The CRE unit’s blue chip solutions address the following construction industry needs:

• Accounting
• Estimating
• Project management
• Property management
• Production management for residential builders
• Procurement
• Reporting
• Service management
• Customer relationship management
• Financial management
• Document management
• Wireless connectivity
• Excel integration

Sage Timberline Office is an integrated family of financial and operations software that delivers a cross-functional system to pull everything together for streamlined, single- source control. Built around accounting and estimating software and backed by more than 30 years of proven dependability and award-winning support, today's full range of applications are able to accommodate the entire building lifecycle, from concept and estimate, to construction and facility management. By delivering a total solution, the Sage Timberline Office suite helps today’s construction and real estate firms improve processes, improve productivity and decrease costs. Sage Timberline Office software addresses the needs of the entire Construction and Real Estate industries including:

• Commercial and Industrial Contractors
• Corporate Owners and Government
• Real Estate Developers
• Real Estate Managers
• Residential Builders
• Electrical and Mechanical Contractors
• Specialty and Service Contractors

Aktion was recognized as Sage Timberline’s fastest growing dealer in 1996, as the number one Sage Timberline Office Accounting dealer in 1997, and the number one overall solution provider in the world in 2000. Aktion Associates is a member of the President’s Circle, a recognition by Sage Timberline for being a sales leader among Sage Timberline business partners.

Sage MasterBuilder is an industry-specific, fully integrated construction management solution that links all phases of your business cycle: estimating, production/project management, accounting, and analysis/reporting. For those construction companies outpacing generic software applications, Sage MasterBuilder is the next-level solution to help you effectively manage your complex and growing construction business. Its assembly-based estimating features, rich production resources, construction-compliant accounting engine, and leading-edge analysis tools give you better control over the complete project lifecycle.

Sage Master Builder helps you win more profitable bids, finish jobs faster, collect money quicker, and rapidly increase your revenues. Featuring advanced functionality to effectively manage your specialized processes, Sage Master Builder provides the powerful features you need to succeed today along with the flexibility to support your business in the future.

Third Party Products That Interface With Sage Timberline Office

Office Connector builds Excel spreadsheets based on Timberline information. Office Connector places an easy-to-use front-end on Excel allowing Timberline users access to Timberline databases. Use Office Connector to create spreadsheets for:

• Work in Process Reports
• Cash Flow
• G/L Trial Balances
• G/L Financial Statements
• Rent Roll
• Lease status
• Batch Reconciliation
• Executive Overview with graphing

MyAssistant is an easy-to-use software tool that actively monitors your business and notifies you of the details that keep it running smoothly. MyAssistant uses Microsoft Outlook* to proactively notify you. MyAssistant improves your productivity by automatically screening information and notifying you only of those things that are truly important or time sensitive. MyAssistant was developed specifically for the construction and real estate industries by Innovative Software Design Inc. whose staff has more than 60 years of combined experience working in product development and support for Timberline Software Corporation.

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TimberScan is an easy-to-use paperless accounts-payable processing system that is fully integrated with the Sage Timberline Office AP program. Designed by a Sage Timberline Authorized Developer, TimberScan enhances your AP system by adding a highly customizable distribution, review, approval and reporting system. Invoices coded and approved in TimberScan flow automatically to Timberline. There is no duplicate data entry. Register today to view a free Timberscan web cast.

FAS 100 Asset Accounting provides advanced fixed asset accounting and reporting features for businesses needing effective decision-making tools in integrated accounting environments. Chosen 3-to-1 over all competing solutions combined, FAS 100 Asset Accounting is the right choice for your company and is the best solution for managing fixed assets.

BuilderMT Production Management was developed for SageTimberline® Office to help builders control construction costs, pinpoint the reason for a variance, manage labor costs, handle contracts, and more. It works with popular front-end sales software, so sales offices can communicate with purchasing and accounting. Components of BuilderMT include:

Homebuilder management system that streamlines workflow and optimizes business practices. Production scheduling actively manages projects on the job site, improves communications, and exchanges information between ield supervisors and the office with Timberline Office. Sales pricing determines by community the models and options to make available. Establishes the retail price of each plan or option, and marks up costs by a percentage or by setting a market value. Production Model Management Tool (PMM) solves the problem of creating new models based on existing models. This tool has been created with the specific goal of allowing Production Management clients to easily copy base plans and options from one representative model to another new model.

Point Solutions

GTCO Digitizers automate the normally time-consuming and error-prone task of blueprint measurement, a critical part of the cost estimating process. GTCO digitizer’s are compatible with every leading estimating software program. This ensures each user’s hardware investment will be protected, and allows the broadest possible choice of software. With GTCO, estimators will:

• perform highly accurate takeoffs in less time
• submit more bids
• win more jobs

Field2Base is a mobile communications platform designed specifically for use at any construction job site. Field2Base is designed as a tool, not an application and does not require changing any current process, forms or systems.

Field2Base gives instant availability and revision control for any CAD, site plan, daily report, material order or document. Field2Base allows the exchange of all necessary information, including real-time photos, from the job site eliminating unnecessary travel.

• Eliminates unnecessary travel to the job site for Architects,
• Engineers, Project Managers and Owners
• Enables instant access to any CAD, anywhere
• Makes all paper forms digital
• Takes digital pictures instantly with annotation
• Maintains revision control of all documents
• Logs all job site information and activity
• Usable by non-computer personnel

Field2Base consists of a Tablet PC, operating software, forms engine and communications server. The tool does not require any computer skills to operate, appearing to the user as a thick “yellow pad”. Field2Base automates any paper forms or reports without change and allows immediate conversion to digital data. Most specialized applications can easily operate with Field2Base and it operates anywhere a cellular phone operates.

Fabtrol

The FTI program was designed to bridge the gap between Fabtrol and Timberline for common transactions that are generated in one system and duplicated in the other. The intent is to automate the process as much as possible to eliminate duplication of effort and possible inconsistent data in the two systems.

There are currently four common transactions (“touch points”) that could reside in both systems. They are; Budgets (or Estimates); Purchase Orders (Committed Costs); Stock Issues (Direct Costs) and Payroll Entries.

Each of these four touch points has an export feature within Fabtrol and an import feature within Timberline. The FTI program translates the Fabtrol export files into Timberline compatible import files. The export procedure in Fabtrol currently takes transactions from each of these areas and creates a separate ASCII common delimited text file.

These files are stored in a pre-determined folder on the file server. These text files are exported in a standard format and contain all fields associated to that type of record. In the existing state, these file would not be recognized by the Timberline import programs. The Aktion FTI Program locates the exported files and re-exports those files in a format that the Timberline import will accept. These reformatted export files are stored in a pre-determined folder on the file server.

A copy of the Fabtrol export files are copied to a “backup”folder for retrieval in case a failure occurs. Once re-exported, the files can then be imported using the Timberline import features. These import processes will check each transaction to make sure it will pass the import.

Transactions that cannot be imported are stored in a reject file and a report is produced as to the nature of the reject. The reject file can then be corrected and re-imported if needed. The FTI program can be run as often as needed and will convert ALL Fabtrol export files it discovers.

The program will need to be configured to map the proper fields from Fabtrol to Timberline. This is a one-time program configuration, unless there are changes to the program or the fields identified during the mapping. We will need to work with your Fabtrol and Timberline consultants to identify how and where this information will reside within each system.