Does your construction management software follow you wherever you go? Can you access it from any device, even from a smartphone, iPad or similar tablet computer, even from every corner of the job site?

Truly collaborative project management software should untether the busy manager from the office. On the road, at the job site, or at the lunch counter, information should be available and accessible when you need it. Timely access to information can also prevent costly errors – catching mistakes early can prevent them from compounding. With today’s complex commercial and industrial construction projects the ability to quickly respond to the needs of a project are paramount to reducing risk.

EADOC designed its collaborative construction management application to follow the construction manager wherever he or she goes, on any device. Construction Managers have access to real time information about document reviews and current projects costs. You no longer have to wait for a project engineer to update the report and email it to you. You can log in and see in real time how your project is performing. EADOC works with any browser, on a PC, laptop, smartphone or tablet computers, like the iPad or Xoom.

Anywhere there’s internet access you have instant access to all your project information including drawings, specifications, change orders and pay estimates. And with EADOC, each project participant has instant access to information you have shared with them electronically, ensuring that Contractors, Engineers, Architects, and clients all have access to current real time information.

Your construction management software should match how you do business, and follow you right into the field if it has to. With EADOC, your information is right there with you when you need it.

Moving forward with a Construction Management application should decrease your project budget, not add to it. With today’s construction project management applications delivered over the web and incorporating strong collaborative features, the cost savings are delivered immediately instead of 5 to 10 years down the road. Implementation times are reduced from 12-24 months down to 1-2 months when compared with legacy enterprise solutions. When evaluating solutions you should be looking at the direct cost savings that the application will begin delivering within 30-90 days of implementation.

There should be reduced labor costs, reduced project overhead costs of shipping, filling and printing large volumes of paperwork, improved staff productivity and increased project team productivity. As a construction manager or facility owner you need to look at the solution to not only drive cost savings within your organization but also across your entire project team. These total cost savings should be driving your budget for procuring and implementing the application. A cost savings calculation done by a current EADOC client shows they saved over $100K using EADOC on a 2 year, $10M project. After taking into account the cost of purchasing and implementing the EADOC application the net savings was $85K to the project. To learn more about how much you can save on your next project with a collaborative project management application contact us at 877-305-3844 or sales@eadocsoftware.com.

When starting a new project Contractors, Construction Managers and Clients are all worried about completing a project on time and within budget. Almost no one is thinking about what happens to all the information that is generated throughout the project. The operations and maintenance team should be but they are used to being handed large volumes of paper O&M manuals that provide little value on today’s technologically advanced plants. Often these manuals end up in a basement or storage facility to decay along with the bankers boxes of project documents. Considering the amount of money spent on building the plant and the amount of valuable information that is generated Construction Managers and Clients especially need to look at this gold mine of information differently. This information provides ways to reduce operating costs, improve how the next project is designed, and provides historical costs for budgeting for the next project. With project information being tracked electronically throughout design and construction this resource now becomes easily accessible. Instead of storing and shredding thousands of pounds of paper upon project completion this information can be transferred to O&M, Plant Engineers, and Designers at the click of a mouse. With powerful search technologies and the ability to link this data to BIM models and GIS applications these volumes of electronic information will continue to deliver substantial benefits and cost savings to the client. To reap the benefits of this electronic information the project team needs to identify how they are going to manage all this project information electronically from the start of the job. By implementing a project management application from concept through project completion you are building a repository of data that will pay for itself multiple times over during the life cycle of the project. Project teams need to look at the information life cycle just as they look at a plants life cycle cost and control it accordingly.

There are many reasons for IT departments to embrace SAAS(Software As A Service) applications like EADOC’s collaborative construction project management application. We have listed a couple of the major benefits for you to review with your IT department.
EADOC acts as a Trusted 3rd party protecting the agency and project participants information. This is crucial to the success of any project management application. If Contractors, Consultants and clients don’t trust the application and the party that is responsible for managing the application they will not use the tool. Without the project participants using the application to submit their project information electronically you will not be able to reap the benefits.

EADOC takes care of security among a large group of users accessing the application from many vendors and points on the Internet. By using EADOC IT departments do need to expose their internal infrastructure to the outside world reducing the costs and risks associated with public access to their infrastructure.

Data is delivered at the end of the project in pdf and native file formats that can easily be stored and accessed with existing file servers and document management systems. This deliverable allows the IT department to move the information into their existing document management systems.

EADOC handles the large amounts of data processing and network activity that a large capital project generates. The majority of agencies capital project workloads ebb and flow with budget cycles, weather and many other factors. This can require that IT departments purchase a lot of spare network capacity and hardware infrastructure so they can handle the peak project loads. With EADOC this is taken care of reducing the need to maintain spare capacity and providing substantial cost savings.

All these benefits add up to substantial cost savings and security benefits for today’s IT departments who are working under shrinking budgets and increased demands from their users. Leveraging EADOC’s web based construction project management application allows IT departments to deliver a collaborative project management application to their Engineers without spending large amounts of time and money on IT resources.

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