Customers Cite Improved Client Service, Higher Productivity Among
Reasons for Choosing Newforma's Project Information Management (PIM)
Solution MANCHESTER, NH - (Marketwire) - March 09, 2010
--
Newforma®, a software company addressing the project information
management (PIM) needs of architecture, engineering and construction
firms, today announced that design firms recently purchasing
Newforma® Project Center based their investments on the software's contribution
toward achieving the strategic objectives of their businesses. Three
representative firms --
Ankrom Moisan Associated Architects,
Arrowstreet and
Renaissance 3 Architects -- cited compelling software
functionality that will contribute directly to their firms' strategic
goals to improve client service, raise productivity, practice
sustainable design and more.
For example, Ankrom Moisan
Associated Architects is a 100-seat firm based in Portland, Ore., and
Seattle. Principal
Murray Jenkins, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, said the
underlying goal for Newforma Project Center is to raise efficiency and
improve responsiveness to clients. "For a large project, the amount of
information that goes through a project manager's desk is
mind-numbing," Jenkins said. "We've tried a number of existing tools to
manage it: Excel spreadsheets, Access databases, the tools in Outlook.
We've tried to use a leading project extranet system. None have worked.
We have purchased the Newforma software because it provides lots of
workflow assists, from construction administration to issue tracking,
all in a single platform that has been developed specifically for our
industry."
Arrowstreet is an architectural firm of 50 employees
based in Somerville, Mass. Senior Associate and Director of Information
Technology
Robert Fortin says the firm's emphasis on client service
affects the way its professional staff manages project information. "We
want to impress clients each time they come to us with a question,"
Fortin said. "Newforma Project Center gives anyone on the project team
the ability to find email and other information without having to track
down and ask the person who filed it. The software will help people use
email, which was designed for private interchange, as a business-wide
tool."
Renaissance 3 Architects is a 25-person firm based in
Pittsburgh. Associate and CADD Systems Manager
John Michaels ties the
value of Newforma Project Center to the firm's core values. "At
Renaissance 3 Architects, we believe in 'the power of three': design,
technology and sustainability," Michaels said. "Newforma Project Center
advances all three of these objectives. For example, the digital light
table improves design by giving us a quick and easy way to spot changes
in two versions of a drawing. The technology's comprehensive search
capabilities find text in files wherever they reside on our network,
and its markup capabilities permit us to redline documents 100 percent
digitally. And we anticipate applying for LEED credits as a result of
the technology's innovativeness and contribution to reduced use of
paper and energy."
Newforma Chief Executive Officer
Ian Howell
said, "Exploding volumes of project information and the unfortunate
loss of project knowledge due to staff cutbacks undermine productivity
and hamper responsive client service. It is truly gratifying for
everyone on the Newforma team to see Newforma Project Center enabling
project architects and project managers to be more responsive to their
clients and to have more time to focus on design. And, the fact that it
allows principals in different-sized firms to achieve their strategic
goals even in the midst of such challenging economic times is even more
satisfying."
About Newforma Newforma is a software
company serving architecture, engineering and construction (AEC)
organizations worldwide, and the owners they serve. Its mission is to
develop and market project information management (PIM) solutions which
improve responsiveness to clients, mitigate risk, streamline project
execution, raise productivity and facilitate integrated project
delivery (IPD).
Newforma® Project Center, Newforma's flagship product,
is the industry's first comprehensive PIM solution to organize and
share project information, drive accountability, raise transparency and
streamline project delivery processes. Newforma Project Center is
currently implemented on over 300,000 projects in industry-leading AEC
firms.
For more information about Newforma, visit www.newforma.com, or
phone +1 603-625-6212.
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