Eos Navigator Combines Estimation, Monitoring & Communication
See your projects’ progress, estimation data, placement of teams and much more with a single tool. Read on to find out how Eos Navigator helps construction businesses stay on top of things.
A cutting-edge construction estimating management system, Eos Navigator, bolsters estimation work across all phases of construction, besides allowing remote work for scattered teams.
Eos Navigator lets construction professionals save time and money through sharper, smarter, and inclusive management of estimating processes.
Eos Navigator streamlines all processes as soon as you obtain an RFQ, and during the time you spend maturing your estimate.
It transfers the awarded project to your cost management, scheduling, and project history systems as well.
Eos Navigator can flawlessly carry out the following tasks:
- Project Management
- Estimate Management
- Document Management
- Organizational Management
- Project and Estimate Collection
- Project and Estimate information
- Integration, and Reporting Activity History
Eos Navigator also reflects project progress and categorizes projects as well as estimates collections before exporting them to Microsoft Excel.
Export is carried out after all information is sorted, filtered, and regrouped.
One of its groundbreaking functions includes an extensible integration framework to tailor solutions to an organization’s specific needs.
This option ensures that an organization with a vast estimating process can have the Navigator customized to track, optimize, and streamline its specific functions.
Estimators, engineers, and project managers have designed the management system with a basic panel functionality to track all data.
Whether you want to integrate the Navigator with Sage Estimating SQL, Eos Cortex Project History, or commercial software, the Navigator works seamlessly to enhance the management experience.
The commercial software includes IBM Maximo, Hubspot, Sharepoint, Viewpoint, Oracle, Autodesk, CMIC, TRIRIGA, and Salesforce.
Eos Navigator tracks progress and simplifies processes throughout a project’s lifecycle by improving workflow, integration, and collaboration.
Workflow: The Navigator helps preconstruction professionals manage estimating workflow from start to finish through standard processes and permissions.
Collaboration: The Navigator enables collaboration for large teams from multiple remote locations.
Integration: Integrates and enhances the working of other commercial software and tools to optimize their estimating capabilities.
What tasks does Eos Navigator optimize?
Eos Navigator is an overarching management system, which can optimize critical tasks and processes for construction companies.
Tasks that can take considerable time can be performed quickly with the help of the management system. Following is a list of important tasks it carries out:
• Automatic creation of projects through CRM systems
• Update all project information from a Microsoft Excel workbook
• Initiate item takeoff from an external web form and Sage Estimating assembly
• Update Sage Estimating estimate items with pricing quoted by subcontractors or vendors
• Use estimate data for creating scheduled activities in Primavera P6
• Publish control estimates to a cost management system during project closeout
Estimating Operations, Navigation, And Monitoring
From project monitoring throughout the lifecycle of a project to compare estimates, the management system offers many options for efficient handling of a project.
Control
The management system allows you to quickly navigate and edit with toolbars and shortcuts. You can also customize your display panels, set user-defined views, and include a fixed navigation panel.
Manage
Never miss an important task as Navigator monitors bid schedules, assesses team distribution, forecasts revenue potential, identifies high-value opportunities, and tracks projects through their lifecycle.
Quality Control
Continually performs effective estimating operations, allows remote collaboration, implements standard processes, enables concurrent activities, ensures data quality, and integrates approval and notification processes.
Create
Eos Navigator also lets you create reports with dashboard infographics, compare more than one estimate side-by-side in charts, manage your portfolio, and roll up the estimate data for a project. It also generates detailed estimate reports even when the estimate is in use, and exports data to Microsoft Excel for further analysis.
Eos Navigator: Your Options For Integration
The management system has functions that facilitate all construction professionals throughout an organization.
Basic integration operations:
The management system can use a structured Microsoft Excel workbook to create as well as update projects, estimates or item data. It can also create a new workbook containing exported data by reversing the process.
Basic panel functionality:
It organizes projects and estimates collections before exporting them to Microsoft Excel. It uses sorting, filtering, and grouping options to streamline project and estimate collection.
Custom reports:
It lets you design SSRS reports in PDF, XLS, DOC, and other formats for the presentation of customized projects as well as estimate information.
Custom integration operations:
It gives access to Eos Group’s data exchange service to configure operations that read/write Navigator and Sage Estimating data to/from .XLS, XML, MS SQL, Oracle, and other formats.
Advanced custom integration operations:
Automatically synchronizes data between systems by configuring advanced, multi-step operations.
External integration:
To share data and perform common operations from outside of Navigator, it facilitates access to Eos Group’s public SDK for the development of unique integration features for your application.
External integration (web services):
Use Eos Group’s public SDK to develop custom integration features for your web-based application to share data and perform common operations from outside of Navigator.
The Eos management system provides several ways to connect estimating with your business-critical systems.
It helps leverage Eos Group’s embedded tools to import and export information in several ways.
Without much effort, organizations can convert their project and estimate data to common file types for sharing it with all stakeholders.
If Navigator’s embedded tools don’t meet your organization's integration needs, the Eos Group’s experts work with you to discuss how the extensible integration framework can address them.