Whether constructing water or natural gas pipelines, erecting wind energy turbines, servicing overhead electric power lines or responding to emergency power restoration needs after a storm, Utility Contractors trust their businesses to PENTA Software every day because it:

• 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, inventory data and units of production from the field to the office with 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

• Multi-Company Financials (GL,AP,AR, Unit Billing)
• Automated Inter-Company Capabilities
• Job Cost Accounting
• Project Management
• Equipment
• Service and Work Order Management
• Mobile Field Service
• Mobile Field Reporting
• Union, Non-Union and US and Canadian Payroll (including Unit Pay)
• Analytics and Reporting
• Inventory
• Purchasing
• Document Management and Workflow

Award-Winning Construction Management Suite

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 work order management applications, consistent process execution and continual performance analysis.

Mobile Field Reporting

When it comes to software options for construction firms, one size does not fit all. PENTA Mobile Field Reporting software caters to the unique needs of equipment and crew-intensive contractors, particularly Utility Contractors. With PENTA Mobile Field Reporting, Crew Foremen can receive dispatched jobs or work orders from the home office on their mobile device, capture real-time crew labor and equipment, parts and materials, units of production and applicable notes, and transmit it automatically to the home office. PENTA Mobile Field Reporting quickens billing and payroll cycles, eliminates unnecessary paperwork, redundant data entry and inaccuracies, and ultimately leads to a more profitable operation.

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 Work Orders, Subcontracts, Change Requests, RFIs and Submittals.

Integrated Construction and Service Analytics, Reporting

Success in Utility Contracting depends on the ability to maintain constant control by monitoring actual versus estimated cost per unit of production for each contract. 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, utility contracting managers can analyze past performance for planning, identify exceptions for action and trend current performance for forecasting based on over 100 types of information specific to Job Cost, Work Orders, Margin Analysis, Customer Equipment, Crew Labor, Revenue and Division / Department information.

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.

Contact Us For More Information:

  Phone: 262.780.2427
  Fax: 262.780.2444
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