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Viewpoint Construction Software™

ProContractor 3.4 and MEP Estimating 10.2 Product Enhancement Brief

We are pleased to bring you the ProContractor 3.4 release that contains significant enhancements to ProContractor, Earthwork, ProContractor Estimating, Construction Project Management (CPM), and a new mobile app, ProContractor Mobile. The Earthwork enhancements focus on giving you even more accuracy with your takeoffs, providing an even easier to use application and with ProContractor Estimating, offering you improved security. With CPM – the web based Project Management component of ProContractor, you’ll now have a single sign on, providing full visibility to back office staff. ProContractor Mobile is a new, cross platform solution enabling your project managers to access their project data and documents from anywhere, anytime. We are also pleased to announce the release of Viewpoint MEP Estimating 10.2 with improved usability, an updated pricing tool with a supplier facing web app and enhancements to Digital Takeoff for MEP Estimating These enhancements have been developed based on your feedback and advice and have been incorporated into this release to provide you with exceptional value.

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ProContractor-CPM

Construction Project Management (CPM) is the web-based project management component of

ProContractor, and now offers even deeper integration between CPM and ProContractor in a number of

important areas.

With this release, the following enhancements are now available:

Critical Documents Available in Both the

Field and the Office. This new feature

synchronizes document logs and binders

between the back office and field offices

and allows binder items and

attachments created in the field to be

available in the office and vice-versa.

Documents and files are now easily

moved back and forth providing greater

visibility to personnel whether they are

in the field or in the office.

Full Visibility with CPM-ProContractor

integration. With ProContractor you can

now launch web-based CPM in a tab within

ProContractor using a single sign on,

providing full visibility to back office staff.

Access to mission critical data with

Daily Field Reports. Enhancements have

been made to Daily Field Reports (DFR), with

data moving seamlessly from CPM to

ProContractor, including capture and sync of

Daily Updates, Work in Progress (WIP),

timesheets, and field PO Receipts. With

these enhancements, you’ll have access to

mission-critical data, whether in the office,

on the web, or on your mobile device.

Visibility is improved with binder items available in both field and

back-office systems.

Seamless experience: CPM now runs in a ProContractor tab using a

single sign on.

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Field Orders

The Field Orders functionality allows ProContractor users to schedule appointments, allocate people, and

display the consolidated information on a schedule board.

With this release, the following enhancements are now available:

Easier to understand Field orders

schedule board. Enhancements include

the addition of easy to understand

color-coded prioritization for

unscheduled appointments, added

columns for people and equipment, and

a new “who requested” field associated

with the appointment as well as contact

information. These enhancements all

bring additional information to the user

to enhance decision-making capability.

Connect Settings

Connect Settings is the centralized control panel that manages user settings and permissions for both Mobile

Connect and CPM.

With this release, the following enhancements are now available:

Save time and effort when setting up

and managing mobile users. The setup

and copying of permissions are improved to

greatly reduce the time it takes to create

mobile users. By consolidating the setup

into functional areas, and automating

various functions, these enhancements

significantly reduce the time and effort

required to manage mobile user settings

and permissions and reduce the possibility

of errors.

At a glance, grasp your appointment schedule with color coded

prioritization for unscheduled appointments.

Automation and setup consolidated into functional areas reduces

time and effort required to manage users.

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ProContractor Mobile

ProContractor Mobile is a new mobile extension to ProContractor, allowing project managers to access

important project documents and data, and transfer daily field report items back to the ProContractor

database, which allows users to work off-line and then sync when they have a web connection.

Users of Mobile Connect will continue to be able to use the product as they have for the foreseeable future,

and updates and bug fixes will continue.

With this new product release, the following enhancements are now available:

ProContractor Mobile is a new cross

platform product, featuring an easy to use

interface, and compatible with Apple

phones and tablets, Android phones and

tablets, and Windows phones and Windows

tablets. ProContractor Mobile for iOS will be

available in early April 2015, with the

Android and Microsoft versions available at

the end of the month.

Quick and Easy Field Timecard

Submittal. The new timecard submittal

allows individuals to submit their own

timecards from the field directly to

ProContractor for approval. Approved

timecards are then fully synchronized with

ProContractor payroll.

ProContractor Mobile users benefit from

a cleaner and more intuitive interface.

The app now features iOS, Android, and

Windows compatibility.

Field users can use ProContractor Mobile to

submit timecards to ProContractor for

approval.

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MEP Estimating

Viewpoint MEP Estimating is Viewpoint’s estimating product for specialty subcontractors working in the

mechanical, electrical, HVAC, and plumbing fields.

With this release, the following enhancements are now available:

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MEP Estimating is compatible with

Autodesk 2015. Enhancements include

compatibility with Autodesk 2015 and an

updated MEP Estimating plugin for

Autodesk users.

Fast and accurate supplier RFQs

Viewpoint‘s new Pricer web-based

pricing tool will speed RFQ

communications between contractor

and supplier, enhance accuracy, and

offer tight integration with MEP

Estimating. Pricer will also offer a

significantly improved user experience for

suppliers responding to RFQs through the

Pricer interface. Contractors will see

updates to the summary page, where colors

applied to supplier columns will denote

quotation status.

Reduce the number of clicks required

to perform action on multiple files. To

reduce the time and effort to perform

various actions on multiple files, a bulk

file action feature has been added, as

well as the ability to apply a template

associated with one job to another job to

avoid having to recreate templates for a

new job.

Supplier RFQ summary page, showing RFQ status.

Supplier RFQ detail displaying RFQ items to be priced.

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Easily crop sections of drawings to

create new files. Users of DTO gain the

ability to crop out an area of a drawing to

create a new sheet from which to do

takeoffs, allowing users to work with the

relevant portion of a drawing in much

greater detail.

Fewer clicks to takeoff a run of piping

or ductwork. Continuous Line is a

significant enhancement to DTO that greatly

reduces the number of clicks required to

takeoff a run of ductwork or piping. The

piping or duct gets taken off automatically

when selecting a Fitting (Elbow, Transition,

Reducer, etc.) Then the user can continue

on from where they left off without having

to select a starting point.

Digital Takeoff

Viewpoint Digital Takeoff (DTO) for MEP Estimating allows estimators to quickly and accurately perform a

takeoff directly from almost any digital file with no need for a digitizer board, a stylus pen, or even a set of

paper plans. Save thousands on printed blueprints and avoid the inconvenience of awkward, bulky paper

plans and perform takeoffs with greater accuracy and speed.

With this release, the following enhancements are now available:

Takeoff runs of ductwork or piping more easily and with fewer clicks.

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ProContractor Earthwork ProContractor offers earthwork takeoff software that is tailored to the needs of site work contractors, allowing users to perform digital takeoff quickly and accurately without the need to ever touch a set of bulky, expensive blueprints. With this release, the following enhancements are now available:

Faster takeoffs - Align to image

function. This new feature enables

faster and more accurate takeoff from

digital files by “snapping” Earthwork

takeoff lines to appropriate digital file

contour lines.

Takeoff lines now snap to digital contour lines.

More accuracy and clarity on takeoff

lines. This feature adds the ability to

set line color and thickness to

Earthwork takeoff lines, adding clarity

and accuracy and avoiding the

confusion of multiple black lines over

black lines.

Color and thickness of takeoff lines can be set to add clarity

and enhance accuracy.

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As always, we remain dedicated to improving and updating our software based on your feedback or industry changes, and assisting in the enhancement of business processes that drive your continued success. The above information is intended to outline our general product direction. It is not a commitment to deliver specific features or

functionality, and should not be relied upon in making decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality

described for Viewpoint Construction Software’s products remains at the sole discretion of Viewpoint.

Drag and Drop between Earthwork and

Estimating. For customers that have both

Earthwork and Estimating, this new feature

allows drag and drop integration between

the two products. This avoids the need to

manually cut and paste to a clipboard to

move Earthwork quantity information into

Estimating. Same screen drag and drop integration between Earthwork

and Estimating.

Direct Autocad 2014 imports. This enhancement offers the ability to import Autocad files

directly, up to the 2014 version without having to first save the file as an earlier version.

Completely updated and rewritten software. In order to provide you new features, and software that is even easier to use – Earthwork has been rewritten from the ground up. Although these changes are not visible to you, they will allow faster development and the ability for us to offer you richer functionality, reinforcing our commitment to investing in the product to better meet your needs.

ProContractor Estimating ProContractor Estimating enables contractors to significantly improve their takeoff, estimating, and

proposal management processes.

With this release, the following enhancement is now available:

Better security and configurability. A much requested feature, ProContractor Estimating now has ability to assign column level security to cost-related fields. Admin users can assign the ability to:

o View but not edit o Neither view nor edit o Both view and edit

Administrators can assign levels of security to cost related

columns.