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How Can VPO Work for Construction Managers – and Their Clients?

by Laura Nee | Jan 14 2020 | Construction Management, Construction Project Management, Simplus

By providing a user-friendly, familiar environment By reducing the need for administrative overhead By streamlining change orders, RFIs and document management “In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.” Gen. Eisenhower’s famous maxim on the ...

We’ve consulted on improving project management for construction since 1984. Known at the time as The Simplex Group, Inc., we got our start as one of the first Primavera Systems (now Oracle Primavera) solution providers, guiding our clients on how best to use the CPM scheduling tools we resold to them. In 2008, after observing that owners and construction managers would achieve even greater success through more efficient and effective collaboration with and among their contractors, architects, and engineers, we built a virtual project office–VPO–on SharePoint, which we now customize and deliver in the Microsoft 365 Cloud.