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Newforma Project Center

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Newforma Project Center has been widely praised by users as their preferred file transfer platform for both incoming and outgoing documents. Its intuitive interface and streamlined features simplify data management, RFIs, and submittal processes, resulting in increased efficiency for users. The integration of Newforma's Outlook add-in allows for easy filing of emails to specific projects, enabling quick and efficient searching in the future.

One of the key use cases of Newforma is its ability to facilitate online collaboration among engineers and architects, eliminating the need for physical meetings. This feature has proven especially valuable in today's remote work environment, allowing teams to collaborate seamlessly regardless of their physical location. Additionally, during the construction administration phase of architectural projects, Newforma serves as an instrumental tool in facilitating effective communications between contractors and architects, ensuring that design intent is clearly conveyed.

Another significant use case is project management. Newforma excels at facilitating the filing and tracking of model transmissions, integrating smoothly with existing user practices and key applications. Users have found it easy to file documents both in the office and on the go, while large file sharing is simplified through transmittals that are both easy to set up and track. While it may lack some broader project management features, Newforma's strong integration capabilities make it a valuable tool that seamlessly complements other applications used in the industry.

Reviews

5 Reviews

Online Collaborating Dream

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Newforma Project Center has been a great tool for online collaborating with the engineers and architects within my company. It has virtually eliminated the need for us all to travel to one location to discuss certain line items within each project. It allows all of us to access RFI's for projects while it also tracks everything we do.

Pros

  • Allows for online collaborating specific projects
  • Keeps track of emails and RFI's engineer and architect needs, quick and easy access to

Cons

  • I have found it difficult to locate audits.
  • Some users have issues while uploading project data.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Newforma Project Center is a handy tool for mainly our architects and engineers to collaborate and view each other plans together in one space. Previously we held weekly meetings to discuss these line items. Since using we have moved to meet in person once a month. This has saved the company money as well as time and resources.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Newforma Project Center
1 year of experience

Newforma for construction administration

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Newforma has been instrumental in the construction administration phase for architectural projects in all of the firms I have worked for both nationally and internationally. It is a primary tool for our construction administration team during the construction of a project and assists in contractor-architect communications including RFI's and submittals. With Newforma, there is a clear line of communication that allows us, as the architect, to communicate our design intent clearly and review any shop drawings that may deviate from the original design intent. It is also a great tool for project management in terms of filing and keeping track of model transmissions.

Pros

  • Construction administration.
  • Document filing.

Cons

  • File downloads.
  • User-interface.

Likelihood to Recommend

Newforma is ideal for architects who are continuously working with contractors during construction projects. Receiving the RFI's and submittals digitally saves trips to the site which are sometimes located far away. It is ideal for large scale projects with long construction timelines and multiple parties involved. It is likely not ideal for simple projects such as small residential houses or anything below 10,000 square feet.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Professional Services (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Newforma Project Center
5 years of experience

Valuable document control between projects, teams, and organizations

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Newforma is our preferred file transfer platform for both incoming and outgoing documents. It provides internal access to project records for teams and users that are specific to projects. It also provides an industry-standard platform that colleagues from other firms use to transfer files and information seamlessly with access management per project and per team.

Pros

  • Archiving of project-related communications of all in the tam
  • Searchable database of communication with many filters at great speed
  • File transfer tracking for incoming, outgoing, and receipt (download record)
  • Integration with Outlook and 3rd party graphics managers
  • Automatic organization of files types and content in the server directory

Cons

  • The initial file structure of shared directories needs to be set-up with a specific naming convention and order. Consistency is key to maximize the organizational capabilities of Newforma
  • There are many capabilities in the application that go unused due to a lack of training materials
  • Integration with Outlook is good but requires training across the organization for all users to consistently use it

Likelihood to Recommend

Newforma is a great tool to collaborate with large teams and between firms. It allows for great documentation of transfers, activities, and other procedural aspects of projects that require collaboration between disciplines, for example, MEP, electrical, architectural and technology. For internal use, Newforma has been great for communications tracking and archival, as well as for record-keeping of all the users in a team or number of teams. Many great options are features are unused due to a lack of training or exposure to them, for example, the graphical viewers that can preview CAD, Revit, and other formats, or the markup tool available with the desktop client.
GL
Gil Lopez CTS ING
Integrated Technology Architect in Engineering at TEECOM (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Newforma Project Center
5 years of experience
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Newforma Project Center

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Newforma is being used by employees across our entire organization. It has simplified our our data management, RFIs and submittal process, and large file transfer process. Newforma makes filing emails to specific projects a breeze with their Outlook add-in, and searching for those emails in the future will only take seconds of your time.

Pros

  • Newforma sits on top of our previous filing system (Windows Explorer). This was very important to us because we didn't have to change the project numbering system in order to fit Newforma's design. Also, if we were to decide we didn't like it, we could easily revert back to our previous methods.
  • Newforma does a great job of indexing information, making searches much easier by being able to use keywords instead of knowing the exact file location. No more traversing through countless folders before finding what you need.
  • Newforma keeps a read receipt for everything that you submit through it for issue tracking, and keeps an easy to read record of your workflow.

Cons

  • If a document has two different size papers within the document (say a blueprint is included on an 11"x17" paper), Newforma will not print through the application.

Likelihood to Recommend

Newforma is extremely well suited for archiving emails. The Outlook add in even has the option to "send and file in project", so you can archive it to a specific project as it is being sent, making it so you will never have to go back and file emails after the fact.
Also, the markup tool is extremely useful and all of our users like it much better than Adobe Acrobat.
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Newforma Project Center
1 year of experience

A decent EMS for your business

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's easy to manage and integrate with the current user practices and key applications. Users can easily file when in the office or out and about and sharing of information that is too large to email is done via a transmittal that is simple to setup and easy to track. Although it lacks some of the broader project management features and requires work/investment to integrate with other tools that may put some novices off.

Pros

  • Simple email filing
  • Transmital process allows sending out large files and tracking downloads
  • Single pane view of your projects

Cons

  • This was primarily an email archiving solution, but we're pushing forward with trying to integrate it with more of our business solutions to make it part of a suite of packages.

Likelihood to Recommend

It has been good to help manage our email filing mountain but struggling with other aspects.We have now engaged with their support to look to improve this and hopefully use more of the functionality that is built into the solution.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Customer Service (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Newforma Project Center
3 years of experience