Project Control software

Tom,

The following are some examples of such software, none meets my scheduling expectations. For accounting I believe Sage Accounting, PO and Job Costing mudules can be considered as one of my clients use it upon recommendation by his Surety. This client does not uses the scheduling module even after many years using Sage.



http://www.sagetimberlineoffice.com/



http://www.meridiansystems.com/products/prolog/construction-project-man…

Best regards,

Rafael

I do not know a Jack of all Trades that is expert on everything. I would not let my generalist to perform open hart surgery on me, perhaps my proctologist.

At home, General Contractors are not allowed to select their scheduling software, it is the Owner who specifies and forces the general contractor to use whatever they want, this goes for private jobs, municipal, state and federal government jobs. On very few jobs we are allowed our choice. Most agencies, including the GSA "General Services Administration" a federal agency brand name their choice on public jobs. It just does not makes sense to use such software even if there is such a thing as a Jack of all trades expert on everything as on every other job the Owner will require you a different software. We would never trade our financial software for any other because of a scheduling software, nor vice versa.

The most used scheduling software in the world, Microsoft Project, is compatible with Microsoft Office, Microsoft databases, Microsoft accounting and financial systems but this would not be our choice. There are others that partially integrate but we consider most of them to be rubbish, some do not even keep pace with newer versions of Windows operating system.

Putting all your eggs on a single basket is not a good strategy. What if your software vendor suddenly says they just bought another software and you have to change everything, and this new thing comes out to be a disappointment? I hope the change would be for free so the disappointment wont hurt so much.