4castplusSMART SOLUTIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS

Most organizations that run complex projects…

Experience a Similar Set of Challenges…

Challenges such as:1. Getting Good Project Visibility

2. Knowing Budget vs. Actual on any Day

3. Managing Project Changes

4. Ability to Forecast costs to complete on a Spend Timeline

5. Gaining Insight into Subcontractor Productivity & Performance

6. Getting Timely Costs & Activities from the Jobsite

7. Projects Going Over Budget – and not Knowing until it’s Too Late

8. Approving Vendor Invoices

9. Quickly creating Project Reports

10. Big Picture Reporting – Program and Business Intelligence Reports

… Just to name a few

At 4castplus, we provide solutions to help you tackle those challenges, and a lot more

Here’s What We Do …

Many Companies have Enterprise Project Solutions that look a bit like this:

Scheduling

They’ll often have a scheduling tool like MS Project or P6 to manage the project schedule

Scheduling

They’ll also rely on their accounting/ERP for things like:• Actual Costs• PO generation• Vendor Invoicing• Coding

Accounting

Scheduling

And then, in the middle here, what emerges is … a whole bunch of spreadsheets.

Which look a bit like this:

Accounting

Scheduling Accounting

Look Familiar?

An Environment like that Causes a lot of Problems:

1. Manual re-keying of data – lots of errors and duplicated work

2. Nothing’s connected – so you can’t go to one place to get a consolidated view

3. People work in silos – very little collaboration

4. Information gets lost

5. People have a very low amount of trust in the data

6. Information is delayed. Project teams can’t take corrective action because it’s too late

… Just to name a few

Here’s what we do at 4castplus

We enable you to eliminate most if not ALL of those spreadsheets

With a Single Integrated Solution

That will Change your Life and Bring you Hope

A system that fits into your Enterprise Project Solutions. A bit like this:

Scheduling Accounting

4castplus is a multi-user, multi-discipline, collaborative system

That’s Cloud-Based and very easy to use

It has an Integrated Suite of Tools, Including:

1. Project Management

2. Project Controls

3. Full Procurement Management – PO, RFQ, Contracts, Receiving, Invoicing, Expediting, Accruals Reporting

4. Project & Program Budgeting with Time-Phasing

5. Estimating – build ground-up estimates

6. Forecasting – quantity or lump-sum forecasts

7. Change Management – robust change order, budget transfer and contingency management

8. Earned Value Management – including comprehensive tools for progress measurements

9. Jobsite LEM Tracking – Full Field Data Capture system

10. Timesheet Tracking – labor timesheet & expenses with exports to payroll, AP, AR

11. Ad-hoc and Custom Reporting

… Just to name a few

Everything’s tightly integrated…

So data flows smoothly, and intelligently, between people and processes

Team CollaborationData gets entered ONCE – and used & reused in many places. You can do away with re-keying data in spreadsheets and sharing documents through email. 4castplus brings together the multi-disciplines that make up your project teams in a true collaborative platform.

Engineering

Construction

Procurement

Controls

Check out the Project Dashboard:

And the Procurement Dashboard:

The Change Order Log:

And a Project Spend Forecast:

Program Dashboard:

All this just works - Out-of-the-Box …

To minimize the amount of configuration you have to do

Of course, you still have to INPUT the data. And the good news is …

4castplus makes this very Easy, Consolidated and Centralized

4castplus has modules to input and create Everything for your project:

1. Work Breakdown Structure and Schedule

2. Cost Breakdown Structure

3. Ground-up Estimates with Time-Phasing

4. Purchase Orders

5. Requests for Quote

6. Change Orders

7. Incurred Costs (Actuals): For Labor, Equipment, Materials, Vendor Charges, etc.

8. Vendor Receipts and Invoices

9. Full Field Data Capture (LEM Tracking)

10. Documents – into a document repository

11. You even can capture all your labor, equipment, materials & vendors into the 4castplus Resource Databases

… Just to name a few

But maybe you already have some systems in place where you input data. What then?

With 4castplus, You can also Import, Sync or Integrate almost anything

Integrate, Import, Export or Sync stuff like:

1. Import/Sync WBS & Schedule with MS Project, Excel or Primavera

2. Import/Sync Incurred Cost Transactions from other systems including Accounting

3. Import Estimates from Take Offs or Excel

4. Import/Sync Purchase Orders, RFQs, Expediting, PO Receipts, PO Invoicing, Vouchers

5. Import Change Orders

6. Import Timesheet Transactions

7. Import resources like your labor, equipment, materials databases

8. Import vendors, and customers

9. Import Rates Databases

10. Export/Sync Cost Transactions to AP, Payroll and Accounting

… Just to name a few

Regardless of how you get data INTO the system, getting data OUT is equally important

And, we don’t mean to brag, but…

The Reporting in 4castplus is Quite Remarkable

Reporting is Flexible, Customizable, and Available Everywhere:4castplus has a very modern, Report-Driven interface where interactive, ad-hoc reporting is available everywhere in the system.

Users are kept in-the-zone by having contextual reporting continuously at their fingertips

It has been designed to enable users to quickly navigate around and access reporting on all aspects of projects, programs, resources, vendors, changes, contracts, documents, and much more.

There are Numerous Types of Reporting:

• Interactive Reporting• Many canned reports built-in• Timeline Reports like S-Curve, Spend Forecasts and Discipline Forecasts• Custom Report Builder. You can design unlimited customized Report Templates to run on-

demand• Dashboards and Drill-down Reports• Business Intelligence Reporting – for corporate-level reporting • Productivity Reporting – to evaluate vendor and project performance• Earned Value Reports• Status Reports• Program Reporting• Procurement Reports

All Reports can be Exported to Excel

Or Viewed On-Screen, Or as a PDF

The Intelligent Jobsite

4castplus Connects your Office with the Jobsite

With its LEM Tracking System for Field Data Capture

Field Personnel can Capture Daily Field Data Such as:

1. Labor hours from Employees and/or Contractors

2. Labor expenses such as: LOA, Meals, Hotel, etc.

3. Equipment – either owned or vendor equipment

4. Materials – All consumed materials by owner or contractor

5. Field Receiving – for receipt of goods at site based on committed PO

6. 3rd Party Vendor Charges. Any ‘other’ vendor expenses

7. Progress. With 4castplus you can track unit progress for any deliverable

8. Documents. Any documents, reports, photos, maps, etc. can be uploaded and attached

9. Daily log for capturing notes, observations, diary, etc. of the day’s events and activities

It’s Easy-to-use – Even for the most un-technical:

Cost and Activity Data is Immediately Registered on the correct cost code, project and resource

So that Project Managers and Project Controls have Immediate Visibility …

To make Critical Decisions Quickly and Accurately

INDUSTRIES

4castplus is a key Technology Provider for Industries such as:

1. Oil & Gas2. Environmental3. Mining4. Utilities5. Infrastructure

So, what about Training and Implementation?

4castplus provides a full suite of Professional Services for:

1. User Training

2. System Implementation and Configuration

3. Data Migration

4. Professional Consulting

5. Organizational Change Management

We are a Quality and Service-Driven Organization

To Learn More or Contact Us:• Visit our Website at: www.4castplus.com• Sign-up for a Free Demo at: www.4castplus.com/freedemo• Contact us by Phone: +1-403-450-7887• Contact us by email at: info@4castplus.com