Programs are becoming increasingly ...

Programs are becoming increasingly sophisticated -- and indispensable

Contractors of all sizes are now depending in succession cost estimating software to bid onward projects.

According to a Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) take a view of 90 percent of contractors with incomes of more than $100 million annually now use a dedicated software program to estimate piece of works And smaller contractors, which have typically relied forward spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft's outstrip and IBM's Lotus, also are turning increasingly to estimating software. Last year, 53 percent of those with