Our general use case involves a 350 million capital budget at the university, so we use Trimble Project Management for all aspects of the design phase and construction phase, and for project management.
Consistent capital project workflows have improved collaboration and real-time data use
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
In my opinion, the best features of Trimble Project Management are that it is quite good as a database and process, and it has been working well for us. The big challenge is on the reporting side; it does not provide great dashboards and that type of functionality.
Using Trimble Project Management has made our project efficiency more efficient than not having it. It is a project management information system, so it is very important to have for our organization.
Trimble Project Management's real-time data integration has been a valuable feature; we have a data warehouse that it sends information to, and we use Tableau to create dashboards.
What needs improvement?
The reporting does exist, but it is not great. The reporting is not optimal, but otherwise, Trimble Project Management is serving us well.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used Trimble Project Management for about 10 to 12 years.
How are customer service and support?
We deal with their customer service, and they are good to work with. On a scale of one to 10, I would rate them an 8 for their technical service.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Comparing Trimble Project Management to Hive or other project management tools, I would say that Hive is more of a resource management tool, whereas e-Builder is more just process management, so they could be compatible with each other. That is what we are exploring.
What other advice do I have?
I was unable to download the Hive to e-Builder Trimble comparison, so I do not know; it was difficult to obtain. If you could send it to me, then I could provide my takeaway on it.
We are considering Hive. We use Trimble Project Management.
The role of the document management feature for our workflow is quite complex; that would be a very long discussion. It takes care of project approvals and everything.
We do not use the analytics feature.
I would assess Trimble Project Management's ability to enhance team collaboration as absolutely positive.
The benefits of using Trimble Project Management include providing us with a consistent process and documentation.
I think the pricing of Trimble Project Management is reasonable for us, given the size of our institution. I would rate this review an 8 overall.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
