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At a Glance
Comparison basis reviewed 29 October 2026: category-level workflow guidance, not a test of every vendor or current product version. Confirm the selected edition, modules, integrations and commercial proposal against your requirements.
DANAOS ProjectVIEW ERP offers a fully integrated platform that connects estimation with procurement, subcontractors management, labor productivity, and machinery utilization.
It ensures that budgeting reflects real-time market prices and availability. By delivering end-to-end project visibility, ProjectVIEW ERP goes beyond estimation to enable realistic, data-driven cost control—making it the stronger choice for contractors and shipyards seeking accuracy, efficiency, and profitability in every project.
General Comparison
- Universal, Concurrent
- Varies by product and scope; verify in the selected edition and proposal.
Universal cross-functional users in ProjectVIEW ERP provide seamless access across all modules based on their roles within each Project and Company within the same Company Group. This flexibility allows users to have varying access rights across Companies and Projects. The model enhances security, versatility, and collaboration, ensuring user universality while maintaining control.
- 5-7 months, streamlined Planning indication only. Duration depends on scope, migration, integrations, client readiness and the agreed implementation plan.
- Varies by product and scope; verify in the selected edition and proposal.
Out-of-the-box functionalities and implementation by subject-matter experts encourage user engagement and ensure a fast-track implementation, avoiding the delays and complexities associated with extensive customizations and third-party dependencies.
- Unlimited Extranet Users Unlimited external users apply to the named supplementary portals and agreed scope in the proposal and subscription terms.
- Varies by product and scope; verify in the selected edition and proposal.
Unlimited extranet users eliminate per-user licensing costs, enabling seamless collaboration and data capture from Suppliers, Subcontractors, and blue-collar Labor. This flexibility enhances agility, allowing Contractors to scale external interactions without worrying about additional fees or transactional overhead.
- Yes Applies while the subscription is active, subject to the agreed warranty, support and source-code escrow terms.
- Varies by product and scope; verify in the selected edition and proposal.
- DANAOS’ subject-matter experts
- Varies by product and scope; verify in the selected edition and proposal.
Expert-led support ensures seamless integration, quick and accurate resolution, and operational efficiency. Eliminating reliance on third-party consultants reduces costs and enhances accountability while providing unparalleled industry insights.
- Industry Readiness
- Varies by product and scope; verify in the selected edition and proposal.
Client recommendations to improve ProjectVIEW ERP are welcome. Scope, deliverables and any charges for bespoke development, integrations or services are governed by the agreed proposal and framework.
Operational Features
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ProjectVIEW ERP |
Estimation Apps |
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01 Capability to forecast and adapt to market changes |
Facilitates bidding accuracy through what-if/what-is bidding scenarios while allowing pricing forecasts for future cost and risk management
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ProjectVIEW ERP supports what-if and what-will bidding scenarios using the BoQ, cost recipes and resource analysis. Verify equivalent workflows in any shortlisted alternative. |
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02 Complete Suite of Modules and Site Applications |
Full suite of ERP modules and Site Applications that operate online and offline
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A comprehensive suite of ERP modules connect Site2Office and Office2Site placing budget and cost recipes on trial ensuring real-time actual vs. cost comparisons, interdepartmental collaboration, improved operational efficiency and productivity both on-site and in the office
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03 Trilateral Connectivity |
Trilateral Connectivity Between BoQ-WBS, Cost Codes to all Department Commercials and Financial departments
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Seamless connectivity between BoQ, WBS, and Cost Codes ensures real-time alignment across operational, commercial, and financial departments, enabling precise cost tracking and budget control. This integration eliminates discrepancies, enhances decision-making, and improves project profitability by providing a single source of truth for all stakeholders
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When BoQ quantities, site item requests, resource baselines and warehouse stocks are not linked, procurement requires reconciliation. Check multi-unit material associations, such as concrete in cubic metres, cement in bags and steel in tonnes. ProjectVIEW ERP links these flows through its BoQ, WBS and cost-code structure.
When the priced BoQ, resource recipes, schedule and site usage are maintained separately, the awarded budget can drift from procurement and production. ProjectVIEW ERP connects estimating, tendering, resource analysis and office/site processes within the same project cost structure.
ProjectVIEW ERP vs estimation apps: the short answer
Estimation apps price a BoQ from cost recipes and price lists. When the tender is won, the estimate usually leaves the app as a spreadsheet. ProjectVIEW ERP keeps the priced BoQ as the project budget: the same items drive procurement, subcontracts, progress and cost-to-complete, and actual prices and productivity flow back into the next bid. Category tendency only; capabilities vary by product, edition, configuration and integrations. Verify this workflow in the shortlisted system.
| Step | Estimation app | ProjectVIEW ERP |
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| Quantity take-off | Verify this workflow, its data links and any required modules or integrations in the shortlisted product. | ExtrAXION add-on and BIM (.ifc) |
| Pricing | Verify this workflow, its data links and any required modules or integrations in the shortlisted product. | Prices from procurement and subcontract data |
| Bid scenarios | Verify this workflow, its data links and any required modules or integrations in the shortlisted product. | What-if and what-will simulations, risk sizing, rough-cut capacity planning |
| After award | Verify this workflow, its data links and any required modules or integrations in the shortlisted product. | Priced BoQ becomes the budget, linked to WBS and cost codes |
| Feedback loop | Verify this workflow, its data links and any required modules or integrations in the shortlisted product. | Actual cost and productivity update the cost recipes |
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FAQ: ProjectVIEW ERP vs estimation apps
Does ProjectVIEW ERP replace an estimating tool such as CostX?
ProjectVIEW ERP covers estimating and bidding inside the ERP. Quantity take-off is available through the ExtrAXION add-on, and BoQs prepared in other tools or in Excel can be imported.
What is a what-if bid simulation?
It tests alternatives on the same BoQ, such as own forces or subcontract, different resources, prices or durations, and compares margin and risk before the tender price is fixed.
How does ProjectVIEW ERP make estimates more accurate?
It uses purchase prices, subcontract rates and site productivity recorded on previous projects, instead of static assumptions.
What happens to the estimate when the tender is won?
The priced BoQ becomes the project budget. Each item stays linked to WBS activities and cost codes, so budget, commitments, actual cost and forecast are compared item by item.
