Enhance your productivity and accuracy with this easy-to-use software! Designed specifically for flooring contractors, decorators, builders, remodelers, and do-it-yourself individuals. FloorCOST Estimator contains industry-standard user modifiable cost data and intelligent takeoff area calculator with cutoffs and addons. Estimates by convenient space/room breakdown. FloorCOST Estimator instantly creates user-modifiable on-screen or printed estimate reports including formatted price quotation. Use FloorCOST Estimator as an estimating and sales tool to save time, improve accuracy and achieve greater success. FloorCOST Estimator is designed and developed in the USA by CPR International, Inc., a leading provider of cost estimating software tools and cost data for the construction industry since 1986. Use FloorCOST Estimator with confidence and profit!

     Build accurate insurance repair estimates while saving time and money. Designed specifically for insurance repair and restoration contractors and insurance adjusters. RepairCOST Estimator contains extensive industry standard user-modifiable unit cost data for all cost categories covering repair and restoration. Built-in Space calculator automatically figures typical measurements simply by entering room dimensions. RepairCOST Estimator instantly creates user-modifiable, on-screen or printed estimate reports including price quotation. Use RepairCOST Estimator as an estimating or sales tool to save time, improve accuracy and achieve greater success. RepairCost Estimator is designed and developed in the USA by CPR International, Inc., a leading provider of cost estimating software tools and cost data for the construction and insurance repair industry since 1986. Use RepairCOST Estimator with confidence and profit!

     The Project Planning and Management template is designed as a generic and affordable Excel based solution to plan and manage any project. The ability to build the projectââ,¬â"˘s budget as tasks are identified facilitates the processes of business case proposal, valuation analysis, and securing the required funding. Project dynamics can be altered and performance monitored with best practice Earned Value Analysis throughout the complete project lifecycle. Key features of the Project Planning and Management template include: Ability to define project budget as tasks are defined; Pre-define project phases, task titles, holidays, and other key project parameters; Creation of task dependencies and timing constraints; 'Auto-timing' function calculates optimal project schedule automatically; Gantt scheduling chart with embedded task information; Project status reporting based on best-practice Earned Value Analysis; Emailing of participant task lists and creation of individual participant workbooks to enable updating of task progress from remote files.

     Make paint cost estimating productive and fun with this easy-to-use software! Designed specifically for painting and wallcovering contractors, decorators, builders, remodelers, and do-it-yourself individuals. PaintCOST Estimator contains industry-standard user modifiable cost data and intelligent takeoff area calculator with cutoffs and addons. Estimates by convenient space/room breakdown and incorporates wall, ceiling, floor, baseboards, trims, doors, windows, coats. Identifies material costs and labor costs in addition to labor hours for job scheduling. PaintCOST Estimator instantly creates user-modifiable on-screen or printed estimate reports including formatted price quotation and paint buy list. Use PaintCOST Estimator as an estimating and sales tool to save time, improve accuracy and achieve greater success. PaintCOST Estimator is designed and developed in the USA by CPR International, Inc., a leading provider of cost estimating software tools and cost data for the construction industry since 1986. Use PaintCOST Estimator with confidence and profit!

     VIP Task Manager is a professional client/server software for task management. Authorized users can simultaneously access the common database through Local Network (LAN) and Low Speed Network to see, add, edit and delete their team or personal tasks, if they are granted appropriate permissions. It is the best solution for planning, scheduling, sharing, tracking and reporting tasks, appointments, projects, and any company activities in small and midsize business, government and non-government institutes, non-profit and educational organizations. Solutions - Task Planning - Time Planning - Human Resource Planning - To Do List Management - Project Management - Schedule Management - Team Collaboration - Workflow Automation - Task Tracking - Time Tracking - Employee Tracking - Workload Reporting Benefits - Get a real-time task list, project tree and employee schedule - Boost company performance, effectiveness and productivity - Reduce staff management time and get your office organized - Monitor individual and overall task progress instantly - Meet deadlines and achieve goals with estimated results - Balance workloads and forecast on-peak and off-peak loads Features - Task List view - Task Tree view - Calendar view - Resource List view - Task Groups panel - Filter panel - Charts panel - New! - Notifications panel - Notes panel - Comments panel - Attachments panel - Permissions panel - History panel - Date Navigator panel - Resource Assignment panel - Roles panel - Custom Workflow - Custom Fields - Advanced! - Archive Mode - New - Watch List

     Track your project expenses effectively and increase profits!. Construction Job Cost Tracking and Reporting System for Excel. Designed specifically for contractors, builders, remodelers, project managers, cost engineers and architects, JobCOST Controller tracks construction costs tied to user-defined cost categories. Reports budgets, actuals and committed costs. Accurately forecasts costs at job completion, reports variances, alerts for over and under budget activities. JobCOST Controller tracks construction costs for each period and enables the owner or manager to know where the project stands at any time as far as profit and loss, helps to take measures and avoid pitfalls before it's too late. JobCOST Controller is designed and developed in the USA by CPR International, Inc., a leading provider of cost estimating and job cost accounting software tools for the construction industry since 1986. Use JobCOST Controller with confidence and profit!

     The Gantt Chart for Workgroup is a modern and extremely easy-in-use project plan system with the additional capability to share data over the network. This system allows you to specify complex tasks sequences - a task or multiple tasks can be required to be completed before other tasks can be started. This modern and extremely handy program makes project management a real pleasure. It allows any specialist to create a profile to run a personal schedule. The program enables users to switch between profiles to view the schedule of any staff member, it is also possible to view multiple profiles simultaneously or open the schedules of several specialists at the same time. Once you've specified a required sequence, it is automatically visualized across a horizontal timeline. Task dependency is shown via connector lines. This software tool can display completion percentage for each individual task. An overall progress indication option is also available. You can edit task dependencies, create new task connectors and of course re-schedule individual tasks. All profiles data is protected with a password preventing unauthorized access. The program also has the Auto Backup feature that allows saving the data to the secured archive. What is important, the data from Gantt Chart can be exported to many different formats, like MS Outlook, XML, HTML, XLS and TXT. It is also possible to import the data into the program. The program has a built-in Print Designer, which offers a variety of original templates and options to make a fine and clear printout of a schedule. Gantt Chart is available for all versions of Microsoft Windows.

     Mind Pad is a .NET mind and concept mapping software for Windows. If you ever asked for simplicity of mind or concept mapping and for map topics with some properties that are right for your business needs, then Mind Pad is a great tool to start with. Creating and linking text blocks is easy with Mind Pad. But it can do more. Mind Pad allows you to organize in mind map objects with any properties set. With Mind Pad scripting you can create your own rules for data management and representation. For instance, with Mind Pad Model Editor you can easily create an object called “Contact Person” and assign to it some really useful properties, such as Person name, Company name, Next time to contact date. Then you can create a mind map using “Contact Person” frame object and link new objects with each other showing the relation between your contacts. You can create your own knowledge management system using Mind Pad scripting and macros functions. For these purpose Mind Pad supports Visual Basic .NET. Managing objects’ and links’ formatting is easy with Mind Pad object-oriented approach. You can use a frame or link styles, specify colors, text settings and other. When you need to create a new object you just tell Mind Pad what style it should use for this object or link. The most great idea of Mind Pad: Mind Pad is easy to use software. As long as it supports powerful object oriented-methodology and scripting, it’s very simple software. It’s easy to use it for every day mind mapping. If you really want to make use of powerful object-oriented mind mapping, then you should spend some time and learn how to create a frame objects using Model Editor. This object should have all properties you need to represent some data in mind map. If you ever asked for a simple looking mind map with ability to create some editable properties for your topics then Mind Pad is what you was looking for. Please, visit www.mind-pad.com for more information.

     Task management together with project management and time management, help us achieve the goals we set. We believe that task management is even more powerful because task is a fundamental unit of anything we do, so if we do something wrong on task level, it will affect the whole project or business plan. We gathered all the knowledge about task management stating from creating a task till its completion and present task management technique as practical and useful tips for people who want to work better as the better you manage tasks the more productive you are.

     Task management together with project management and time management, help us achieve the goals we set. We believe that task management is even more powerful because task is a fundamental unit of anything we do, so if we do something wrong on task level, it will affect the whole project or business plan. We gathered all the knowledge about task management stating from creating a task till its completion and present task management technique as practical and useful tips for people who want to work better as the better you manage tasks the more productive you are.