How is iDBQuery used in construction?
Construction firms use iDBQuery to ask plain-language questions across project cost, budget, schedule, procurement and payroll data, getting cited answers in seconds without SQL. It builds one live model across your ERP, spreadsheets and PDFs so project and finance teams track margin and progress without a data team.
Construction data is notoriously fragmented: a project-accounting ERP, cost budgets in Excel, subcontractor and change-order records, schedules and PDF documents. iDBQuery unifies them into one live model so project managers and finance ask plain-language questions and get a cited answer.
Common questions:
- What is cost-to-complete and margin by project versus budget?
- Which change orders are unapproved, and what is their value?
- Show committed cost versus actuals by cost code.
- Which projects are behind schedule and over budget?
- What is retention outstanding and cash position by job?
iDBQuery joins the ERP export, cost-budget spreadsheets, procurement data and even OCR'd PDF documents together with no pipeline, and cites every figure back to the source line, so job-cost reports and WIP schedules are trustworthy. It builds dashboards and shareable reports for owner and lender meetings, and can reconcile committed costs across two systems.
Deployment is flexible: cloud, your own VPC, or the Desktop app to keep sensitive project financials local with query-in-place. The differentiator over generic BI is that a project team gets instant, job-level answers across every system at once, with each number auditable back to the exact cost code or invoice.
Updated 2026-06-22