Interfaces Overview

 

The InEight cloud platform has several options for synchronizing information from one platform to another. This gives you multiple options to utilize data efficiently between various programs, saving you time and resources.

The table below shows you the high-level functions of multiple platforms to help you better understand how these tools interrelate.

Overview – Interfaces

Title

Description

Estimate

Create CBS / ACS / WBS structures

Create cost estimates

Analyze contractor/supplier quotes

Prepare bid proposals

Benchmark estimate values

Contract

Create and manage bid packages

Set up and manage contracts

Create and manage issues and change orders

Control

Edit CBS / ACS / WBS structures

Manage budgets and contracts

Manage forecasts

Record actuals (manual entry, or import from Plan and ERP)

Calculate job costs / variances, earned values, contract earnings

Plan

Associate planning components with CBS / ACS / WBS structures

Create work plans and packages

Progress

Create work plans and daily plans

Record progress and timesheets (as-builts)

Approve executed daily plans

ERP

Budget, Payroll, Forecasts, AP/AR, Final Costs

For this lesson, you will focus on the programs that integrate directly with Control (after the initial import from Estimate) and will go over how to perform the basic “Push” and “Get” actions to move data between systems. 

The workflow diagram below shows the connections between the programs, and details on what data passes between the various InEight products: