Project Management

Whether designing and constructing a new high-profile building or developing innovative new products for businesses and consumers, the major success factors for project managers in today’s fast-moving environment are time to market and on-time delivery. Project data must be tightly managed yet readily available as needed. Project teams need to be highly cohesive with the ability to quickly react to changes. The additional challenge in a globally competitive economy is having the best available resources accessible for a project regardless of geographic location.  This means that designers, engineers and project managers distributed around the world in different time zones combine to form virtual project teams that need to communicate, collaborate and share large volumes of information with increasingly larger file sizes, disparate file formats and a wide array of communication standards and devices.

Thru’s Project Management Solution

The Thru platform provides certified and guaranteed delivery of critical project information with real-time updates to the desktop, running on top of Thru’s Managed File Transfer solution. Project files are tracked and secured, versioned, updated and synchronized across all members of the project team, their partners, subcontractors and clients with legal-grade reports for audit and billing purposes. Granular access controls and document permissions mean that everyone can get the information they need for their task without the distraction of data overload. This is accomplished securely, with no risk of leaks or data loss, compromise of intellectual property or damage to reputation and brand. Built on a global network of data centers with direct connection to the NTT Communications Tier 1 IP Backbone, Thru delivers unbeatable speed and connectivity, enabling large amounts of project data to be rapidly moved or shared between team members across continents and around the globe.

Project Management Key Features

• Rapidly and reliably transfer and share large volumes of data – Quickly share essential information with your project team members providing you the ability to exchange the data you need to meet and exceed deadlines.
• Centralized and secure project management – Assign role or user-based permissions for file access, review, modification and acceptance of design changes and additions. Files are stored and archived within a searchable, database-driven repository complete with anti-virus protection, information rights management, audit trails, retention rules and metadata.
• Automatic notifications – Alert all involved parties of important file updates and uploads and receive notices when downloaded.
• Advanced granular reporting – Tools enable accurate tracking and review of design changes that have been approved and implemented, enabling legal-grade audit and eDiscovery to ascertain the cause in the event of a problem arising.
• Integration with today’s business software (Salesforce.com, Outlook, Notes, and SharePoint) – By easily integrating with existing systems, there is no learning curve and workflow remains uninterrupted.