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Managing Construction Projects More Efficiently & Cost-Effectively with VPO

by Laura Nee | Jul 30 2021 | Construction Management, Featured, Construction Project Management, success story, Microsoft 365

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VPO and FedRAMP Certification

by Daisy Miksch | Feb 28 2019 | Construction Management, Featured, The Simplex Group, VPO, Contributors, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint

Looking for a FedRAMP project management system for your next construction project? VPO runs in Microsoft’s Cloud environment, Office 365, which is FedRAMP-certified.

What's New for VPO and Simplex in 2019

by Daisy Miksch | Jan 30 2019 | Construction Management, Featured, The Simplex Group, VPO, Contributors, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint

Can you use Microsoft Office 365 for Construction Project Management?

by Laura Nee | Feb 17 2017 | Construction Management, Featured, Project Management, Project Porfolio Management, SharePoint, Skype, Tasks, VPO, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365

Does your organization use Microsoft Office 365? First, let’s clarify what Office 365 is. Some people think of Office 365 as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook apps. Some people recognize the name because it came with the PC they just bought. Some companies use Office 365 because their IT ...

Is your Project Data Safe in the Cloud?

by Laura Nee | May 24 2016 | Featured, VPO, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft SharePoint

The world is embracing the Cloud for storing documents, information, and managing applications. It seems eerily similar to the technology model we had before when mainframes (servers) were doing all of the processing and sending data to dummy terminals (thin clients). Either way, there are many ...

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.