Coakley and Williams Improves Communication and Business Efficiency with Prolog® Software
New case study provides insight into productivity gains for Washington DC based construction firm
FOLSOM, Calif. (January 30, 2006) - Meridian Systems®, the industry leader in project management software within the construction industry, announced today availability of a new Prolog customer case study profiling Coakley and Williams Construction, Inc. (CWCI), a leading privately-owned construction firm based in the Washington DC metropolitan region. CWCI is the recipient of numerous client commendations and awards from industry associations, and is also ranked among the Top 100 Design/Builders and the Top 400 Contractors by Engineering News Record.
CWCI constructs a wide variety of facilities for both private and government clients across many product categories including office, industrial, healthcare, education, retail, and banking. CWCI provides services for Design/Build, as a General Contractor, and as a Construction Manager.
Before adopting project management software in 2000, CWCI relied on Microsoft Office applications to manage its jobs. This was a very manual process with no centralized record-keeping. Executive and senior management at CWCI wanted to unify the development and management of project budgets and needed the ability to archive complete project information - from cradle to grave. Having a centralized project data repository was a compelling value.
A joint venture project introduced CWCI to ProjectTalk®, an ASP project management solution from Meridian Systems that allowed online collaboration among the entire project team. CWCI soon realized it had found the answer to its project management needs. The company eventually moved to Meridian's Prolog Manager, a self-hosted solution that delivers robust project management capabilities.
It's been seven years since CWCI implemented Prolog Manager. And according to project manager Peter Davidson, the software has exceeded expectations. "We've experienced consistent growth over the years, which coincides with our use of Prolog," explains Davidson. "Prolog helps us work more efficiently because our process is now consistent across all projects. This allows us to handle greater volume while maintaining control and profitability."
The complete CWCI customer case study is available for viewing in PDF
format on the Meridian Systems website in the Prolog download library,
at http://www.meridiansystems.com/products/prolog/downloads.asp.
About Meridian Systems
Meridian Systems provides enterprise project management software for
optimizing the plan, build and operate lifecycle for real estate, construction
and other physical infrastructure initiatives. More than 8,500 of today's
large building owners, construction and engineering firms, and government
agencies use Meridian technology to improve top-line revenue growth
while reducing their capital construction costs. Meridian was named
as the leading software vendor in the categories of project management
software and collaboration for the construction industry in the 2006
National Construction-Technology Survey from Constructech Magazine.
Meridian also ranks as the 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 12-year
history, and has been repeatedly recognized as a Constructech Hottest
Technology company. Meridian is headquartered in Folsom, Calif. For
more information, call Meridian at (800) 850 2660, or go to www.meridiansystems.com/pr013006.
*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
