Construction and architecture
SharePoint – 24/7 access to project information
With large architectural and construction projects, the biggest challenge is providing a lot of people with access to content relating to the project, from technical specifications to complex drawings, and enabling them to share and collaborate online.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 meets the challenge. It is a powerful yet easy to use Enterprise Content Management solution that enables 24/7 access to project content, in whatever format and wherever it is held.
SharePoint is a cost-effective, browser-based solution that incorporates document and content management, workflow, collaboration, enterprise search, portals, business forms and integration and business intelligence. It enables stakeholders involved in architectural or construction projects, including remote workers, to capture, store, find and share information in a familiar Microsoft environment.
Benefits
With SharePoint project participants can:
- Improve staff productivity because they spend less time looking for information and more time acting on it
- Attain and maintain quality compliance by ensuring 'best practice' methods are followed and audited
- Increase collaboration between project individuals and teams
- Enable sharing of information across the project team
- Improve customer service
- Maximise corporate assets
- Provide information in 'real time'
- Achieve substantial cost savings by reducing printing, mailing and archiving costs while also providing a disaster recovery solution for paper-based information
- Unlock the knowledge in e-mail systems and network drives by allowing content search and archiving
- Achieve integration with line-of-business applications including HR, CRM, finance, etc.
- Have a central library and classification for all project information
- Ensure health and safety compliance