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.

Integrated utility contractor software applications include: 

• Construction Accounting with automated inter-company capabilities
• Job Cost Accounting
• Project Management
• Equipment Management
• Work Order Management
• Mobile Field Service
• Crew-based field reporting
• Union, Non-Union and US and Canadian Payroll
• Analytics and Reporting
• Purchasing
• Document Management and Workflow

Please read on to learn more about PENTA Software for Utility Contractors.

Award-Winning Construction Management Suite

A Constructech Top Product Award Winner for Commercial and Industrial 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.

Crew-Based Field Reporting

When it comes to software options for construction firms, one size does not fit all. PENTA Work Package Manager apps offer crew-based field reporting tools designed to make crew foremen and front-line supervisors more efficient. PENTA Work Package Manager apps help your front-line supervisors improve schedule reliability and predictability, while being more efficient with administrative functions.

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 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

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 utility 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.