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Golfing for a Good Cause at the 1st Annual Burn Prevention Open

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We were honored to support the First Annual Burn Prevention Open, a golf tournament presented by San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) on July 7th.

The First Annual Burn Prevention Open was a fun-filled charity event benefiting the Burn Institute, an organization dedicated to reducing burn injuries and deaths through a variety of fire prevention, education, and support programs. We were proud to team up with San Diego Gas & Electric and others in our community to help support this great Southern California-based organization.

Since 1972, the Burn Institute has provided individuals and families with life-saving fire and burn prevention techniques and helped fund life-changing burn research and treatment. The nonprofit also offers care and assistance to severely burn-injured children and adults.

All of us here at Lydon Solutions thank the Burn Institute for the great work they do for the children, seniors, and families that benefit from their services. We also want to thank the golf tournament organizers for giving us the opportunity to participate in this event.

If you are interested in learning more about the work of the Burn Institute and how you can help, check out the Ways to Give page on their site.

Join Us for CMAA Tech EXPO 2017

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We’re looking forward to the CMAA Tech EXPO 2017 taking place on June 15, 2017 in Long Beach, CA. Don’t miss your chance to see the latest advancements and trends in construction project management at this half day, mini-conference. Check out the CMAA event site and register to attend today.

Save time, reduce cost & stay on schedule with Construction Viz

Make sure to stop by our booth to check out Construction Viz, our powerful new construction project management information system (PMIS) solution.

We created Construction Viz to meet the unique needs of construction organizations. It provides a flexible, subscription-based construction project management solution designed around your organization’s processes by professionals that have both construction and IT experience.

Construction Viz is powered by Microsoft SharePoint 2016, the leading enterprise content management system, ensuring flexibility, customizability and extensive integration options. The platform leverages the latest database technology via SQL 2016 for robust reporting and dashboards. Construction Viz’s data center is hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud platform for second to none security and compliance. Finally, Construction Viz lets your project team be productive in the office and the field with robust mobile and offline support.

Discover the full capabilities of Construction Viz at the show with a demo of how the platform can help your organization save time, reduce cost, and stay on schedule.

Not able to attend CMAA Tech EXPO 2017?  Contact us for more information about our services and schedule a free consultation.

See You at the 2017 CMAA Capital Projects Symposium

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Get ready to have some big fun on the bayou! Lydon Solutions is excited to once again be a bronze-level sponsor of the upcoming CMAA Capital Projects Symposium, taking place April 2-4 in New Orleans, LA.

This year we’ll be showing off the powerful features of Construction Viz, our new subscription-based construction project management solution. Here’s a sneak peek:

Looking for a tool to save time, reduce costs and stay on schedule with your next project? Meet Construction Viz.

Construction Viz is a hosted, subscription-based version of our award-winning construction program management portal. It includes all the key features you need to manage your construction projects, including document management, dashboards, reports, forms, workflows and more.

Best of all, Construction Viz is powered by Microsoft SharePoint, Azure and SQL 2016 – industry-leading technologies you already trust and use.

You can learn more about the enhanced reporting and mapping capabilities of Construction Viz in our recent blog posts:

 

Construction reporting made simple with Construction Viz and SSRS 2016 – Construction Viz puts the powerful visualization and mobile capabilities of SQL 2016 and SSRS at your fingertips. Read about the platform’s robust support for SSRS reporting, including mobile and paginated reports as well as custom KPIs, dashboards, and interactive grid view widgets.

 

 

 

Integrated geospatial maps and project data with Construction Viz – Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to easily combine map data from tools like ArcGIS with your Project Management Information System data? There is: Construction Viz provides tight integration between project data and geospatial information with a mapping toolset that is robust, flexible and responsive.

 

 

 

Swing by and chat with our team of experts at the show. We’d love to show you how we can help simplify and streamline your next construction project with Construction Viz. You can also visit our Construction Viz microsite or contact us to learn more.

Come See Us at the 2017 AACE Western Winter Workshop

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Don’t miss our demo of Construction Viz, our new mobile-friendly, subscription-based construction project management solution. We’ll be showing off Construction Viz’s powerful SSRS reporting capabilities and easy integration of geospatial map information and project data.

The 2017 AACE Western Winter Workshop is coming up next week on March 2-5, 2017 in Indian Wells, CA. We are thrilled to be Gold Sponsors once again this year.

The AACE event brings together construction industry professionals from around the country (and even further afield) to discuss the latest trends in scheduling, cost engineering, and project management. We always enjoy the opportunity to reconnect with friends and colleagues, make new connections and share our latest construction program management solutions.

This year we’re very excited to showcase some awesome new features that we know construction project managers are going to love.

See Project Management Perfected with Construction Viz at the AACE Workshop

Workshop attendees: Make sure to stop by our booth to check out Construction Viz, our new subscription-based construction project management solution that is fully mobile-friendly. Construction Viz is powered by Microsoft SharePoint™ 2016, SQL 2016 and Azure – tools you know and trust.

Here’s a peek at our demo lineup:

Construction reporting made simple with Construction Viz and SSRS 2016 – Microsoft just expanded their reporting capabilities with SQL 2016 and SSRS. Construction Viz puts these powerful visualization and mobile capabilities at your fingertips. We’ll be demoing Construction Viz’s robust support for SSRS reporting, including mobile and paginated reports as well as custom KPIs, dashboards, and interactive grid view widgets. Read our recent related blog post for a preview and stop by our booth to see the demo.

Integrated geospatial maps and project data with Construction Viz – Keeping track of geographically dispersed projects is challenging. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to easily combine map data from tools like ArcGIS with your Project Management Information System data? There is: Construction Viz provides tight integration between project data and geospatial information with a mapping toolset that is robust, flexible and responsive. Learn more in our latest blog post and don’t miss the chance to see this feature in action at the AACE Winter Workshop.

The above are just a preview. Visit us at the AACE workshop for a full demo of everything Construction Viz can do to help your team save time, reduce cost and stay on schedule.

See you next week!

Get a Detailed Demo of Construction Viz Today

Construction Viz includes everything you need to manage your construction projects—document management, dashboards, reports, forms, workflows and more—in one place.
Not able to attend this year’s AACE Western Winter Workshop? Find out more about the reporting and mapping capabilities of  Construction Viz by visiting our microsite, or contact us to schedule a free consultation and demo.

Lydon Solutions at CSULB’s Molina Entrepreneurship Series

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I had the privilege of speaking with some bright and aspiring young minds during the Cal State Long Beach (CSULB), Molina Entrepreneur Series event last month. The session brought together CSULB students and faculty as well as many members of the Long Beach community.

It was great presenting our story and challenges, but the best part was listening to the business ideas and motivations of up-and-coming entrepreneurs. I enjoyed the opportunity to share our insights on starting a business and the importance of staying abreast of the latest trends in the technology. Many of the students were especially interested in learning about ways for them to become more involved with their business community here in Southern California.

I came away really impressed by the professional aspirations of these young entrepreneurs. Thank you to the College of Business Administration Incubator, Dean Heiss, and organizers and attendees for a great evening full of engaging ideas and conversation.

SPTechCon 2016 and Open Source SharePoint

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This year’s SharePoint Technology Conference, held earlier this month in San Francisco, was buzzing over the open source direction Microsoft has set for SharePoint. Here’s what you need to know.

SPTechCon 2016 was once again chock full of informative and forward-looking presentations from experts in the SharePoint industry. And the hottest topic at this year’s event was the open source future of Microsoft SharePoint.

Yes, that is right. Microsoft is taking SharePoint open source. And that is a good thing for SharePoint users.

Why an Open Source Model Is Good News for Microsoft SharePoint

SharePoint development models have evolved considerably over the last few years. The industry has moved from full trust deployments, to sandboxed solutions, and the app model. Each step along the way made sense given the needs of enterprise users at the time.

But technology moves very fast – and those needs keep evolving. The growing adoption of cloud computing and the proliferation of mobile devices have necessitated a new approach.

Which brings us to client-side development for SharePoint as the ideal way to leverage cloud and hybrid environments while also supporting today’s mobile users.

To embrace these trends and support open source tool development , Microsoft announced the SharePoint Framework earlier this year.

SharePoint is already the most robust information management platform on the market. Going open source will take that to next level, offering organizations even more opportunity for cost savings as well as the additional flexibility, security and extensibility that no proprietary platform can match.

Get Ready for the Open Source Future of SharePoint

The SharePoint Framework is currently a work in progress.  In the meantime, organizations interested in preparing for the future will need to identify an approach to client-side development that brings together and leverages technologies such as:

●  Node JS – JS runtime

●  Yeoman – Web scaffolding tool for modern web apps

●  Gulp – JS task runner to build tasks

●  Handlebars – Templating engineer to convert datasets to HTML

●  Knockout – Simplified dynamic JS UIs with MVM

●  Swagger – Define API

●  Bootstrap – HTML, CSS, and JS framework for responsive sites/apps

The above are a just a few examples. Over the next couple years there will be a lot of changes to how SharePoint solutions are developed, deployed and supported.  It will be an exciting time with many opportunities and innovations across the SharePoint landscape.

Fortunately, Lydon Solutions is ready for the open source future of the SharePoint Framework when it arrives. Our team has in-depth experience delivering client-side JS solutions to our construction industry clients. And our recently released Construction Viz platform leverages Bootstrap to provide a fully-responsive, mobile-first, hosted SharePoint solution.

If your organization is looking to embrace the latest open source evolution of the upcoming SharePoint Framework, Lydon Solutions is ready to be your technology partner. Contact us for free consultation.