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Project Control by CONJECT

Collaboration, compliance and control –

Vital insight to improve decision-making and deliver more

certain project outcomes

“We need to have full control over our projects. CONJECT gives us that.”Keith Brook, Construction Director, Atlanta Gas Light

A SINGLE RESOURCE TO MANAGE BUDGETED, ACTUAL AND FORECAST EXPENDITURE

PROJECT CONTROL IN A NUTSHELL

Every major infrastructure project contains a huge amount of risk. Large amounts of capital are invested in advance of breaking earth. Material needs to be ordered on a giant scale. And a vast, skilled workforce has to be assembled. Just one delay can cost millions and result in damage to your reputation that takes years to put right.

To manage this risk and move the project through to successful, timely completion, you need a system that gives you complete control:

• Control over how long your project takes

• Control over how much and where money is spent to achieve success

• Control over all aspects of quality

• Control over detailed areas of scope

With integrated Project Control from CONJECT, you get a single view of project performance.

“Using the CONJECT system, information can be amended and accessed at any time, from any-where. It ensures all parties comply with our implementation of the contract right across the programme, and provides far greater visibility of current status with regards to cost and time.”

Andy Cruise, National Grid

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“Without the CONJECT system we would be wrestling with a mountain of files and spread- sheets, opening up huge potential for errors.”

Chris Richardson, Connect Plus

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A LEAP FORWARD IN INTEGRATED CONTROL OVER MONEY, TIME, QUALITY AND SCOPE

Bringing together the four key areas of time, money, quality and scope, in a deeper more dynamic way, integrated Project Control gives you full visibility over your entire project.

It captures, collates, analyses and presents data in a readily understandable way that allows you to respond to any challenge quickly and with complete confidence that you’re using the latest information.

Project health checks are linked in real time to activities and decisions happening across your projects, enabling you to quickly know when a risk profile has changed.

From authorising staff overtime to meet a deadline, to revising the specification of steelwork, every change you make in one area is likely to impact other project constraints. As you take on more staff, cost increases. Build in a last minute design change and the deadline starts to look unrealistic. It is impossible to change one element without affecting the others.

But our customers don’t just use CONJECT for project control. They use the same application to automate their change processes, control their document review and approval processes, and manage their site-based inspections.

Using CONJECT integrated Project Control, you can oversee project variables in a fully integrated way that goes far beyond other approaches. Spreadsheets and standalone applications will give you limited access to this information. We give you the full picture, making the difference between a good decision – and a great one.

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A CLOUD SOLUTION FOR THE WAY YOU WORK

Site visits, office work and business travel mean that people are never in one place for very long. Having a powerful software solution that only works in one place is pointless, because it will never deliver the information and knowledge that you need, when you need it.

That is why integrated Project Control exists in the cloud.

Each project team works in a secure environment. Information then flows between teams in real time, ensuring that there are configurable views over the data to aid people with different roles and responsibili-ties. With integrated Project Control, every person, every company and every activity is connected in one shared information network, in real time, that can be accessed wherever they are.

The cloud delivers five unique benefits:

1. Transparency – everyone knows what’s happening. There is nowhere to hide.

2. Accountability – clarity over who is responsible for what.

3. Mobility – instant access to the latest information, regardless of your location.

4. Efficiencies – no large upfront fees. Payment is spread over the period of use.

5. Awareness – immediate notification of changes and impacts on cost and schedule

ABOUT CONJECT

We are a leading supplier of software for the public and private sector, project and programme mana-gers, consultants, engineers, subcontractors and service providers. Our clients work in many different sectors, from infrastructure and engineering to retail and utilities.

Since we were founded in 2000, the company has expanded to have 13 offices worldwide with our headquarters in Munich. We have worked hard to build a reputation for software that helps people to enhance the quality of their project at the same time as reduce costs and manage risk.

The result is that we have 40,000 companies using our software, with 3,000 new users joining us every month. Talk to us about how you can join them.

• Implementation of robust and repeatable, team-wide, change control processes so there are no surprises.

• All project participants and companies are clear on their actions and timescales, with visibility by supervisors.

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BENEFITS OF AN INTEGRATED PROJECT CONTROL PLATFORM

The benefits of using integrated Project Control are demonstrable. They translate into real-world advan- tages for the people you rely on to make sure your project is delivered on time and on budget.

Commercial management

• Tightly control budgets and costs

• Trigger alerts to potential cost overruns

• Run and evaluate forecast-to-complete scenarios

• Implement robust, repeatable, change processes, team-wide

• Audit all actions and decisions permanently

Project control

• Get a clear picture of earned value

• Test the impact of different investment decisions

• Identify, evaluate and manage risks

Project management

• Understand and manage risks, from the availability of materials to managing change

• Set deadlines in accordance with the availability of resources and any other relevant factors

• Identify threats to the successful completion of the project and provide teams with an accurate

picture to make appropriate decisions

• Run exception reports to identify information bottlenecks and highlight potential threats to success

Design management

• Quickly share, review and update designs

• Automate design processes, while allowing time for creativity and problem-solving

• Use batch processing functionality to save time when large volumes are involved

• Share and manage drawings, documents and models

• Coordinate design documentation

Quality management

• Carefully control the scope and quality of the project

• Keep staff aware of governance-related issues and ensure compliance with rules and regulations

• Manage all non-conformance issues on a single platform, especially where there are large volumes

• Actively control other areas of risk, such as health and safety and environmental factors

CONJECT Limited21 – 25 Church Street WestWoking | Surrey | GU21 6DJ | UK

Phone +44 (0)1483 712620Email [email protected]