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 users can:

• Automate office operations, such as time and billing, to spend more time on value-add activities
• Develop and enhance key business processes to increase productivity and profitability
• Manage and track all customer-facing activities through multiple channels from 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 all face similar business challenges, including: tracking of construction projects at every stage, documentation, onsite and offsite communication, document and plans management.

Within any business, document management and control is very important. To secure a successful project, owners, architects, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers, must manage and control documents to ensure all team members are well informed on the progress of any given project. 

In fact, a successful project can be reliant on intensive information and document exchange between you and your project partners.  Errors within the information distributed to project members can lead to financial and time disadvantages. It is, therefore, important that every project member has the right information at the right time to perform their tasks successfully and to reduce opportunity for human error in project and document management - you must see what information has been sent, where to and when.