Newforma Project Center vs Sage 100 Contractor

Likelihood to Recommend

Newforma is a great tool to collaborate with large teams and between firms. It allows for great documentation of transfers, activities, and other procedural aspects of projects that require collaboration between disciplines, for example, MEP, electrical, architectural and technology. For internal use, Newforma has been great for communications tracking and archival, as well as for record-keeping of all the users in a team or number of teams. Many great options are features are unused due to a lack of training or exposure to them, for example, the graphical viewers that can preview CAD, Revit, and other formats, or the markup tool available with the desktop client.

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Gil Lopez CTS ING

Integrated Technology Architect

TEECOMDesign, 51-200 employees

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Sage 100 Contractor is a great solution for contractors. In the construction industry, many companies fail because they are not tracking actual costs to budget. Sage 100 allows for this tracking. It enables a contractor to identify where change orders might be applicable.

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Tina Antolik

Office Manager

W A HOY CONSTRUCTION, INC.Construction, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Newforma Project Center

Sage 100 Contractor

Plan distribution & viewing

Plan markups & sharing

Issue tracking & punchlists

Photo documentation

Jobsite reports

Document sharing

RFI tools

Collaboration & approvals

As-built drawings

Mobile app

Submittal design and management

Newforma Project Center

Sage 100 Contractor

Job costing

Cost databases

Cost calculator

Pros

Newforma sits on top of our previous filing system (Windows Explorer). This was very important to us because we didn't have to change the project numbering system in order to fit Newforma's design. Also, if we were to decide we didn't like it, we could easily revert back to our previous methods.
Newforma does a great job of indexing information, making searches much easier by being able to use keywords instead of knowing the exact file location. No more traversing through countless folders before finding what you need.
Newforma keeps a read receipt for everything that you submit through it for issue tracking, and keeps an easy to read record of your workflow.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Civil Engineering Company, 11-50 employees

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Payroll processing using Sage Timesheets. Makes online timesheets available to an employee anywhere he/she has an internet connection. This results in better record keeping.
Project costing. Between what I do in Sage and what I do in Sage Timesheets, I can project cost in minutes instead of making the data work in the clumsy and time consuming way it is done using just the Sage 50 or 100.
Project reporting is now streamlined using the same pairing of software.

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Katherine McGookey

President, CEO

Medina Consulting Company, Inc.Environmental Services, 1-10 employees

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Cons

File downloads.
User-interface.

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Verified User

Professional in Professional Services

Architecture & Planning Company, 51-200 employees

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The Equipment management feature needs some serious updates. Searching for specific equipment shouldn't be this difficult. Example Lets say I'm looking for a "12' step ladder". If don't type in the name of the item exactly it will not return. So if I searched for "ladder" or "step ladder" my "12' step ladder" would not appear.
The entire system is not very intuitive or user friendly. At least not what you would expect from a sophisticated program in 2017
Needs a mobile application

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Verified User

Director in Other

Construction Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Sage 100 Contractor 10.0

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The cost of Sage 100 Contractor software is relatively inexpensive compared to some higher-priced options like Foundation and Microsoft Dynamics GP. But more importantly, the cost of implementing new software is costly. Implementation costs include testing and training. There are also risks involved with switching software such as missing data after conversion. Plus, there are always some unknown downsides to switching that are not apparent until the switch is made such as perceived capabilities that really don't exist. For these reasons, we will likely stay with Sage 100 Contractor for a long time. If we grow (say double) in size, we would consider other options.

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Tina Antolik

Office Manager

W A HOY CONSTRUCTION, INC.Construction, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Newforma Project Center 7.0

Based on 1 answer

While I have never asked for support myself, a Newforma representative has been in the office annually to give training seminars and info sessions on how to fully use the product. I find this essential to keep the product relevant and make sure everyone knows its full capabilities and an important part of customer support.

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Verified User

Professional in Professional Services

Architecture & Planning Company, 51-200 employees

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Sage 100 Contractor 10.0

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If we ever have issues with Sage 100, the live chat is an awesome tool. However, most of our live chat inquiries are not because of the issues we have, but more for us to better understand how we are supposed to use the software. Sometimes we ask ourselves "what if we" and if we need guidance, the live chat will provide us with the answers or resources to figure out what we need. They always follow up to ensure the problems we encounter have been fixed. If our issue is an indicator of an upgrade that could be made, Sage 100 C offers a way to submit the idea for review and improvement of the software.

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Tina Antolik

Office Manager

W A HOY CONSTRUCTION, INC.Construction, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

A good competitor against other similar solutions and support is excellent.

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Verified User

Manager in Customer Service

Architecture & Planning Company, 51-200 employees

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It is top of the line for the cost.

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Verified User

Engineer in Corporate

Construction Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Newforma makes it easy to transfer, share, archive, and search extensive data sets in a single GUI
For it to be effective, all users in a team must receive a basic training and use it consistently
Adoption in the industry is good (A/E); many teams use it consistently. Learning to use it once produces time-saving in subsequent projects

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Gil Lopez CTS ING

Integrated Technology Architect

TEECOMDesign, 51-200 employees

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It's had mostly a positive impact - solutions to my problems with accounting integrity.
Solutions for happier employees because they have portable time sheets. This makes me happier because I've made it work so I have less to do.
I can quickly report on any project with a combination of software.

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Katherine McGookey

President, CEO

Medina Consulting Company, Inc.Environmental Services, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Newforma Project Center

Sage 100 Contractor

Newforma Project Center

Sage 100 Contractor

Newforma Project Center

Sage 100 Contractor