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Construction Accounting and Project Management - General Contractors Have the Best of Both Worlds with Penta  

Whether building a new school, office building or hospital, North American general contractors trust their businesses to PENTA Software every day.

Success in General Contracting depends on the ability to achieve consistent, repeatable profit margins on each construction project.
The PENTA Project Management Workbench provides an instant view of items requiring a Project Manager's attention.
In an industry where profit is severely influenced by the exceptions, PENTA Software is spot-on for empowering general contractors to manage their business for maximum profitability. PENTA Software:

  • Unifies Management of construction accounting, job cost and project management
  • Facilitates projects that meet or exceed customer cost, schedule, safety and quality expectations
  • Simplifies multi-location, multi-company and inter-company accounting
  • Automates collection and transmission of labor time, equipment usage, and material data 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
Integrated PENTA software applications for General Contractors include:
Project Management

Integrated with PENTA and Microsoft Outlook®, Project Managers use the PENTA Project Management Workbench 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. The PENTA Project Management Workbench 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:

  • RFI's
  • Submittals
  • Documents
  • Issues
  • Drawings
  • Contacts
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Change Requests
  • Daily Reports

Award-Winning Construction Management Suite

Penta wins Constructech Top Product Award for Commercial Construction for the 2nd Consecutive Year.
A Constructech Top Product Award Winner for Commercial Contractors for the second consecutive year, Penta drives performance gains further by taking a comprehensive view of our customers’ business processes. Penta customers improve performance with integrated construction and service management applications, consistent process execution and continual performance analysis.

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 Job Cost and Project Management Analytics, Reporting

PENTA Business Analytics helps general contractors continually analyze construction performance.
PENTA Business Analytics moves contractors beyond static reports to evaluate trends, share information and more effectively manage the performance of their organizations. Whether by Executive Dashboard or Business Analyst interface, general contracting managers can analyze past performance for planning, identify exceptions for action and trend current performance for forecasting based on hundreds of information types specific to Financial Statements, Job Cost and Projects.

PENTA Business Analytics interacts with Excel®, exports to Adobe PDF®, imports data from third party systems such as estimating software, and emails cubes for disconnected analytics work. Diverse contractors can easily define Financial Reporting structures and create consolidated Financial Reports.



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PENTA Software serves General Contractors performing the following construction work:

General Contracting | Construction Management / CM At-Risk | Self-Perform General Contracting
Design Build | Pre-Construction | Program Management

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