Construction Estimates
Helical Quoting™
The Client’s Need
A construction company specializing in helical pile installations needed to eliminate bidding oversights, reduce bidding time, generate professional looking bids, and organize by tracking the many quotes sent out and the many revisions to each quote. They needed experts to seamlessly integrate to old, non-standard, pricing and inventory software.
The Project
Office software to reduce errors and increase efficiency by allowing the flexible inputs based on length, weight, set rates, or markup percents, and by automatically doing many of the other mathematical calculations. A history of quote revisions was available to view. Terms and conditions varied for each quote, so a system to automatically structure the contract after selecting the terms was included to avoid manual work for each quote.
Components
- Old (legacy) database adapter
- Terms and Conditions module
- Universal measurements converter
- Advanced report module
- Advanced database module
Common
- Pleasant reusable core
- Advanced configuration system
- Error and usage information server
- ActiveWriter database interface
- Pleasant Visual Data Modeller
Technology
- Microsoft .NET Framework
- C#
- XML/XAML
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
- LINQ
- VB v6
- Infragistics
- Crystal Reports
- Microsoft MapPoint
Databases
- NHibernate
- ADO.net