Overview
What is CMiC Construction Platform?
CMiC Project Management is a construction project collaboration and management solution. It centralizes project-related communications and documents onto one platform, and connects the job site with the back-end office.
9 years with CMiC
Good system but needs improvement
Surviving the CMiC Construction Platform Roll-Out
Double your workload without the work
CMiC Construction Platform Review
Great product with issues
Useful but has room for improvement
Good bang for the buck but it is a bit clunky.
Very happy
Very strong tool for multiple project control.
Implementing CMiC Field and Planning for More
CMiC is a thorough and well thought out integrated platform that allows us to run multiple parts of our business with confidence.
Gets the job done, but no bells and whistles
CMiC at a Glance
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Popular Features
- RFI tools (89)7.777%
- Collaboration & approvals (94)7.272%
- Document sharing (88)5.959%
- Jobsite reports (87)5.858%
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What is CMiC Construction Platform?
CMiC Project Management is a construction project collaboration and management solution. It centralizes project-related communications and documents onto one platform, and connects the job site with the back-end office.
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- No setup fee
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- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
Human Resource Management
Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.
- 4.9Employee demographic data(19) Ratings
Administrators have the ability to enter detailed demographic data for each employee.
- 6.7Employment history(23) Ratings
Employment history is the ability to track previous positions held.
- 7.3Job profiles and administration(19) Ratings
Job profiles and descriptions can be created and edited.
- 6.7Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.(18) Ratings
Employee move workflow provides the ability to move employees to different positions and apply pay raises.
- 5.6Organizational charting(13) Ratings
Organizational charting is the ability to create hierarchical charts.
- 7.4Organization and location management(13) Ratings
Organization and location management allows employees to be managed across multiple geographical locations.
- 4.6Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)(18) Ratings
Compliance capabilities ensure full compliance with federal workplace regulations by capturing required data in central database.
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 6.7Pay calculation(23) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 4.7Support for external payroll vendors(14) Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.
- 7.7Off-cycle/On-Demand payment(14) Ratings
Provide employees access to wages accrued during the pay period before the end of the pay cycle.
- 6.4Benefit plan administration(16) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 7.2Direct deposit files(20) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 7Salary revision and increment management(19) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 4.7Reimbursement management(14) Ratings
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
Asset Management
Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.
- 4.5Tracking of all physical assets(18) Ratings
Tracking of track laptops, pagers, phones, and other company equipment.
Reporting & Analytics
Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.
- 7.6Dashboards(42) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 6.6Standard reports(54) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 6.9Custom reports(45) Ratings
Users can create custom reports.
- 8.1Data exportability(52) Ratings
Data can be exported via a CSV or Excel file for further reporting and analysis outside of the tool.
Construction Project & Field Management
Features related to collaboration between construction management and project execution (e.g. the office and the job site, general contractors and subcontractors)
- 5.9Plan distribution & viewing(66) Ratings
Users can compare different versions of plans, and view live updates/revisions to plans (usually from a mobile device in the field).
- 5.1Plan markups & sharing(62) Ratings
Users can annotate plans from the field and easily share plans/markups with other project stakeholders.
- 5.5Issue tracking & punchlists(80) Ratings
Users can track issues from the field, and create punchlists upon substantial completion.
- 5.6Photo documentation(76) Ratings
Users can document construction progress and/or issues by uploading photos from the field.
- 5.8Jobsite reports(87) Ratings
Users can create and share reports on jobsite safety, daily progress, etc.
- 5.9Document sharing(88) Ratings
Users can share/attach other documents related to construction projects, such as specifications, contracts, drawings, etc.
- 7.7RFI tools(89) Ratings
Users can create, send, receive, and archive Requests for Information (RFIs), to record exchanges with subcontractors, vendors, and other suppliers.
- 7.2Collaboration & approvals(94) Ratings
Users can comment, send messages, and/or approve documents.
- 5.3As-built drawings(53) Ratings
Users can generate as-built drawings upon project completion, to reflect the exact dimensions and materials of the final work, including any changes made to the initial plans during the construction process.
- 7.6Mobile app(63) Ratings
Users can easily access the system from the field on mobile devices such as phones and tablets.
- 7.3Submittal design and management(84) Ratings
Tools that allow users to draft and build submittals, track their status, submit them online, annotate submittal PDFs, and send submittal approval online.
- 5.6Checklists(46) Ratings
Construction checklists allow you to link important elements in your construction project. Construction checklists detail specific information of activities and phases in your project.
- 6.6Meeting Minutes(50) Ratings
Tools that help you keep track of minutes in meetings.
- 5.8Specifications(38) Ratings
Construction specifications, also called specs, are the details for the work that needs to be completed in a construction project.
- 8Change orders(59) Ratings
A change order (or variation order) is a component of the change management process in which changes in the scope of work (or project brief) agreed to by the client, contractor and architect are implemented.
Estimating
A set of tools and applications that allow contractors to forecast, track, monitor, and adjust the cost of building a structure. Cost estimates are used by project owners to determine the scope and feasibility of a project, and also for budget allocation. Contractors also use cost estimates when deciding whether or not to bid on a project and for bid creation.
- 4.3Takeoff tools(20) Ratings
Allow users to list the materials and quantities they will need for the project either manually from hardcopy blueprints or electronically from digital blueprints.
- 7.7Job costing(51) Ratings
Tracking and monitoring of the costs of all materials, labor, subcontractors, & equipment required for a given construction project. Allows users to compare actual costs to estimated costs, see how the job is progressing, identify which parts of the job are using the largest parts of the budget.
- 7.9Cost databases(42) Ratings
Pulls information from online databases and aggregates it to allow contractors to compare prices of materials from different suppliers.
- 7Cost calculator(29) Ratings
Application that calculates cost of estimated quantities and materials, typically within spreadsheets.
- 3.6Bid creation(28) Ratings
Allows users to use bid packages or templates to quickly and efficiently create bids based off of cost estimates.
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What is CMiC Construction Platform?
CMiC intelligent construction platform.
Purpose-built for the construction industry, the CMiC construction platform includes a suite of software applications that power E&C businesses for a broad range of customer segments, with capabilities for financials & accounting and managing human & capital assets, with the goal of ensuring efficient project management and flawless project delivery.CMiC software is architected on a single database platform that offers companies and users a single source of truth for business needs, streamlined workflows across the enterprise, the ability to run analytics to visualize data, and a consistent user experience. The single database platform for construction enables the different modules to connect seamlessly, and allows data to move freely. This helps provide simplified workflows, visibility & transparency and better decision making for construction executives.
CMiC Construction Platform Features
Construction Project & Field Management Features
- Supported: Plan distribution & viewing
- Supported: Plan markups & sharing
- Supported: Document sharing
- Supported: Issue tracking & punchlists
- Supported: Photo documentation
- Supported: Jobsite reports
- Supported: RFI tools
- Supported: Collaboration & approvals
- Supported: As-built drawings
- Supported: Mobile app
- Supported: Submittal design and management
- Supported: Checklists
- Supported: Meeting Minutes
- Supported: Specifications
- Supported: Change orders
Estimating Features
- Supported: Takeoff tools
- Supported: Job costing
- Supported: Cost databases
- Supported: Cost calculator
- Supported: Bid creation
Human Resource Management Features
- Supported: Employee demographic data
- Supported: Employment history
- Supported: Job profiles and administration
- Supported: Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
- Supported: Benefits information
- Supported: Organizational charting
- Supported: Organization and location management
- Supported: Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Payroll Management Features
- Supported: Pay calculation
- Supported: Support for external payroll vendors
- Supported: Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
- Supported: Payroll history for each employee
- Supported: Benefit plan administration
- Supported: Direct deposit files
- Supported: Payroll tracking and auditing
- Supported: Salary revision and increment management
- Supported: Reimbursement management
- Supported: Statutory form management
Asset Management Features
- Supported: Tracking of all physical assets
- Supported: Asset issue and transfer management
- Supported: Asset return
- Supported: Warranty and after-sales status maintenance contract tracking
Reporting & Analytics Features
- Supported: Dashboards
- Supported: Standard reports
- Supported: Custom reports
- Supported: Data exportability
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CMiC Construction Platform Integrations
CMiC Construction Platform Competitors
CMiC Construction Platform Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | North America, Middle East, South East Asia |
Supported Languages | English |
CMiC Construction Platform Downloadables
- CMiC gives construction companies accounting features purpose-built for their industry. CMiC Accounting & Financial Controls manages key aspects of the financial puzzle, including budgeting, GL, AP/AR and forecasting. This solution brief explains more.
- CMiC FIELD is the hub of project management & collaboration. It unifies teams at the job site and enables them to co-ordinate on-time, on-budget project delivery. This solution brief shows how FIELD helps to manage RFIs, submittals, drawings, and subcontracts.
- CMiC Analytics is delivered as an embedded, native capability within the CMiC construction platform. It simplifies the complex management of data-driven insights across the enterprise. With embedded analytics, construction teams can better inform their decisions with complete and accurate data, no matter their role or job location. This solution brief describes more.
- CMiC delivers a unified and advanced enterprise and field solutions for construction firms. This 1-pager offers an overview of how the platform can be the technology foundation that runs a construction business.
Frequently Asked Questions
CMiC Construction Platform Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 68% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 32% |
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Reviews and Ratings
(180)Attribute Ratings
- 8.5Likelihood to Renew7 ratings
- 9Availability1 rating
- 7Performance1 rating
- 6.1Usability6 ratings
- 4.7Support Rating96 ratings
- 8Online Training1 rating
- 7.5In-Person Training2 ratings
- 7.4Implementation Rating5 ratings
- 8Configurability1 rating
- 9Product Scalability1 rating
- 9Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 9Vendor post-sale1 rating
- 8.2CMiC Product Scalability93 ratings
Reviews
(76-100 of 114)HUGE learning curve - powerful with time and patience
- The reporting tools are great
- Customizable
- Some functionality could be improved
- It's not that intuitive.
Hammering out a Constructive Review
- Submittal sand RFI: CMiC does a great job of allowing submittals and RFI to be submitted, reviewed and tracked.
- CMiC provides a great platform for creating meeting minutes.
- Cost management: CMiC is great for managing the the overall budget for a project.
- Change Orders: creating and tracking change orders in CMiC can be a little clunky, for example when a potential change item is added to a change order it does lock it out from being selected for a different change order.
- Transmittal: there is a lot of information on the transmittal sheet that we don’t use.
- Setting up the architect to be able to review submittals and RFIs was difficult and it took a few weeks to work out the bugs.
In Depth Review
- Keeps projects on schedule
- Timesheets
- Very organized
- More functional across platforms.
- Integrate more effectively across departments.
Good overall product but can use some fine tuning on several aspects. Would reccomend.
- Tracking of RFI's and submittals.
- Tracking of PCI's and SCO's.
- Tracking current budget costs and how much is left to spend.
- The reports generated from CMiC are bulky and often do not show what is desired. There is a need to create custom reports for many things.
- The mobile field apps have a ton of problems and crash often. They are user-friendly but do not function consistently.
- Browsing through documents on a desktop is rather clunky and not very smooth.
Usable, but needs improvement
- Cost tracking
- Cloud Access
- Navigation
- User Interface is very outdated.
- Needs a drawing management tool.
CMiC from a PM's perspective
- Project financial forecasting: has good ability to manage all costs from one screen which is a great time saver and gives you the ability to see the effects of your changes real-time.
- Invoice review and approval gives you the ability to review the data and actual invoice (PDF) and make real time changes as necessary.
- Production of various reports that relate to the content they were created from.
- Accessing different projects as if you were in a data base is troublesome. Running server queries and constantly having to type in your project is time consuming.
- When creating timesheets, I don't have the ability to copy lines that I've already created. I'm forced to start from scratch on every line which is time-consuming. I also don't have a function to copy previous timesheets when I know the information from the previous week will be the same as the current week I'm about to populate.
- In the forecasting and financial modules, CMiC can get quite glitchy with the internet platform. I run Firefox and Google. What happens is the financial matrix on the screen starts to detach itself, meaning when you scroll on the screen some of the columns move and others don't. The information becomes misaligned and you have to back out and start again.
- CMiC very much needs a way to customize meeting minutes. It's very very troublesome to group topics or add subject matter to a new item to an existing topic. The UI should be more fluid and usable so the user can add lines where ever they need to and have the item number expand to incorporate that.
- Customer service really likes to argue and debate issues we have. The attitude they have is that CMiC is correct and the user is the issue. We have had several issues especially in payroll where things were wrong. We were forced to created case studies over time to prove the point. This seems exactly the opposite of the purpose of customer service.
Not too great
- Daily Journals
- Photos
- Request for Information
- Old GUI (interface)
- Has a old database feel
- Loading times can be extensive
CMiC Review
- Potential Change Items: It helps let everyone on the team know what are the costs that pertain to specific projects.
- RFIs: It is very clear as to whether an RFI is still open, or has been returned.
- Submittals: It's able to export a submittal log directly from CMiC, and filtering by date, allowing the team to see what is outstanding and what the responsibility is of everyone to complete said tasks.
- Submittals: The submittals, when closed, remain on the taskbar. When you have over 200 submittals and cannot remove them from the desktop, it causes the overall system to take a long time to load.
Manage on the go
- Track job site activity and progress. It saves time in production meetings. It’s easy to update. Clients can receive weekly updates on the status of the project.
- Track change orders and manage pricing for projects.
- Share files and photos. We can take photos of site issues or conditions that require attention.
- Very good integration between financial and project management module
- Very good RFI, Submittal, CO, PCI and Subcontracts Logs
- Can export most logs to a spreadsheet which can be useful, we like that a lot.
- Payroll module is extremely complex to set up and use--not user friendly
- Payable date entry is not efficient; we lose productivity by changing to CMiC from another software
- Mobile applications are not fully developed
- Progress billing module is not user friendly; hard to correct if mistakes are made
- Presentation of change orders on progress billing is very poor
- Cannot track gross margins on change orders properly or without extreme efforts
Decent Financials, Poor Field Management
- Invoice workflow.
- Creating and tracking potential change items and change orders.
- Labor forecasting and labor profit calculations.
- RFIs, submittals, and submittal log.
- User interface seems outdated, way too many options/unused areas.
- Lack of photo management.
- General speed of online platform is incredibly slow.
Hopeful for future growth
- RFPs: entering RFPs from subcontracts is easy.
- Field App: the current version of field app is not reliable and has issues.
- Subcontracts: cannot override some fields to meet our company's needs.
- Support: entering cases is difficult and the direct users cannot deal with support directly.
CMIC Review
- Manages everything in one system. This is nice so that we have once program instead of multiple.
- Accuracy pulls costs in real time for forecasting budgets.
- Has many functions and can be manipulated to get information we want.
- This is not a user-friendly program. It take a lot of time to learn how to use the program it would be nice if it was a lot easier to pick up
- Constantly having updates that create other issues in the functions that are working. it would be nice it that didn't happen or is support was easier to get a hold of.
- So many clicks! you have to make like 1000+ clicks to get what you want.
- I wish searching was easier instead of having to use the %% in the search.
- I wish change orders were easier to post and un-post. Also, it would be nice if there was one way of doing them instead of 15+. This would make consistency across the company.
- CMiC has a lot of great features but it really isn’t user friendly. I spend a lot of time training and explaining how to do something to my fellow coworkers. I have learned from trial and error and I wish it was a program that anyone could pick up with ease. CMiC is not an easy program to learn.
- RA Nelson had to write our own manual on how to use CMiC. It seems a little weird that we paid all this money for CMiC and then have to turn around and create our own manual for it. (which has taken a lot of hours might I add)
- Random error message that doesn’t always lead to you being about to figure out what is going on. It would nice if the error message was like (missing XXX file) instead it rarely does that.
- A lot of times the updates fix one problem, then create 5 more other problems.
- I wish we had more support, it seems when I ask support for help I am given to someone with little knowledge and I have to wait a while before I get someone higher up to help.
- There are some features that I wished CMiC did but when I ask programming to add them they ask for more money to create it for me. These are items that would benefit the program, not just RA and I should have to pay for my suggestions to make the program better.
- Overall, CMiC is a powerful tool but I wish it was more user friendly and there where such long hard consequences for making mistakes within the system.
CMiC User Review
- Visibility across teams.
- One login for lots of activities.
- Strong controls; project and financials.
- Progressive improvements.
- Users input gets dedicated R&D dollars.
- Easier customization.
- Customization cost are HIGH.
- User experience can be clunky.
Newbie Review
- Purchase orders, change orders, estimates, etc.
- Organizes projects well.
- It is very useful to have everything in one place.
- Uploading files can be easier, a click and drag option would be useful.
New User Review
- Cloud-base
- Powerful info
- Real-time reporting
- A bit complicated for our use.
- Security settings can be a challenge to setup.
- AP vs contact use.
Document Management Review
- Organizes submittals.
- Compiles project contact information.
- Document management.
- Updated contact info doesn't always get applied across existing projects.
- Having a project schedule tool would be helpful.
General Review of CMiC (before R12)
- Ease to export report in different formats.
- Easy to analyze cost to complete forecasts.
- Variety in the reports.
- Lack of general overview project report compiling project information from different departments (Let's say total RFPs or number of outstanding punch list items, or projected cost-profit vs bid profit, etc.).
- Lack of notification system.
- Lack of auto-generated reports and emails.
- Lack of speed on certain pages (Forecasting screen or large queries takes a while to load).
CMiC: The One Stop Shop
- Accounts payable
- Document control
- All information in one place
- Construction drawings management
- Easier to change it to my company needs
- Easier to navigate
The view of a first time user
- Invoice inputting.
- Creating jobs/seeing jobs created.
- A/P invoice inputting.
- Not sure. This is my first construction software.
Beginner - but enjoying
- Good budgeting/finance tools.
- Incorporates RFIs/field reports.
- Document (drawing) incorporation.
- Scheduling/budgeting.
- More user/friendly interface.
- Selective export to excel.
- Use with chrome.
So far so good
- Facilitate communication
- Uniform template across whole organization
- Store document
- More linear way of how different things are related.
- Better chance to undo "errors" like an undo button or something.
Less appropriate: Not very user -riendly. Some site people have trouble adapting to the concept and therefore tend to avoid using CMIC if they are not used to the program or not very knowledgeable about how to use it.
Good Product, Could Use Improvements
- Information management
- Invoicing
- Reports
- Interface/Display: Not very user friendly. Should reference programs like Bim360 to get a feel for a really easy to navigate, and good-looking display.
- Lagging/Downloads: Not very efficient to use, doesn't make me want to upload documents to the system based on lagging and downloads times.
- Platform integration: Why don't contacts sync up with my phone? Should have a feature to integrate better with currently used technologies. Would be cool to have storage folders on your desktop that are cloud-based to import and store files.
CMIC provides what it promises
- Shop drawing tracking
- RFI tracking
- Changes
- Billing
- User interface
- Reporting
- Providing one place for collab contacts: instead of each PM/Superintendent having their own lists; CMiC allows for a centralized database.
- Change order screen: the lady that does accounting said that the change order screen is super easy to use and to run reports out of.
- Daily journal: on the mobile app Daily Journals are super easy.
- Submittal process is overly complicated; I can't get my PMs to use it.
- Meeting minutes: again overly complicated.
- Folder structure: It is painful that I can't pick and choose which folders get used on which project. This confuses the PMs, superintendents & collab users.
- Mobile app: Doesn't consistently work. Freezes, doesn't log in, doesn't download stuff, when trying to unfreeze the software it deletes whatever wasn't saved. Doesn't work well on HotSpots
- Estimating: this system does not handle estimating as we know it. It allows the PM to go out for additional pricing; not the initial estimating process
- Billings are unbelievably difficult. This is one reason we haven't implemented phase 2.
- Reports: most of the canned reports are quite bland. There's no way to manipulate the canned reports either.
- Training is NOT easy on this system; even with how much I've trimmed down for Clients & internal employees. I have clients refusing to use this system.