InEight-Be precise, be agile and grow your business with outstanding software for project management.
November 15, 2024

InEight-Be precise, be agile and grow your business with outstanding software for project management.

Jason Irvine | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Connected Analytics – Report and Explore

Overall Satisfaction with InEight

Our organization uses InEight for both estimating and project management. It is the backbone of our estimating and works seamlessly into our workflows for project management. We utilize the resource register to identify areas where we can utilize our field staff better. InEight helps us to address problems with staffing, equipment utilization, project schedule constraints, forecasting and budgets and providing insight into our competition. As a Heavy Civil contractor, it is imperative that we maximize our people and equipment, that we provide our clients with personalized and transparent estimates/bids, and execute the job with excellence and timliness. InEight, is our go-to SaaS for providing these and other deliverables to our clients.

Pros

  • Accurate tracking of materials, labor and equipment
  • Seamless integration with our project management software
  • Detailed reports that are easy to export, filter and manipulate
  • Asks questions when we are entering data to ensure accuracy
  • Provides extensive learning and education

Cons

  • Provide a simpler version (cliff notes) of the knowledge database
  • Offer versions of InEight for smaller companies, i.e. less than 20 emplyees, under $5M in revenue
  • When an estimate is complete, offer a dialog box to ask if the job was won, lost, or still in progress. We tend to leave most of our estimates in the bidding column. This is a user error, but the prompt would be helpful.
  • We have gone from an $6.5M per year company to over $10M per year since integrating InEight in 2018
  • Job costing has really helped us to understand where the money is going and how to manage it better.
  • Being able to compare different estimates has sped up the estimation process and allowed us to be more competitive.
A major initiative that InEight has provided a solution to is no longer using MS Excel as our estimation software. We used Excel for over 30 years prior to InEight, and prior to 2018, our estimates were quite pedestrian. With InEight as part of our project management software we have been more agile, better prepared for change orders, and equipped to manage client questions in an effective and timely manner. InEight's project-based approach has simplified the process of searching for documents & reports. The versatility of the report feature allows to compare and contrast different approaches, in real-time, for project management.
The main reasons for the 10-rating follow:
Extensive capacity to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Extensive library and database
An intuitive user interface
Easy to make changes when needed
Integrates with our existing project management software
We do not use the entire suite of InEight products. We use InEight Estimate and Control. These tools are vital to our company growth, management, and interactions with clients. The wealth of information and access to reports, scheduling, costing, forecasting and budgeting has been a game changer. We are thrilled with the features of control and estimate. We honestly don't utilize the software to its full potential.
InEight is perfect for our work in Heavy Civil construction. Some of the other products are designed for different workflows and industries. We chose InEight specifically because it was related to the construction industry. Procore is incredibly comprehensive, and we just don't need all the noise. It has been nice to employ InEights' various products as we grow and be able to only pay for what we are truly utilizing.

Do you think InEight delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with InEight's feature set?

Yes

Did InEight live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of InEight go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy InEight again?

Yes

InEight is our go-to SaaS solution for estimation and project management. It is a critical part of our revenue generation cycle. InEight has provided us with extensive insight into the estimation process and seamlessly integrated with our project management software. Moreover, we use InEight daily, the software is a powerhouse of information and the more you add to the database the more powerful the tool becomes.

InEight Feature Ratings

Plan distribution & viewing
Not Rated
Plan markups & sharing
Not Rated
Document sharing
Not Rated
Issue tracking & punchlists
Not Rated
Photo documentation
Not Rated
Jobsite reports
Not Rated
RFI tools
Not Rated
Collaboration & approvals
Not Rated
As-built drawings
Not Rated
Mobile app
Not Rated
Submittal design and management
Not Rated
Checklists
Not Rated
Meeting Minutes
Not Rated
Specifications
Not Rated
Change orders
Not Rated
Takeoff tools
10
Job costing
10
Cost databases
10
Cost calculator
10
Bid creation
10
Dashboards
Not Rated
Standard reports
Not Rated
Custom reports
Not Rated
Data exportability
Not Rated

Comments

  • Ellen Bartlett | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Thank you for sharing your feedback! We're thrilled that you've seen such great results with InEight Estimate and are honored that you took the time to write this review. Thank you for being a customer!

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