About DESTINI Estimator
DESTINI Estimator is a cloud-based and on-premise solution designed to help construction businesses streamline processes related to pre-construction estimating, cost comparison, data management, and more. The platform comes with a sorting tool, which enables users to create and categorize estimates data using customizable fields.
DESTINI Estimator includes 2D and 3D takeoff modules, which allow organizations to determine costs, track changes, and update projects using vector PDFs and conceptual modeling functionalities. Key features of the solution include building information modelling, 'what-if' analysis, bid codes, and a historical database. The built-in comparison reporting functionality lets administrators compare projects and estimates data, to manage resources and improve decision making across the pipeline.
DESTINI Estimator enables managers to import drawings and documents from Procore construction management software, facilitating version tracking and financial data uploading for budgeting. Plus, the system supports integration with various third-party applications, such as Autodesk BIM 360, Power BI, Navisworks, Microsoft Excel, and more.
Pricing starting from:
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- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Markets
Canada, United States
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
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- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Extreme Flexibility
Reviewed on 10/14/2022
Pros
The ability of the product to easily mold to your company’s estimating database to the program. Most other programs are exceedingly difficult to manipulate.
Cons
Inability to easily bulk update information across all estimates without having advanced knowledge of SQL (I.e. meta data, WBS nomenclature, “data cleanup”).
Reasons for Choosing DESTINI Estimator
Product was no longer being supported.Reasons for Switching to DESTINI Estimator
Flexibility of customization- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Leading Edge Estimating
Reviewed on 8/18/2020
Implementation takes time. They don't offer a canned out of the box database for costs or assemblies...
Implementation takes time. They don't offer a canned out of the box database for costs or assemblies. So be ready to bring your own or build from scratch.
Pros
Beck-Tech has a tremendous support team to help with issues, bugs and general how-to's. The flexibility of the software allows the user to bend it to his/her will. We especially enjoy having all our estimates in a single database for quick resourcing of historical costs and enterprise level collaboration.
Cons
Not sure it's a Con so much as a point to before purchasing: because Beck-Tech is a leading edge software developer changes in the software are frequent (2-3 times per year). This means your team had better be comfortable with adaptation and pushing the limits of software.
Reasons for Choosing DESTINI Estimator
Sage wasn't keeping up, didn't offer a solution that would accomplish what we needed to going forward as a company.Switched From
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Flexibility, Level of Service and direct access to development team for special cases.Response from Beck Technology
Jan!
We appreciate your review of DESTINI Estimator! It's great to hear that you've found lots of value and help from our support team.
Continuously innovating our product is a goal of ours and we appreciate the feedback on how to enhance the process on the customer side!
-Beck Technology Team
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
DP Review
Reviewed on 2/3/2022
Help desk is great. but seems when we fix one issue another one comes about. consist battle
Help desk is great. but seems when we fix one issue another one comes about. consist battle
Pros
Takeoff and estimator is in one location not two software's
Cons
Takeoff is terrible, not user friendly, terrible product compared to actually takeoff software, estimate version is not user friendly, change production in two places, same line items dont roll up (even with the toggle roll up). Importing rates with modified crews all screws up. Consistently finding destini glitches
Response from Beck Technology
We are excited to have improved our takeoff capabilities with our most recent version update. Thanks to feedback from our clients we can now provide capabilities that exceed anything on the market today. We also streamlined the versioning process and greatly improved the performance while we were at it. Please connect with our Support team to see how you can get the update. We have more takeoff improvements in the works, too! You are correct that our takeoff capabilities are not like other takeoff platforms because we are working diligently to streamline the entire estimating process. We are always eager to connect with our users on how we can constantly improve our products.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Destini Estimator Review
Reviewed on 11/8/2022
Using Destini Estimator has overall been a positive experience. The customer success and support...
Using Destini Estimator has overall been a positive experience. The customer success and support teams are fantastic. They are also working on expanding and developing the product. The BIM 360 integration is what we are most excited about in the future as this tool is increasingly used and as architects continue to develop their models. The new automatic pricing feature makes the software more intuitive and reduces the number of steps needed to perform takeoff and automatically link the takeoff to the line items in the estimate.
Pros
The automatic pricing functionality makes takeoff and pricing easy to gather quantiles from the plans and link to the estimate line item costs. The ability to break down an estimate into different scopes, phases, alternates and base bid or any number of scenarios using the WBS features. The BIM 360 tool is one of the most impressive features and the ability to pull quantities for the estimate from the model.
Cons
Onsite deployment is cumbersome and spotty. I would recommend the cloud base solution. The challenge with cloud based deployment and use is you loose connectivity if your internet connection goes down. The takeoff software needs additional functionality with takeoff tools similar to more mainstream products.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Destini Estimator
Reviewed on 8/18/2020
Great Service, they need more program developers
Great Service, they need more program developers
Pros
The features are very good, it has great reporting features and different ways of presenting the cost, for much easier analysis. Great 3D takeoff features but if you are in early stages of design you can't only rely on BIM models. You can't allow your estimate to be as good as your BIM model
Cons
Implementation needs to be more standardized, the support and implementation teams have done everything they can but the development of the program is lagging. 2D takeoff must be greatly improved. There has to be a simpler way to build assemblies. No available online tutorials. Need realistic set in stone dates for releases of required updates
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Easyof bid analysis, reporting cpavilities and 3D take offResponse from Beck Technology
Carlos,
Thank you for the 5 star review of DESTINI Estimator. We are glad to hear that you've enjoyed the service from our team and 3D takeoff in DESTINI Estimator!
We've relayed your feedback to our implementation team. Also, the upcoming version release of DESTINI Estimator will include major enhancements to our 2D takeoff capabilities. Stay tuned for more information!
-Beck Technology Team
DESTINI Estimator FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for DESTINI Estimator.Q. What type of pricing plans does DESTINI Estimator offer?
DESTINI Estimator offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from:
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
Contact Beck Technology for pricing details.
Q. Who are the typical users of DESTINI Estimator?
DESTINI Estimator has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-5,000
Q. What languages does DESTINI Estimator support?
DESTINI Estimator supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does DESTINI Estimator support mobile devices?
DESTINI Estimator supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does DESTINI Estimator integrate with?
DESTINI Estimator integrates with the following applications:
Autodesk Construction Cloud, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, Procore
Q. What level of support does DESTINI Estimator offer?
DESTINI Estimator offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, Chat
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