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June, 2011
Editor's Message
Summertime and Extensions is…Changing
As many of you know, we do not publish our Extensions newsletter in July. This year, however, you will see a new face on our August newsletter. As we continue our integration into the larger Trimble family, Extensions will bring the QuickPen brand into the fold, providing you, our subscribers, with a larger offering of industry information and valuable tidbits. We are excited about this change and look forward to hearing your feedback when we return from our summer hiatus — refreshed and rebranded. We wish you all a safe and enjoyable summer.
Industry Insights
June, 2011
Finally an Automated Count that Works Well.
Finding ways to save time in estimating while retaining a high level of accuracy, has been one of the key focuses of research for Accubid and arguably for any estimating system developer.
In the past, we have looked at Optical Character...
The Specialist
June, 2011
Part 1: Making the Leap to a RDBMS Enterprise Calibre Solution Power By SQL Server
By Al Ricci, Director of Sales & Service
An RDBMS, or Relational Database Management System, is a database management system in which data and the relationships between that data are stored in tables. The data can be accessed or reorganized in many different ways, without the need to hav...
Trainer’s Corner
June, 2011
Creating an Estimate Breakdown and Allocating Costs
In Accubid PRO you can break down an estimate; this breakdown would include all direct and indirect costs as well as any taxes, overhead or markups applied to the costs.
