CMiC is a thorough and well thought out integrated platform that allows us to run multiple parts of our business with confidence.
November 18, 2022

CMiC is a thorough and well thought out integrated platform that allows us to run multiple parts of our business with confidence.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Construction Platform

Modules Used

  • Accounting & Financial Controls
  • Asset Management
  • FIELD: Mobile Applications
  • FIELD: Project Management & Collaboration
  • Human Capital Management & Payroll
  • Project Controls

Overall Satisfaction with CMiC Construction Platform

We use CMiC to run a large portion of our business, from tracking project budgets and costs, to HR, to equipment, and accounting. We run all invoices through workflows and can tie costs directly and instantly to jobs. We collect time and process payroll which also ties to our project costs. We take advantage of the subcontractor qualifications module as well as opportunity management to monitor subcontractors and track pursuits. We especially take advantage of the unified data structure and have created over 60 BI reports that we use to help monitor all of our departments. Our processes in CMiC allow us to collect clean data, which we use to help make decisions on how to run our business. The ease of access and consistency of good data is a great benefit to using CMiC.

Pros

  • Reasonable price for what it offers
  • Connected database, especially with accounting and operations
  • Ability to configure the platform to fit our business needs

Cons

  • Needs to be more user friendly on the mobile side of the platform. Ease of use is key here.
  • There is not much instruction or support in standing up some programs like deploying ECM for outlook, making Collaboration Gateway work, or setting up the system for getting Plans available on the mobile devices.
  • Security configuration is extremely detailed and spread throughout the system. It is extremely hard to make adjustments to a person's security unless you know exactly where to look, which requires years of experience but shouldn't.
  • We've knocked days, if not weeks, off of our timeline to getting invoices paid using Image manager and workflow approvals.
  • Because we have real time cost and budget information all in one place, we've knocked a day or two off of each project for their monthly forecasts, and we're much more consistent and accurate than we were before CMiC.
  • Because we pull a large chunk of project information into our BI reports, we've never had better visibility into projects and their potential issues. We're able to compare current project progress with past similar projects to determine if we are going to have an issue before it actually happens.

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

  • The platform is well suited for tracking project financials. The direct tie between the project budgets and costs on the accounting side makes this platform extremely valuable as we have real time cost data to make decisions from.
  • The platform is great in that it integrates the majority of our major processes. We can track a pursuit in Opportunity Management and push that information directly to a project. We hire people through the system and they are available to input on a project. We track time and pay people through CMiC and even manage our equipment fleet. This one platform satisfies a lot of our business needs, which makes our technology stack a bit easier to manage.
  • The platform as it stands today is not well suited for mobile consumption. We have users not use the mobile platform due to issues with losing data when not in wifi and issues with not understanding how to use the system.

CMiC Construction Platform Feature Ratings

5.6
Plan distribution & viewing
Not Rated
Plan markups & sharing
Not Rated
Document sharing
5
Issue tracking & punchlists
5
Photo documentation
Not Rated
Jobsite reports
5
RFI tools
8
Collaboration & approvals
5
As-built drawings
Not Rated
Mobile app
5
Submittal design and management
6
Checklists
6
Meeting Minutes
5
Specifications
3
Change orders
9
6.5
Job costing
8
Cost databases
Not Rated
Cost calculator
5
Bid creation
Not Rated
7.5
Employee demographic data
8
Employment history
9
Job profiles and administration
8
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
Not Rated
Organizational charting
Not Rated
Organization and location management
Not Rated
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
5
5.0
Pay calculation
6
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
4
Direct deposit files
Not Rated
Salary revision and increment management
Not Rated
Reimbursement management
Not Rated
5.0
Tracking of all physical assets
5
5.5
Dashboards
5
Standard reports
5
Custom reports
4
Data exportability
8

CMiC Construction Platform Training

  • In-Person Training
The training was on system functions and not really how best to use it for our business. It would have been nice to be provided recommendations for use rather than just a blank slate of functionality.

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