construction companies need the Job Costing Modules with BoM. They seem to all treat man-hours as inventory... depending on what they ARE doing they bill differently for hours or by the task. Also consumables are bil accordingly.

One company does straight insurance work, amazing they are busting out all over the place... I put in a Dual Athlon machine a while ago for them... they are in process to open whistle stop offices for the crews and also to allow claimants to "view", print, sign-off of quotes, billings, completions and such. Also be able to enter time-cards, print bills, accept payments and other such sundry. Biggey thing is, VPN to connect the LANs together. All going to be connected via 1.5Mb SDSL or better to the same DSL head-end making connections more reliable... at least in theory... 6 remote offices and one main...

Each end going to have a Firewall/VPN, afackup or amanda or even arkeia for backups... back to the main machine...

They have literally grown to be come the preferred contractor for 3 insurance companies in Western Middle Michigan... basically the outline is Lansing, Ludington, Lake Michigan and South Haven.