CMiC from a PM's perspective
April 18, 2020
CMiC from a PM's perspective
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Construction Platform
Modules Used
- Accounting & Financial Controls
- Enterprise Content Management
- FIELD: Project Management & Collaboration
- Project Controls
Overall Satisfaction with CMiC Construction Platform
We use the platform across the whole company from project management to accounting to payroll. It addresses several of the facets of the business and allows them to cohesively "talk" to one another.
- 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.
CMiC was the software currently in use when I joined Pence. I've used Prolog, Constructware, and Procore. All seem to have their advantages and disadvantages. If CMiC was able to mirror the user interface of Procore then this software could be amazing. A program should be very intuitive. CMiC has improved greatly over the years from the last time I used it but it's still very esoteric.
Do you think CMiC Construction Platform delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with CMiC Construction Platform's feature set?
Yes
Did CMiC Construction Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of CMiC Construction Platform go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy CMiC Construction Platform again?
Yes