Maestro Technologies - Intelligent management software for the construction industry.

This specialized receivables module tracks details specific to new home sales without affecting the financial module. Track deposits, mortgage advances, insurance fees, interest and other fees. This module is integrated to the model extras management and project management modules.

Maestro’s project management features help you to create, track, and monitor project communications; saving time and reducing risk. Track responses to Requests for Information (RFI’s), Requests for Quotation (RFQ’s), deliver meeting minutes to all the right people in a timely manner to ensure that assigned tasks are complete. Project issue log for recording all issues related to each project. Change order management including auto-update of budgets, subcontracts and billing contracts. User-defined document workflow for RFI’s, RFQ’s and other documents. Document Management with user defined categories and assigned due dates. Contact Management with integrated email/fax/transmittal log.

Maestro*’s model management features are especially helpful to homebuilders. The model management functionality will allow you to create a project model complete with pre-set subcontractor documents. Each time you sell a new home you can quickly create a project in maestro* with all of the appropriate subcontract documents setup. Extras can be easily added to subcontracts and tracked.

Maestro*’s multi-level projects (or master projects) allow you to create a higher-level project to track all common costs, such as land development, in the master project while tracking individual lot costs in the lot projects. All information can be inquired on individually or consolidated.

Maestro*’s multi-level projects (or sub-projects) allow you to create individual projects by lot. These projects can be linked to a master project for consolidated inquiries and reports. Combined with the model management features maestro*’s lot management allows you to quickly setup commitments and track expenses by lot.

The Homebuilder’s job doesn’t end after the buyer takes possession and neither does maestro*. Customer service calls are captured in maestro*’s call manager. Service coordinators can quickly determine the sub-trade that performed the work on the customers lot and issue a work order for repair. Work orders can easily be tracked and closed.

Maestro* offers sophisticated levels of flexibility for managing subcontractor contracts. Individual contracts are automatically created for each project. The details of these contracts expand automatically through the change management process. All of the details of all of the subcontracts for each individual subcontractor can be accessed easily through maestro*’s supplier inquiry feature. Subcontracts may have multiple details on the original contract, each with proposed and accepted pricing. Additions to subcontracts from the change management process are easily identified and contain proposed and accepted pricing. Subcontracts are completely integrated with maestro*’s estimating module to aid in creating proposals.

For each new home sold, maestro* tracks all of the buyer information, original price, extras, taxes, deposits and other disbursements.

Track all details about buyers such as contact, credit and mortgage information. Easily create notes and store documents on-line.

Maestro* manages both payables and receivables deposits. Deposit amounts can be posted and applied to future invoices and billings.

Maestro* offers a complete accounting solution that is fully integrated into all of maestro*’s specialized construction project management modules. All information passes through the project management modules automatically, eliminating wasteful entry duplication between operational and accounting systems. Maestro*’s design ensures that both the accounting and operations departments have the specific tools that they need to get the job done right, without compromising the availability or quality of the information they require.

The maestro* payroll module is designed specifically for the construction industry. Maestro* is capable of virtually unlimited union calculations and can print union statements customized for each specific union. Automatically generate and print union disbursements. Calculate and print T4’s, ROE’s. Where available, maestro* supports electronic and Internet based versions of the above. Hours worked on the job sites can be recorded daily or weekly and subsequently adjusted by your payroll department. Interfaces are available for electronic deposit with all the major banks. Maestro*’s construction payroll also supports calculations for pieceworkers, providing all of the functionality mentioned above, regardless of whether the worker is an employee or subcontractor. Maestro*’s construction payroll is very sophisticated and tightly integrated within both the accounting and project management modules.

Consolidate two or more companies together to create an entity that may receive accounting entries and manage inter-company accounts.

Executive dashboard provides a window into the current status of your business. Using maestro*’s executive dashboard, you can create many project and accounting information views that can be accessed simultaneously. Imagine reviewing the status of your business while enjoying your morning coffee or taking a quick peek just before leaving for the day. Maestro*’s dashboard reports and views update automatically, offering a consolidated, real-time view of your business.

Although maestro* has gone to great lengths to ensure that spreadsheets are no-longer a business management requirement, we respect the fact that users still feel more comfortable knowing that they have access to this tool. Maestro* offers one-click access to Microsoft Excel virtually everywhere throughout our application. Information transferred to Excel through maestro* is preformatted and ready to be used (numbers are numbers, dates are dates and so on). Year-end details can be easily provided to your auditors in Excel format. Whatever your needs, accessing details from within maestro* is as easy as a point and click.

Finally, a document management and scheduling solution to help you coordinate the many documents produced for each job. Exclusive to maestro*, our electronic document management module is fully integrated throughout all other modules. Drawings, site directives, meeting minutes, daily diaries and many other documents can be stored and organized within maestro*, creating a virtual job book that can be accessed from anywhere you can access maestro*. For example, a shop drawing linked to a requisition could be sent with an order. It will then be accessible from the requisition, order, project and even the related suppliers’ file. You can define custom document categories (using your own terminology) for projects, customers, suppliers, contracts, employees, etc. Help shield yourself against future claims by being able to reproduce all communications (e-mail, fax, etc.) and documents for your projects, even if the project manager is no longer with your team. Maestro* is the only software to offer this level of project management and collaboration in a fully integrated ERP software solution.

Everything printed from maestro* can be displayed on your screen in maestro*’s advanced report/form viewer. Instantly search reports using our powerful, built-in hypertext search engine. Send your reports and forms through the Internet via email. Maestro* automatically generates a PDF document mirroring your report or form and attaches it to your email message. Your recipients will receive an “exact” copy of the report or form that can be easily viewed using Adobe’s® free industry standard viewer. With just a click, the viewer also allows you to export the reports to Excel. Your data will be formatted and ready to use. Exclusive to maestro*, our report/form viewer even allows you to select groups and columns for viewing or change the sorting order in real-time. This feature is available even for standard system reports.

The Maestro* report generators are powerful tools that will allow you to create a wide range of reports from the simplest listings to the most sophisticated analysis.