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Joanne Ray

Newforma Helps Cut E-mail Management to Minutes
March 18, 2008

Manchester, NH: Newforma, a software company addressing the project information management (PIM) needs of the design and building industry, announced that ColeJenest & Stone, based in Charlotte, N.C., has deployed Newforma Project Center software firm-wide, estimating a one-month return on investment on the basis of a pilot implementation. Seventy-five of the firm’s 80 people, spread across three offices, will use the Newforma solution. Managing Principal Michael Cole, who oversees technology at the firm, refers to the solution as “the promised land.” “We had been looking for a project information management solution for years,” Cole said. “Email had exploded our correspondence to a volume that made it difficult to find anything. A person could spend an hour looking for a single email. Project managers were spending at least an hour a week on email management alone. The Newforma solution slashes that time to minutes. And that’s just the beginning of what it can do.” Technology Manager, Tiffany Morris says the most popular functions of the solution are those used to file email in project folders, transfer large files and find information in common industry file types, including email and drawings. Other functions attracting interest include those for managing transmittals and marking up drawings electronically. My comment...It seems like this product could be a tremendous help to a lot of people. I know people who have spent an hour looking for an important email. Time is money. And if it saves time, then it could be worth the price.

Posted by Joanne Ray on March 18, 2008 | Comments (0)