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Engineering, Construction and Maintenance

Improving Design, Build and Maintain Business Performance   

Whether engineering projects in the petrochemical, power, renewable energy, utility or transportation sector, engineering, construction and maintenance contractors trust their businesses to PENTA Software every day. PENTA is a fully integrated enterprise system which:
The PENTA Project Management Workbench provides an instant view of items requiring a Project Manager's attention.

  • Unifies Management of engineering, construction and maintenance operations
  • Simplifies multi-location, multi-company and inter-company accounting
  • Automates self-service entry and management approval of time and expenses
  • Empowers decision-makers with daily management information in an analytical format and intuitive user interface
Integrated PENTA software applications for Engineering, Construction and Maintenance include:
eTimesheets and eExpense

PENTA eTimesheet and eExpense applications provide self-service time and expense entry & approval capability for professional staff and consultants who charge time to projects and/or overhead expense accounts. Targeted for users such as design, management, and administrative personnel, project managers, and consultants, features of eTimesheets and eExpense include:

  • Self-service entry and edit of timesheets
  • Rule-based routing for review and approval
  • Browser-based deployment
  • Complete integration with PENTA security, validations, pick lists, and PENTA Digital Dashboard alerts for exception reporting

Labor, Equipment and Material (LEM) Process

Customer LEM approval site screenshot
Industrial contractors are often required to obtain daily customer authorization of work performed for labor, equipment and materials. PENTA Software manages the complete daily LEM process cycle, from field data collection, customer approval via Sharepoint® site, to performance analysis. Industrial contractors will simplify and quicken their LEM process with PENTA Software:

Service and Work Order Management

PENTA Mobile Field Service is seamlessly integrated with
PENTA Service and Work Order Management software, a complete system intended to manage every aspect of a contractor's field service operations, including call taking, time or task-based dispatching, customer service history, maintenance contracts, preventative maintenance scheduling, installed customer equipment, warranty information, invoicing & billing, maintenance contract quoting and more.


Project Management

Integrated with PENTA and Microsoft Outlook®, Project Managers use the PENTA Project Management Workbench to identify potential cost overruns in time to rectify, address and track issues in a timely fashion, quickly provide project cost status and forecasts to accounting, maintain history of project communications, and easily route, log, and store all communications and documents in a secure repository. The PENTA Project Management Workbench is easy to learn, easy to use, and lets PMs quickly move from activity to activity to effectively respond to the fast-changing demands of their jobs, including:

  • RFI's
  • Submittals
  • Documents
  • Issues
  • Drawings
  • Contacts
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Change Requests
  • Daily Reports

Document Management and Workflow

Powered by market-leading Enterprise Content Management Technology, Penta customers can import documents into PENTA by scan or from disk, centrally store documents in a networked repository of electronic documents, link documents to PENTA records by importing a file, dragging and dropping an Outlook® item, or searching for a stored document, and generate documents based on data from within PENTA, including Jobs, Subcontracts, Change Requests, RFIs and Submittals.

Integrated Job Cost Analytics and Reporting

PENTA Business Analytics helps engineering contractors continually analyze performance against their key performance indicators.
PENTA Business Analytics moves contractors beyond static reports to evaluate trends, share information and more effectively manage the performance of their organizations. Whether by Executive Dashboard or Business Analyst interface, general contracting managers can analyze past performance for planning, identify exceptions for action and trend current performance for forecasting based on hundreds of information types specific to Financial Statements, Job Cost and Projects.

PENTA Business Analytics interacts with Excel®, exports to Adobe PDF®, imports data from third party systems such as estimating software, and emails cubes for disconnected analytics work. Diverse contractors can easily define Financial Reporting structures and create consolidated Financial Reports.



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