Manchester, N.H.—18
January 2011—Newforma®,
a software company addressing the project information
management (PIM) needs of architecture, engineering and
construction firms, announced today that it is expanding
its product line with three new products that complement
the latest edition of its industry-proven Newforma®
Project Center software. These additions and
improvements have been developed in response to industry
demand for better solutions to help connect people,
processes and information seamlessly and securely for
more efficient project delivery. Firms in every
discipline – architecture, engineering and construction
– can leverage this expanded PIM solution to increase
profitability, reduce risk and gain competitive
advantage.
In addition to the significant new capabilities and
customer-requested enhancements announced today in its
press release, “Newforma Launches Newforma Project
Center Eighth Edition,” Newforma is also introducing the
following three new products:
·
Newforma® Mobile
– to enable mobile web access to project information
·
Newforma® Contract
Management
– for comprehensive contract and document change
management
·
Newforma® Add-in
for Autodesk® Revit®
– to support model-based design workflows with Autodesk
Revit Architecture, Autodesk Revit Structure and
Autodesk Revit MEP.
Newforma Project Center Eighth Edition and these new PIM
products have all been designed to help architecture,
engineering and construction firms optimize evolving
work processes that require integration with BIM,
increased mobility, greater transparency and improved
accountability.
Newforma Chief Executive Officer Ian Howell
explains, “Newforma continually solicits input from its
customers, which include some of the industry’s top AEC
firms, to understand their PIM needs. Those needs
continue to evolve as our customers expand their use of
building information modeling, explore integrated
project delivery, try to mitigate risk, deliver
increasingly complex projects, compete for new work and
strive to retain their existing clients. Our customers
have long said to us, ‘Don’t change our work processes,
just make them better,’ and we have been able to do so
with Newforma Project Center. However, AEC work
processes are changing, and enabling technologies like
ours must evolve with them, so we have developed new,
complementary products that support these changes. Our
expanded Newforma PIM solution connects project teams
and provides access to project information in a more
direct and meaningful way than ever before, without
compromising security or relinquishing control.”
Newforma’s PIM solution now includes:
·
Newforma Project
Center Eighth Edition
– a major upgrade to the industry-leading PIM software,
which includes new features for managing document
control, actionable meeting minutes, project images,
Microsoft® Office® Excel® reporting, remote access to
project files (even from an Apple® iPad® mobile device),
and more; for details, see the “Newforma
Launches Newforma Project Center Eighth Edition”
press release.
·
Newforma Mobile
– a new product module that brings PIM functionality to
any smartphone equipped with a mobile browser, including
iPhone®, Blackberry® and Android® mobile devices.
·
Newforma Add-in for
Autodesk Revit
– a new product module that connects spaces and elements
from within a Revit building information model to
related project processes for document control, punch
lists, room information management, design review and
more.
·
Newforma Contract
Management
– a new product module that provides a comprehensive
platform for tracking construction phase and contract
administration workflows, including those for RFIs,
submittals, change orders, addenda, supplemental
instructions, bulletins, punch lists and more; for more
details.
All of the products listed above will be commercially
available in the second quarter of 2011 upon completion
of product acceptance testing by industry-leading AEC
firms participating in the Newforma Limited Customer
Release program.
