Leveraging Social Media Platforms to Maximize Unified Collaboration
Improved collaboration is a topic receiving more and more coverage in the AEC industry, largely in part because of the changing workforce and increased acceptance of distributed teams operating in the...
View ArticleWhat Existing AEC Software Solutions Lack & How Microsoft Dynamics Is Different
There is no such thing as the perfect, out-of-the-box, business application for the AEC industry or any industry for that matter. Over a 16-year career working as a Principal Analyst at Gartner and in...
View ArticleMicrosoft Announces Mobile Time and Expense Capture and Approvals for...
I’ve just returned from attending Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2013 in New Orleans where we announced a brand new mobile device experience for employees in the field or on the job site to support...
View ArticleReal-Time Collaboration Just Got a Whole Lot Easier for the AEC Industry
Isn’t there an easier way for the AEC industry to collaborate in real-time on projects? Great question and one every CxO, principal, practice lead, supervisor, project manager, subcontractor or owner...
View ArticleCapturing the Upturn in Engineering and Construction
In late April 2013, Microsoft, in partnership with FMI, held a roundtable meeting in Denver, Colorado with three firms consistently ranked in the top 20 based upon ENR’s top 500 Design Firms listing....
View ArticleBraun Intertec – When Growth Outpaces Software
What do you do when your engineering firm is growing approximately 70% per year, adding new technical disciplines and practices but you need over 70 spreadsheets and a variety of point solutions to...
View ArticleInterview with A&E Firm WHPacific on Their Selection of Microsoft Dynamics AX
The Advantages of Moving to a Modern ERP Platform for your AEC Business Often times, architecture, engineering and construction firms find themselves using an operational and administrative ERP...
View ArticleAEC Customer Showcase – Haley and Aldrich
Haley & Aldrich, a 500-employee, 27-office engineering firm, pulled all the pieces together by replacing their home-grown system with a solution that spanned the enterprise. Eric Eldridge, IT...
View ArticleCase Study: How AMEC is transforming their 30,000 Person Firm Globally with...
AMEC is a global construction management company which operates in the oil & gas, mining and power industries. It has 30,000 employees in 400 offices across 40 countries. AMEC already utilizes many...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Most Important Piece of Equipment?
As much as Architecture, Engineering, and Construction companies spend on equipment, I’m sometimes surprised at how many of them try to “make do” with substandard business systems. BBA used to be one...
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