An IT Project Manager using a construction project management tool
January 15, 2018

An IT Project Manager using a construction project management tool

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

Overall Satisfaction with Procore

I personally prefer training sessions with an actual trainer and dedicated classroom time. I've had to learn a lot of Procore's functionality through chatting with the representatives (they're great), phone calls, and youtube tutorials.
Procore is used in our organization to manage our portfolio of construction and IT projects. It is used primarily by the PMO, however, it is also used as the primary source of project portfolio information by our executive suite. Procore provides visibility of our projects, houses project documents, tracks budget, change orders, and overall health of a project.
  • Budget. Procore is very helpful in tracking budget and cost variance. The financial views are easy to read and I like the ability to have direct costs calculate cost variance against the budget.
  • Document housing. Procore allows the user to create multiple folders within the document tab for the project.
  • Microsoft Project upload of Gantt. Procore allows you to upload a Gantt from Microsoft Project and will produce reports based on the data from your upload.
  • I'd like the ability to update the status of a schedule imported from a Gantt without having to update the status on the actual Gantt itself, and reloading the new Gantt into Procore.
Our company is just beginning to use some of the these capabilities. It is too early in our own process to answer this question.
  • Previously, PMO spent anywhere between 10-40 hours a month putting together monthly "report-out's" on various projects from the company portfolio. With Procore, the information is located in one application for our allowed users to access. We now run monthly reportp-out's live with Procore projected to the audience.
This is the first construction project management software I have used since I'm an IT project manager.
Procore is well suited for construction projects in cases when the vendor/contractor/subcontractor is using the tool in conjunction with the company. The ability to look at physical plans, documents, review punch lists is great if the vendor uses it along with the project manager. It is less appropriate for IT project management.

Procore Feature Ratings

Plan distribution & viewing
Not Rated
Plan markups & sharing
Not Rated
Document sharing
9
Issue tracking & punchlists
9
Photo documentation
10
Jobsite reports
Not Rated
RFI tools
Not Rated
Collaboration & approvals
Not Rated
Mobile app
Not Rated