Masonry Magazine April 2008 Page. 43
Maxwell Systems Integrated Solutions
Maxwell Systems provides complete estimating, job cost accounting and project management modules in a single, fully integrated package. Since all of these applications are provided by Maxwell Systems, they are fully compatible with each other, allowing for efficient workflow processes throughout an entire operation.
When estimating is integrated with accounting, contractors can start and manage projects more efficiently. Estimating information automatically is converted into budgets that can help ensure a profit is made on each job, and contract amounts can create AIA and progress billing.
Integrated estimating also helps contractors stay on budget with real-time comparisons. They can compare an original estimate to the current budget, and compare the current budget to the current cost for each job and job tracking code. This allows contractors to know how the job is changing from the original estimate while the job is in progress, rather than after its completion.
With the power of a single solution, contractors can manage projects with key capabilities that include project management, financial management, workforce management, service management, procurement/inventory management, and equipment management.
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On-Screen Takeoff 3.6
Patent-pending processes designed to enhance takeoff speed and accuracy highlight On-Screen Takeoff 3.6, now available from On Center Software, a provider of electronic plan viewing, takeoff, estimating and production tracking applications. The features include a Duplicate and Reassign Takeoff process; the capacity to work more efficiently with "typical areas" of building conditions, and the ability to send/receive large takeoff files via YouSendit's file delivery service, integrated into On-Screen Takeoff 3.6 as Project Express.
The Typical Areas Quantity Survey process facilitates master counting of building conditions or assemblies for large projects that have multiple typical areas with groups of conditions or repeating levels/floors. The Duplicate and Reassign Takeoff Objects process enables users to select, duplicate and re-assign any similar building components taken off in the quantity survey to different assemblies or conditions, and place them on any page with a different scale of measurement, while correct quantities are preserved at the new scale.
Through Project Express, supported users of On-Screen Takeoff 3.6 can instantly send, receive and pack takeoff and project files up to 100MB in size, with a bandwidth limit of 3GB per month, to other supported users at no cost.
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Modelogix
WinEstimator Inc.'s Modelogix is a project cost modeling tool developed for those firms that would like to leverage their project cost history to more quickly and accurately respond to future project opportunities. Built using Microsoft SQL Server, the WinEst Modelogix database provides a powerful query engine that allows anyone involved in cost modeling to quickly locate past projects similar in scope to the current opportunity. AEC firms are in the content creation business, and Modelogix exposes that content throughout the enterprise, allowing a company to derive value beyond the project for which the data was originally created.
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