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APEX is the premier software specifically designed for the pipeline industry that provides fully integrated cost and schedule estimating functions.
Developed over nearly two decades, APEX – Advanced Pipeline Estimating and eXecution Planning is the preferred choice for project professionals that value its singular focus. Constantly evolving with input from experienced pipeline construction professionals, senior project controls personnel, project management engineers and risk analysis experts working on major pipeline projects, APEX delivers the Foundation for Success.
Start using APEX today to significantly improve efficiency, data integrity, and accuracy.
Eliminate these problems and potentially catastrophic errors to create estimates you can trust.
With APEX, all data are stored in a SQL Server database and the same time-tested, robust algorithms are applied. That means repeatable, reliable, accurate and transparent estimates.
Now, instead of duplicating your time and effort across multiple solutions, you can use one top performing tool to deliver comprehensive, accurate and reliable pipeline estimates throughout the project life cycle.
Now that’s efficiency!
Project estimates and schedules often experience data integrity issues that can unnecessarily compromise the project.
Eliminate multiple workbooks with unknown security precautions and proactively manage your project data to protect against these pitfalls. It’s what your project deserves.
Accessible data:
- No more lost, hidden or inaccessible files.
- Your project is free from the “Bob is gone for the weekend” trap so many projects fall into.
- Instead, the entire team and various stakeholders can access the project data from one place.
Reliable data:
- Provides the peace of mind data integrity and security one single source of data provides.
- Produce repeatable calculations and data that come from a consistent application of proven logic, no matter what team member is working on the estimate.
Protected data:
- Benefit from world class SQL Server security standards, encryption, and backups.
- Your data is safeguarded against unauthorized access, system outages and other modern-day threats.
Auditable data:
- Understand the evolution of your estimates knowing who is doing what, when and where.
- Reduce the reliance on individual experience, facilitate knowledge transfer and better cope with senior staff retirement.
- Easily review team progress and estimate development every step of the way.
Now that’s data integrity!
- Easily modify the estimate to obtain updated cost, schedule or resource information.
- Perform key variable sensitivity studies to understand cost and schedule impacts.
- Develop realistic expectations for project cost, schedule and risk factors.
- Prepare accurate estimates, best and worst-case scenarios, detailed cost datasets, project baselines and configurable report packages.
Arrive at your estimate with total confidence and without compromise using powerful data analysis functions for every possible situation.
Now that’s accuracy!
Expedite estimates and increase accuracy with preloaded templates and fields.
APEX helps automate the estimating and scheduling process using example cases with pre-populated fields and templates drawn from years of experience.
- Senior engineers can now spend more time developing the estimate instead of developing calculations and algorithms from scratch.
- Reusing already optimized project templates and post completion analysis data to compare estimated vs. actual performance iteratively improves your estimating library.
- Junior team members add more value as the systemized approach of APEX helps guide and assist with the training process.
APEX saves time, increases accuracy, provides data insights and allows junior team members to add value sooner rather than later.
Support the entire project team with a tool that works the way the project does.
APEX allows each individual easy access to the data they need for their specific application.
- System engineers have the flexibility to create the project using the application interface or through Excel import for maximum flexibility.
- Data is organized, consolidated and coded to support all team members. All cost items are assigned a cost element and currency and optionally WBS and COA codes that can be mapped to cost management and financial systems.
- Save time replicating and reproducing work for each software. APEX easily integrates with your systems through modern software architecture and customized output.
APEX helps you understand construction trends and their impacts on cost and schedule.
Assess project risk and execution feasibility against business objectives.
APEX facilitates comprehensive data analysis through deterministic ‘What If’ calculations and probabilistic Monte Carlo simulation to provide critical insights.
- APEX includes tools to quickly create screening estimates using corporate benchmarks to assess the key elements of cost and schedule.
- The estimating model is the basis to accurately understand execution risk and related cost and schedule impacts by simulating best and worst-case scenarios, variability of production rates, unexpected work stoppages, potential cost escalation, resource fluctuations and any risk register items.
APEX generates critical information to understand the project’s feasibility, risk profile and an accurate expectation of project estimate and schedule.
Analyze estimate using detailed modeling options to provide a clear path forward.
Utilize industry accepted approach to probe estimate and analyze construction execution.
APEX provides robust details on project progress and its impact on business objectives. Data and analysis are available in both Micro and Macro views.
- Comprehensive fully trackable system data auditing can be used to review original baseline, develop check estimates, conduct due diligence and resolve stakeholder disputes.
- Quickly calculate the cost and schedule impacts of project delays and quantify the consequences of spread work stoppages during construction.
- Understand execution progress using cost and schedule variance analysis. Know what’s been done, where it’s been done, performance to date and the trends.
- Review cash flow (estimate, spread and/or operation), and view total or cumulative costs by cost element.
APEX allows you to easily compare progress against the baseline estimate.
Communicate easily and effectively so everyone has the information they need.
Generate detailed reports on project progress using powerful analytics and reporting features.
- Understand and communicate project progress and the impact of unforeseen changes to cost and schedule.
- Answer critical questions about the project confidently with answers supported by data.
- Maintain your project budget and cash flow during construction execution.
- Easily produce dashboard graphics. A picture is worth a thousand words.
- Understand progress details and make better decisions.
- Conduct thorough project analysis after completion to compare baseline to actual performance. Create benchmarks to iteratively improve estimates and schedules going forward.
APEX allows you to effectively communicate critical aspects of your project to all stakeholders.
