Construction and Service Management - Electrical Contractors Have the Best of Both Worlds with Penta
Whether wiring a new hospital, retro-fitting a facility's electrical systems for energy savings or responding to an emergency service request, electrical contractors serving North America's commercial and industrial markets trust their businesses to PENTA Software every day. With PENTA, electrical contractors manage their business with less effort, consistently execute their best practices, and improve productivity by continually analyzing their performance.
Success in Electrical Contracting depends on the ability to achieve consistent, repeatable profit margins on each construction project and service call. In an industry where profit can be so severely influenced by the exceptions, PENTA Software is spot-on for empowering electrical contractors to manage their construction and service business for maximum profitability. PENTA Software:
- Unifies management of construction jobs, work orders and maintenance contracts
- Simplifies multi-location, multi-company and inter-company accounting
- Automates collection and transmission of labor time, equipment usage, and inventory data from the field to the office with mobile field service and mobile field reporting software
- Empowers decision-makers with Business Analytics by placing daily management information at their fingertips in an analytical format and intuitive user interface
- Facilitates union payrolls, including extensive capabilities to define reciprocity rules to accurately pay employees and fund union benefits
Integrated PENTA software applications for Electrical Contractors include:
Please read on to learn more about PENTA Software for Electrical Contractors.
Award-Winning Construction Management Suite
Penta wins Constructech Top Product Award for Commercial Construction for the 2nd Consecutive Year. A Constructech Top Product Award Winner for Commercial Contractors for the second consecutive year, Penta drives performance gains further by taking a comprehensive view of our customers’ business processes. Penta customers improve performance with integrated construction and service management applications, consistent process execution and continual performance analysis.
Mobile Field Service
When it comes to software options for companies with service operations, one size does not fit all. PENTA Mobile Field Service software caters to the unique needs of Electrical Contractors. By enabling Field Service Technicians to receive dispatched work orders or jobs on their mobile device, capture and transmit real-time status updates, labor and equipment time, parts and materials and applicable notes to the home office, PENTA Mobile Field Service quickens billing and payroll cycles, eliminates unnecessary paperwork, redundant data entry and inaccuracies, and ultimately leads to a more profitable operation.
Service Management
PENTA Mobile Field Service is seamlessly integrated with PENTA Service Management software, a complete system intended to manage every aspect of an electrical contractor's field service operations, including call taking, time or task-based dispatching, customer service history, maintenance contracts, 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 Work Orders, Subcontracts, Change Requests, RFIs and Submittals.
Integrated Construction and Service Analytics, Reporting
PENTA Business Analytics helps electrical contractors continually analyze construction and service performance. 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, electrical contracting executives, analysts and division / profit center 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, Payroll, Projects and Service.
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.