The biggest challenge faced by the construction industry today, is providing a disparate workforce with access to project specific content, from technical specifications to complex drawings, whilst enabling them to share and collaborate online from any geographic location.

SharePoint enables stakeholders involved in large projects, including remote workers, to capture, store, find and share information in a familiar Microsoft environment.

With SharePoint project participants can:

• Automate office operations, such as time and billing, to spend more time on value-added activities
• Develop and enhance key business processes to increase productivity and profitability
• Manage and track all customer-facing activities through multiple channels from project inception to completion
• Access a unified view of customer information using a familiar desktop interface
• Maximise corporate assets
• Provide information in 'real time'
• Ensure health and safety compliance

Construction companies whether they specialise in Building, Highway or Industrial construction, their business challenges are similar. Issue tracking, tracking of construction project at every stage, documentation, onsite and offsite communication, document and plans management are just a few of them.

Whether your company is large or small, document management and control is very important to you. In collaboration with owners, architects, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers, you have to manage and control a large flow of documents and it is critical that every project member is well informed to ensure a successful project.

In your projects there is intensive information and document exchange between you and your project partners. To prevent errors and to reduce costs and risks, it is important that every project member has the right information at the right time to perform their task successfully. You need to manage your project documents and you need to control the document distribution from and to your project partners, knowing exactly what you received and what you sent and for which purpose.