Vico Software Cost Manager grants the tightest possible control over your project's budget. With its straightforward visual monitoring system, you easily grasp and communicate project cost variances, and compare them to targeted costs. Cost Manager's unique graphic interface provides a color-coded macro-level view of project costs. This clear picture allows you to immediately analyze variances, and track them to individual project elements.

Cost Manager's firm integration within the Vico Software Construction suite further enhances users' understanding and communication of project cost issues. All estimating data from Vico Estimator can be seamlessly integrated into Cost Manager and made available for analysis. Combined with Vico Software's 5D Presenter, project team members can visualize, in three dimensions, the connection between model elements and selected cost items.

Cost Manager let you:

• Define and compare estimating versions against target costs
• Analyze cost and quantity variance
• Visualize linked 3D model elements and cost items
• Learn and use the system easily with video instructions
• Import data directly from Vico Estimator or Microsoft Excel

Ready, Set, Go

Import Project Budgets and Estimates
Begin cost-managing your project by importing data from Vico Software Estimator or Microsoft Excel.

Target Cost
Define Target Costs for items in the cost structure with a known available budget.

Import Versions of Project Estimates
Add cost versions. Easily access historical versions through the timeline bar.

Compare Versions
Select a cost version from the timeline and compare it with the target cost. Cost explorer's colored icons provide clear feedback regarding over-budget situations, enabling quick identification of variances.

Analyze and Annotate
Review estimating data in project data panel. Colored arrow icons provide clear feedback about price and/or quantity variances.

Highlighted features of Cost Manager

Import from Excel
Benefit from Cost Manager 2008 functionality – even when Excel spreadsheets are your data source.

Import from Vico Estimator
Import Estimator data to Cost Manager. All recipes, methods and resource data can be imported, along with any associated quantities.

Setting Target Costs
Increase budget control by setting target costs. This can be done using cost values or percentages of the overall budget.

Side-by-Side Comparison
Allow for easy identification of cost and quantity variations between cost versions.

Add Comment Callouts
Improve communication by attaching notes to cost items. These notes appear as callouts when hovering over saved items.

5D Presenter Integration
Visualize cost items in the 5D model. 3D model elements related to selected cost items will be highlighted.