MasterLibrary: General Features & Benefits
Specific User Segment features and benefits can be accessed via the related links at right.
There are several general MasterLibrary benefits that all types of users, regardless of segment, will derive from the system that positively impact work processes, projects and facilities, and organizations:
- Work-Process Benefits:
- Enhances your workflow process without having to change it.
- Forces accountability and provides easy-to-use status updating tools at every level from general project-related correspondence, meeting notes and To Do lists, to specific elements such as RFIs, transmittals and drawings.
- Intuitive data management based on industry standards including:
- Construction Standards Institute (CSI) Manual of Practice (now called Project Reference Manual);
- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) processes, and;
- Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee (EJCDC)
- Increases productivity through automation of manual, low-value processes.
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- Project & Facility Benefits:
- Takes a lifecycle approach to your project and/or facility including:
- Planning
- Designing/Engineering
- Building/Construction Management
- Maintaining/Updating
- Enhances communications between all facility, project and system personnel and contractors to improve operational efficiencies while reducing the potential for costly errors.
- Provides easy access to electronic manufacturer data to improve efficiencies in generating submittals and final turnover documents at the end of a project.
- Ensures correct product information is “frozen” when archived for the installed product base.
- Uses the American Institute of Architecture’s (AIA) Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach to provide an industry-standard project framework.
- Reduces potential for post-construction liability.
- ML users can quickly and easily share data about systems, projects, buildings and campuses with the stakeholders who need it most to add value across the life of a building, from planning and design to construction and management. By removing inefficiencies that drain time and money from construction project execution, the MasterLibrary system can reduce project costs.
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- Leverages the investment and end deliverables of other niche-market software you already use such as Computer-Aided Design (CAD), graphics, spreadsheet, and word processing.
- Establishes accountability and transparency with comprehensive electronic record keeping that automatically “freezes” live data views for later retrieval and analysis as needed.
- Institutionalizes best business practices with forced reply statuses that confirm receipt, establish next steps (if any), and establish team-member responsibility. This last practice is commonly referred to as “ball in court” status in the ML and other software applications.
- Increases assurance that owners get expected results from their construction projects.
- Easy to learn, use and implement in your existing work processes with a simple intuitive software interface that uses familiar commands and navigation schemes. If you’ve used a web browser such as Internet Explorer™ or Firefox™, you can easily use the MasterLibrary software.
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Benefits of Software As A Service (SaaS)
The MasterLibrary SaaS technology model offers its own discrete set of benefits regardless of user segment or discipline including:
- Reduced upfront costs.
- Accelerated software deployment with less risk.
- No additional hardware or internal staffing.
- Improved reliability, security and privacy.
- Greater agility to scale software to meet changing business requirements.
- Increased flexibility and accessibility for a highly dispersed and varied workforce. Because the ML application is web-based, users can access data from the web anywhere at anytime using a personal computer, smartphone, netbook, laptop or other data-access device.
- Faster Return On Investment (ROI) with higher productivity at a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
- Enables collaboration through affiliation with other parties and organizations using the ML system’s multi-tenant feature (i.e., many companies in the same system).
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