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Benchmark have been sourcing the needs of our users and finding ways to provide the benefits they require.  Version 6.05.60 represents Benchmark’s continued commitment to keeping our clients at the edge of estimating excellence, and includes features such as:



NEW Resource Group Totals (right) –
 This gives you the ability to add another level of subtotals at the Resource level in a Project.  It helps to further structure your estimates for transparency and for clearer reports.


Screenshot: Resource Group Totals



NEW Export to Excel® for job costing –
A new "Resources by Item with Used and Remaining" Export to Excel® has been added.  This includes columns where you can enter the ‘Used’ quantity for each Resource within an Item.  Benchmark calculates the Remaining quantity and also calculates your Actual profit per Item and for the Project, as compared to your estimated profit.


NEW Mandatory Fields feature –
 You can now choose to specify mandatory fields that must be completed before you can 'Complete' your Project and to capture data for your marketing analysis.  This is a great tool for organisations who wish to capture data that will facilitate more accurate and beneficial management reporting.


14 NEW Reports –
These include new Marketing/Management reports and reports for your Estimators, Senior Estimators and field staff.

   •  Sample Report PDF - Items by Group by Cost This report is good for a Senior
      Estimator to review what has been allowed for in the estimate and to see which
      Items are the highest in cost.

   •  Some of the new Management report options available (below) These provide excellent 
      data to facilitate better business decisions by management.


 



NEW ‘Show Calculations in Lists’ option (right) –
You can now choose to view your Item and Resource calculations in a new ‘Calculation’ column.  This makes reviewing your estimates faster and easier as you can see how your  quantities have been calculated.


Screenshot:  Show Calculations in Lists



Column widths remembered by Estimator –
You can adjust column widths in many screens, and these widths are now remembered by Estimator.


Faster operation of the Spread screen
There have been changes to when the Spread screen will perform its calculations to increase the speed of using both the Spread screen and Benchmark.

RECAP (Sep 2006): See the features that were new in Version 6.05
 

 

 

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