Manage AEC projects online: stay on schedule with these Internet-based options

CADalyst, Dec, 2004 by H. Edward Goldberg

To enhance productivity, users can easily access and store documents online. The system tracks and stores complex construction processes such as RFIs, transmittals, submittals, meeting minutes, change orders, and reports. Correspondence is streamlined because documents can be saved once and sent to multiple companies.

Constructware offers a flexible, XML-based data exchange model that allows each client to customize business rules and data flows between it and virtually any application, regardless of the platform.

Constructware maintains an in-house team of consultants, analysts, and trainers that helps users deploy Constructware. Users are not migrated to a new and improved platform every few years--they receive continual upgrades and new functionality as they go.

Meridian Systems

www.meridiansystems.com

Meridian Systems provides solutions that optimize the plan, build, and operate phases of real estate, construction, and other physical infrastructure initiatives.

The Prolog Application Suite delivers in-depth project management features across projects and programs for collaboration, purchasing management, scheduling, cost control, document management, and field administration.

Prolog Manager automates all aspects of the construction lifecycle, from project design to closeout. According to Meridian Systems, Prolog Manager ranked at the top in the CFMA 2004 technology usage survey for construction companies, global and national enterprises, and large regional-based organizations with more than $100 million in construction volume.

The Prolog Web site complements Prolog Manager as a Web-based collaboration application designed to coordinate the extended project team throughout the construction process, including owner, architect, construction manager, general contractor, subcontractors, and suppliers.

Prolog Exchange automates collection, verification, and entry of paper-based and electronic data into Prolog Manager, saving administrative costs and minimizing data entry errors.

Serving large, global contractors and building owners, Proliance integrates project and portfolio management functionality, facilities management capabilities, business process management, and a business intelligence layer into a single solution. Proliance brings together project scope, budgets, and schedules in one solution through a Web-native architecture using Web Services and XML.

Primavera

www.primavera.com

Primavera defines collaboration as a combination of people, process, and technology, and its products address these three areas. Primavera Engineering & Construction solutions create standard processes, manage change, and support project teams in meeting critical project delivery milestones. Because individual project team members have different roles and priorities, the software enables team members to retrieve, update, and share information in a way that's familiar to them.

Primavera Engineering & Construction (formerly P3e/c for Construction) is a suite of scheduling and project control solutions that allows each team member to select and use a combination of modules that is most helpful to the user's role: