Fast-track Cost Estimating Knowledge Capture and 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.