3 Must-Have Features You Need in Your Estimating Software  - Digital Builder

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Thankfully cloud-based software solutions enable teams to create more competitive bids with accurate estimates faster. If you're curious to learn more about how you can improve your process with cloud estimating software, we encourage you to check out our recent webinar, Cloud Estimating: The Secret to Winning More Bids. 1: Easy to Use Above anything else, estimating software should be easy to use. Just as important as having the right tools in your cloud estimating software, you want to get rid of the wrong ones. 2: Robust Database "A database is the heart and soul of an estimating solution if you're going to have one," Simon says. You'll have an easy time moving that into a cloud estimating software and using it. "If you need to be mobile, that can be a challenge. If you need to get things updated, that's a challenge. Of course, anytime we're keying something in manually, we run that risk of transposing a number, and that can mean real dollars. If you're wrong on the estimate off the shoot, it's hard to make that money up when the job starts." Any estimating software should be connected in another sense as well: connected to the cloud.