ProjectWise (Project Information Management and

Collaboration Cloud Services)

ProjectWise is a document management system used for project collaboration.

It Improve your project performance by integrating people, data, and processes throughout the
project lifecycle. Share project information with secure information mobility. Using PCs, tablets,
or mobile devices, your project participants will collaborate effectively to keep the project
moving forward. Give your project stakeholders visibility into project performance to mitigate
risk. You will win more work and develop repeatable best practices to improve your ROI.
First released in 1998, ProjectWise has always been the workhorse for design coordination
based on organizational and project workflows, or industry standards such as BS1192. With the
CONNECT Edition, ProjectWise extends beyond design coordination to comprehensive work
sharing, empowering the project team to collaborate throughout the entire project delivery
lifecycle.

Collaborative, interoperability to connect global project teams where information and

deliverables are available on-demand for improved performance and increased project
transparency for comprehensive project delivery.
A gold standard for engineering design integration and collaboration for multi-discipline,
geographically dispersed teams.
Cooperating teams or organizations can now synchronize distinct ProjectWise instances with
managed workflows for the exchange and sharing of all types of work packages.
Supply chain collaboration to manage the exchange of transmittals, submittals and to solve
problems with RFIs and issues resolution, bridging the divide between engineering work-in-
progress and the extended supply chain.
Complete your capital projects faster with construction and contract management, financial
performance and risk monitoring, and an automated electronic construction record.
Unparalleled information mobility and federated information access that helps project-
intensive companies avoid risk and stay competitive with comprehensive project delivery.
A CONNECTED Project is a better performing project. With ProjectWise CONNECT Edition, you
will benefit from:

A Common Data Environment: Improve the accuracy, reuse, and auditing of design and
construction documents and data to start projects faster, eliminate redesigns, and reduce the
risk of rework.
Reduced Delivery Risk: Unify design and construction teams with managed workflows with the
entire supply chain throughout the project delivery lifecycle.
Virtualized Talent: Enhance performance by leveraging best skillsets of in-house resources
regardless of location and open access to new sources of talent from Value Engineering Centers
providing more cost-effective project execution models.
 Managed Project Outcomes: By acting on insights revealed through key performance indicators
(KPIs) on activity, progress, documentation status and other project metrics, organizations will
increase accountability and improve responsiveness to minimize delays and keep the project
moving forward.
Faster Time to Value: Project teams now have hybrid cloud services providing enhanced agility
to respond to varying project requirements, improved operational readiness resulting in
improved ROI on the project and at the organizational level.

Basic Concept
The basic concept for ProjectWise is to share informations in projects. This is done by storing all
documents in the same physical area throughout the projects lifetime, keep track of versions and
expand informations with metadata. To make sure that only one user at a time can manipulate
the documents ProjectWise is using locks, check out and check in of documents.
To edit a document it needs to be checked out to the user at the local machines c-drive and
locked for other users manipulation on the server. The check-out process is run automatically
when opening the document. When checking out a CAD file, all references will be copied out as
well, but as read-only. All modifications are done to the file on the locale c-drive which makes
read and write faster. When the document is closed, only the modified parts of the document
are written back to the server, this is again an optimization upon speed and network traffic.