Meridian Implements Proliance® Within Real Estate and Retail Markets
Trammell Crow Company and the Westfield Group go live with web-based solution to optimize building, construction and facilities initiatives
FOLSOM, Calif. (July 22, 2004) — Meridian Project Systems®, provider of enterprise solutions for managing large physical infrastructure initiatives, has implemented its Proliance solution with two industry leaders in the real estate services and retail development markets. Trammell Crow Company, a diversified global real estate services firm, and the Westfield Group, one of the world's leading shopping center organizations, have successfully implemented and begun using Proliance.
Proliance optimizes project lifecycles and automates business processes for real estate, construction, and other physical infrastructure initiatives. Proliance uniquely combines complete Project and Portfolio Management functionality, Business Process Management and a Business Intelligence layer in one comprehensive solution. Proliance is designed for large business enterprises that rely on physical infrastructure to deliver their core business, whether that infrastructure is manufacturing facilities, retail outlets, office buildings or transportation systems.
Trammell Crow Company
Trammell Crow Company is currently leveraging the Budget and Contract
Management and Vendor Management business applications of Proliance
to streamline cost tracking and to manage thousands of clients, contractors
and subcontractors across geographies. The company has also rolled out
the Office Management business application to automate drawing and correspondence
management across all of its projects.
"We currently have users nationwide utilizing the Proliance solution," said Sam Sockwell, assistant vice president of information technology for Trammell Crow Company. "Proliance technology allows our project managers to become both more efficient and more effective, and to provide an even greater level of service consistency to our clients.
"The Proliance workflow engine allows us to automate business processes across every function. As a result, we can reduce the time and effort needed to process information, as well as ensure better enforcement of best practices company wide," finished Sockwell.
Westfield Group
Westfield's initial implementation serves more than 30 users in the
United Kingdom (200 US and UK-based users by September 2004) from a
single solution hosted in Los Angeles, Calif. The Proliance solution
allows Westfield to collaborate and share data more efficiently across
six key areas: development, design, construction, architecture, leasing
and management functions.
Using the Proliance XML technology format, Westfield employees and partners can easily share and re-use data for several purposes, including job costing and contract management, managing drawing and design documents, and collaborating on construction. The bottom line result is improved visibility into Westfield’s multiple business units, and optimized performance of its retail development portfolio, valued at $5 billion in the near term with longer term identified developments of an additional $3.5 billion.
"Proliance technology brings incredible value to our owner/operator/construction company in a way we had not previously conceived," said Rick Gehringer, global chief information officer of Westfield. "It breaks down barriers, automates building processes, and provides a level of integration that hasn't been seen before," commented Gehringer.
Both Trammell Crow Company and Westfield value that Meridian has adopt open technology standards and aligned with the Microsoft .NET application framework. By leveraging XML and Web services, the Proliance platform provides long-term dividends by supporting their future technology strategies, allowing integration with other core business solutions. Westfield is planning to benefit from this flexibility, by using XML to integrate Proliance with PeopleSoft’s Enterprise One application.
For a complete overview of the Proliance solution, join Meridian President and Cofounder John Bodrozic and the Meridian product management team for a free one-hour webinar on how to optimize project lifecycles. Register before Aug. 11, 2004; visit www.MeridianSystems.com /Proliance or call Meridian at 800.850.2660.
About Trammell Crow Company
Founded in 1948, Trammell Crow Company is one of the largest diversified
commercial real estate services companies in the United States. Through
its Global Services Group, the company provides building management,
brokerage and project management services to both investors in and users
of commercial real estate. Development and investment services are provided
through the company's Development & Investment Group. In addition
to its full service offices located throughout the United States, the
company has offices in Canada, Europe, Asia and Latin/South America
focused on the delivery of real estate services to corporate customers.
The company delivers brokerage services outside the United States through
strategic alliances with leading providers - in Europe and Asia, through
Savills, plc, a leading property services company based in the United
Kingdom; and in Canada, through JJ Barnicke, a leading Canadian real
estate services provider. Trammell Crow Company is traded on the New
York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "TCC" and is located
on the World Wide Web at www.trammellcrow.com
About The Westfield Group
The Westfield Group is one of the world's leading shopping center organizations
- a vertically integrated group of companies involved in funding, creating
and managing a global portfolio of shopping centers. Westfield serves
as developer, architect, builder, property manager and funds manager
for a US$24 billion (A$34 billion) portfolio of 123 shopping centers
in four countries that comprise around 96 million square feet (9 million
square meters) of retail space and include 17,600 retail outlets.
About Meridian Project Systems
Meridian Project Systems provides enterprise solutions to industries
managing real estate, construction, and other physical infrastructure
initiatives. Meridian solutions are used by more than 8,500 of today's
large building owners, government agencies, and engineering and construction
firms to effectively improve top line revenue growth while reducing
their capital construction costs. Meridian uniquely provides both traditional
software and hosted ASP solutions, and ranks as a market share leader
in project management software among general contractors with over $100
million in revenue*. Meridian has an impressive
track record of revenue growth over its 11-year history, and has been
repeatedly recognized as a Constructech Magazine Hottest Technology
company. Meridian is headquartered in Folsom, Calif., with additional
offices in Düsseldorf, Germany; Vancouver, British Columbia; and
Sydney, Australia. For more information, call Meridian at 1-800-850-2660,
or go to www.MeridianSystems.com.
*Statistics excerpted from CFMA's 2004 Information Technology Survey for the Construction Industry, fourth edition with the permission of the Construction Financial Management Association, Princeton, NJ, 609-452-8000.
Meridian Contact
Sue Watkins, Director of Marketing
swatkins@meridiansystems.com
