We have had a couple of questions about recent release of Civil Pro and why there hasn’t been a lot of new features added. This is due to a couple of things. First, Civil Pro is now quite a mature piece of software, and within its core market, it does most of the things we need it to. Secondly, and most importantly, we are developing our application across new platforms as a priority to extending our functionality. We will release more information regarding our mobile platform, but it will be released before the end of 2015.

All this aside though, we have also been working on a pet project of ours for a couple of years off and on, and we are happy to advise of the alpha release of our new cost and forecasting module for Civil Pro. This is not included with the standard release, but if you are interested in using it in alpha release, then please contact us.

This module allows recording of project costs and production, and forecasting on a monthly basis for the purposes of reporting performance against budget and cashflow.

It isn’t meant to be a substitute for a corporate accounting system, it is a replacement for the daily cost spreadsheets, and forecast spreadsheets that seem to drown project engineers and project managers on most well run projects.  We have designed our system to be quick and easy to use. It provides whole of project forecasting and ties into the schedule, all without the formulaic and other referential issues that are found in nearly every spreadsheet of any complexity.