Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro vs. Newforma Project Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro (formerly BIM360) is a construction software for project managers, site managers, and Building Information Modelling (BIM) managers. It is designed to connect the office and site components of construction, providing cloud-based access to plans and models.
$480
per user/per year
Newforma Project Center
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Newforma Project Center is web-based construction project information management software for collaboration. Users can access a drag and drop interface, relate emails to documents, markup and review designs, track meeting minutes and action items, and search across projects. It has mobile accessibility.N/A
Pricing
Autodesk BIM Collaborate ProNewforma Project Center
Editions & Modules
Autodesk Bim 360
$480.00
per user/per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Autodesk BIM Collaborate ProNewforma Project Center
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Autodesk BIM Collaborate ProNewforma Project Center
Considered Both Products
Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro
Chose Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro
Personally I prefer Procore for reviewing submittals and other documentation for LEED purposes only because that platform holds more of the information we are looking for like drawings as well, all in one place. Newforma has been used from time to time, but Autodesk is …
Newforma Project Center

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Autodesk BIM Collaborate ProNewforma Project Center
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro
8.4
2 Ratings
3% above category average
Newforma Project Center
7.5
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Dashboards8.52 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Standard reports8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports8.02 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Data exportability8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Construction Project & Field Management
Comparison of Construction Project & Field Management features of Product A and Product B
Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro
8.4
11 Ratings
12% above category average
Newforma Project Center
7.8
5 Ratings
5% above category average
Plan distribution & viewing8.011 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Plan markups & sharing8.511 Ratings6.05 Ratings
Issue tracking & punchlists8.010 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Photo documentation8.010 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Jobsite reports8.09 Ratings6.03 Ratings
Document sharing8.510 Ratings10.05 Ratings
RFI tools9.09 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Collaboration & approvals9.010 Ratings10.04 Ratings
As-built drawings8.58 Ratings7.04 Ratings
Mobile app7.010 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Submittal design and management8.08 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Checklists8.52 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Meeting Minutes9.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Specifications8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Change orders9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Estimating
Comparison of Estimating features of Product A and Product B
Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro
8.0
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Newforma Project Center
8.0
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Takeoff tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Job costing8.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Cost databases8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost calculator8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Bid creation8.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro
-
Ratings
Newforma Project Center
6.0
1 Ratings
25% below category average
Employment history00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro
-
Ratings
Newforma Project Center
6.0
1 Ratings
23% below category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Autodesk BIM Collaborate ProNewforma Project Center
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(11 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
6.9
(2 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Autodesk BIM Collaborate ProNewforma Project Center
Likelihood to Recommend
Autodesk
Autodesk Bim 360 is well suited to the majority of construction projects in my opinion. On the construction side I could see how the straightforward nature of the platform would be well liked. The new update with the widgets is a great touch and allows for ease of site visits by showcasing good to know info like project location on a map and the local weather. You can also customize the "widgets" as you see fit to add more information if necessary to the home screen. From my experience as a LEED consultant, Bim 360 does not differ much from other platforms used for submittal review like Procore. It is easy enough to search for what you want but searches do take a while and you need to move the cursor over every time you search and do not find what you're looking for, which seems very unnecessary. Overall it is fine for reviewing documentation but isn't anything extraordinary.
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Newforma, Inc.
Newforma is a great tool to collaborate with large teams and between firms. It allows for great documentation of transfers, activities, and other procedural aspects of projects that require collaboration between disciplines, for example, MEP, electrical, architectural and technology. For internal use, Newforma has been great for communications tracking and archival, as well as for record-keeping of all the users in a team or number of teams. Many great options are features are unused due to a lack of training or exposure to them, for example, the graphical viewers that can preview CAD, Revit, and other formats, or the markup tool available with the desktop client.
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Pros
Autodesk
  • Live updates between design teams. This keeps the team up to date for quicker design and frees up personnel from having to do file transfers.
  • The cloud-based platform gives your company a little bit of a break on computer requirements.
  • Allows multiple offices and/or cloud-based consultants to collaborate on a design as if they are one office or one company.
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Newforma, Inc.
  • Newforma sits on top of our previous filing system (Windows Explorer). This was very important to us because we didn't have to change the project numbering system in order to fit Newforma's design. Also, if we were to decide we didn't like it, we could easily revert back to our previous methods.
  • Newforma does a great job of indexing information, making searches much easier by being able to use keywords instead of knowing the exact file location. No more traversing through countless folders before finding what you need.
  • Newforma keeps a read receipt for everything that you submit through it for issue tracking, and keeps an easy to read record of your workflow.
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Cons
Autodesk
  • Bim360 is extremely unintuitive and frequently confusing to end users.
  • There are multiple avenues of sharing and collaboration for models and information. The advantages/disadvantages of each and how to perform even the most basic of tasks requires extensive training and mentoring for even the most advanced of users.
  • There are many enormous limitations and constraints to BIM 360 that are not immediately obvious and even contrary to published marketing materials and even product naming.
  • Development cycles of the product are seemingly monthly, but incredibly minor. This makes the desperately-needed and glaringly obvious massive usability, capability, and performance improvements into deal-breakers and hair pulling events. Change cannot come fast enough.
  • There are no integrations into Microsoft's Azure AD SSO or other 3rd party SSOs available for SMBs. This makes the provided MFA a huge headache for all SMBs.
  • There are no integrations into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem for SharePoint/OneDrive or Outlook. This is desperately needed for most organizations using Bim360.
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Newforma, Inc.
  • I have found it difficult to locate audits.
  • Some users have issues while uploading project data.
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Support Rating
Autodesk
AutoDesk support is slow and if you are not an enterprise customer they will likely tell you to go to forums and post for help pushing the support on the high-level end-users (some of which are AutoDesk employees). I haven't actually had issues requiring support with docs altough there are some features I wish it had
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Newforma, Inc.
While I have never asked for support myself, a Newforma representative has been in the office annually to give training seminars and info sessions on how to fully use the product. I find this essential to keep the product relevant and make sure everyone knows its full capabilities and an important part of customer support.
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Alternatives Considered
Autodesk
The saving in reduced field changes/mistakes quickly paid for the license plus some. The software allows for easy data collection, especially at project completion for field software by checklist creation. Furthermore, the internal punch-list tracking, tracking completion lists and punch lists created for us by others is optimal compared to the competition. We chose Bim360 over other options due to its ability to import out of other software programs directly into the system, adding reports in one location and then distributing it to subcontractors and internally from there to fix deficiencies. It does the tracking, importing, markups of pictures and document viewing well and fulfills our needs.
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Newforma, Inc.
A good competitor against other similar solutions and support is excellent.
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Return on Investment
Autodesk
  • Positively we use for all safety items, so its potential to save money is really something cannot be quantified. It has helped document trends, big items leading trends and odd ball cases which overall helps perfecting process to eliminate those trends and save time.
  • Negative impact is we need to pay for another program to handle budget, submittals and bidding so we are paying for two systems and paying for all employees to learn each system and possible make errors since there are differences in the systems.
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Newforma, Inc.
  • Newforma makes it easy to transfer, share, archive, and search extensive data sets in a single GUI
  • For it to be effective, all users in a team must receive a basic training and use it consistently
  • Adoption in the industry is good (A/E); many teams use it consistently. Learning to use it once produces time-saving in subsequent projects
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