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[Metadata] in Construction Management Collaboration: VPO's Issuance Summary

by Daisy Miksch | Mar 11 2022 | Project Porfolio Management, Microsoft SharePoint, Construction Project Management, Meeting Minutes, Construction Collaboration, Cloud, Issuance Summary, Drawing Management, Specification Management, Drawing Standardization, Drawing Progression, Tracking Deliverables, Contract Documents, Workflow, Version History, Architecture, Process Enforcement

Drawings have many, many iterations, and tracking them was cumbersome and disjointed for many of our architecture, engineering, and construction customers.

Nucor: Achieving Greater Consistency and Efficiency in Steel-mill and Related Construction Projects with VPO

by Laura Nee | Dec 08 2021 | Construction Management, Construction Management Software, Project Porfolio Management, VPO, Microsoft SharePoint, Construction Project Management, Construction Collaboration, Client Relationship

Achieving Greater Consistency and Efficiency in Steel-mill and Related Construction Projects with VPO Construction Management Solutions Challenge: Standardize, consolidate, and streamline the management of and workflows associated with an increasing number of concurrent steel mill and related ...

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 ...

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.