The Project System brings to the table a flexible estimating platform that will be used by the National Accounts Division of Muzak to speed up its estimating process on system installations around the country. The National Accounts division submits a large volume of proposals to national chain accounts and The Project System will enable Muzak to turn them around to its clients quickly and efficiently. The feature-set, which includes assemblies, customer-based pricing and the ability to centralize maintenance of price lists, were major factors in this decision. Furthermore, The Project System has a highly flexible form generation tool that allows Muzak to customize the look and feel of proposals according their clients' requirements. The Project System also incorporates a powerful and flexible report generation tool that will allow Muzak to produce a variety of management reports quickly and easily.
Stardraw A/V provides the front-end drawing package that enables the production of accurate engineering schematics, rack layouts, custom panel designs, sales presentations etc. Once the system drawings are complete, the relevant information is sent to The Project System for estimating, proposal generation and project management purposes.
Once Muzak matures the various output forms and other tool sets within The Project System and Stardraw A/V, it is anticipated that they will roll the solution out to their other offices around the country. Dove Net's Tony Nasca comments: "The Project System and Stardraw A/V are like two halves of the same coin, with Stardraw providing all of the drawing tools required to build complex system designs in minutes rather than hours, while The Project System handles all of the business administration with equal speed and efficiency. The combination of the two packages offers systems integrators the ultimate business solution."
(Lee Baldock)
