Yes |
| CPM analysis | |
| Gantt charts | Yes |
| PERT diagrams | |
| Budgeting and Forecasting: | |
| Earned value analysis | Yes |
| Track actual costs/expenses to date | Yes |
| What-if analysis | |
| Forecast cost-to-complete | Yes |
| Cash flow forecasting | |
| Cost/budget variances | Yes |
ESTIMATING DETAIL
| Take-off: | |
| Takeoff using digitizer | |
| Onscreen takeoff | |
| Mouse takeoff | |
| Digitizer tablet support | |
| Graphics digitized | |
| Custom annotations and libraries supported | |
| Items & Assemblies: | |
| Item lists | Yes |
| Cost items | Yes |
| Markups per item | Yes |
| Unit-price bidding | Yes |
| List / construction unit / composit assemblies | Yes |
| Visual assemblies | Yes |
| User-defined forumlas | Yes |
| User-defined fields and headers | Yes |
| Subcontractor / Vendor Management: | |
| Quote comparison | Yes |
| Purchase order management | Yes |
| Change order costing | Yes |
| Bid tracking | |
| Subcontractor management | Yes |
| Quotes, Bids & Proposal | |
| Proposal generation | |
| Purchase order generation and management | Yes |
| Line item bids | Yes |
| Bid rounding | |
| Lump sum bids | |
| "Ballpark" estimating | |
| Financial allocation / markup "spread" | Yes |
| Change order processing | Yes |
JOB COST ACCOUNTING DETAIL
| Basic Acounting: | |
| Accounts payable | Yes |
| Accounts receivable | Yes |
| Billings | Yes |
| General ledger | Yes |
| Job costing | Yes |
| Payroll | Yes |
| Equipment: | |
| Equipment maintenance | Yes |
| Equipment / asset management | Yes |
| Fuel accounting | |
| Unit price billing | Yes |
| Extended Accounting: | |
| Cash management | Yes |
| Change order management | Yes |
| Fixed assets | Yes |
| Proposal management | |
| Subs management | Yes |
| Subs payable | Yes |
| Human Resource and Safety: | |
| HR / staffing | Yes |
| Integration: | |
| Estimating interface | Yes |
| Project management | Yes |
| Scheduling | Yes |
| Materials: | |
| Counter sales | Yes |
| Materials management | Yes |
| Purchasing | Yes |
| Service Management: | |
| Dispatch | Yes |
| Trucking / transport | Yes |
| Work orders | Yes |