BID2WIN Software in the News
The Road to Profitability
By Tom Inglesby
Building highways, bridges, airports, dams, and power plants demands an investment in integrated technology specifically tailored to meet specific needs.
There is a unique need for specialized software in the heavy/highway construction industry. The software must focus on the need to integrate the field with the office so the data moves quickly from the jobsite to executives while keeping track of time and effort being expended on perhaps a dozen or more projects.
Contractors in the heavy/highway market still rely heavily on strong estimating technology tailored specifically for daily requirements of their jobs.
As we all know, construction is an out-of-office experience so it’s logical that the next step is mobile estimating. It allows users of notebook computers to use office software in the field while disconnected from the network server.
BID2WIN, www.bid2win.com, Portsmouth, NH, recently added this feature to its product line. According to David Todaro, vice president of development, “When you’re ready to leave the office, simply click Disconnect From Server on the BID2WIN home page, and you’ll be shown a simple wizard to walk you through the process of selecting estimates to take with you. Estimates may be checked out from the network server, or you may take a read-only copy.”
If you checkout an estimate, you’ll be able to modify it on your notebook computer, and it will be read-only back on the network server. If you take a read-only copy for reference purposes, you won’t be able to make changes to it, but estimators connected to the network server will be able to make changes.
Upon returning to the office, click Connect to Server on the BID2WIN home page, and you’ll be walked step-by-step through the process of quickly and easily checking in any estimates you checked out when you left the office, and adding estimates to the server you created while disconnected.
For a contractor involved in heavy/highway construction, the need to integrate the field with the office is of critical importance. Evolving applications are helping address this need better than ever.
Excerpted from an article in Constructech magazine, July 01, 2006.
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