MACTEC is an authorized reseller of CentricProject™.

One of the keys to the success of any project is good communications and information management. MACTEC assists its clients in improving communication among project team members by implementing an internet-based project communication management tool. This tool is a project web site.

We establish the web site using a commercial-off-the-shelf software program, CentricProject™, developed by Centric Software. MACTEC has used this product to successfully manage project communication on many of our larger projects. The software provides the project team with a secure private web site that serves as a central repository of project activity and tightly integrates project information with project communications. The web site is accessible with any standard web browser from any location with Internet access.

The web site enables authorized individuals to gain easy access to all project information. Whether the information is document-based or resides in an external system, a project web site gives you the ability to get it to the people who need it. And, a project web site provides the tools they need to discuss issues, review alternatives, and achieve resolution in real time without costly travel or delays.

Project Web Sites are the most innovative and complete means of maintaining and collaborating project information. A project web site provides management and team members an intra/internet accessible method of sharing documents, drawings, CAD files, and other electronic information including hyperlinks to other sites.

In its most basic form, a project web site is a modern-day proxy to the filing cabinet, the traditional repository for project documents. However, with its basis in the World Wide Web, the project web site provides several enhancements that can prove invaluable to projects that span multiple firms, disciplines, and locations. Unlike the traditional filing cabinet, the project web site:

• provides true "centralization" of project information, giving teams the right information at the right time and place
• reduces or eliminates costly and time-consuming manual distribution (mail, fax, etc.)
• permits project documents to be shared with individuals from other firms
• integrates information in external applications or databases
• delivers information in electronic form so that it can be manipulated and modified
• automatically catalogs activity
• manages access rights, associations between team members and relevant data, and notification about new information
• offers visual clues and direct search to match user and information
• stores discussions directly with the information being discussed
• provides the tools everyone needs to review each document.