CMiC Construction Platform vs Microsoft Project

• It integrates many aspects of project management into one location.
• It produces easy to understand reports that incorporate financial aspects of the project so that costs and profit can be calculated in real-time rather than as a lagging indicator.
• Document management is housed within the project, reducing the number of locations and the need for additional cloud storage to maintain project documentation.
• CMiC customer assistance is prompt and helpful.

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• Being a Microsoft product, Project integrates extremely well into the Microsoft family of applications!
• Furthermore, the user interface is similar to other Microsoft applications. Therefore, there is a valuable familiarity out of the box.
• Project is incredibly detail-oriented and always receiving valuable updates. Project Online is now the cloud-based version of Project.
• Scheduling works really well for the most part. One can be extremely detailed with Gannt charts and other project management metrics!

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• Missing functionality on the drawing management side. See previous question.
• Submittal module changes in R12 took away key functionality from the user. Specifically the Fabrication and Delivery fields. CMiC promises to bring this back but the process is too slow. Users have waited months to bring back functionality that was taken away.
• Submittal module interface via collaborator and I/O email is not updating status correctly.
• The mobile app does not allow users to change auto-generated checklist names. We have a checklist that is supposed to be used per room but the program auto-generates list names as ###-001, ###-002, etc. In the mobile app, there is no way to see a unique identifier in the list view so users have to open and close each record to find unique identifiers. There is a workaround with the web client but our field employees say its too cumbersome. They are abandoning using the web client checklists and going back to paper copies.
• Specification extraction does not work.

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• Expertise Needed: The software is not always easy to use or intuitive. I took several Project courses, on top of my project management certifications, to understand the software better. While all the elements are there for anyone familiar with standard project management processes, it takes experience and training to really get the best out of the software.
• Collaboration: Project does not work well with multiple users simultaneously. There's no real-time updating, and if we had multiple project managers, there'd be no way to work together on the same projects.
• Price: Project is expensive, largely due to it being an industry standard.

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• Better project visibility, surely. I can step into a former project and see how well/poorly it was run.
• Forecasting underway - nearly complete with year 2.
• Cost status tracking - this has been valuable, especially when figuring out how much of a liquid budget is left over.

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• We are currently only now opening the door to these opportunities but do see ways to implement and save in areas that include a reduction of man power and gaining efficiencies and reducing cost and schedule by providing more real time relevant data to our project team which will allow them to make better informed and timely decisions.

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