• Software like ACS Connect's Resource Commander product allows job data to be entered into computers rather than written down for someone else to key in later, and versions for phones and tablets are coming.
• One feature, production tracking, allows quick analysis of how well work is – or isn't – tracking to project budgets.
• Accounting departments can bill expenses more quickly if no one has to enter all the data by hand before crunching the numbers.

From the article:

Integrating time, production and equipment data with accounting has long meant deciphering handwritten notes or re-keying information on spreadsheets and forms to data-entry screens. Contractors now are cleaning up that workflow with mobile data-collection systems. ...