Why a Cloud EDMS Is Necessary for Significant Growth
Why a Cloud EDMS Is Necessary for Significant Growth
Each day, before the sun rises, millions of construction workers wake up, drink their coffee, and begin their commute to the job site. Construction, like few others, is one of the longest-standing industries and has been the backbone of the U.S economy since its establishment in the mid-1700s.
With the growing scale and complexity of construction projects, it comes as no surprise that organizations struggle to manage communication and collaboration amongst project managers, construction laborers, architects, engineers, and vendors.
The Construction Industry Is a Strong Economic Backbone
The construction industry accounts for 4.3 percent of the U.S GDP and is projected to achieve an AAGR of three percent over the next four years. New construction, in the U.S, is forecast to reach over 1.6 trillion in 2025. With all this growth, there’s no wonder that construction companies – large and small, are seeking alternative solutions to help better manage complex workflows, vendor and contractor collaboration, and document-centric communications needed to complete their complex objectives.
Engineering Workflow
Automatically manage and distribute files and documents for review, approval, and processing. Adjust user permissions at each step, ensuring your company’s files are managed securely.
Cloud Document Management EDMS is Necessary for Growth
Since their introduction in the early part of this century, Cloud EDMS (electronic document management systems) have helped organizations improve third-party collaboration between builders, engineers, owners, and other stakeholders involved in the construction process. The most innovative and adept companies have realized the importance and power of a fully robust engineering workflow and document management system, as these systems encompass every aspect of the typical project lifecycle, and can help piece together the many facets of the AECO (architect,engineering,construction,owner) arena.
Cloud EDMS technology helps owners and contractors build trust and understanding, while simultaneously providing them with the information they need to increase and maintain efficiency throughout their expansion. A Cloud document management system provides greater visibility into project timelines and expansive insights that help management identify bottlenecks and inhibitory inefficiencies in project workflows. With the industry growing at lightning speed, companies can leverage Cloud EDMS technology to rapidly scale, increase their mobile agility, and bring projects to market faster without sacrificing the level of quality their customers expect.
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Scaling Becomes Easier with Cloud EDMS Technology
A big upside to the cloud is the ability to quickly increase computing resources, including CPUs, storage capacities and device types, and graphic/visualization capabilities. For example, a start-up won’t need as much storage to begin with, but over time the need for storage increases as a business takes on new customers, clients, and projects, while established companies already have a greater need.
With the cloud, you can scale up your computing power as needed, accommodating temporary spikes in data or permanent increases, or easily scale down if needed. The ability to scale can be implemented in a matter of minutes, whereas it used to take days or weeks. This provides customers with better system response and better user experiences. The addition of virtual servers for graphics rendering, high resource computations, and large file transfers gives organizations greater computing performance. Large files, for instance, greater than 10 or 25 megabyte used to cause system headaches, now files over 1 gigabyte can be managed without bringing the application to its knees.
eQuorum’s scalability gives companies a clear and easy to implement path for adding files, even large files, for quicker rendering, especially for 3D models, and faster synchronization between the cloud and local computers or tablets.
Scale Your Business Effortlessly With a Cloud Document Management System
One benefit of the Cloud that is commonly overlooked is that scaling a SaaS-based system is easy. Comparatively, scaling an on-premise system can take a lot of time and can directly impact your company’s bottom line. While this should not dissuade you from using an on-premise system there are a number of areas in which SaaS systems excel.
Cloud EDMS Features
Our EDMS Solutions
ImageSite and Engine-Box (the Cloud version of ImageSite) are eQuorum’s robust workflow and document management solutions, created to help workers manage their essential workflows while maintaining complete control over their engineering files and documents. Not only do they provide a secure collaboration site for workers, but they also help organizations manage document distribution with third parties like vendors, contractors, and customers. Both systems are offered at a competitive price, enabling organizations to get a quick return on their investment by providing the features and functionality needed to help organizations improve efficiency, productivity, and collaboration. Companies can choose from concurrent user subscriptions or named user subscriptions, ensuring organizations have subscription options that make sense for their business.
ImageSite®
Our single source engineering workflow and document management system. Built in HTML5 so there is no software to deploy to client computers or mobile apps to download. Offered as an On-premise or Private Cloud system.
Our EDMS Solutions
ImageSite and Engine-Box (the Cloud version of ImageSite) are eQuorum’s robust workflow and document management solutions, created to help workers manage their essential workflows while maintaining complete control over their engineering files and documents. Not only do they provide a secure collaboration site for workers, but they also help organizations manage document distribution with third parties like vendors, contractors, and customers. Both systems are offered at a competitive price, enabling organizations to get a quick return on their investment by providing the features and functionality needed to help organizations improve efficiency, productivity, and collaboration. Companies can choose from concurrent user subscriptions or named user subscriptions, ensuring organizations have subscription options that make sense for their business.
Engine-Box™
Engine-Box is a cloud based workflow and document management version of ImageSite that resides outside the corporate network.
The eQuorum Customer Promise
In 2005, eQuorum developed the first all browser-based EDMS. The system, although for on-premise use, was still created to remove client software and JAVA from user computers and allow users to have a single viewer based on the simple navigation functionality of browsers. Today, eQuorum provides that same application in a private Cloud or a SaaS Cloud option. We can do this because we are, and have always been, browser-based, understanding the enhanced speed, security, and usability of this technology.
With the abundance of document management systems on the market today, there’s no doubt that choosing the right Cloud document management software can be a difficult decision. eQuorum is here to provide a comprehensive, powerful, and most importantly – affordable Cloud document management solution. We believe in providing real value to our customers by eliminating unnecessary costs, providing industry-leading functionality, and equipping your team with the right tools using cutting edge technology to bring your products to market faster.
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eQuorum®
We specialize in engineering workflow and document management. Our comprehensive, yet easy-to-use software provides the solution to manage data from design to manufacturing and production, to sales, support and administration.