Item: CMiC Construction Platform
Rating: 7
Author: Nicholas Fenton

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use CMiC for recording meeting minutes, construction submittal/RFIs and managing cost. It’s only used by our construction department. The biggest problem it solves is giving us one location to store information regarding a project. Having all the items listed above in one location makes it easier for us to share information with the design team and owner.

Pros and Cons

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.

Return on Investment

Improved workflow
Better project visibility
Cost management

Alternatives Considered

Prolog

In general. I feel like both programs are clunky in their own regard. Overall, however, I would state that CMiC is better at managing costs and submittals. It was extremely difficult to actually upload submittals because there were too many different information fields that created confusion. It made it so it was hard to have every person upload a submittal the sane way.

Support Rating

I’m giving Support a middle of the road review rating because I haven’t contacted CMiC services before. I do have teammates that have contacted CMiC and they have stated that their experience was pleasant. As a result, I have rated this as a 5 because I don’t have enough information to rank it higher or lower.

Key Insights

Do you think CMiC Construction Platform delivers good value for the price?

Yes

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

Likelihood to Recommend

CMiC is a great platform for housing meeting information including agendas, minutes and site photographs. It is great for processing RFIs and submittals for the project team to review. It’s not well suited for field reports. Although it is easy to complete and upload field reports, it’s extremely clumsy to search the field reports for specific information if you don’t know the date something happened.

Hammering out a Constructive Review

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Overall Satisfaction with CMiC Construction Platform