Overview

Most organizations are critically dependent on their cost, benefit, and risk assessment know-how. Capture, protect, and distribute this valuable knowledge asset with the SMARTCOST® software.

Protect and Leverage your Knowledge Assets

Capture best-practice cost estimation knowledge with the SMARTCOST® software, and make it available when and where it is needed. Integrate multiple knowledge sources to generate total-cost-of-ownership predictions. Easily perform cost/risk trade-off studies across multiple alternatives.

Arm your purchasing agents and business managers with powerful should-cost estimating tools. Standardize and provide automated support for negotiations across your vendor community. Augment your life-cycle planning and design with life-cycle cost benefit results. Leverage your Microsoft Office® investment into a knowledge asset delivery vehicle.

Fast-track Cost Estimating Knowledge Capture & Delivery

Identify the significant cost elements in a domain and the attributes that drive their costs. Capture rules that encode experts’ experience in how costs are realized. Visually organize your knowledge bases within a product or work breakdown structure (WBS). Dynamically pivot to view your knowledge in different ways. Create reusable knowledge modules of an entire knowledge base or just pieces of the knowledge base. Assemble composite knowledge bases from these reusable components. Generate multi-level cost models supporting estimation summary, and drill down to details.

SMARTCOST® automatically generates executable models in Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets from your knowledge base. Users of these models can enter values for cost drivers through user-friendly forms and menus automatically generated by SMARTCOST®. Instantly view the effects of changes in the models at any level of detail from the individual elements to the top-most rollup. Investigate and document any number of estimating scenarios—from cost trade-off analysis to accurate estimation of product pricing and project costs.