Construction
As a Prime Contractor, Sub-Contractor, architect, surveyor or engineer, you know that time equals money.
Our construction and collaboration software will help you be professional, profitable and productive. Foundation Systems has long been applying the latest technologies to solve day to-day project and company wide challenges.
We already provide support for key design, construction and maintenance processes throughout the whole project life cycle on major projects. Our integrated solutions give your organization a completely transparent view of your project, from architect's conception through engineer's execution to accountant's reporting, meeting the needs of your business, your clients and your partners.
Whether this means reliable and robust construction accounting software, a solution to streamline your procurement processes, or integrating your existing systems, using our solutions will enable construction and AEC companies to carry out:
- Enterprise Collaboration
- Electronic Document Management
- Estimating & Tendering
- Purchase Management
- Enterprise Cost and Works Management
- Enterprise Financial Management and Reporting
Overview of Construction software solutions:
Financials
Financials, which is powered by SunSystems 5, enables managers to control their organisations by delivering financial information that can be analyzed in detail.
Financials is uniquely flexible but without adding implementation complexity. The different dimensions of an organizational activity can be reflected without having to prescribe a data relationship in advance, which means that the dimensions analyzed can change over time.
Financials is forms-based, with forms providing either a single record, or multi-record grid-based view or a combination of both. The forms can utilize the full range of standard MS Windows based controls and features such as tab sheets, combo boxes, radio buttons, and check boxes.
For information to be valuable, it has to be accessible and meaningful. Financials includes a sophisticated report generator and reports library that will deliver printed, HTML or text files on demand. That gives the flexibility to offer internal users and external business partners a wealth of timely, accurate and clearly presented data.
Collaboration
Collaboration is a 'next generation' collaborative solution for enterprise intranets, online construction communities, departmental solutions.
Collaboration can be deployed to suit an organizations specific requirement. As a hosted extranet, Collaboration provides a comprehensive and secure hosted collaborative environment that can be used for document sharing, process management and knowledge capture, allowing all members of the project team, wherever located, to access project drawings, programs and reports.
Project messaging, memos, requests for information and discussion forum facilities ensure that communication takes place quickly and transparently.
Collaboration can alternatively be implemented as part of internal IT infrastructure, customised to support best practice process and corporate requirements intelligent document, information, and knowledge collaboration across the enterprise.
Workflows developed within Collaboration can be integrated with ERP, and other back office systems, to deliver transparency, auditability and management of individual tasks, departmental processes, internal and external projects and enterprise wide initiatives from within a single environment.
Project Accounting
Project Accounting has been developed in conjunction with leading contractors and delivers powerful cost control, site administration, works order management and valuation systems.
Project Accounting is a construction management system designed to empower the on-site team to effectively plan, monitor, and manage complex construction projects.
Project Accounting captures and integrates on-site and head office data for immediate and accurate costing and value management information.
Project Accounting provides a single focal point for the project team by integrating information from the disparate business functions - quantity surveying, site administration, buying, accounting, and payroll into one simple to use and complete business solution.
Tradex
Tradex is an on-line document trading exchange that has been developed to allow supply chain partners to send and receive electronic documents such as orders, invoices, and dispatch notes.
At the heart of construction operations lies the sourcing, procurement and administration of materials and service items. Cutting down on wasted time and expenditure demands a re-engineering of the full procurement cycle. The exchange and handling of hundreds, even thousands, of paper orders, invoices, and despatch notes means many man-hours are spent re-keying, checking and archiving these documents.
Using structured data and working within a secure environment, documents can also be made available for viewing and on line administration. This will remove the need for paper-based document handling and manual re-keying.
Tradex offers a flexible, fully integrated, solution to this administrative burden. To further ensure that all companies can take full advantage of Tradex, the service includes full back office integration with your current applications.
Estimating
Developed by industry experts for industry experts, Estimating is arguably the most sophisticated estimating software on the market today. It is comprehensive yet simple to use; allowing several project and library screens to be active simultaneously, offering a fully customizable interface, and supporting multiple standard industry databases for all sectors (SMM, CESMM, etc.).
On screen graphics and click-through menus combine superb clarity of information with fast and flexible navigation to provide the range of options and the breadth of information you need instantly. With a full audit trail of assumptions, changes and options, Autosave every 59 seconds, global search and replace, and multi-levelled access settings Estimating delivers unrivalled adaptability and security.
Real time functionality allows the testing of any number of "what if" scenarios, any change being applied throughout - whether the Bill of Quantities is 6 or 600 pages long, or accessed by one individual or 100 estimators, sub-contractors and suppliers at different sites around the world.
Estimating is a CITE (Construction Industry Trading Electronically) compliant application, it also supports links to complimentary services including Cost and Works Management such as Siteman and the Causeway Directory, enabling electronic communication across the entire industry on every aspect of a project.
Comprising the 'best practice' support for the whole of the process from take off to tender submission, Estimating is the latest evolution of estimating software from Causeway Technologies, and combines advanced functionality with breathtaking ease of use.
If you would like to speak to one of our industry experts please contact Foundation Systems
