How is iDBQuery used by engineering firms?
Engineering firms use iDBQuery to ask plain-language questions across project cost, timesheet, billing and resource data, getting cited answers in seconds without SQL. It builds one live model across your ERP and spreadsheets so project leads track margin, utilisation and backlog without a data team.
Engineering consultancies (civil, MEP, structural) manage many concurrent projects across an ERP, timesheets, billing and resource plans. iDBQuery unifies them into one live model so project leads and finance ask plain-language questions and get a cited answer.
Examples:
- What is earned value and margin by project versus budget?
- Which projects are over on labour hours, and where is scope creep?
- Show utilisation and realisation by discipline and office.
- What is our backlog and revenue forecast by project stage?
- Which clients and project types deliver the best margin?
iDBQuery joins the ERP export, timesheet data and billing spreadsheets together with no pipeline, and cites each figure back to the source line, so project financials survive scrutiny. It builds shareable reports for principal reviews, and the Analyst agent can investigate an overrun autonomously.
Deployment is flexible, from cloud to your own VPC to a Desktop app that keeps project and client data local with query-in-place. The differentiator over generic BI is that a technical-but-not-data team gets instant, project-level answers across every system, each number traceable back to the source.
Updated 2026-06-22