Welcome to Lunch & Learn Simplify Your Digital Workflow with Smarter Solutions

– Lunch & Learn Today’s Agenda:  Introduce three new, free digital solutions that will help minimize those challenges and improve your productivity  Incorporate ALL of your feedback into the continued development of this presentation and our AEC Solutions So let’s get started!  Discuss your challenges and those identified by other architects within three critical phases of your daily workflow: Design, Collaboration and Distribution

– Lunch & Learn Over two million page views monthly at thebluebook.com! Over 1,200 projects every week Over 8,500 General Contractors using BB-Bid 40,000 keywords searched monthly at bpmselect.com! 52,294 manufacturer pages viewed Over 90,000 downloads of Vu360 YTD Over 300,000 subcontractors working digitally in our network Network Activity: 250 local Construction Professionals Nationwide! Over 30,000 face to face contacts with GC’s Over 10,000 face to face contacts with the design community More than 1200 Lunch and Learns last year

– Simplify your Workflow and Improve your Bottom Line. Design Find and Communicate Product Information Key Workflow Challenges: 1.Time and expense required to find, select and communicate product information Design Cost Performance Availability (Go Local for LEED Credits) Environmental (Go Green) Safety/Liability Concerns Replacement/Maintenance Others? How many product selections do you make on a typical project? Critical Factors: Share Files and Data with your Design Team Collaborate/ Distribute Collaborate/ Distribute

Find and Communicate Product Information – Simplify your Workflow and Improve your Bottom Line. Design Key Workflow Challenges: 2.Lack of targeted, complete and greener product resources Google – too much wasted time, too much noise Sweets – shrinking volumes, shrinking choices Arcat – incomplete list of manufacturers Internal Catalogs – is all that paper up-to-date? Brainstorming – idea sharing with your team 3.Inconsistent layout of manufacturer websites making it time-consuming to navigate and find relevant product content Now there’s a better solution… How do you solve this problem today? 4.Difficult to communicate product information to your project team effectively and efficiently Share Files and Data with your Design Team Collaborate/ Distribute Collaborate/ Distribute

Find and Communicate Product Information – Simplify your Workflow and Improve your Bottom Line. Design Now find the right products AND communicate the right information all with one complete solution! Let’s take a closer look at BPM and Vu360 BPM Select is a powerful building product search engine packaged inside Vu360, the industry’s most complete, free PDF viewer Designed by Architects for the entire AEC community Over 6 million product pages indexed from nearly 12,000 BPMs Most up-to-date information from manufacturers Standardized format for viewing relevant product information Organized by CSI Divisions Leverages Google technology – but eliminates the noise! Provides direct access to local suppliers and installers Simple request for catalogs, samples, etc. Markup and communicate product information with Vu360’s “Highlighter” and “SnapShot” features a colleague Make BPMSelect.com your default Home Page! Share Files and Data with your Design Team Collaborate/ Distribute Collaborate/ Distribute

– Simplify your Workflow and Improve your Bottom Line. Share Files and Data with your Design Team Collaborate/ Distribute Collaborate/ Distribute Design Find and Communicate Product Information Now BPM Select can be integrated right into your everyday workflow as part of the toolbar. The BPM Select Content Connecter is a small plug-in that is compatible with AutoCAD Arch 2010 and 2011 as well as REVIT.

– Simplify your Workflow and Improve your Bottom Line.

Design 3.Control You need to be able to invite members of your Design Team to contribute. You may currently have to set access privileges. You want to track messaging history and revisions. Key Workflow Challenges: Find and Communicate Product Information Current Process for Collaboration During Design… 1.Building your Design Team You need specialty engineers. You need manufacturers and suppliers for product information. You need contractors for project budgeting. 2.Costs There are costs associated with collaboration. These costs may or may not be shared with members of your Design Team. Share Files and Data with your Design Team Collaborate/ Distribute Collaborate/ Distribute :

– Simplify your Workflow and Improve your Bottom Line. Design 3.Contractors ability to work digitally CD & FTP are clumsy, lack consistency File formats vary from firm to firm Special technology required (potentially expensive) Key Workflow Challenges: Find and Communicate Product Information 1.Maintaining control You have no way to know what versions of your plan they are bidding from. You have no way to know what versions of your plan they are building from. 2.Costs You have distribution costs. You may or may not be passing these off to the GC & Subs. Share Files and Data with your Design Team Collaborate/ Distribute Collaborate/ Distribute Current Process for Distributing Documents During Design…

– Simplify your Workflow and Improve your Bottom Line. Design Your Documents, Your Team, Connected through the SyncWare Private Plan and Design Room Free Desktop tool that keeps the docs on your computer in “sync” with your Project Team Secure through simple “Invitation to View/Bid” message Easy to ‘drag and drop’ documents into the Design Room Accepts all file types, including CAD, BIM and Spec files which can be viewed within NavisWorks and Revit. Keep the project private to your Outlook Address Book Leverage the entire Blue Book Network Provides reporting on “who looked at what docs” Allows you and the owner to give access to bidding GCs Allows GCs to bid to their Subs and Suppliers Why SyncWare? Find and Communicate Product Information SyncWare Tutorial Share Files and Data with your Design Team Collaborate/ Distribute Collaborate/ Distribute

So, let’s review… Design Distribute  Challenge: You need to save time, money and work greener with more complete product information and tools that enable communication with your building team.  Solution: BPM Select and Vu360 – a fast, FREE way to search, spec and communicate information…smarter!  Challenge: You need greater control and communication ability while decreasing the costs of your plan document distribution.  Solution: SyncWare – a FREE desktop tool that works to keep your plans and your team “in-sync” while providing you with more secure, controlled and cost-effective document distribution. Collaborate  Challenge: You need to share documents and communicate easily and securely with your design team.  Solution: SyncWare – a FREE desktop tool that works to keep your design documents and your design team “in-sync”

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