SharePoint Project Management for a Construction Company

27 MAR 2020

The Client

A Mid-Sized Construction company engages Star Knowledge for a custom SharePoint Project Management solution.

The Need

The client who works on several hundred projects every year needed a user-friendly, standardized project management system for resource management, process management and to provide real-time collaboration support to its 250 employees. Also, the Project managers and the field staff lacked a better view of project portfolios which made it hard to achieve the strategic objectives.

The Challenge

The client’s existing project management solution posed several challenges in ensuring that their Project Schedules are met. With many project managers, field staff, and senior executives involved in the projects, collaboration and building the Job according to their schedules was a challenge. The existing project management software also made customer reporting and management very difficult with their current methodology.

The Solution

Star Knowledge, with its 10 years of experience in Microsoft SharePoint consulting services, delivered a customized SharePoint Project Management solution using the SharePoint Online environment, to the client that enabled easy & quick tracking of project schedules and reports based on milestones. The employees were able to access the project data & portfolio from anywhere, prepare reports on various tasks and populate their status, and access documents based on their roles. The Project Managers were able to easily manage resources and assign tasks and Jobs to the field staff.

Benefits of the SharePoint Project Management Solution

• Increased collaboration
• Easy document management
• Powerful scheduling & reporting
• Smooth project & resource management
• Reduced cost
• Improved Profit Margin
• Enhanced Data Accuracy

Technology

• Microsoft Project server 2013
• SharePoint Server 2013
• SharePoint Online

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