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Newforma Project Center’s
Top Ten Features
Just getting started? Here’s where to begin.
Where does it hurt?
Newforma developed the world’s first
comprehensive software to manage
information on building and infrastructure
projects. We started by having architects,
engineers, contractors, and property
owners describe their points of pain.
What they told us may surprise you.
Processes are under pressure.
Design and construction companies are bogging down under pressure from many, many directions:
– Email is separate from other project documents.
– Files are scattered across multiple locations.
– Computer technology organizes information horizontally, across servers and software, but projects are organized vertically, across teams.
– FTP (file transfer protocol) is awkward and insecure.
And that’s just the beginning. So that’s where the remedies start.
PROJECT TEAM MANAGEMENT10
Company and personal address books don’t make it easy to organize people by the projects they’re contributing to. Newforma software makes it easy to contact everyone on your team at any time in your workflows, whether marking up drawings, sharing files, or (via our integrated app) looking for someone while away from the desk. Do you set up contacts in DeltekVision? Import them into Newforma.
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PROJECT AUDITING9
Newforma software logs histories of
everything from file transfers and record
documents to submittals and team emails,
making reports a cinch. It’s essential for
quality control, risk mitigation, legal
discovery, and ISO 9001accreditation.
Use the Project Publisher activity center
to generate a complete project record in
digital (searchable) form.
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DOCUMENT CONTROL
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This activity center manages the latest
versions of plans and specifications, whether
published from CAD software or Revit. This is
also where the Newforma Plans app gets its
documents. In addition to having everyone on
the latest versions, you can see issue and
change histories, linked emails, and
supporting files.
MOBILE APPS
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People not only want to stay productive
away from their desks; they prefer to do
some tasks on smartphones and tablets.
That’s why Newforma customers use our
apps to view drawings, capture
observations on site, find emails filed by
themselves or a colleague, find contact
info, or manage punch list and action
items. Integration = no info silos.
ACTION ITEMS
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Ditch those spreadsheet to-do lists.
Instead, create and manage action items
wherever you are in your process,
whether reading and answering email
or gathering information on Newforma
mobile apps. Delegate action items to
team members, schedule reminders,
and link related emails and files so all
relevant info is at your fingertips.
NEWFORMA-TO-NEWFORMA CONNECTIVITY
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Collaborate seamlessly with other
Newforma shops on a project.
N2N connections link organizations’
Info Exchange servers (respecting each
company’s security settings, of course).
Share files, submittals and more
without downloading or re-entering
information; it automatically populates
the recipients’ files.
SHARED FOLDERS
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Like Dropbox for the design and construction
industry, but with automated logs and audit
trails, Shared Folders are online spaces
that project team members use to
– you guessed it – share files. They’re a
feature of Newforma Info Exchange,
Project Center’s web component for
sharing and coordinating large files.
NEWFORMA INFO EXCHANGE WEB ACCESS
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This web component of Newforma
Project Center makes file transfers
as easy as email, but without its file
size limitations. Recipients receive
an email with a link to download
files. The system logs who
downloaded what, when, eliminating
“We did not receive those files”!
EMAIL MANAGEMENT
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Inboxes make crummy archives. Instead,
directly from any Outlook folder, drag and
drop emails onto your server. Once filed,
they’re quickly retrievable by you and your
colleagues using Newforma Project Center.
Or file and find messages using the
Newforma Project Email mobile app.
SEARCH
Like Google for your company
network, Newforma Project Center
indexes the contents of your
network’s files, so you can find terms
as they appear in emails, attachments,
ZIP files, transmittals, submittals,
RFIs, action items, markup sessions,
external references, and more.
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