Maestro Technologies - Intelligent management software for the construction industry.

The maestro* estimating and bidding module is completely integrated with other key modules such as project management, project budgets, billing contracts and subcontract management. From your successful bids you can automatically produce your project’s initial budget, invoicing contract (in accordance with the bid), subcontractor contracts (pending approval) and material requirements (as a bill of materials, requisition or purchase order). Maestro*’s material catalogue, labour cost tables, equipment cost tables and easy access to previous project results all help your estimator to simplify his job while improving the accuracy of your bids.

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* offers one of the most sophisticated project cost management tools available today, a single tool that addresses the information analysis requirements of estimating, operations and accounting. With maestro*’s unique Pivotal Data Viewer, project cost information can be easily viewed in multiple dimensions. All information is shared in real-time between estimating, operations and accounting departments, eliminating redundant databases and spreadsheets. Maestro*’s project cost management and inquiry module is completely integrated with our other modules, including order change, commitment, billing, projection, production and other management modules.

Maestro* Customer Relations Management (CRM) allows you to effectively manage incoming calls, scripts, customer history and more. This module is integrated with maestro*’s contact management, job cost and accounting modules. It incorporates many usability features such as intelligent search on any part of the contact data (name, address, etc.), validation when saving new contacts to avoid duplication, links with MapQuest or GoogleMap, and much more. The call manager allows you to easily access history, review pending calls, search through calls and create scripts for collecting pertinent information on incoming calls. Sales related calls can be automatically assigned (with email) to sales representatives for follow-up using customized criteria. Cost/revenue estimates, projects, invoices and deposits can be automatically created. Maestro*’s CRM module is an excellent solution for companies with call centers that are generating services business.

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 human resources module is designed to aid the management of various issues and events related to employees, such as training, certifications, permits, deficiencies, notices, correspondence, and many more. A flexible benefits management module is also available.

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.

Pretty much a standard today, magnetic ink cheques provide a higher level of security against cheque fraud. Maestro* allows for the printing of supplier and payroll cheques using MICR format.

Contractor liabilities in the construction industry are ever increasing. It is now critically important to equip your team with a software management tool that addresses today’s needs, and Maestro* can track your liens and waivers, minimizing financial risk on projects. Completely integrated with the subcontractors’ contract and payables modules, the Lien Management features will allow you to proactively address your risk.

Executive dashboard is a window into the current status of your business. Using maestro*’s executive dashboard you can create many views of project and accounting information that can be accessed simultaneously. Imagine coming in each morning and reviewing the status of your business while enjoying your morning coffee or having a quick peek just before leaving for the day. Maestro*’s dashboard reports and views update automatically ensuring 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.