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BQE CORE

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What is BQE CORE?

BQE CORE is a business management solution built specifically for professional service firms. BQE CORE is a combination of a billing assistant, project management, and accounting solution. CORE is designed to do the hard work of delivering actionable insights directly…

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What is BQE CORE?

BQE CORE is a business management solution built specifically for professional service firms. BQE CORE is a combination of a billing assistant, project management, and accounting solution. CORE is designed to do the hard work of delivering actionable insights directly to the user's dashboards or…

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  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

BQE CORE: Shaping the Future of Business

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Features

Project Management

Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation

7.8
Avg 7.6

Professional Services Automation

Features that support professional services organizations

8.4
Avg 7.5
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Product Details

What is BQE CORE?

BQE CORE is a business management solution built specifically for professional service firms. BQE CORE is a combination of a billing assistant, project management, and accounting solution. CORE is designed to do the hard work of delivering actionable insights directly to the user's dashboards or inbox.

BQE CORE replaces the products Engineeroffice, Archioffice, and BillQuick; the functionality of these applications is now found in BQE CORE.

BQE CORE Screenshots

Screenshot of Core powered by BQE SoftwareScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Dashboard ViewScreenshot of BQE CORE 360* Firm Performance ViewScreenshot of BQE CORE Reporting & AnalyticsScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Time EntryScreenshot of BQE CORE Project Expense Tracking

BQE CORE Videos

Customer Testimonial: iT Architecture
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BQE CORE Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesUnited States, Australia and EU
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

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The most common users of BQE CORE are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).

BQE CORE Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)60%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)20%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)20%
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Great usability, mobile app is extremely useful.

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 16, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
We are a financial services firm that service medium to large corporate clients. We use BQE CORE for our timekeeping and billing. The issues we have is having different charge out rates across different cases and at times having different charge out rates during different periods of an engagement. BQE CORE's reporting function allows us to review the different rates across several engagements and for an engagement historically.
  • User interface is intuitive and easy to use. Very easy to navigate and find the function you are looking for.
  • Mobile app is extremely useful to record time on-the-go. Mobile app updates timesheets automatically creates a seamless transition to the web-based platform.
  • Requesting PTO is very easy and simple to track.
Cons
  • At times finding the appropriate report can take longer than it should. Perhaps simplifying the report menu would be helpful.
BQE CORE is well suited for professionals that need to record their time across several cases. It is easy to set up new time charge codes to meet each clients needs and transfer time from previous days to other days. The mobile app useful for recording accurate time when taking client calls or having meetings out of the office. BQE CORE would not be appropriate for those not requiring to charge their time or differentiate their time into separate time codes.

ArchiOffice for Better Management

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 19, 2018
HW
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
3 years of experience
In our company ArchiOffice is used across all levels from interns and managers, to principles. We use ArchiOffice to track our time and expenses on projects and to establish a project team . We use ArchiOffice to set up projects and to track if a project is under or over budget and to delineate tasks and expenses associated with our consultants.
  • ArchiOffice helps me manage my time throughout the work day.
  • ArchiOffice helps me to understand how much time I have allocated to each client and to give me a realistic view on how long each task actually takes.
  • ArchiOffice gives me a breakdown of the time and expenses our company has allocated to each project.
Cons
  • I would like to see more of a scheduling component, to manage projects across our project team.
  • I would like to receive a notification if a project is going over budget.
  • I have to remember to double click to clear a contact, or the contact will be overridden.
ArchiOffice is great for our firm in the sense that I can track my time throughout the work day and see how the project is doing as a whole compared to the budget we set in place. ArchiOffice would be more useful for my position in the company if I could see the hours spent by other team members on the same project to better manage the time spent on the project and to better make informed decisions on creating future proposals.

A Great Tool With Some Room For Improvement

Rating: 6 out of 10
May 12, 2023
AT
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
I use CORE as project tracking tool, specifically to help with resource allocation across all of my company's projects. CORE can break down resource allocation across projects, people, or engineering disciplines, and this allows our discipline leads to track and forecast the utilization of their team members across a selected time frame. This insight is critical in ensuring our teams are not overworked and feeds into business decisions regarding hiring for additional positions.
  • Time Entry and Tracking
  • Project Tracking
  • Reporting
Cons
  • Filtering is not intuitive
  • Reports are not customizable
  • System has some bugs which make filtering via groups useless on some screens
CORE is well suited for time entry and reporting across employee groups and projects. CORE can generate many useful reports, however the customization and filtering of these reports isn't exactly intuitive. It can be difficult to get the reports to show the data you want, and there is no way to remove data fields from a report or create a custom report.

It's a lot to invest in.

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 31, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
6 years of experience
The whole organization uses it to input their time, and accounting uses it to create invoices. It addresses specific architectural time that needs to be entered into our system.
  • Track time
  • Create reports based on time
Cons
  • It's not very intuitive
  • It lacks useful reports
It is good for being appropriate for our industry (architecture) and time tracking. I wish it would speak to QuickBooks Online.

Helpful software for our small firm!

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 04, 2023
RS
Vetted Review
Verified User
BQE CORE
1 year of experience
BQE CORE has greatly benefited our small engineering firm over the past six months, streamlining our time tracking, expense reporting, project management, and invoicing processes. We previously tracked time and expenses manually so upgrading to a software where it's more automated has really proven useful for our company. While there was an initial learning curve, we quickly adapted, and the software now operates smoothly. We have not encountered major issues, and the responsive support team and helpful training resources have been invaluable.
  • Time Tracking
  • Training
  • Expense Reports
  • Invoicing
Cons
  • Showing more than one week at a time on the timecard view
  • Back arrow takes you too far back
  • Can't fully get rid of project rows from timecard; hit "remove" and it still comes back the next time
It's great for our company for time tracking, expense reports, project management, invoicing, billing, and keeping track of project hours and budget.
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