Optimizing HR/PY Configurations

Nov 6, 2017 4:15pm ‐ Nov 6, 2017 5:15pm

Identification: S04.B

Payroll directly affects how a job gets charged. This may sound simple, but if done incorrectly, may be overly complicated. This session will explore how to streamline the process by guiding set up of the most common benefits and deductions, configure tax codes, and Greenshades W2 mapping configurations.
  • Identify each step and phase of the benefit / deduction setups
  • Relate interconnections/intersections of Bill Rates, Overhead Rates, and Burden Allocation and their flow through to each job
  • Illustrate the Greenshades integration setup, using important tax code configurations to operationalize tactics of payroll maintenance

Lifecycle of a Project: Change Order Management Using Potential Change Items, Subcontract & Owner Changes

Nov 6, 2017 4:15pm ‐ Nov 6, 2017 5:15pm

Identification: S04.C

This session will examine how to process project changes related to cost and scheduling through the lifecycle of a potential change item from its creation to posting. This series developed by CMiC focuses on how our tools streamline your project’s lifecycle. It builds on best practices and guides you from concept to close-out through key integrated processes. Peer-level discussion will encourage clients to share their experiences.
  • Determine the benefits of using Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) codes
  • Learn about PCI automation with RFQ broadcast
  • Utilize Allowances and Contingencies
  • Using TBD within the PCI and Creating / Linking to SCOs
  • Using the RFQ Broadcast and Subcontractor Tracking Log

CMiC 12c: The Next Evolution

Nov 7, 2017 9:45am ‐ Nov 7, 2017 10:45am

Identification: S05.A

This session will show how CMiC has redefined the user experience. Through new 12c product and key capabilities, such as document management with advanced annotations, makes this the next evolution in deployment strategies. We will also illustrate the overall UI experience, which creates a greater sense of e ciency and usability. Further, we will share our document-centric paradigm, which allows data to be visualized and referenced from detailed project management screens. We will also reveal three-dimensional intelligent linking and visualization.
  • Review new 12c product and key capabilities
  • Distinguish CMiC's comprehensive 3D strategy

24/7: Time Tracking With eTime & Crew Time

Nov 7, 2017 9:45am ‐ Nov 7, 2017 10:45am

Identification: S05.B

CMiC and Webcor lead this session on the CMiC Time Tracking solutions. The need to track labor productivity and cost is vital to construction companies even though the recuperation of hours is a manual and disparate process. Other challenges include: time capturing for different groups of employees and varying needs of administrative versus field employees. Webcor shares its experiences, providing a case study not just of time tracking solutions but best practices at each stage of the process.
  • Identify benchmarks of success and anticipate pain points during implementation.
  • Contrast your experiences and needs with the provided examples/sharing of Webcor’s time retrieval process
  • Formulate usage of CMiC Time Tracking Solutions such as Administrative versus Field and Self performing versus subcontracted jobs

Lifecycle of a Project: Contract Creation to Billing & Project Forecasting

Nov 7, 2017 9:45am ‐ Nov 7, 2017 10:45am

Identification: S05.C

This phase in a project describes how to create the billing contract, your forecast, and process your WIP. This 8-session series will show how CMiC tools and best practices streamline your project's lifecycle from concept to close-out. In this session we will review the key integrated project lifecycle process along with peer-level discussion.
  • Relate real life examples from Shawmut to understand how Billing Contracts may be set up to accommodate Change Orders billed outside normal Billing Group codes
  • Collect examples of customization of Forecasting Reports
  • Utilize Billing Group Maximums to control the Revenue Forecast in Contract Forecasting without needing overrides
  • Draw conclusions of best practices from JE Dunn's use of JSP Contract Forecasting coming from Manual Forecasting and GC Monitor to forecast their staffing

CMiC BI: Data Insight Visualized

Nov 7, 2017 11:00am ‐ Nov 7, 2017 12:00pm

Identification: S06.A

Whiting-Turner will share their experiences with CMiC’s Business Intelligence program to date. As one of the first customers to install this product, Whiting-Turner will demonstrate how the CMiC BI visualizations are created and then embedded inside of the CMiC Console or within the Project Management system. By attending this session, you will find out what is being done with the program to date. This session is beneficial for any customer interested in implementing CMiC BI within their company. This overview will include a look at several dashboards. CMiC will then describe several other important features available within both the Catalog Builder and the Dashboard Builder. The presentation will close with a detailed product roadmap for CMiC BI.
  • Understand how CMiC BI is being utilized by an existing customer
  • Select ways to make your Dashboards context sensitive, and how to launch CMiC screens from Dashboards
  • Review the capabilities of the Catalog Builder
  • Distinguish strategies to use the Table Component to extract and manipulate data to create data visualizations quickly
  • Examine the product roadmap for CMiC Business Intelligence

CMiC Enterprise: AP Processing and Compliances

Nov 7, 2017 11:00am ‐ Nov 7, 2017 12:00pm

Identification: S06.B

This session will explore how compliances are set up and managed in CMiC and how they can be utilized to optimize your risk management policies with compliance management and insurance workflows. An overview of AP workflow imaging will delve into Power Construction’s process of going paperless in their AP department by using CMiC Imaging with Kofax for invoices beginning in 2014. Speakers will discuss the setup process, including identifying defaults, setting confidence percentages, as well as the utilization lookups to make the validation process e cient.
  • Appraise the advantages of automated processing insurance certificate(s) with OCR and CMiC Workflow, using WT Insurance Business logic as an example.
  • Preview the new runtime workflow visualizer
  • Generate strategies for success that help eliminate paperwork, creating a more efficient process through AP Workflow and Owner Billing Backup.
  • Leverage CMiC Imaging with Job Billing to streamline Owners' Billing Back-Up

Lifecycle of a Project: Documents and Communications Management

Nov 7, 2017 11:00am ‐ Nov 7, 2017 12:00pm

Identification: S06.C

CMiC ECM has changed the way a project team accesses and manages documents and communication with easy-to-use tools and integrations, recognizing the importance of real-time access to current data. This session is intended for project leaders or collaborators to showcase the functionality of ECM to master documentation and communication with integrated tools. For example, CMiC Field will be featured to exemplify how it has made sharing seamless from the desk to the device.
  • Review how to allow real-time access to current data and documents in the field.
  • Illustrate the process of syncing with third party files and services.
  • Evaluate current models of Mobile Document Management
  • Formulate the added benefits of integrations with third-party tools like Bluebeam and DocuSign

Third Party Integration

Nov 7, 2017 2:45pm ‐ Nov 7, 2017 3:45pm

Identification: S07.B

Empowering genuine collaboration is a hallmark of CMiC's product o¬ffering, and this session will establish the benefits of partnership. Three partners of CMiC--DocuSign, Kofax and PlanGrid--will discuss their integrations with CMiC and reveal how it has simplified workflow and efficiencies. DocuSign is the fastest, most secure way to prepare, execute and manage digital agreements and decisions, transforming the entire approval processes to be fully digital. The Kofax scanner has refined the AP Invoice workflow process so eff¬ectively that it ensures accurate payments to the correct vendors with hardly any work in the front-end. PlanGrid eliminates paper from the jobsite. All of these collaborations in CMiC's integrated Imaging and Workflow functionality allows documents to be linked to transactions from the Job Costing, Job Billing, & JSP PM Modules, with the click of a button.
  • Learn how to speed up the contract approval process and improve the client experience
  • Identify how to gain complete workflow control and visibility
  • Prepare improved document security and management to build transactional trust from start to finish.

Document Management: Surpassing 2D

Nov 7, 2017 2:45pm ‐ Nov 7, 2017 3:45pm

Identification: S07.A

Attendees will enter into a deep dive demo of overall enhancements to CMiC’s Document Management solution across the entire platform. The session will cover next level drawing management with annotations that have the potential to link to CMiC objects such as RFIs. It will also explore drawing preparation involving extracting, linking and uploading drawings to your CMiC Project. Extended actions of the document life cycle like discovery and extraction will also be included.
  • Describe CMiC's developments like Document Management
  • Explain the unique, object based annotation feature
  • Appraise the product roadmap for future developments to CMiC's Drawing Management solution