Item: Trimble Accubid
Rating: 8
Author: Garrett Gill

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Accubid to help organize and produce electrical estimates for our company. While the options and granularity can appear overwhelming, they offer a lot of control and ways to analyze our costs. The learning curve can take a moment to overcome, but once you do, the tools given help produce estimates that allow me to feel more confident. That being said, there are still some tools that I feel are missing.

Pros and Cons

Allows for fine control of inputs and variables.
Gives a multitude of ways to analyze data.

While the tools provided are great, there could be more to allow more imaginative users to build their own.
The user interface is old and clunky.

Return on Investment

Helps produce more accurate estimates.
Allows us to break scopes out without having to re-perform an estimate.

Support Rating

Accubid can sometimes fall short when it comes to CS. The correct departments aren't always properly delineated, making it difficult to get ahold of the individual most appropriate for your issue. To that end, it has been outsourced to people with accents sometimes difficult to understand. This is my biggest critique.

Key Insights

Do you think Trimble Accubid delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Trimble Accubid's feature set?

Yes

Did Trimble Accubid live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Trimble Accubid go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Trimble Accubid again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Bluebeam Revu

Likelihood to Recommend

There are a lot of variables that need to be "built" and kept track of independently of one another in an estimate. Accubid gives me the tools to do as much. I can break out certain scopes of work apart from others, modify those specifically, and view the costs, material, labor, etc. associated with them.

From an electrical estimator's perspective

Overall Satisfaction with Trimble Accubid