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Sage Project Lifecycle Management
Miscommunication is often the cause of the delays or errors that negatively impact the bottom line of your projects. Current economic pressures make it more critical than ever for construction industry organizations to work with maximum efficiency. Sage Project Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a comprehensive, Web-based collaborative platform that can simplify your overall workflow by making all your project-related information and documentation available online in a secure, centralized location. Let’s learn more.
Centralized Project Information
Construction project teams tend to be widely dispersed and productivity is often negatively impacted by inefficient information-sharing methods. Sage PLM acts as a centralized hub allowing project teams to exchange ideas and information with ease. Team members can collectively view, edit, and manage documents to carry out project plans more efficiently. Even customers and suppliers can be integrated into the system. Sage PLM allows you to break through the road blocks in your current workflow, enabling teams in multiple locations to collaborate online, in real time, throughout the building design, construction, and occupancy phases.
Secure 24/7 Access
Sage PLM leverages the power of the Internet, so your project team can work online at any time of the day or night. Sage PLM allows authorized individuals to access, view, exchange, and work on stored information - all of your documents, schedules, contracts, drawings, budgets, and forecasts, are available to project team members with Internet access, anytime, anywhere.
Data is hosted on secure servers and monitored 24/7. Regular system and data back-ups ensure availability of the latest data. All user transactions are time and date stamped, retaining a full record of who changed what and when, providing a full audit trail.
Easy To Implement and Customize
Sage PLM is offered through a SaaS (Software as a Service) model, so you can be up and running quickly, with no need for additional hardware and minimal expenditure of IT resources. Sage PLM can be customized to match your organization’s current workflow and procedures.
Full Range of Editing Tools
Sage PLM facilitates online revisions with a drawing tool that allows project team members to view and mark up drawing files and insert comments. They will be able to develop dialog threads about potential design changes, and draw attention to issues that may trigger a change. Once entered, mark-ups and comments are permanently associated with the document. As a result, there is far less reliance on printing, reproduction, distribution, and storage of the many drawings and documents typically produced during the course of a project, so your organization can experience significant savings in costs associated with printing, reproduction, and delivery.
Microsoft Outlook Integration
Sage PLM includes a launch point within Microsoft Outlook that links directly to project folders. From within Microsoft Outlook, team members quickly can see if new project information has been issued without having to login to the system. Team members can view their outstanding actions, manage project-related e-mail, and toggle directly between e-mail and Sage PLM.
Historical Reporting
As documents are uploaded for your projects, you will build an electronic archive of your data. When a project is complete, you can choose to maintain your project data online, or receive a self-contained, fully searchable electronic archive file. Team members also can receive an archive of project data specific to their access rights.
Exchange Standards Information
The Sage PLM Standards Manager allows you to coordinate standards information across more than one project. Both your internal and external team members, with security privileges that you set, can share written specifications, policy statements, contracts, pro-forma templates, design drawings, pictures, models, graphics, branding information, and even Web site links.
The Web service platform of Sage PLM was developed in partnership with BIW® Technologies, a global leader in Web-based business applications.Please call Integrated Computer Systems Support at 425-820-6120 with your questions about Sage Project Lifecycle Management.
