TESTIMONIALS

[Automatic Translation] The preparation of the sheets with the unit price breakdown presentation was done in about 10 minutes in CTime, after the initial tasks of data parameterization and model tuning, a task that took about 30 minutes. It is estimated that the time saving in the use of CTime was about one working day, when compared with the manual breakdown and filling of individual sheets for each of the 525 unit prices. As a matter of fact, we were pleased to witness, even though motivated by the last minute change in the markup, CTime allowed the readjustment of the new prices without any kind of stress.

[Automatic Translation] Through the use of CTime in the subcontract consultation processes, a significant improvement was achieved in the following aspects: - Simpler and faster creation of subcontractor packages; - After the preparation of a contact master, the process of sending emails to the various specialties is done in a matter of minutes, being possible to attach all the desired information, making the respective difference in each email. - It was possible to organize the emails sent in Outlook, through a function present in CTimeMS, allowing a later verification to be easier to be performed. - There was an increase of responses to the emails sent even if they had a negative response regarding the quotation request. I also thank the support provided by the Timelink team whenever errors or doubts about the correct functioning of the software arose.

[Automatic Translation] CTime (DC - Data Convertor) In my opinion, this new module of CTime allows companies to have a database of ratios permanently updated with a wide variety of options (by type of work, country, specialty, etc.). In this way it is possible to quickly assess the value of a particular project, making it possible to make a decision to bid or not according to the expected value and optimising the existing workload in the commercial/quotation departments. We are also sometimes faced with the need to make estimates quickly. With this new module and with a minimum of effort, this is possible. One aspect of great importance where I am currently working is that when composing the price of a particular speciality, which can have a major impact on the budget, we need to compare it with identical works to check if there is any discrepancy or if it is within the parameters considered normal. Over time this module will be able to produce a database that is easy to consult and update. CTimeMS (SR - Special Reports) This module allowed us to export the detail of price sheets directly to the template indicated by the client in a very short space of time. I would like to point out that this was a tender for Argentina in which it was necessary to present the detail of unit prices in the "currency" of origin, which in this case was 3. Another important issue is that we are working with our own resources, which gives rise to a unit price detail with many resources, resulting in a file with eighteen thousand lines. CTimeMS behaved in an exemplary way, having produced the desired form. Of course with the indispensable support of the Timelink team helping to configure the model. If you ask me how much time I saved compared to exporting and filling the form in a more traditional way, I think it would take at least 1 week.

[Automatic Translation] With the CTimeMS program sending the unit prices to the client's maps, the error margin was reduced to virtually 0 and the automatic processing time was only 10m and 41s. Done manually it would have taken at least 2 days. 11,590 Lines 6,845 prices distributed over 127 Excel sheets 10 separate files. 632 "Included + Excluded" prices.

I consider CTimeSR an extremely powerful tool. The ease with which we resolve reports for delivery to our Clients, coupled with the speed [fundamental in our area] with which it completes these reports is formidable. Not forgetting the certainty that it produces no errors in the elaboration of the reports. In a project with about 1000 unit prices we save about thirty to forty hours of work, i.e., to elaborate the same reports without the use of CTimeSR we would take about one week of work, with the use of CTimeSR in the maximum of the maximum about two hours.

[Automatic Translation] From the brief presentation of the "Candy 360 Report", I was really impressed with its potential. The ease, speed and visualization of the budget as a whole in order to make decisions more quickly and effectively and also the possibility of recording information from previous projects that can serve as benchmarking to validate the budget or make a first estimate of the work before moving on to the study, all in a single tool and a click away, makes this system a tool to be considered.

[Automatic Translation] I would like to thank you in advance for the precious help you gave in solving a problem I had to create a report. This report that was not getting the desired answers, so with your promptness and the fantastic tool CTimeMS my problem in less than 5 minutes had immediate resolution. From what I saw, I have no doubt that this is a tool that I will use and explore many times, because it has a huge potential. I recommend to those who have never tried it to do it quickly, because you can get information that often take hours in a few minutes. Once again thank you very much

[Automatic Translation] First of all, I would like to highlight the availability of the "Timelink" team for all the support provided, even in this critical phase we are all living. Despite knowing this application for a few years, through some colleagues in the area, only in the last tender in which I was involved I had the need to use CTime. The file received from the client, in addition to having the articles / statement of work and quantities distributed by 44 Excel sheets, presented several different formats, with hidden cells for summations and partial measurements, having been prepared by several designers, each with its form / formatting, and compiled sheet by sheet in a single file. I should also point out that the client's maps of works, consolidated into a single file, had around 32,000 lines and over 6,650 price codes. Using the application I was able to obtain a consolidated client file in just 3 m 42 s, which, using traditional cut / copy and paste methods would take, at best, 1.5 days of work. Besides this speed, I was able to have total control of the columns and quantities imported into CCS, since the application also provides this information, through messages and txt files created by it. Already in the final phase, it allowed the direct exportation of the CCS to the customer's file in only 6 m 31 s (6.650 prices distributed by 44 sheets) and thus saving more than 2 days of work for the introduction of the unit prices (manual) in the customer's file. In short, this application has helped me a lot by simplifying ancillary processes for budget preparation and thus have more time to perform / study other more important tasks of the proposal. I will, with all certainty, use it in this and other functionalities that it has. I fully recommend its use to all colleagues!

[Automatic Translation] I should note that the file in question was "huge" with about 5,300 prices to fill in, spread over 40 different sheets. Working the file so that it could be imported into Candy with the help of CTimeMS took less than an hour because it was the first time I had ever worked with the program and I made a few mistakes. The transfer of prices from Candy to Excel took 13 minutes !!!! If I had to perform these operations by traditional methods I would have needed at least a day's work for each of the operations (import + export).

[Automatic Translation] Regarding the 2 sub-modules that I tested and which we have been optimizing their performance I would like to mention the following: (BC) Bill Consolidation : This module solves a problem that had been affecting us for some time, that is, on the last day to deliver the proposal, we would have to enter all the prices in the client's Excel list and its various worksheets, taking several hours that we did not have. With the competence of this module, we have, in my opinion, two great benefits, the compilation of the whole price list for its introduction in the CCS, saving time and the other great advantage is without a doubt the final loading of the unit prices in the Project Owner's list in a very quick (practically automatic) and reliable way. With extensive listings we save a lot of time and reduce the error to zero. (DT) Data Transfer: In my opinion, this module is the "jewel in the crown", it saves time that the estimator does not have. After 2 budgets executed with the loading of subcontracts through this module, I can only say one word, spectacular. As an example, here are some expressive numbers. Insertion of prices using the traditional method: -3 proposals for each speciality (water/electricity/avac) with +- 1,000 unit prices = 9,000. Time +- 9 hours of work (1 day) Price insertion by Data Transfer method : -3 proposals of each specialty (water/electricity/avac) with +- 1.000 unit prices = 9.000. Time +- 1 hours of work

[Automatic Translation] This is a module that will allow us to have a snapshot of several contracts in a quick and reliable way. With it, we can quickly analyse the ratios of contracts we have already studied and use them to predict the value of new contracts being studied. As an example, this new functionality allows us to predict in a few minutes whether the base price will be sufficient. In the case of public works contracts, there is an added interest in knowing that it is not permitted to exceed the base value of the tender. Which, from my own experience, has been happening more and more! The CD was conceived to save days of study in vain, i.e., until now the method would be to study the contract and at the end of the study we would know if the value would be below the base price imposed. We would be using human resources that could be monetised in other studies. Note that it is not a tool that produces a final budget with a list of unit prices, but with some inputs it can make a very rough estimate of the value of the main types of work and the final value of a contract. I am sure that it will be very useful for those in charge of a budgeting department when deciding to carry out some studies.

[Automatic Translation] I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the excellent work done. You not only met our expectations, but exceeded them with quality and dedication, saving us countless hours of work. Your commitment, efficiency and agility were essential to the success of this project, as we know that the work was truly challenging. But we also know that the feeling of achieving the goal is better than the challenge. It is great to know that we have such competent and committed professionals as partners. Congratulations on your excellent performance and thank you very much for all your effort!

[Automatic Translation] I would like to inform you that the price return to the client list was successful. As I mentioned, this is a tender Bill of Quantities with 4536 pages, spread across 15 Excel files with a total of 114 sheets - I've never seen anything like it! The return of the unit prices by the conventional process, for the 24 380 unit prices, would take approximately 30 hours (almost 4 days) of manual work, with aggravated possibility of error by the monotony of the task. With CTimeMS this same process of returning the sale prices to the original client list was achieved in 9minutes 44 seconds!

[Automatic Translation] Following several uses of the module CTIME MS, I leave here my testimony of the greatest value of the use of this module in the day-to-day of a budgeting. I have used it for 15 years now, using "Bill Consolidation", "Data Transfer" and "Send Mail". - Bill Consolidation (BC) With the requirement of the Project Owners and the Supervisors to fill in the MQT's provided, the systematic filling in of these files becomes essential. In a process of several files and several sheets, in order to be filled in quickly, a lot of preparation time was necessary or, if there was no preparation, the manual introduction process could compromise the delivery of a budget. This wasted time would be multiplied by the number of revisions to the MQT's. With the BC module, the time reduction is significant. - Data Transfer (DT) As several subcontractors, mainly specialised ones, use their own budgeting systems and with the need to send proposals to several contractors, the proposals are normally sent with their own Excel file. This characteristic makes it impossible to use the importation of quotations directly into the Candy System. In my experience, an electrical installation tender can take up to an hour to enter into the comparison charts. This time is reduced to a few minutes with the DT module. This systematic method also reduces the likelihood of incorrect prices being entered. - Send Mail (SD) With the need to make a huge amount of queries for each process, it is necessary to keep a more or less careful register of the e-mails sent. With the use of SD, it becomes extremely simple to send queries and register them to allow their control. Sending the same query to 10 subcontractors takes the same time as sending one query. In summary, all these functionalities result in a significant reduction in the time taken to carry out routine tasks in the quotation process.

[Automatic Translation] In a construction site, it was necessary to subdivide the net and the selling unit rate in several groups (Resource Group), according to the contribution of each resource in the unit rate of each item. This new CTimeMS functionality allows us to perform this task with great efficiency and time savings. Otherwise the task would become almost impossible. Well Done! We thank you for your commitment and quickenessin making this new feature available.

[Automatic Translation] In a first analysis we verify that there was a lot of commitment and professionalism in the search for a tool that gathers data of the composition of direct costs and general expenses, aggregates and complements them in tables and auxiliary maps of technical evaluation and analysis for the perfecting of the technical closing of the study of a price and deadline proposal. In our times of adjustment to an increasingly global economy, it is necessary to equip ourselves with means and procedures that allow us to visualise values and ratios and, in a quick and expeditious manner, simulate possible alterations or adjustments for the success of the proposals to be presented. This is, indeed, an application that mirrors versatility and objectivity in a closing works matrix. Congratulations on the work developed!

[Automatic Translation] CTime MS is a tool that I strongly recommend because it is very intuitive to use and saves us a lot of time. The features I use the most in this tool are "Bill Consolidation" which compiles a Bill of Quantities, coming from the Owner, in several Excel sheets into a single file already with the external link for passing to the CCS, in seconds, requiring only a few minutes of file preparation, while without the tool it would take significantly longer. The other aspect I use is "Data Tranfer" which is used to pass the subcontractor's proposal to the CCS MC, even if it doesn't have exactly the same number of lines or description. This passage is done in seconds, spending only a few more minutes for data analysis, so we can import the comparison map to the CCS. I recommend everyone to try it. After trying it, let's think how we would do this without this tool I didn't put times because it's relative, it depends on the map that is being analyzed and the way the subcontractor sends his, but in a case without big "problems" it takes me about 2 min with CTimeMS when it would take 30 min at least without CTime.

[Automatic Translation] CTimeBI is the ideal tool to meet the needs of any construction company, as it generates financial and non-financial information for the decision process, sustains the management support information systems and serves as support to the entire management process. CTimeBI is also future-oriented, as it diagnoses the past reality, aligns strategy with execution, due to its capacity to consolidate the results of all projects, enabling timely decision making and implementation of corrective actions, supporting the establishment of objectives and definition of action plans, and designing monitoring and decision support reports. It is a tool that consolidates the necessary information to monitor the entire management cycle of each project or of all projects, from objectives to performance evaluation. A relevant aspect of CTimeBI is the time savings in obtaining consolidated results from all projects, which translates into a cost-benefit balance in obtaining consolidated information.

[Automatic Translation] CTimeMS is a very important tool and speeds up the import and export work of Excel files to CCS and then to the Client file. I already had several cases that if it wasn't CTimeMS, in the importation for the CCS would be some hours to do and in the exportation for the sheets of the client would be still more, therefore I already had files with many Workbooks and Worksheets, I pass the image with two important works in that sense: 1º The Work with more W/S that I had was with 183 W/S as it shows in the image, if I didn't have this tool it would be without a doubt some long hours to introduce the prices in the file of the client, what thus I obtained to make in 3m and 80s. 2º I had a process with several files in Excel, in which the sheets were blocked and with several configurations of the columns. With the help of this tool I managed to pass to CCS in a little more than 30 minutes. What would be impossible to do without CTimeMS because the files were locked and not even allowed to copy, the customer would have to give the pass to unlock and then not even without how could do to pass without CCS because the columns have 3 different configurations in several files, as you can see in the image below.

[Automatic Translation] The BC module of CTimeMS greatly simplifies our work either when starting a budget with more complicated joints or at the end of the budget when importing the values / prices for the client's sheet. Allows us to save a lot of time at the stage of consolidation of several sheets, because we can quickly solve several possible problems such as descriptions in several columns, columns without description but with unit and quantity. It is undoubtedly an asset.

[Automatic Translation] Regarding this tender in Africa, there were several problems in filling in the sale prices which made the process quite complex. The complexity had to do with: - The client required the prices to be filled in on Excel sheets in the tender process; - The process had seven files that needed to be condensed in the CCS. Each of these seven files had several sheets (Sheets), ranging from 14 to 41 sheets in each file; - Of the seven files, five had a similar row and column structure and the other two had a different structure; - In each of the seven files there was always one sheet that had a different column layout from all the other sheets. - In all sheets the sales price had to be presented with a five-column split. The number of prices to quote was approximately 2,000. In conclusion and with this scenario, if we had chosen to write the prices manually in Excel, we would have 2,000 x 5 = 10,000 prices to write. We estimate that with this method, it would be necessary, roughly speaking, for a technician to work 7 days x 8 hours = 56 hours, with a high possibility of mistakes in typing the numbers. Added to these hours is the normal time taken to prepare the Excel files and export them to CCS, which I estimate to be at least 2 hours. In comparison, with the CTime method that was used, we had to spend roughly 4 hours preparing the files and 3 minutes doing the final export from CTime to Excel files. These times spent have to do with: - In a first phase, I was via Skype with João Custódio from Timelink analyzing the problem and checking the way the Excel files were organized. (1,5 hours) - Next I had to prepare the CTime file by marking the target columns where each of the sheets would be "nailed" (1,0 hours) - I was again via Skype with João Custódio to make the final arrangements of file preparation and export to CCS (1 hour). - After finalizing the budget, I was via Skype with João Custódio to prepare the exportation, which took a little longer because during the study process the philosophy of treating the prices was changed and it was verified that the target column of the unit price would have to be altered. Preparation time = 0.5 hours. - Once this work was completed the export was started and took 3 minutes. This number of hours spent could be reduced with practice since it was the first time I was using the program which made the process somewhat difficult. In conclusion, this method is very fast and proved to be very reliable. It has the great advantage that, although some time is lost in preparation, this is done at the beginning of the budgeting process where there is still time and it saves many hours at the end of the process, when time is short and the stress to finalise the proposal is too much.

[Automatic Translation] A wonder! In what concerns the introduction of the articulation, it makes the work much easier, but it has nothing to do with the introduction of the final prices in the list of the Owner, a work that takes me on average 1h to 1.30h took me about 5 minutes including the beginner's hassles. I have to say everything very positive about your application.