Trimble e-Builder Erfahrungen

User friendly system and allows you to capture information necessary for your project.

Kommentare: Good financial reporting on projects and status of where things sit with what actor. Hold accountability with PMs, Directors, and Executive Directors.
Very good auditing tool that can help score performance on internal staff and outside consultants or contractors.

Vorteile:

Easy to build reports and dashboards. Building customized reports and workflows. Easy to use system. Allows everything to tie back to a project, include cost, budget, documents, forms, invoices, change orders, task orders, etc.

Nachteile:

System runs slow around noon-3pm EST. As an EB Admin, certain functionalities when creating forms are uneditable or would require you to remove a field and start over again. Dashboards do not quickly refresh with up to date changes made in processes or reports. Sometimes it takes almost 6hrs to refresh a dashboard based on new changes. Would like to see more online youtube training videos on certain modules (i.e., BI Reports, Schedule, Cashflows, etc.)

OCU experience

Kommentare: Excellent so far. Glad to transition to the product. As a Construction manager, I have visibility over key metrics to support project management.

Vorteile:

User friendly system. Easy to adjust work flows to fit our needs.

Nachteile:

Implementation was challenging with BA turnaround.

Not intuitive

Kommentare: It is an absolute horror show. it is quite possibly the worst thing that has ever happened to me at this job. I want to quit because of it.

Vorteile:

If I could use it properly, I might be able to answer this question, but in almost 2 years of using it, I still have not mastered it. And I am not stupid.

Nachteile:

Too many e-mails. If you use it daily you can see what's in your dashboard. VERY HARD to use, not intuitive, difficult to do EVERYTHING, compared to prior software. Does not integrate with Oracle, processes are overly complex and do not follow the correct path.

E-Builder Great Value & Easy to Use

Vorteile:

I like that everything for a project is easily stored and accessed. It is very versatile and can be configured to work well with any organization's structure.

Nachteile:

Adding options is expensive for smaller organizations.

Great Product

Kommentare: I use it everyday. It is pivotal in getting project information

Vorteile:

Great tool for our business. We have used it for years.

Nachteile:

Buy in and usage of some project managers.

Base functionality fine, reporting and metrics lacking

Vorteile:

Look and feel of the product is nice and being upgraded.

Nachteile:

Reporting and some modules, such as timetracking, are short sited lack luster and built without functionality that would be expected.

E-Builder

Vorteile:

Ease of use, once we understood the process

Nachteile:

Multiple implementation teams made initial setup frustrating

Good experience and better than software like Aconex

Kommentare: All the documents are recorded one place and they reachable through the web everywhere.

Vorteile:

Well organized for Program Management. The way the different workflows are set up makes it easy to use.

Nachteile:

Not easy to distinguish between the gray documents (Inactive) and the active ones. The notifications are not customized enough.

Ebuilder

Vorteile:

It is good at tracking issues and rfis.

Nachteile:

The submittal app is very difficult to navigate and use properly.

great in some ways, adequate in most others, lacking is not wide spread

Kommentare: Overall, it is a professional system, and I would recommend it as overall is most important, as all systems lack in some areas.

Vorteile:

Broad based and organized storage of material and information

Nachteile:

Search ability simply was very restrictive

An organized site for all team members to contribute and stay informed of all updates

Kommentare: It has provided us with tremendous flexibility in project management, and we have avoided many of the pitfalls that we were previously prone to. We have also simplified many unnecessary procedures, which has had a positive impact on all project management processes and saved us a significant amount of time and effort.

Vorteile:

e-Builder Enterprise's effective management of all papers, reports and project members' communications on the cloud allows all team members and stakeholders to stay updated and informed of the project's progress. Having all project management tools in one place streamlines procedures and saves time, as most difficulties are resolved quickly. I like how e-Builder Enterprise reports include all project management activities and display the overall business status of the project, completion percentages, financial elements, and much more. I like how e-Builder Enterprise functions as a database for all project submissions, allowing you to simply access or track them. We can use e-Builder Enterprise to organize submissions, requests for information, meeting minutes, and much more, allowing us to work more efficiently as a team.

Nachteile:

The fact that it is connected to the cloud and has a fantastic user interface, I don't believe there are any negative aspects or technical issues. It all depends on the work team and how well they collaborate in order to take full advantage of all of the fantastic tools available in e-Builder Enterprise.

A great project management package for design and construction.

Kommentare: Standardization and automation of processes, document capture and management.

Vorteile:

Three features in particular have made my job easier. First, processes are standardized and automated. There is no longer any guesswork as to how something was done, where the paperwork is, or who is holding up holding things up. Second, everything is documented as a byproduct of working through a process. Emails, internally generated documents, contracts, changes orders, submittals, etc. are captured and stored for easy reference. Third, no more paper. We have eliminated scores of filing cabinets, including those storing record documents from previous projects, and everything is now available digitally where ever I go.

Nachteile:

Design reviews are frustrating. They require everyone on the distribution list to reply before the process can proceed. In our organization there are some individuals who need to be included in the design review but often do not respond. We typically have an administrator override and terminate the process. I wish there was an option to automatically close the process at the due date.

Great program to replace an old outdated system

Kommentare: Great, we have streamlined our old outdated paper processes and allow things to run much smoother and quicker. Our Construction Managers can now manage many more contracts due to the increased efficiencies.

Vorteile:

The ability to customize and design e-Builder to work within your organization. E-Builder has proven to be a useful tool to replace our old paper systems with new customized processes.

Nachteile:

The existing submittals process is very clunky and needs to be optimized. The e-Builder app is basically useless for what we do.

E-builder is an expensive file organization software but has good PO tracking

Kommentare: There are tons of other project management software tools out there - I would not recommend this one.

Vorteile:

PO tracking abilities are good and the overall user interface is fairly straightforward. E--builder is not quite ready for prime time - we have submitted ideas to them for incorporation so the users have to make the product better. Who has the money/time to give a company ideas so that we can get charged for licensing while they benefit?

Nachteile:

So many to list. The pricing is horrible for all of the software's limitations. As my title suggests, it is basically a very expensive file organizer. The scheduling platform is awkward, importing files into the file structures is not straightforward, image editing that you want to do and share with your users is very limited and I find that edit images outside of E-builder first and then import them, you cannot record all of your correspondence created within the software (i.e. a full copy of what you sent out to another user), the side layout menu and the top tab organization is not intuitive and you can get completely of one project and into another without realizing it, etc. I would write more but I have to finish making pdfs of files that I need to import into E-builder because I cannot create them within E-builder.

Powerful Software -

Kommentare: I do appreciate the support team, i've been on that side of software before. Thanks for all the work you guys do. Also, thanks to the other teams at e-Builder that make all the magic happen behind the scenes.

Vorteile:

Customization of independent processes allow multiple departments to interact within the same workflows. Version control on documents module always keeps document organized and easily accessible. The use of reporting to extract the data needed is always a plus. The future expansion of the APIs is going to make this software even more powerful!

Nachteile:

Some high priority bugs still take to long to get resolved. Replication of certain bugs limit the eb development team to fix issues in a timely manner. --- Some items cannot sit in a process or whatnot, waiting for the eB dev team to look into the issue. Some things have to move at the speed of payments.

e-Builder Review

Kommentare: Underwhelming and some modules (i.e. Submittal) are overly complicated and time consuming

Vorteile:

The ability to keep project information all in one place for all team members to have access to and interact with.

Nachteile:

Changes are made by e-Builder developers who then update the client e-Builder platform and the updates "break" previously functioning aspects of the system (i.e. ability to upload files with comments to the submittal review process). Then when the issue is submitted to e-Builder for correction it is ultimately ignored and left unresolved. (Note: this issue has been on-going for more than 30 calendar days with no resolution in sight)

Senior Project Manager (EB Admin)

Kommentare: This system has been very helpful with locating where forms, invoices, contractor pay apps, task orders, and etc are in the process. In addition, identifying where the bottlenecks are and allowing us to quickly address them to either remodify the workflow or provide additional training/support to staff within the process. Great reporting tool as well for urgent requests by upper or executive level management.

Vorteile:

System is user friendly, nice to track what is sitting in peoples "current step", report wizard is nice to help generate ad hoc reports, and cost summary hold people accountable to how much is budgeted for their project.

Nachteile:

Show more video demonstration on different BI reports and Dashboards. Have standard dashboards step up from EB. Do a workshop on how to setup a BI Dashboard and see if others in EB community can share theirs. Other simple video demos on Import Tools (i.e., project imports, etc) More improvement on Planning Module. Many of the features and functions see to be tedious or extra clicking or difficult to run cash flow by month. Video demo on Scheduling module and setting up a schedule for a project and running a cash flow. Then run a nice dashboard to show the project with cash flow curves and project details.

My most interactive aspect is filling out Report Forms

Vorteile:

My Agency is involved in the construction of a number of projects for the State of Georgia; e-Builder provides a platform whereby many points of information, data, etc. pertaining to these projects are available within a click or two of my mouse.

Nachteile:

My main interaction with e-Builder is the filling out of work progress forms; in the beginning, there were a few very frustrating shortcomings in the form process; after contacts with your IT department, most have been corrected; the chief of these was how easy it was to lose data that you had just entered in the forms; a current nuisance [that I'm sure has always existed] is the inability to "Tab" from some parts of the form to adjacent parts.

Ebuilder Evaluation

Kommentare: As the eB Admin, initial training and design of the system were crucial to our success launch. I was given the proper tools to fully understand the functionality of the software. We crafted a well thought out, detailed approach to what our implementation would include. This approach did not overwhelm staff for training/adoption. By keeping it simple and streamline in the first year, staff gained the knowledge and confidence necessary for buy in of a new system. Now in the second year of use, we are fully understanding how all data from various modules relate to one another, giving a fully integrated, dynamic project management approach to our projects.

Vorteile:

The communication tools available for all project participants. This transparency gives all participants a better control of real time reporting and management.

Nachteile:

Some of the modules still feeling a little cumbersome- Scheduling seems a little tedious to set up, and make revisions.

Over Complex product

Kommentare: A great project management tool

Vorteile:

Many uses across the project management field. Numerous projects with numerous users can access all the same stored information at the same time. Sending RFI, Submittals, transmittals, meetings, reports etc and then sending & placing the requisite information in the other users court - its fantastic.

Nachteile:

Very limited in customization (which could be down to the way the project was set up) and tedious amount of clicking to get through to where you need to, and then having to start again when go on to next task rather than just going to next item (report, submittal, photo etc)

Software had many glitches, and though this is the 4th revision, by now it should be remedied.

Kommentare: To process submittals and RFI's in a timely manner along with submission of reports.

Vorteile:

Submittal process is great until you try and change a comment, system doesn't allow a coordinator to change or delete a comment that he or she may have placed. Bummer. Reports are clean and easy to configure with excel.

Nachteile:

See above comments regarding my issues and or concerns.. If the issue with comments can be cleaned up it would help a lot. Also when a revision is created I had an instance where the submittal could not be returned to the subcontractor who issued it. Related tried and couldn't provide a solution.

e-Builder is a great tool that helps our organization effectively manage our Capital projects system-wide.

Vorteile:

I like how e-Builder has a cost management, program schedule capability, and structured workflow processes that allow our users to control their projects from start-to-finish. The new implementation features that will be rolled out in the coming months will also be a valuable asset to our future growth with e-Builder that we are excited to be a part of.

Nachteile:

Some of the more advanced features of e-Builder (BI, reporting, dashboards, etc.) require a higher level of sophistication that is sometimes difficult for our organization to "bridge the gap" when it comes to effectively utilizing these features. If some of the background coding was done by e-Builder in lieu of our forces, this would be more helpful for us specifically.

We are able to manage all of our projects in an efficient and well-organized manner.

Kommentare: Simple organization of our materials. Relative ease with finding projects and documents. The ability to allow access to many users for efficient collaboration.

Vorteile:

The structuring has saved us a lot of time and effort. Addition of information has been an easy process, and the security of knowing these materials are stored here and not to be tampered with has been relieving.

Nachteile:

Not having a visual representation of the material takes a lot of guessing when opening files. Also, when creating larger reports, the program has a tendency to crash. More built-in reporting capabilities would be much appreciated.

E-Builder User for MBTA

Kommentare: The benefits of using E-Builder is it has organized document control and time stamped when documents are submitted/returned.

Vorteile:

E-Builder is an all-encompassing program that helps with document control and invoices.

Nachteile:

Items that are in certain users courts stay there without any indication on if the item will move to the next step. Also, no follow up notifications are sent to users who may not know items are in their court. There should be a better way to print summaries of submittals and RFI processes.

Disappointed

Kommentare: Managing flow of information

Vorteile:

Works well for document storage and sharing.

Nachteile:

RFI function is difficult to work with. It is hard to make sure the request is going to the right person.