Whether building a new school, office building or hospital, North American general contractors trust their businesses to PENTA Software every day. Success in General Contracting depends on the ability to achieve consistent, repeatable profit margins on each construction project. In an industry where profit is severely influenced by the exceptions, PENTA Software is spot-on for empowering general contractors to manage their business for maximum profitability. PENTA Software:

• Unifies management of construction accounting, job cost and project management.
• Facilitates projects that meet or exceed customer cost, schedule, safety and quality expectations.
• Simplifies multi-location, multi-company and inter-company construction accounting.
• Automates collection and transmission of labor time, equipment usage, and material data 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.

Integrated PENTA General Contractor Software includes:

• Construction Accounting with automated inter-company capabilities
• Job Cost Accounting
• Project Management
• Payroll
• Analytics and Reporting
• Equipment Management
• Document Management and Workflow

Project Management

Integrated with PENTA and Microsoft Outlook®, Project Managers use the PENTA Project Administration 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. PENTA Project Administration 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:

• RFIs
• Submittals
• Documents
• Issues
• Drawings
• Contacts
• Meeting Minutes
• Change Requests
• Daily Reports

Award-Winning Construction Management Suite

A Constructech Top Product Award Winner for Commercial Contractors, PENTA drives performance gains further by taking a comprehensive view of business processes. Penta Technologies' customers improve performance with integrated construction and service management applications, consistent process execution and continual performance analysis.

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 Business Intelligence

PENTA Role-Based Workbenches are construction business intelligence tools that help general contractors continually analyze performance against their key performance indicators. Role-Based Workbenches moves contractors beyond static reports to evaluate trends, share information and more effectively manage the performance of their organizations.