Solving The Top 5 Challenges Facing Design Teams in the AEC
Projects are getting bigger & more complex, margins are tight, & to improve profitability companies need to work smarter & more efficiently. Projects have to be managed as one, collaboration & communication across stakeholders seamless, routine tasks standardized & automated, & data silos eliminated allowing for information to be understood & searched, in context.
ProjectReady solves the 5 most critical challenges facing Design Teams across the AEC/O by securely connecting leading industry collaboration platforms to create powerful process management, simplified project management & project controls across systems. Giving your team a unique, competitive advantage in market.
Searching for specific project content & communicationsArchitects & Engineers are licensed professionals who are legally responsible for the construction documents they produce. Finding content & communications is essential to make sure that there is accuracy & mitigation of litigation.
How to Solve with ProjectReady
Advanced Search
ProjectReady’s advanced SEARCH delivers the ability to search across emails, tasks, platforms, projects & content and in the context of an approved and audited series of transactions across a project, platforms and stake holders.
Cross-Platform Search
With every action captured, easily find, view & access project information, wherever it resides to easily make sense of all data & workflows across platforms.
Email Search
Email is an essential piece of a project’s communications and exchange of information. Our Email search feature, means that emails related to a project are easy to find, secure and relevant.
When building document packages for review and approval, it can be difficult to find the right documents/content because authors are working in multiple systems like SharePoint and BIM 360. Additionally, having visibility into where content packages are in the approval process per type, ball in court.
How to Solve with ProjectReady
Document Control – DCNext
ProjectReady’s intuitive document control suite works just like a shopping cart where users add content across platforms to a cart, assign to team members & send. ProjectReady automates the tracking & auditing of the approval process & reduces time spent on Document Control by 76%, ultimately reduces the risk of potential litigation and claims.
Easily assemble content for distribution and approval across SharePoint, BIM 360, PlanGrid, Procore & Box
Group & assign project documents to be approved by the appropriate team members inside & outside your organization
Track, log, & get comprehensive reporting on all document control communications across its life cycle
Cover sheets for all document packages created automatically
Maintain & preserve your audit trail
Staying on top of deadlines, across multiple projectsAcross a project’s lifecycle a multitude of tasks are dependent on the distribution of construction documents at different phases that span stakeholders and systems. A lack of visibility on the tasks across the portfolio of projects creates constant chaos, resource shortages and missed deadlines.
How to Solve with ProjectReady
Comprehensive Dashboards
ProjectReady is built and designed for how people think & work. Many solutions connect data & systems, but you need to connect people to that information. ProjectReady’s comprehensive dashboard surfaces key information & tasks across all the activities & different platforms used on a project:
Tasks across systems
Project financial information
Key performance indicators that let you know what needs your attention to stay on schedule
Create tasks to take action on Issues in BIM 360 & RFI’s & Submittals across PlanGrid & Procore
From ProjectReady’s own native reporting to Microsoft Power BI the information you need and can make sense of
Tracking content approvals & tasks across projects
ProjectReady delivers comprehensive reporting across all your projects and document control workflows allowing project and portfolio managers a quick way to find tasks and deliverables that need their attention. For users, all their tasks across projects are presented in their “My Week” dashboard, delivering a single view into what they need to do each day.
Easily manage tasks and deliverables across projects and systems
Have visibility across all tasks and document approvals
Track, log, and get comprehensive reporting on all document control communications across its life cycle
Deliver a full audit trail
Internal & external project team collaboration
How to Solve with ProjectReady
Automated Security & Administration
With ProjectReady a user’s access & rights are centrally managed based on their role providing cross functional management of security across our own solution, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Box & BIM 360. Secure access & governance across platforms in a project are managed for you as team members are added & removed over a project’s lifecycle; ensuring each user has the access they need.
Relieving IT of this overhead is core to the incredible ROI we provide, reducing risk & allowing project managers to drive the process.
Microsoft Teams Integration
ProjectReady’s powerful integration with Microsoft Teams brings project communications to a whole new level. By programmatically creating a team during project setup, ProjectReady creates a project centric communication environment with the tools your team needs to collaborate (video conference, chat, access to connected systems, etc.) & a secure framework that captures it all within the project record for easy search & auditability.
ProjectReady Communications
With ProjectReady, project communication is easy. From anywhere in the system, you’re always a click away from your team allowing you to email, call or schedule meetings or have conversations in Microsoft Teams, all bound and reported against the project you’re working on.
Project budgeting & managing billablesHow to Solve with ProjectReady
Task management & automation of repeatable standards
On Project Startup, have a baseline to work from to manage, edit, assign and create project tasks and deliverables. Simple to use and quick to adopt, users can enter time against their tasks and send to accounting providing a single and simple end to end way to manage your budget.
Resource & Utilization Management
ProjectReady delivers comprehensive reporting across all your tasks & deliverables allowing project & portfolio managers a way to stay on time & stay on budget. Quickly review resources & utilization across thousands of concurrent projects in a single view. Drill into individual task allocations to maintain effective use of team members, bandwidth & budget.
Scheduled assignment & management of document control tasks
Schedule in advance document control tasks
Automate the creation of project documents
Account for and bill against your teams work in document control
Integration with ERP & Accounting Systems
ProjectReady’s simple approach to integration means one or many systems can be integrated to a project. One source of truth providing a single unified, scalable taxonomy all in the context of a single project wherever data resides.
Let us show you what we can do
Tell us a little bit about yourself, and we’ll get in touch to schedule your demo. Or, send an email to info@project-ready.com today.