Procore于10月27日宣布，它已收购了估算软件制造商Esticom。

总部位于德克萨斯州奥斯汀的Esticom主要为专业承包商的施工估计量提供服务，从而自动化了大部分起飞和竞标过程。该公司最近有1,000多名客户和大约1,600名用户，最近一直向总承包商和混凝土承包商扩展。它的软件已与Procore的项目管理软件平台集成了去年。未披露收购条款。

“We have all this data in our system, and now we’re closing the loop with estimating,” says Wyatt Jenkins, Procore senior vice president for product. He notes that Procore’s customers have been increasingly asking for all their project data to flow in through the same system. “They want us to get into preconstruction,” he explains. “They want all that work they do in preconstruction to flow into the rest of course of construction.”

Esticomco-founder and CEO Chris Lee says “our goal was always to do estimating and takeoff and be the best at that. Because of this [acquisition] we can focus on doing the takeoff and estimating, and now push that data into Procore.”

Esticom的软件目前允许公司从起飞中构建出价文件，节省时间并减少错误。Lee说，许多估计器仍在跨多点解决方案来管理其投标和起飞，其中还有更多的Excel电子表格。他解释说：“我们想在一个平台上完成所有估计和起飞工作，并确保我们不仅建立了另一点解决方案。”“真正的魔术是将起飞数据归为估算以创建提案。”

Getting that bid and preconstruction work into the construction flow was already on Esticom’s roadmap before the Procore acquisition, says Lee.

“When an estimator goes and bids on projects and wins projects, they'll be able to click a button and hand that off to the project manager who can create a schedule based on budgeting data,” he says. “Now that data is all there, and you don’t have to print out plans and go into spreadsheets to do a project breakdown.”

While there are already integrations between Esticom and Procore, these connections are going to go deeper, with construction performance data and actual costs eventually flowing back into Esticom to better inform future bids. “We are doing a lot of R&D in project financials right now,” says Jenkins. “So we can have the financial data connect back into the estimating data. It’s an interesting loop.”

But just matching data from preconstruction to construction opens up new possibilities, says Lee. “The biggest benefit in integrating with Procore is in the project budget and cost controls—what you need to do that will just flow over. Cost codes, labor cost codes, materials, it’s all in there.”

Lee tells ENR that there are no immediate plans to change Esticom’s pricing structure or the software’s interface, but users should expect to see tighter integrations with Procore’s platform being added through next year.