In this issue of Connections
- What Sessions Would You Like to See at this Year’s User Conference?
- Meridian Presents on Infrastructure Lifecycle Management at Total Facility Management Show
- Mid-Market Construction Firms Increase Productivity and Revenue with Prolog
- On the Job: Project Management That's Built for Construction
- Prolog WebSite Notification Tools
- Microsoft® Word Now Option for ProjectTalk Users
- Participate in Industry Survey on Construction Information Systems
- The Push to Know More and Do More Lifts Industry’s Learning Curve
Corporate
News
Customer News
Product
News
Industry
News
Partner Showcase: PCI Group
PCI Group is an Authorized Solution Provider of Prolog® solutions. PCI Group provides professional consulting, training and technical support services for successful implementation construction management solutions. PCI’s professionals specialize in customizing Prolog’s features and integrating the solution into your business processes. PCI's professionals also have expertise in CPM scheduling, delay analysis, and cost and resource management. Visit www.pcigrp.com.
Check out this month's Customer News to read about the successes of PCI Group’s customers.
Corporate News
What Sessions Would You Like to See at this Year’s User Conference?
Speaker submissions and session suggestions now being accepted
This year’s user conference will convene in Scottsdale, Arizona, September 12-15. We’re currently planning the agenda and need your input. We’re looking for Prolog, Proliance® and ProjectTalk® users of varying skill-levels and from different segments of the industry to offer insight into their experiences. We’re also looking for input on which sessions you’d like to see. Whether you’re a beginner or advanced user, executive or administrator—visit the conference web pages and submit a session you’d like to present or suggest a topic you’d like to see.
Meridian Presentation on Infrastructure Lifecycle Management at Total Facility Management Show
President and cofounder, John Bodrozic, at the Total Facility Management (TFM) Show, April 20-22 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois.
During today's conference proceedings, John Bodrozic presented Infrastructure Lifecycle Management: Connecting the Facility Lifecycle, featuring the concept of managing capital-intensive building and real estate programs from a complete lifecycle perspective, and the key benefits for organizations adopting this approach.
Meridian is currently featuring technology demonstrations of Proliance in TFM booth #516.
Customer News
Mid-Market
Construction Firms Increase Productivity and Revenue with Prolog
PCI Group announces customers who are successfully managing workflow
and increasing revenue with proven construction project management
software
Meridian and PCI Group announce three key construction firms—Continental Plumbing, Brown and Caldwell and Segue Construction—have successfully implemented Prolog. Representing the subcontractor, construction management and general contractor communities, these firms have increased productivity and revenue using Prolog.
Continental Plumbing, a northern California-based subcontractor, has realized a more than $4 million increase in revenue. Click the link above to read their success stories.
On the Job: Project Management That's Built for Construction
From Cadalyst-AEC, March 2005
Meridian 's Prolog helps contractors handle more business and effectively grow revenue. Two growing construction firms in the central United States are employing a project-management system that is helping them deliver complex projects on time and under budget.
Product News
Product Tip of the Month – Prolog
Prolog WebSite Notification Tools
By Charity Muse, Meridian Support Services Technical Analyst
Would you like to be notified when someone assigns you an RFI? When someone creates a new RFI? Or when someone uploads a new document for review? All of these things are possible using the various Prolog WebSite notification features. Follow the directions in this month’s Tech Tip for these helpful alerts.
Product Update – ProjectTalk
Microsoft® Word Now Option for ProjectTalk Users
Customer requested word processing feature now offered via ProjectTalk
Microsoft Word is now enabled as a word processing feature within Project Management on ProjectTalk. ProjectTalk Project Management users can make use of Microsoft Word for word processing document and mail merge features in addition to the PM Writer feature. We know this is a feature clients have asked for, and we are glad to now offer this functionality. Click the link above to log in to the ProjectTalk Support Services for complete details.
Industry News
Participate
in Industry Survey on Construction Information Systems
Survey conducted by Purdue University and aimed at assessing technology
adoption in the industry
Purdue e-Construction Group, a division of the Purdue School of Engineering, invites you to participate in a survey to identify the factors that affect the adoption and integration of construction enterprise information systems (CEIS). The survey is accessible from the web and takes 20 minutes to complete. Your responses will be secure and remain confidential.
A summary report and an analysis of the survey will be emailed to the participants, making this an excellent opportunity to assess the information systems of your organization and compare your experience to aggregate industry data.
The
Push to Know More and Do More Lifts Industry’s Learning Curve
By
Debra K. Rubin and Mary B. Powers, ENR magazine, April 2005
No longer just a hodgepodge of technical courses that individual employees take at the local college campus or from the association provider to sustain a professional license—training and development have a new focus. Pushed by clients, new employees and market pressures—industry firms (including some of Meridian’s clients)—are finding that it is good business to directly invest in work force development.
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