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Oracle Aconex

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36 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Oracle Aconex?

Aconex is a cloud collaboration platform for the global construction industry which allows the user to quickly find what is needed with a single source of truth for communications, documents, processes, and models. Aconex was acquired and is now supported by Oracle since 2017.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Avoid the limitations of manual correspondence with a standardized digital process that provides project-wide access and visibility
Automate and standardize any inspection process with Aconex Field—one mobile app for safety walks, quality checks, defecting, and more.
Gain visibility into budgets, forecasts, and projective outcomes to enable early corrective action.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Oracle Aconex has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 36 ratings of Oracle Aconex's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Plan distribution & viewing

    Users can compare different versions of plans, and view live updates/revisions to plans (usually from a mobile device in the field).

    Category average: 8.4

  • Plan markups & sharing

    Users can annotate plans from the field and easily share plans/markups with other project stakeholders.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Issue tracking & punchlists

    Users can track issues from the field, and create punchlists upon substantial completion.

    Category average: 8.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Custom reports

    Users can create custom reports.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Photo documentation

    Users can document construction progress and/or issues by uploading photos from the field.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Jobsite reports

    Users can create and share reports on jobsite safety, daily progress, etc.

    Category average: 8.2

Reviews

What users are saying about Oracle Aconex.
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Aconex Project Review.

Incentivized
Verified User
Project Manager in Corporate (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle Aconex as our primary project information and document management platform for large, multi-stakeholder capital projects. It serves as a single source of truth for all project communications, documents, and workflows across the project lifecycle. Business Problems Addressed: Oracle Aconex addresses several critical business challenges: Document Control & Version Management: Eliminates document duplication and version confusion, ensuring all project participants work from the latest approved information. Maintains a full audit trail for contractual and compliance purposes. Collaboration Across Multiple Organizations: Enables secure collaboration between owners, consultants, contractors, and subcontractors.

Pros

  • Mapping plans.
  • Manage subcontractors.
  • Managing RFIs.

Cons

  • Better interface.
  • Easier programming.
  • More subcontractor tools.

Return on Investment

  • Easier to teach new company employees.
  • Harder to navigate to certain areas.
  • Needs a better interface.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Procore

Other Software Used

Procore, Bluebeam, Adobe Acrobat

Resourceful Construction and Project Management Software

Incentivized
Sanjoy Malik
Senior Database Administrator in Information Technology at Carver Companies (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • The existence of insurance and permit tracking.
  • Budgetary control measures and expense monitor.
  • Job costing and logistical management.
  • Skills and competencies improvement.

Cons

  • Oracle Aconex has no compliance management
  • More so, equipment management and asset valuation is missing.
  • The accounting integration lacks on Oracle Aconex.

Return on Investment

  • Oracle Aconex tracks and controls the budgets set.
  • Oracle Aconex allows license and insurance tracking are conducted, to avoid losses.
  • Job costing and other logistical processes are handled by Oracle Aconex.

Alternatives Considered

Buildertrend and Procore

Other Software Used

Cofense Intelligence, Cisco Endpoint Security Analytics, Actian DataFlow

Effective Cloud easy System for Construction Project Budgeting and Management.

Incentivized
Camilla janeView profile
Project Coordinator in Engineering at Aecon Group Inc. (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Time tracking functionality is amazing.
  • All the features are easy and active.
  • The Cloud services offered by Oracle Aconex is efficient.

Cons

  • Sharing of projects comments and document can be more efficient.
  • Estimation capabilities can be improved.
  • The initial configuration can easily confuse the beginners.

Return on Investment

  • Project document can be easily accessed through the Cloud service.
  • Easy budget and time tracking.
  • Cloud collaboration ability has been more helpful.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Primavera Submittal Exchange, Procore and Raken

Other Software Used

Workfront, Buildertrend, CMiC Construction Platform

Oracle Aconex - Project and Data Management Platform

Incentivized
Gerald WilsonView profile
Software Engineer in Engineering at PlainID - The Authorization Company (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Control of processes.
  • Cost management across our organization.

Return on Investment

  • It has given excellent and fast ROI.
  • Quick delivery of services to our organization.

Other Software Used

F5 on IBM Cloud, SAP Agile Data Preparation

Although Imperfect - Robust, Neutrally Hosted and Strongly Functional

Incentivized
Mark PotterView profile
Principal in Professional Services at International Project Solutions (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • File Sharing - unlimited storage, version control and access control on a neutral host - Aconex is significantly superior to ftp, SharePoint or a contractor hosted platform in that once onboarded, each user organization has equal privileges and can in turn onboard any number of members within the respective organizations.
  • Process and Workflow Management - while imperfect, Aconex offers the opportunity to customize process control and enforcement. Our team used these processes for RFI preparation and response, submittal tracking and other custom requirements.
  • Neutrality - while mentioned, the neutral host places all project participants on a equal basis. Typically, non-neutral platforms favor in-house participants to the detriment of the project. Until shared, files are 100% private to the respective organizations.
  • Mobile interface - good (not perfect) access to unlimited project file information from a mobile device.
  • Audit trail - no more "I didn't get that document". File sharing and file opening is tracked by user. Transmittals are a matter of record and there's no 'delete' function.

Cons

  • Interface needs work; graphically inelegant, somewhat non-intuitive.
  • Process controls could be better 'templated' for industry standards.
  • Dashboard/to do for project managers - it's still too hard to see who is slowing the project down.

Return on Investment

  • Reductions in print costs alone (subcontractor bid process) paid completely for the use of the product. Further benefits to all project participants included process streamlining and 100% access to all project documentation (Drawings, Specifications, Contracts, Notices of Change, Change Orders etc.) from any online source including mobile devices. Benefits probably accounted for 150% of product cost.
  • Intangible benefits included reduced exposure to claims as a result of good (and agreed process tracking).

Other Software Used

Egnyte, Citrix ShareFile

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