www.newforma.com • [email protected]MICRO CASE STUDY • ARCHITECTURE • WORKFLOW INTEGRATION tp bennett Headquarters: London, England www.tpbennett.com “You can find some of these individual features in other software, but we like to have everything integrated. It just makes everything that much more productive.” Challenges – Email was not integrated with project delivery workflows. – File sharing was hampered by email file size limitations and FTP set-up and security drawbacks, and did not track who had downloaded what, when. – Team members had to switch back and forth between multiple applications in the course of taking snapshots of screen, opening documents, marking up files and other project delivery workflows. Solution – Newforma® Project Center enterprise software Results – All the steps in managing project information are tied together. – Workflows are more fluid. – Documents may be viewed, redlined and emailed from one simple interface. Read the full case study. O2 Head Office, Slough, United Kingdom
MICRO CASE STUDY • ARCHITECTURE • WORKFLOW INTEGRATION
tp bennett Headquarters: London, England www.tpbennett.com
“You can find some of these individual features in other software, but we like to have everything integrated. It just makes everything that much more productive.”
Challenges – Email was not integrated with project delivery workflows. – File sharing was hampered by email file size limitations and FTP
set-up and security drawbacks, and did not track who had downloaded what, when.
– Team members had to switch back and forth between multiple applications in the course of taking snapshots of screen, opening documents, marking up files and other project delivery workflows.
Solution – Newforma® Project Center enterprise software
Results – All the steps in managing project information are tied together. – Workflows are more fluid. – Documents may be viewed, redlined and emailed from one
MICRO CASE STUDY • ARCHITECTURE • DOCUMENT CONTROL
One Creative Environments Ltd Headquarters: Worcester, England www.oneltd.com
“Newforma Document Control is great. It’s completely eliminated the mind-numbing administration associated with maintaining accurate document registers for each of our projects.”
Goals – Eliminate the time-consuming and error prone management of
drawing registers. – Provide a single point of reference for all versions of every
issued document.
Solution – Newforma® Project Center enterprise software and its
Document Control function
Results – Document Register report generates automatically. – Previously issued document revisions are easily accessed. – Information is fully accessible to team whether in or out of the
office.
Mill Rise Extra Care Village; Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom
MICRO CASE STUDY • ARCHITECTURE • RETURN ON INVESTMENT
ReardonSmith Architects Headquarters: London, England Employees: 50 www.reardonsmith.com
“Newforma paid for itself within two weeks of implementation.”
Challenges – Emails were disconnected from project files. – Team members were challenged to locate information within
emails and their attachments. Solution
– Newforma® Project Center and its Search function and Project Email activity center
Results
– Email is accessible alongside all other project information. – It’s now easy to find, within seconds, all emails, attachments and
other project files that contain references to specific words and phrases.
– Quick, thorough access to information helps resolve disputes or substantiate claims that can easily cost more than the price of implementing the software.
SSH Headquarters: Kuwait City, Kuwait Employees: 540 www.sshic.com
“Newforma software enables us to do more with less. We're more responsive; we produce higher quality documentation and more organized audit trails; at the same time, we've eliminated many manual and error-prone steps from the process.”
Challenges – Requests for information took too long to go from project
sites to headquarters. – The process for tracking progress and status of responses
was awkward and subject to mistakes. – The process lacked visibility.
Solution – Newforma® Project Center and Newforma® Contract
Management enterprise software, and Newforma® Info Exchange web access
Results – Integration of Newforma Info Exchange and Microsoft®
Office® Outlook® email reduces communication delays. – Design leads now easily exchange RFIs and other contract
documents with concerned architects and engineers. – Automatic logging of transactions creates robust audit
