Acumatica Construction Edition vs CMiC

Acumatica Construction Edition is a cloud construction business management solution for small and midsized general contractors, MEP professionals, specialty trades, home builders, and heavy civil contractors. Its financial and project tools cover job costing, project management, progress billing, cost projections, retainage, commitments, and subcontractor management, with advanced project reporting. Field teams can use mobile devices to submit time and expenses, update RFIs, send daily reports, and annotate drawings and photo logs. Change order workflows support unit-rate, retainage, and cost-only changes and can link drop-ship workflows. The platform supports browser access and mobile use on Android and iOS, with public- or private-cloud deployment. Acumatica describes an open platform with APIs and integrations including STACK for takeoff and estimating, Procore, SmartSheet, Office 365, DocuSign, and Adobe. Listed security measures include role-based controls, MFA, encryption, audit trails, backups, and disaster recovery. Acumatica says it meets or exceeds standards including SOC 1/2/3, GDPR, and FDA. Pricing is custom, based on applications, usage, resources, and deployment preferences rather than user seats, and sales run through its partner channel.

CMiC is a construction ERP for managing financials, projects, workflows and analytics. Its financial tools include construction accounting, project controls, equipment and inventory, opportunity management, payroll and human capital management. Project management covers controls, drawings and construction documents, prequalification and procurement, quality, and safety. CMiC says its Single Database Platform brings financials, projects, resources and content assets together. Deployment options include on-premise installations, private-cloud Platform-as-a-Service and multi-tenant cloud Software-as-a-Service. Listed integrations include Bluebeam, Kofax, DocuSign, Microsoft Integration Package, Power BI and ImageTrust. Its APIs expose enterprise business logic through endpoints for connecting with other applications; a global API request record limit began with Patch 22. CMiC also offers mobile products for smartphones, tablets and desktops, including Construct APR, CHK, CT, ESS, OM, PM and PR. Construct ESS is available for iOS and Android. The company serves general and specialty contractors, heavy/highway firms and project owners. Pricing is available on request.