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Come See Lydon Solutions at the CMAA National Conference & Tradeshow

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Be sure to meet up with Lydon Solutions at the CMAA 2017 National Conference this month in Washington DC. We’ll be demoing the latest features of our Construction Viz project management solution (Booth 206).

It is that time of year again! The Lydon Solutions team is once more headed to the CMAA National Conference and Tradeshow held this year on October 8-10, 2017 in Washington DC. We’re proud to again be a Silver Sponsor for the event.

Read on for a preview of what we have planned for this year’s event.

Construction Project Management Perfected

Every company, project and PM is unique – and your construction project management software should be too!

We designed Construction Viz, our recently introduced subscription-based solution, to be the most flexible and easy-to-use project management information system (PMIS) available. Construction Viz is powered by technologies you trust (Microsoft SharePoint 2016, SQL 2016 and Azure) and built from the ground up to meet the specific needs of construction professionals. The platform includes everything you need to manage your construction projects—document management, dashboards, reports, forms, workflows and more—in one place.

We’ll be showing off several new and enhanced features for Construction Viz at the CMAA conference this year:

  • New project and program dashboards and tracking tools
  • Enhanced mapping capabilities and integrations
  • New mobile web form technology
  • Adobe Sign integration

We’re looking forward to the conference and hope to see you there.

Let’s Talk About Your Construction Project Management Needs

We welcome the opportunity to learn about your unique needs and to show you how Construction Viz can help your team save time, reduce cost and stay on schedule. Contact us to schedule a meeting at the CMAA Conference – or a free online consultation and demo if you cannot make it to the event.

2017 CMAA Capital Projects Symposium Recap

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The Lydon Solutions team had a great time showcasing our construction management solutions at the 2017 CMAA Capital Projects Symposium.  Here are a few photos and takeaways from the event.

The annual CMAA Capital Projects Symposium is the ideal venue for construction industry leaders to learn about new techniques and technologies to improve their project management processes. We were proud to be bronze-level sponsors of this two-day event for the third year in a row.  As always, it was great connecting with industry professionals and showing off our latest innovative construction program management solutions.

Visitors to our booth had the chance to explore Construction Viz, our recently released construction program management solution powered by Microsoft SharePoint 2016. We presented demos highlighting Construction Viz’s powerful SSRS reporting capabilities as well as how easy the platform makes it to integrate geospatial map data with project information.

Thanks to everyone that stopped by our booth to chat with our team!

A few takeaways from this year’s CMAA Capital Projects Symposium

The CMAA event is a great opportunity to learn what is foremost on the minds of industry leaders. Here are a few insights we gained:

Breaking down information silos and encouraging collaboration – Many construction managers and owners are looking for a centralized location for all their project information. They want a solution that will enable them to better share this information among project team members.

Better Primavera P6 integration and reporting – P6 is the go-to project management application for many organizations. What’s missing is a way to integrate project information from other sources with P6 data and create robust reports.

Mobile is a requirement – Project teams need mobile-first tools that enable them to be productive in the field or away from their desk, with or without an internet connection. This isn’t just about convenience. Today’s fast-paced, competitive business environment makes this a necessity.

In all the above conversations, we were delighted to show off the capabilities of Construction Viz, a solution well-suited to meeting the needs we heard from CMAA attendees.

Construction Viz integrates with industry-standard software (Microsoft Office, P6, ArcGIS and more), putting all project data in one place for collaboration, sharing and reporting. The platform makes it easy to share P6 schedule information via built-in reports and dashboards. Finally, Construction Viz is designed from the ground up to be a mobile-first platform.

When we showed visitors to our booth everything Construction Viz could do – and then told them it was built on technologies that they already knew and trusted like SharePoint 2016, SQL 2016 and Azure – we generated a lot of excitement. It’s gratifying opportunities like these to share much-needed solutions with our construction industry colleagues that ensures we’ll be back at the Capital Projects Symposium next year!

Discover Project Management Perfected

If you missed us at this year’s event, make sure to check out the reporting and mapping capabilities of Construction Viz in our most recent blog posts. You can also contact us to schedule a free consultation and demo.

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.

2016 CMAA Capital Projects Symposium Takeaways

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Finding a better project management information system is top-of-mind for construction industry professionals at the CMAA Capital Projects Symposium.

We were proud to be a Bronze Sponsor at the CMAA Capital Projects Symposium held in Austin, Texas last week. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to check out our award-winning Construction Program Management Portal.

A few takeaways from this year’s CMAA

We had a lot of great conversation with fellow construction industry professionals at the CMAA this year. Here are a few of our key takeaways.

Owners and construction managers across various industries told us they’re looking for a new solution to replace Oracle Contract Manager. Oracle Contract Manager has been widely used for document management, job cost, and field controls – but is now approaching end-of-life (EOL).

This leaves construction professionals looking for a replacement information management solution that is:

  1. Easy to use and configure – No one wants steep learning curves or difficult user adoption. The ideal tool should be simple for users to pick up. Most importantly, it should make their jobs easier, not more complicated.
  2. Cloud-based and mobile-friendly – The solution must support mobile users in the field as well as users in the office.
  3. Enduring and frequently updated – Companies cannot afford to take a bet on a custom solution from a vendor that may or may not be around in a few years.
  4. Deployable and customizable without coding – Project teams don’t want to wait for months or years for new features and updates.
  5. Built and supported by construction professionals that know the industry – Any solution needs to be purpose-built for the needs of construction users. And when it comes time to call support, companies need to know that someone who knows the construction industry and the software solution will pick up the phone.
  6. Integrated with Microsoft Office – Project teams rely on Microsoft Office applications to help them manage projects. It is critical that solutions compliment and integrate with Office.

These are all important requirements. Good news is that an ideal replacement solution for Primavera Contract Manager is already available: Microsoft SharePoint.

Microsoft SharePoint as a construction project management solution

The requirements above read like a feature list for a SharePoint-based Project Management Information System. That’s because Microsoft SharePoint is an ideal construction project management solution:

• SharePoint is easy to use and configure.

• It is cloud-based using Lydon Solutions Microsoft Azure data center link to the azure article here and mobile-friendly out of the box.

• Since it’s a Microsoft product, there’s little concern about ongoing updates and support.

• SharePoint integrates with all the Microsoft Office applications that construction project teams use, including Excel and Visio.

• Most organizations probably already have SharePoint deployed.

• Best of all, SharePoint is simple to customize with the help of construction industry IT professionals like Lydon Solutions.

All of which is why our Construction Project Management Portal is powered by SharePoint.

Our goal is to work with our clients to develop SharePoint-based project management solution tailor-made to fit their needs. We provide complete project management tools to keep construction projects on schedule and within budget.

Find out what SharePoint can do for you

The Lydon Solutions team had a lot of fun at CMAA showing off how SharePoint can make construction project manager’s lives easier.  If you missed us at the show, contact us today for a free consultation.

And don’t forget to download the Lydon Solutions Services Brochure for an overview of our services.

Header photo courtesy of CMAA. View more event photos on their Flickr slideshow below. 

3 takeaways from the 2015 CMAA National Conference

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Photo courtesy of CMAA. View more event photos on their Flickr page.

We are proud to have been a Bronze Sponsor at the 2015 CMAA National Conference held in Orlando last week. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth and came out for our presentation, ‘Microsoft Excel PowerPivot and SharePoint – The Perfect Solution’.

We always enjoy the opportunity to show the powerful features of the Lydon Solutions Construction Program Management Portal in person to industry professionals looking for a better way to manage their next project. Visitors to our booth were able to see firsthand the robust features of our Portal, including custom dashboards, collaboration features, and easy reporting tools.

CMAA National Conference SharePoint
Pictured: Rusty Ostboe, VP of Lydon Solutions & Paul Bedford, SharePoint Practice Director/Architect

Attendees at the CMAA conference came from construction companies ranging in size and resources. But all the industry professionals we met faced similar challenges.

Here are our three takeaways from the conference:

1.   Construction professionals love Excel: Our presentation on Microsoft Excel PowerPivot and SharePoint was a big hit with conference attendees. Several people came up to us afterward to say they were amazed at what is possible with Excel and SharePoint. They were unaware of the inherent functionality of these two applications and how simple it was to use them together. You can read more in our recent blog post about the power of Excel and SharePoint.

2.   Companies are looking to do more with Microsoft SharePoint: It’s no secret that we are big believers in SharePoint as an ideal Project Management Information System (PMIS). So we were thrilled to hear from companies big and small who were actively using SharePoint for every project. What they needed now was help taking SharePoint to the next level. We had several great conservations about simple enhancements to make SharePoint an even better fit for their workflow and business needs.

3.   There is a lot of frustration with custom solutions: We spoke with construction professionals from several companies frustrated with custom built PMIS solutions. These tools had been expensive to deploy, didn’t meet their needs and were poorly supported. This is a big problem for our industry. We’ve talked about why most construction PMIS implementation fail before.  And we’ve shared tips on how to deploy a PMIS for your construction business the right way.

The CMAA National Conference was a great chance to connect with friends, old and new. We especially enjoyed sharing our solution as well as learning from conference attendees. Not able to make it to this year’s event? Contact us to see how Lydon Solutions can help streamline your next project.

Join Us For The 2015 CMAA National Conference & Trade Show

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Lydon Solutions is a Bronze Sponsor at this year’s CMAA National Conference & Trade Show, taking place October 11-13th at the Hilton Bonnet Creek in Orlando. The conference is an excellent forum for industry professionals to learn about new trends, share best practices and network with their peers. We are excited to take this opportunity to showcase the benefits of our award-winning Construction Program Management Portal powered by Microsoft SharePoint as well as our full range of professional services, IT development and hosting solutions.

Look for us at booth #111 and make sure to join us for our ‘Microsoft Excel PowerPivot and SharePoint – The Perfect Solution’ presentation at the Demo Theater, Monday October 12th at 2:30pm.

This event will be special for us, since we will be unveiling our new cutting-edge enterprise mobile technology for Dashboards and KPIs that runs across IOS, Windows and Android devices.  These dashboards are served up through apps that can be downloaded across devices and then connected to your enterprise data sources such as Microsoft SharePoint.  At our booth, we’ll be demoing our power BI solutions using Microsoft Power Pivot and SharePoint – it’s sure to knock your socks off.

Not able to make it the CMAA National Conference? Contact us for more information about our services and schedule a free consultation.