Fieldwire vs. Sage Estimating

Fieldwire is excellent for anyone who needs to view and consult drawings as part of their job. Anyone on a construction site can benefit from using Fieldwire.

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Sage Estimating was initially created for the construction industry and many of its current users use it to estimate buildings, but it has adapted quite well for the oil and gas industry. If the user is willing to invest the time and energy to develop and maintain their database, I can see it working for any industry. It is very easy to adjust and adapt the database as estimating methods and project designs change. As an example, our accounting department sometimes changes the way projects are reporting in our accounting software. Because I can go through our 9000 line item database in a couple of days, I am always ahead of the curve and can report my estimates in the format they require.

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• Communicating RFI and RFC requests from crew to management.
• Easy to use mobile format for crew.

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• Same format Spreadsheet
• Ability to adjust by percentages
• Ability to separate phases into categories

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• The software is geared toward general contractors. We are actively providing feedback to gear it toward engineers, architects, and design professionals.
• I would like to see more options for mark-ups.

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• The program has a fairly antiquated user interface such that someone working in it may not feel like they are working with advanced software.
• Sage Estimating has absolutely no remote access capability outside running it in a Citrix/RDP environment so users have to be using a fat/full client vs. any hopes of access on a mobile device.

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It is a good product and meets all of our needs

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I use this all the time for my field measurements. But sometimes when I am working offline and upload it to cloud after coming to office, the tags get messed up. Some lines I drew at plan gets missing

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Fieldwire is always on hand to answer questions. It also constantly releases new features based on feedback.

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Sage's support of Estimating is adequate though frankly we rarely need it. Outside of more complex operations such as upgrades and installation problems the program itself is so straightforward that we do not usually have any "issues" and questions that are more about usability can easily be answered in online forums. We trust Sage's capability to answer these questions if needed but rarely use it.

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Fieldwire is a much better value.

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For our needs and after completing a valued score card SAGE has always exceeded our min. requirements

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• We have grown in size.
• We spend fewer man hours traveling from site to site to monitor progress.

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• Manupulation of existing data is very user friendly thanks to "Database Manager".
• A bit pricey

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