Construction Viz

Project Management Perfect

Jeff Lydon

Construction Viz is Integrated with Microsoft 365

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So you started using Microsoft 365 to manage your projects, but it might not be going as planned. Perhaps you are storing documents in SharePoint or Teams and even built a couple of Power apps, but now you’re stuck. Instead of investing more time and resources into building custom tools from scratch, check out Construction Viz. Construction Viz is an enterprise construction management platform that is integrated with Microsoft 365 services so you can hit the ground running and ensure that your efforts are not lost unless you want them to be😊.

Lydon Solutions has been delivering IT solutions for the construction industry in Microsoft 365 since it was released in 2011. We know how powerful but also confusing and fraught with pitfalls Microsoft 365 can be. While the tagline is that a citizen developer can build solutions in Microsoft 365, such solutions are often lightweight, serve a niche need, can often quickly become obsolete, and require time and effort to maintain and update. Unfortunately, it can get expensive and take too long to implement this approach without IT developers getting involved.

The reality is that if you need an enterprise solution, you need the right team of IT and construction professionals to deliver the best solution.

Construction Viz Empowers You to Do More with Microsoft 365

Construction Viz can provide all of the features you need to manage your projects and programs without needing to build anything. If you have already set out on your own journey with Microsoft 365, you can still make use of what you have already invested. Construction Viz can connect to any Microsoft 365 service so that you can do things like:

And (drumroll, please) we are in the process of implementing Construction Viz in the Microsoft Dataverse! You heard that right, very soon we will be using the Dataverse as a database in addition to SharePoint. This opens up a wide range of possibilities, such as integrating into Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Business Central, as well as delivering even more complex data-driven solutions where the data remains in your tenant.

If your construction organization has committed to Microsoft 365, doesn’t it make sense to find a solution that is already baked out and does the heavy lifting so you don’t have to?

Why Construction Viz?

Read more about what sets Construction Viz apart from the competition in our new blog series:

This is the last article in the differentiation series for Construction Viz. We want to thank you if you have read through all of the prior articles. While there are many other features and functions that could be compared to competing products, at this point, you should have a pretty good idea of how Construction Viz stands out from the competition. You can request a free demo below to find out more about what Construction Viz can provide. If you are new to Microsoft 365 and need help setting it up or delivering solutions, you can request a free one-hour consultation.

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Designed by Construction Professionals for Construction Professionals

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At Lydon Solutions, we know how frustrating it is to deal with an IT company that doesn’t understand construction. We pride ourselves on knowing that our engineering teams include not only members who have a deep understanding of Microsoft 365, Azure, and the whole Microsoft Technology stack but also IT professionals who have actually worked in the construction industry. We have invested our in-depth construction experience and knowledge into Construction Viz and our Microsoft 365 solutions, so you don’t have to. Read on to learn how our team of professionals delivers real-world solutions for the construction industry.

I cannot tell you the number of times we have spoken to clients who have walked away from construction systems or half-baked Microsoft 365 solutions because the team responsible for building and delivering the solutions didn’t know anything about construction. I personally have encountered this scenario on several projects in my career. It was a complete time suck where I ended up having to train someone on the nuances of how construction works. It didn’t go well, but I learned from my experiences.

With Lydon Solutions, we set out to change things by having the right blend of IT and construction professionals focused specifically on the construction industry.

Construction Project Solutions Based on Hands-on Experience

We’ve been in business providing Microsoft-based IT solutions to the construction industry for over fifteen years. We have prior construction experience in project controls, project management, document controls, and engineering, to name a few disciplines. We also have experience from a contractor, owner, CM, and consulting perspective, so we designed Construction Viz and all of our Microsoft 365 solutions with a 360-degree approach.

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With all the time constraints placed on project teams, doesn’t finding a vendor who speaks the same language with a product built by construction professionals make sense?

Why Construction Viz?

Read more about what sets Construction Viz apart from the competition in our new blog series:

Keep an eye on this series of articles, where we will elaborate on the benefits of Construction Viz over other construction management platforms on the market. You can request a free demo below to find out more about what Construction Viz can provide. If you are new to Microsoft 365 and need help setting it up or delivering solutions, you can request a free one-hour consultation.

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Your Data Stays with You 24/7 in Construction Viz

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In today’s environment, with security breaches occurring regularly, do you trust a third-party construction app or service provider to secure your data? Wouldn’t you prefer to manage your data 24/7 to keep it secure? It is your data, after all, and you should have control of it. Check out this article to learn how Construction Viz helps you rest easy knowing your data is secure in your Microsoft 365.

Lydon Solutions has been providing IT solutions in the construction industry for over fifteen years. We have seen fly-by-night IT companies with hosted construction management solutions come and go. They require you to upload your data to their cloud platform located somewhere on the web, even outside your jurisdiction. While it might be a cheap and quick solution, you have to consider the following:

  • How safe is your data?
  • What happens if you no longer want to work with that vendor?
  • Can you get to all of your data at any time?
  • What happens at the end of the project when you need to archive? In what format will these vendors provide your data?
  • Can you use Power BI to run reports on your data without having to jump through hoops and pay additional costs?

Your Data is Your Data with Construction Viz

When a Microsoft 365 admin consents to our application, Construction Viz creates all of the lists and libraries in YOUR Microsoft 365 SharePoint site(s).

  • Each Construction Viz app that you want to use creates one or more SharePoint Lists and Libraries to store your data. No data is stored outside of your Microsoft 365 tenant.
  • If you want to pull up your data in SharePoint, you can go to the SharePoint site contents, and it is all there. So, you can archive in place and back up your files using Microsoft 365 tools.
  • If you no longer want to use Construction Viz, you can revoke the consent to the app, and it will no longer connected, but your data stays with you.

Isn’t it time to get control of your data? Construction Viz empowers you to manage your company and project data in the cloud platform you have already invested in, Microsoft 365.

Why Construction Viz?

Read more about what sets Construction Viz apart from the competition in our new blog series:

Keep an eye on this series of articles, where we will elaborate on the benefits of Construction Viz over other construction management platforms on the market. You can request a free demo below to find out more about what Construction Viz can provide. If you are new to Microsoft 365 and need help setting it up or delivering solutions, you can request a free one-hour consultation.

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Construction Viz is Easy to Use

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While it might be debatable how integrated Microsoft 365 apps are, the one thing they do have going for them is ease of use. Rarely do you have to take a training class to use a Microsoft product.

With Construction Viz, we tried to echo this same UI design and layout while keeping the tool as easy to use as possible. Read on to learn how we designed Construction Viz for all levels of technology experience across your construction organization.

Construction Viz Streamlines Construction Project Management

A system can live or die based on how intuitive and easy to use it is. As we all know, the construction industry is one of, if not the most fragmented, technology-related industries. Experience levels and adoption vary from office to field, across departments, and even among remote workers. So, a tool needs to be:

  • Non-intimidating. Initial impression count. You should not be overwhelmed with the amount of data right in your face. Regardless of your technology background, if you have ever searched a website, used a phone, or created an email in Outlook, the experience should be familiar.
  • Action-oriented. There are way too many distractions and urgent items requiring our attention in today's world. Personal and business tasks put a strain on your time. Issues requiring your attention need to be front and center.
  • Minimal clicks. Most users will tune out if it takes more than two clicks to get to where you want to go.
  • Intuitive. Let's face it: nobody reads training guides anymore. Users will look elsewhere if it's not intuitive and will allow you to hit the ground running immediately.

Construction Viz checks all of these boxes and more. We designed the solution to welcome users of all technology experiences and allow you to get in, complete your tasks, and get out so you can get on with your busy schedule.

Why Construction Viz?

Read more about what sets Construction Viz apart from the competition in our new blog series:

Keep an eye on this series of articles, where we will elaborate on the benefits of Construction Viz over other construction management platforms on the market. You can request a free demo below to find out more about what Construction Viz can provide. If you are new to Microsoft 365 and need help setting it up and/or helping you deliver solutions, you can request a free one-hour consultation here.

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Construction Viz Offers Best in Class Pricing

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Tired of paying a licensing fee based on a percentage of the value of your projects? You need reliable pricing that doesn’t penalize you if you have a good year or your company is growing. Construction Viz has flexible pricing based on the number of users and apps selected. Find out how Construction Viz can put more money in your pocket, not an IT company.

We built Construction Viz back in 2017 to be flexible, robust, and easy to use. However, we also wanted to be as cost-effective as possible while delivering the solution to YOUR Microsoft 365.

We hear the same comment repeatedly from clients switching to Construction Viz.

“Why did I have to pay a percentage based on the value of my projects, and I only use 5% of what the tool provided? It’s way out of line.”

Construction Viz Lets You Pay Only for What You Use

With Construction Viz, you pay for each user based on the number of apps you want.

  • What if my company revenue grows by 10X? Same pricing.
  • What if I add multiple projects? Same pricing.
  • What if I only want four apps? Only pay for four apps.
  • What if I want to change the system to my liking? Standard hourly bill rate for changes.
  • What if I want contractors to access my system? Do I pay for those? Depending on the number of users and what they are doing in the system, sometimes they can be accommodated without additional fees.

Many companies are waking up to the fact that bigger isn’t necessarily better, and you shouldn’t have to pay more for a bloated, overly complex software product. Isn’t it time for a solution that benefits your unique project needs and limited budget?

Why Construction Viz?

Read more about what sets Construction Viz apart from the competition in our new blog series:

Keep an eye on this series of articles, where we will elaborate on the benefits of Construction Viz over other construction management platforms on the market. You can request a free demo below to find out more about what Construction Viz can provide. If you are new to Microsoft 365 and need help setting it up and/or helping you deliver solutions, you can request a free one-hour consultation.

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Customize Construction Viz to YOUR Unique Needs

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The one thing that absolutely never changed in my 25 years in the construction industry is change. New technologies and processes are released regularly to help reduce costs, manage scope, and improve scheduling, but unfortunately, the construction industry is the least receptive industry to technology changes. This is why it's critical to deliver IT solutions that are easy to use and customizable for your unique needs. It is also why the implementation needs to consider technology gaps and/or resistance within construction organizations. Check out this article on how Construction Viz can meet you where you work and how you work.

When we started Lydon Solutions, we specifically focused on building custom solutions in Microsoft SharePoint to address the needs of each construction client. We knew that every organization, project, and project manager manages projects differently, so our solutions needed to be as flexible to changes as possible.

So, when we built Construction Viz as an enterprise construction management platform for Microsoft 365, one of our goals was to provide an out-of-the-box solution that could also be further customized to the client's unique needs now and well into the future.

Construction Viz is All About Customizable Solutions

We approach customization in Construction Viz from several areas:

The Construction Viz Hub

The Construction Viz Hub is your control center. You can turn apps on and off and further configure them as needed in the Hub.

We also implemented Hub Profiles that can create unique experiences (apps, theming, and features) that you can target to specific users like contractors or owners.

Modular Components in Construction Viz

We built our apps using a component-based structure where each component performs a specific function.

For example, if you need a document attachment component to upload your files into an RFI form, we can turn on the document uploader to add files to an RFI form. Or, if you need the ability to upload images in a thumbnail view to a Daily Report, we could turn on the image uploader component.

Over the years, we have built an extensive catalog of unique components to deliver unique client-specific apps by combining multiple components into custom solutions.

Construction Viz Configuration Settings

We provide administrative settings that clients can configure for their specific projects and add unique permissions.

Also, administrators can manage one project per site or many projects per site, with Construction Viz accommodating either option from the settings.

Metadata Files

We built Construction Viz with the ability to branch our product code base with unique metadata code files by a client or even by a project. These metadata files allow us to add new fields, apps, or whatever a client needs in Construction Viz.

While the metadata files can be unique to each client, they still receive regular product updates as part of the release process. This flexibility built into Construction Viz’s handling of metadata is a forward-thinking and dynamic approach to building unique solutions.

Microsoft 365 Extensibility

Since Construction Viz deploys to a client's Microsoft 365, they can further enhance the features, such as building their own Power BI reports and embedding them into Construction Viz or building a Power Automate workflow and adding it to one of our form apps. We'll get into some of these details in a future post on this topic.

Construciton Viz File Manager

For organizations that want to tiptoe into some of the apps but still want to keep using SharePoint document libraries with folders, we built the Construction Viz File Manager app. The File Manager app lets you perform most of the critical functions you would do in SharePoint right inside Construction Viz without having to navigate to the underlying SharePoint site.

Why Construction Viz?

Read more about what sets Construction Viz apart from the competition in our new blog series:

Construction Viz Adapts to Your Unique Requirements

If your organization needs ultimate flexibility in your construction management solution, it's tough to beat Construction Viz.

We believe in rapid development and add features for our clients almost weekly, unlike other products where you hope to make it into their next six-month development release.

Keep an eye on this series of articles, where we will elaborate on the benefits of Construction Viz over other construction management platforms on the market.

To find out more about what Construction Viz can provide, or if you are new to Microsoft 365 and need help setting it up or delivering solutions in the Microsoft ecosystem, you can request a free one-hour consultation or demo below.

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