Capital asset plans and Capital Improvement Plans (CIP) are critical tools for accurate budgeting and forecasting. Being able to identify which of your assets will require priority attention at any given time and how much that attention will cost is where Capital Asset Planner from Pierson Software excels.

With the rapidly changing financial and operational environments prevalent across all organizations today, the need to know immediately what the cost of operation will be next year or, even ten years from now is paramount to a healthy business model. By leveraging the calculation and projection muscle of CAP you will have the ability to quickly defer equipment replacement and associated costs. CAP allows you to put together a plan that automatically adapts to your situation with the click of a button. Your spreadsheets can't do it. Your GIS can't do it. Your CMMS can't do it. Your accounting package can't do it. Capital Asset Planner can!

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CAP Benefits

There are so many benefits that CAP offers. Here are just a few...

• Specifically designed for Utilities and Public Works, from Fleet management to Water and Wastewater Treatment
• Project costs from 1 to 10 years
• Defer replacement costs automatically or manually
• Be in control of annual capital expenditures and budgeting
• Saves you and your staff time and your organization money
• Get the accurate numbers you need to justify capital expenditures
• See, at a glance, what the cost will be to operate your department or your entire organization over the course of x-number of years
• Build a comprehensive, reusable plan in under 30 minutes¹
• Easy to create and maintain plans
• Allows for easy “what if” problem solving
• Identify equipment abuse by staff
• Use alongside applications such as a CMMS, SCADA, GIS

CAP Features

Along with the more common features of applications today, Capital Asset Planner also includes:

• Standalone application (no need for Microsoft Excel or Access)
• Powerful Importing² and Exporting
• Modern and intuitive user interface (Microsoft Office style or classic)
• Familiar spreadsheet look and feel for quick data entry (or available dialog-based input)
• Spreadsheet-like features such as fill up/down and column sorting
• Five powerful calculation methodologies; calculate by:
  • Default Cost Actions
  • Cost Action Overrides
  • Automatic Condition and Criticality base deferrals
  • Manual deferrals
  • Manual cost override
• Runs on Microsoft's FREE SQL Server 2005 Express database (included)
• Powerful filtering capabilities
• Multi-Threaded operation for speed
• Five user-definable fields
• Built-in security system to protect the data
• Flexible licensing pooling from a workstation or from a server
• Customizable color coding showing calculation type that's in use
• Automatically notifies when an update is available³
• Online help for always up-to-date information³
• A 300-asset Sample model to quickly see the power of CAP

Notes:

1. Build a comprehensive, reusable plan with calculations, spending rules, replacement deferrals and more in less then 20 minutes (a few minutes more when importing external data).
   
   
2. Using the powerful import wizard, import anywhere from one to millions of pre-existing asset data. Spend just a minute or two in the setup and then let the wizard import the data (25,000 records takes only 5 to 10 seconds depending on machine configuration).
   
   
3. Requires a connection to the internet.