Autodesk Construction Cloud creates a one-stop solution for managing construction documents from correspondence, invoices, pay applications, change orders, submittals, RFIs, and meeting minutes. The ability to interconnect items is a huge time saver. For example, when taking meeting minutes, you can link an RFI/Submittal/issue to the agenda item so you are aren't having to go to a different module to find the item. The ease of assigning tasks and due dates to items encourages accountability. The ability to customize modules/reports/views is very intuitive and appreciated. It's easy to use out of the box and then allows you to increase the breadth and depth of the integration into your organization.
Pros
Meeting Minutes: Simple to use and adapt from Agenda to Minutes, attach reference documents efficiently, and assign accountability to attendees.
Budget/Cost Reporting: There is a learning curve, but the visibility of budgets and costs from inception to closeout is beneficial for the user and makes reporting to investors simple and consistent.
Document Management: The version history on drawings "sheets" is very helpful when managing a project through design and construction. Issuing addenda, drawings, or tracking down a change in design is simple.
Pay Applications/Change Order Workflow: the customizable workflows along with time stamps of reviews and response makes tracking down status and bottlenecks very easy.
Cons
External Users: The ability to have external users review and respond to items or even just distribute items like invoices for example would be beneficial.
Budget Format: There are so many layers to budgets/contract/etc. When you need to update a budget code, it feels like you need to do it in 3 places in 3 different ways to make it take effect.
User Management: This has become easier since you don't have to login to a different system anymore but is still a bit cumbersome.
Program Tracking: The ability to have multiple projects roll-up under a program would be a suggestion.
Dashboard: The ability to have a dashboard reporting across multiple projects by type/region/program/etc.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well Suited: Autodesk Construction Cloud is cost effective, user friendly, and robust. They aren't nickel and diming you for use of each module. Once users are on-board with the system it creates an ecosystem that all users "go to first" for an answer. Less Appropriate: As a Developer, there are some hiccups as it is designed more for the GC (general contractor). A template option that is Developer forward would an improvement.
Alternatives
Procore, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Constructware (discontinued)
Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) hosts documents and files in a centralized location, allowing users from different locations and companies to access the critical project files.
Pros
Cloud hosting for multiple users
Centralized location for documents
Permissions management for different types of users
Cons
The cloud reliability is not as high as it could be
Permissions are confusing to set up for the average user, often takes multiple days of back and forth just to get correct access for a new user.
Sheet viewer is very slow compared to alternatives
Likelihood to Recommend
Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) is great as a platform to get all users to a centralized location. The platform from a technical perspective could be better to use. Permissions are the biggest thing that slow us down, the majority of the time the manager of the site does not fully understand how to set up permissions and we end up going back and forth over the course of days just to add users.
Alternatives
Procore, Bluebeam, Autodesk Build and Egnyte
VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services (Construction company, 11-50 employees)
