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What is InEight?

InEight's modular project controls software connects complex project data to improve visibility and delivery in capital construction.

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InEight Estimate’s Benchmarking feature, which allows users to compare high, low, and average costs, as well as productivity rates from past projects, to visually assess whether current estimates fall within a realistic range. With historical performance data at their fingertips, estimators can bid more strategically and deliver more reliable, data-driven estimates.
InEight Estimate’s CBS Register, which provides a user-specific view of an estimate, allowing users to create unlimited WBS structures and custom rollups. With parametric cost item assemblies, estimators can generate more accurate, reliable, and data-driven estimates.
InEight Document’s Dashboard, that delivers a centralized, visual view of project information across all modules. Interactive dashboard tiles make it easy to track document activity and maintain visibility into project performance.
InEight Document’s Gallery, which offers a comprehensive visual library of all project-related files—including drawings, photos, and documents—so teams can quickly access and manage the content they need from one intuitive location.
InEight Schedule’s Risk Management feature, which enables project teams to evaluate schedules through a risk-adjusted lens. By visualizing scenarios with varying confidence levels, teams can anticipate potential impacts and plan with greater certainty.
InEight Change’s PCO Summary dashboard that delivers a visual summary of all potential change orders. This helps project teams evaluate impacts, track approvals, and manage changes proactively for better cost and scope control.
InEight Project Controls’ EVM Dashboard that provides real-time earned value insights, showing the true percent complete of a project. With accurate cost and schedule performance data, teams can identify variances early and keep projects on track.
InEight Project Controls’ Progress Curves that visualize planned versus actual performance across project execution. With clear progress trends based on installed and planned quantities, teams gain actionable insights to drive productivity and performance.
InEight Schedule’s Short Interval Planning, used to empower teams to break down high-level CPM schedules into detailed daily or weekly task plans. This granular view enhances coordination, resource allocation, and field execution efficiency.

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Top Performing Features

  • Data exportability

    Data can be exported via a CSV or Excel file for further reporting and analysis outside of the tool.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Issue tracking & punchlists

    Users can track issues from the field, and create punchlists upon substantial completion.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Bid creation

    Allows users to use bid packages or templates to quickly and efficiently create bids based off of cost estimates.

    Category average: 7.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Takeoff tools

    Allow users to list the materials and quantities they will need for the project either manually from hardcopy blueprints or electronically from digital blueprints.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Specifications

    Construction specifications, also called specs, are the details for the work that needs to be completed in a construction project.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Document sharing

    Users can share/attach other documents related to construction projects, such as specifications, contracts, drawings, etc.

    Category average: 8.3

Estimating simplified and accurate.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for Estimating.

Pros

  • Preparing an estimated budget.
  • Historical record/data.
  • Benchmarking
  • Comparison of estimates.

Cons

  • Simplified interface with Excel or any other applications.
  • Flexibility in making "User Designed" reporting.
  • Global conversion of a unit of measure from English to Metric or vice versa.

Return on Investment

  • More transparent estimating data elements - good for review.
  • There are many different ways to present the estimate - summaries, details, etc.
  • Estimators that are beginners on the job may have a longer learning curve using the program.

Alternatives Considered

Sage Estimating

Other Software Used

Microsoft Excel

Usability

InEight Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

InEight is used as a document sharing platform in which we can see the status of the document in regard to what stage of review the document is in. The stages can be approved, resubmit or under review.

Pros

  • View document with downloading it
  • stages of review
  • General description of the document
  • Review status

Cons

  • interface
  • document viewer for excel files
  • difficult customization

Return on Investment

  • less manhour to find documents
  • less customizable
  • NA

Alternatives Considered

Unifier

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Bluebeam, Microsoft Teams

Usability

Impressed by the performance

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I was very impressed with the performance of the application. Versatile in its use due to holding plenty of forms and options. Quick access to my information is excellent, especially when I need to pull information from the field. The ability to support my forms by adding attachments is excellent!

Pros

  • Stores information when I just want to save and come back later
  • Quickly adding pictures to submit forms is amazing
  • Never had any troubleshooting issues beyond an app restart

Cons

  • Pulling up submitted date is not possible
  • Requires a bit of explaining at start
  • Can be overwhelming for new commers

Return on Investment

  • bueno [good]
  • bonito [nice]
  • barato [cheap]

Using InEight in a daily basis

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm a project controls manager here in the company, I'd say the most important usage of the system is the capacity to track quantities via components and their respective claiming schemes, connect them with the actual hours via daily plans and REPORT. I kept reporting in caps since it's my main role as part of this team. Recently, InEight gave me the opportunity to get into OData, and I'm discovering a new world over there, integrating all tables and providing good information throughout the company.

I'm also responsible for setting a new job into InEight, and share this knowledge with people that does not do that too often. I also support the user management as well as operational resources. Another new feature (at least for us) is the usage of Billing Classes and Rates, and we are getting deeper on it, it's working well. We are going to start a better understanding on schedule and estimate in the near future, to expand the usage on the tool and ourselves as well. Excited about that.

Pros

  • Quantity Tracking
  • Daily Plans
  • Billings Class
  • Work Packaging

Cons

  • Forecast
  • Integration Between Modules
  • Controls Setup (maybe improving the upload file with more options)
  • Rates (we are not able to change a rate code as we do for billing class)
  • Forecast quantity inside the component (its sometimes very time consuming)

Return on Investment

  • Standardization
  • All in one
  • Friendly user

Alternatives Considered

SAP Business One

Other Software Used

SAP Concur

InEight user summary

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use InEight mainly for timesheets and basic hour tracking. We code our hours to certain business groups, and it makes it easy to track the hours worked. It helps us keep accurate records of work hours, which simplifies payroll and project cost tracking. While our use is limited to straightforward time management tasks, it still plays a key role in improving efficiency and reducing manual errors.

Pros

  • Timesheet coding
  • straightforward dashboard
  • easy to use and learn for new users

Cons

  • A little clunky and so many tools but not the best training on how to use the software to the fullest extent.

Return on Investment

  • everything is in one place and easy to share within different business groups