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Whitepapers

Document Imaging: The Whole Story

Document Imaging: The Whole Story | [Whitepaper] Construction companies must efficiently and accurately manage their information. Learn how you can maximize the productivity of your company by adding document imaging and content management solutions to your daily operations.

Articles

Hansen Mechanical Relies on Construction Imaging Software to Work Smarter in Tough Times

Hansen Mechanical Relies on Construction Imaging Software to Work Smarter in Tough Times | [Article-MCAA] Streamlining processes, reducing storage, and speeding approvals are some examples of “working smarter” at Hansen Mechanical. Learn how this approach to information and content management can help your company survive, compete, and profit during economic downturns, inefficiencies, or bad business decisions.

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General

Corporate Fact Sheet

Corporate Fact Sheet | Construction Imaging provides document imaging, content management, and workflow solutions, software, hardware, installation, and support services to contractors, home builders, property managers, and material suppliers throughout the construction industry. Construction Imaging has been providing award-winning document imaging solutions for 14 years and are considered the leader in the construction industry. Software support for clients is provided directly by the Construction Imaging’s top-notch support team.

Justification Comparisons: Detailed Results of ROI

Justification Comparisons: Detailed Results of ROI |This spreadsheet summarizes costs and savings of adding an imaging system for General, Electrical, Mechanical, and other types of contractors.

Constructech Vision Award - LPR Construction

Constructech Vision Award - LPR Construction | LPR Construction was awarded a Constructech Vision Award for it’s technological advances. Their passion for technology, improving processes and productivity led them to receive the award. Taking advantage of Construction Imaging’s Invoice Router Software enabled them to receive this award, along with other technologies they implemented.

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Product Information

Chameleon Document Management

Chameleon Document Management | Designed for small to medium sized construction companies, Chameleon™ software captures, routes, stores, and retrieves all construction documents for easy access. Special applications are available for Accounts Payable invoice routing and approval, Job Files Management, Human Resources, e-mail management, and more.

Construction Document Manager

Construction Document Manager | Construction Document Manager software, handles all job-related documents with full integrations to existing project management, accounting, and email software. Job documents can be archived and routed for review and updated with new versions of the documents quickly and easily. An integral part of your Enterprise Content Management System

Invoice Router

Invoice Router | Invoice Router software archives invoices and all other AP documents electronically for approval and retrieval. Comprised of four main modules - PO Entry, Route Invoice, Approve Invoice, and Index Entry - each module will integrate with existing accounting and project management software. Fully configurable screens and built-in automation add more efficiency to invoice coding and approval.

Report Archival

Report Archival | Capture a job’s critical reports electronically then archive them automatically in the content management database. By automating your reporting process, you can instantly view your documents from any workstation in the office, job site, and even at home with minimal upfront setup of the report and process.

Cost-Plus/T&M Collector

Cost-Plus/T&M Collector | Here is an efficient way to select and gather project paperwork electronically in the content management system and have written to a CD! The CD includes a viewer so images can be viewed by the project owner and information searched and sorted by different index values by date range, cost code, vendor, amount, and more. The CD provides a professional, organized tool enabling the owner to verify all contractor project costs.

OCR and Full-text Search

OCR and Full-text Search | Use this software to OCR-scan documents in batch mode; combine documents in text format and then perform a full-text index, indexing the documents by word. For example, you can find all the pages instantly with the word “asbestos” or “asbestos and pipe” or in an RFP words such as “required”, “penalty”, or “deadline”.

Construction Document Manager’s Human Resources

Construction Document Manager’s Human Resources | Construction Document Manager’s Human Resources Application integrates efficiency in many areas. Diminishing the time it takes for document filing, searching, and reviewing are just some of the benefits HR personnel immediately notice when implementing Construction Document Manager’s Human Resources Module. We can’t talk about managing Human Resource Documents without looking at securing documents and the quick and easy way to make documents accessible or inaccessible.

Ticket Handler

Ticket Handler | This affordable ticket management solution, tailored for all-sized companies, can instantly scan and read tickets with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and merge the information captured by Weigh-Scale Ticketing. Now you can instantly find any ticket or group of tickets by criteria such as date, date ranges, customer, material, etc.

Backfill Blender

Backfill Blender | A critical component to an imaging and content management solution in that it involves copying Accounts Payable data (typically) from your accounting system and pushing it into the imaging/content management system. The data that is pushed over consists of, but is not limited to the following: invoice header information, invoice distribution and check information..

WebXtender

WebXtender | WebXtender eliminates the need to install client software on every corporate workstation while enabling collaboration with remote employees or business partners. This application also enables organizations engaged in ecommerce activities such as electronic bill presentment, or electronic cataloging. Additionally, WebXtender also features configurable ASP pages that can be customized to integrate into your existing web presence.

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Case Studies

A Pappajohn Company

GC Construction Manager reduces overhead by 15% with Chameleon Document Management | A GC Construction Manager in Connecticut and New York reduced overhead costs by 15% with Chameleon, another solution from Construction Imaging. “Chameleon has also helped us take advantage of payment discounts. We know which manager has an invoice at all times and can remind them if a discount is available.”

Cedar Valley Construction

Subcontractor eliminates lost documents, late/duplicate payments, file cabinets, and creates efficiences using Chameleon Document Management | Cedar Valley Construction continued to grow from a small company to one with over 1100 employees. This subcontractor turned to Construction Imaging to assist in expanding their business efficiently with the use of technology.

Charles Cudd

A Timberline User who achieved greater turnaround in documents and productivity with the Construction Imaging Solution | “I was amazed at the cost saving & increased productivity we experienced.”

Crowder Construction

A Heavy Highway/Industrial Contractor with a 12 month payback on their system | Crowder began with a scan and save station, then realized that Construction Imaging had the right solution for them.

EXELON Services

Invoice routing just got easier with a complete makeover by Construction Imaging’s Invoice Router | Reprocessing Exelon’s current process for invoice workflow, Exelon was able to reduce their invoice cycle time, eliminating input errors, and has taken the guess work out of thier workflow!

Hansen Mechanical

An EMCOR company that wanted to grow and increase productivity without adding any new employees | Lost documents were becoming an embarrassment, record searches taking forever, so Hansen reached to the EMCOR approved solution - Construction Imaging’s Document Management lineup.

Hanson Aggregates

Hansen wanted to centralize the receipt of their invoices to reduce approval time while still allwoing each of its 450 locations to approve and cost-code the invoices | Hansen employs the solution over a VMP using Citrix Server. This allows fast access to a central repository, while keeping remote desktops and laptops less expensive.

J And J Maintenance

Faced with a paper storage problem, J & J reviewed Construction Imaging’s recomendations, and quickly realized that their initial goal to reduce paper storage was just part of the solution | J & J Maintenance rolled out document imaging and content management to Accounts Payable, Project Manager’s Safety & Training Department, Information Systems Department, Bidding, Human Resources, Operations, Owners, and Executives.

LPR Construction

LPR wanted to streamline processes and alleviate the burdens associated with all their paper flow | Systems with such far reaching impact to business processes normally takes months to set in place. The implementation of Construction Imaging’s Document Imaging and Content Management had LPR smoothly scanning and indexing within days.

Moretrench American Corporation

The Payroll Department is now releaved no confidential documents are sitting on a printer | Moretrench uses Construction Imaging technology to reduce printing by automating reports into archival format, placing them straight into the imaging and content management system.

Ryan Companies

Seemless integration between departments streamlined day to day activities and raised accountablility | System pay back was one year and actual implementation date was over 30 days ahead of schedule.

Trumbull and PJ Dick

Taking advantage of a large number off system add-ons, Trumbull, PJ Dick and Lindy Paving removed filing and finding time along with keying in of asphalt tickets | OCR technology along with T&M add-ons accelerate business processes while saving money.

Underground

A subsidiary of QUANTA was drowning in paper after 65 years, and looked to Construction Imaging for a lifesaver | Traditional invoice processing didn’t meet the demands of their parent company, and Construction Imaging solved that with Invoice Router.

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