Newforma FAQs

    • Who is Newforma best for - their role(s) within what kind of companies.

      We provide architects, engineers, contractors and owners with software for project email and file management that makes them more effective as they organize project data, collaborate with team members and manage construction projects from inception to completion.

    • How does Newforma benefit them?

      Email management: Organize, view and link to all project email and attachments

      Is your project team buried in emails and plagued by mailbox size restrictions, inadequate searching capabilities and the inability to relate an email to other project items? When email communications aren’t incorporated into the entire project record or are difficult to find, making timely and accurate decisions aren’t possible. Newforma makes email management easy by indexing all your project emails and providing powerful search capabilities, mobile access, integration with leading email solutions and the ability to relate your emails to other project documents and items.

      Single view into the project: View all project information, wherever it resides

      Building design is an iterative process where documents are in a state of continuous change and stored in a variety of locations. Many solutions force designers to waste what could be high-value activity time moving documents into a single proprietary database solution. Newforma software allows you the flexibility to store data anywhere you prefer (e.g. on the company network, FileNet, Panzura or other storage solution), which eliminates the administrative task of moving documents, and visibility into the data wherever it resides.

      Eliminate coordination errors and mitigate risk: Collaborate in real-time and maintain a full audit trail

      Your projects are complex. They involve many people from many companies constantly communicating, sharing documents and data while collaborating. To create transparency and mitigate risk of potential disputes, your project team needs a detailed record of who did what, and when. Newforma logs every project action and provides detailed audit logs enabling project accountability.

      Project context: Organize and link all project information

      Store your data intelligently and enable better-informed decisions. Newforma’s innovative software automatically indexes all digital information for every active and archived project in all the offices of the firm, wherever the data resides. Our software establishes relationships between the data to provide full project context. When you search using Newforma, you access the item you searched for and that item’s related information and supporting documentation, for each project or any combination of projects.

      Empowerment through connection: Connect with other best-in-class systems

      Newforma’s innovative cloud-based solution connects seamlessly with other best-in-class systems used on the project. These connections allow you and your extended project team to leverage project data without time-consuming double-entry or inefficient processes.

      Quickly organize and search unstructured data: Indexing every file results in fast all-encompassing search

      Your teams are too busy solving important design issues to waste time searching for critical project information. With Newforma, every file, action item and email on your network is indexed, resulting in a powerful all-encompassing search. Newforma provides fast easy access to all project files (e.g. BIM models, XREF files, DWG’s, etc.) including files itemized content, wherever files are stored.

    • How technical do users need to be to use Newforma's software?

      Project Center requires end-user training.

    • What makes Newforma a leader in this space?

      Newforma is the only software that allows firms to leave documents, files and project information where the information exists, it does not ingest information.

    • Who are Newforma's biggest competitors (3-5 companies)?

      Please contact a member of our sales team to discuss competitors you are researching, problems you hope to resolve with the implementation of project email and file management software.

    • How/why is Newforma better than those competitors (or most others in their market)? What about Newforma is unique, stronger, easier, etc.?

      Read the software benefits section - benefits are defined there.

    • What kind of features can customers expect Newforma to release in the near future? And longer term?

      Newforma maintains a quarterly development schedule designed to look after the existing customer base while continuing to develop to the future. Speak with a member of our team to discuss your firm's needs, most pressing interests, and determine if the product has what is needed, or has features in its quarterly delivery schedule that are of greatest interest to you.

    • Which popular or common software does Newforma integrate with?

      Visit www.Newforma.com and download our Connectors Brief. This document details information about integration with popular or common software in the construction channel.

    • Software pricing can often be complex. If it's pretty straightforward, list tiers, pricing (per year, seat, etc) and limits for Newforma. If it's not simple, use broad estimates or ranges for typical setups.

      The software scales to your firm's needs, as does the pricing. Please contact a member of our sales team to discuss your firm's unique needs.

    • Does Newforma offer a trial or free download available?

      There are product demo videos available on the website and a webinars website page featuring upcoming product demos showcasing some of the most common reasons why our customers love our software. Visit www.Newforma.com/webinars to immediately watch a webinar on-demand, or register for our next live webinar.

    • Does Newforma offer any kind of training/education for their product?

      Training packages vary, as does the delivery of training. In addition to live training, pre-recorded training exists on our Customer Community, our customer-only site where resources are freely available. Additionally, our training team offers monthly Training Tuesday webinars, free to all customers. During Training Tuesday webinars our team demonstrates existing and new features, answers questions and provides a link to the webinar recording for all customers to watch on-demand, at their leisure.

    • Describe the implementation process and timeline for Newforma software.

      Implementation process and timeline varies. Please contact a member of our sales team to discuss your firm.

    • What are the Newforma support options? List all.

      We offer customers live support and support via email.

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