Testimonials
Oil Gas & Energy
"One of the reasons we chose Sword CTSpace's On-Demand collaboration solution was the speed at which the technology could be deployed. Users need very little training as they are all able to use Web browsers, and we are expecting to see the benefits almost immediately. We believe this technology will allow us to improve the way in which we work, not just across our development team, but also with our contractors and suppliers. We can now work with them as though they were extended members of the team. Having full ownership of all the information relating to our assets is vital to the productivity and efficiency of our development team. In short, we hope that Sword CTSpace will provide good document management, increase our visibility of all information and allow us to handle it effectively and securely. Of course, management tools such as this can avoid unnecessary delays and cost."
Ross Ovens, Project Manager, Centrica
"The implementation was achieved on schedule, on time and on budget – an amazing job working to very tight timescales – tremendous credit."
Philip Gong, IT Project Manager, NRG Energy
“Sword CTSpace did a great job implementing – they went above and beyond – they just hit curve balls right back. The real strength of the implementation team was that they really leveraged their experience in E&C.”
Charles Hacket - Business Project Manager for EPC, NRG Energy
"AMEC can knock down the ‘wall’ of information volume which can frustrate a project handover’s success. Receiving data in the right format, at the right time adds value to the quality and completeness of the data."
Pete Mayhew, AMEC UK
"When we pushed, they did not push back. Sword took them as challenges to be met constructively and professionally. The challenge we gave Sword was to continue to provide the engineering applications our engineers demanded but based on the FileNet P8 platform instead of the standalone Fusion document vault and core document management functions. Everyone had a lot at stake in this. There was no Plan B so we all had to make this work. As a result this was very much a collaborative joint effort, a far cry from the usual client-contractor kind of thing. Sword really did deliver for us."
Marc-Henri Cerar, Manager of Project IT and Information Systems, AMEC Paragon
"Using the Sword CTSpace solution gives our project team confidence that they are working with the most up-to-date documentation and this has markedly improved communications and facilitated the fast track construction requirement."
Paul Mallorie, Group Business Development, Murphy Group
"The value that Sword CTSpace has delivered in terms of streamlined business process automation, improved execution and increased client satisfaction has been substantial. (...) We need to deploy tools that are not only useful, but are easy to use. That’s why we have standardized on Sword CTSpace. (...) Every client is different and every project manager is different. With Sword CTSpace we can create templates and functionality to meet the customized needs of each project team. Sword CTSpace’s technical support team has been a real asset in providing information to assist in configuring the solution to meet Mustang’s varied project requirements. The tech support team is made up of consultants and field applications engineers with background in our industry. They understand the real world."
Stephen Kersch, head of Project Information Management Group, Mustang
“Given the huge quantity of data we had to deal with, we would almost certainly have lost control, Sword CTSpace definitely made a big difference to the success of the overall project.”
Holger Flatau, Project manager, MVV Energie AG
Transportation
"Trans4m is involved in a momentous construction programme involving the management of huge numbers of documents, processes and people. Sword CTSpace's on demand document management and collaboration software is central to our operations and enables all members of our project to quickly request and access information using structured and audited processes. The Sword CTSpace solution is not only a comprehensive document management system, it allows us to manage our processes in a structured and consistent manner across the contract and most importantly provides a fully audited account of all actions and communications."
Kevin Ives, Business Systems Manager, Trans4m
"The benefits of Sword CTSpace's solutions were immediate to the whole project team. At every stage on the project we can now save time and money through instant access to project information and we've already noticed a reduction in errors."
Xavier Gruz, "Rhine-Rhône High-Speed-Line" Project Manager, RFF (Owner and manager of the French railway network)
"Using a document sharing system undeniably constitutes an improved operational efficiency on the project. The BuildOnline solution has already been proven on other large scale RFF operations and meets all the needs of the teams that use it. As the principle asset owner, RFF easily convinced their partners to use the platform on the Nantes tram-train project. The tool will provide vital information giving complete document history and total traceability of actions. BuildOnline answers the question “who did what and when?”. Just like on other projects, teams will be able to focus exclusively on their work without being preoccupied with actions associated with the circulation and availability of information."
Rémi Coulanges, Project Manager, RFF
"This is a top-down initiative, and Sword CTSpace provides the three A's we absolutely need: Access, Accountability and Project Audit trail. We expect this capability to substantially improve project delivery for the capital improvement program."
Jack Hartman, Executive Vice-President of construction, engineering and facilities, Chicago Transit Authority
"We recommended Sword CTSpace solution because of its track record in supporting very large construction programs."
Kristine Fallon, KFA President, Chicago Transit Authority
"During the Design phase, we decided to use Sword CTSpace solution to facilitate the coordination of the different prime contractor partners (COTEBA, ASCO, EPDC, HYL and Salomon). We exclusively used the platform until the subcontractors were selected. Then, we decided to continue using Sword CTSpace solution for the current Building phase, as our coordination requirements become more important as more companies become involved in the project. Sword CTSpace solution is a very flexible solution that perfectly fits our project requirements: it is simple to use for the design phase, yet has very powerful functionalities for the Building phase."
Christian Poumeau, Project Manager, Coteba Développement
"Currently in the design phase, the A65 highway project involves a dozen companies participating in this complex project. Sword CTSpace’s solution has been very easily adopted by all Eiffage collaborators and other stakeholders of the project. It enables high visibility on all project proposals, allows quick decision making on the different technical proposals and ensures a good communication between all suppliers."
Bruno Becker, Technical Director, Eiffage
"We believe strongly that web-based communications are indispensable to speeding the design and construction processes while at the same time improving quality. Sword CTSpace provides a collaborative medium for the design and construction teams that has proven effective in dealing with project challenges in a fraction of the time that it used to take with conventional methods. In addition, it provides the capacity for auditing, accountability and accessibility that we need."
Sharif Abou-Sabh, P.E. Program Manager, URS/O'Brien Kreitzberg
Utilities
"As an organisation responsible for managing Scottish Water's Capital Works Programme, we were looking for a sophisticated knowledge management solution that could bring together our 14 operational offices to collaborate quickly and easily. We chose the Sword CTSpace solution because it was powerful enough to manage the asset data information for all 2,500 projects as well as being easy to use and fast to implement."
Ewan Robertson, Head of Support Services, Scottish Water Solutions
"With continued need for more effective integration across project teams to increase efficiencies and deliver cost savings, collaborative models will be used more extensively across the utilities industry, particularly as supply chains are extended and projects become more global. We selected Sword CTSpace’s solution for its ease of use, rapid rollout and its availability and readiness. The customer support and expertise we have received from Sword CTSpace has been an important part of our progress to date."
Dale Evans, Alliance Operations Director, Anglian Water Services
"Using Sword CTSpace solutions has been very helpful in terms of improving the way we do business within our section; it’s helped us to standardize our reporting procedures and to become more effcient and better organized."
Kevin Canada, EBM UD
"The Sword CTSpace solution allows us to streamline our project communication thanks to better document and information management. Using the platform has generated higher quality on the building site and helped us to shorten delays. Furthermore, the support received from the Sword CTSpace consultants and customer support team ensured an excellent adoption by the entire project team. In the past we have used other platforms, but the Sword CTSpace solution is performing much better and the service provided guarantees successful usage of the platform."
Bertrand Robin, Process Director, URBASER
"The Sword CTSpace solution is easy to implement and use. Everybody uses all functionalities from the very start of the project. Thanks to its user-friendly approach, every project team member adopted the platform quickly resulting in an immediate return on investment."
Philippe Bour, Project Manager, STEREAU
Commercial Property
"We needed a solution, which was cost-effective and could be deployed quickly and easily, to streamline the flow of information. It had to ensure everyone can access documents and collaborate in real-time, across multiple time zones."
Stephan Matter, Chief Executive, Great Wheel Corporation
"On this development, Sword CTSpace is helping us to reach our target of zero defects, by improving the control and coordination of information and cutting out the risk of errors and rework."
Neil Armspan, Pre-Construction Manager, Kier Build
"We have demonstrated that we can reduce cost by 73% per project, by adopting TenderOnline, the on-demand tendering tool from Sword CTSpace."
Kevin Jepps, Central Purchasing Manager, Laing Homes
"Sword CTSpace enabled us to reduce the cost of our bid submission by as much as 10%, by eliminating the need to replicate and distribute documentation to the bid team members."
Iain Kent, Commercial Manager, AMEC - Construction Services Division
"Working on such an extensive and high-profile project, it was essential to have a system that supports collaboration across our supply-chain. To meet our clients' needs it is critical to have management visibility into project progress and pain points as well as an audit trail of all user activity. Sword CTSpace's flexibility and ease of use means it can be fully deployed across all users within just two months."
Scott Castle, Associate, Thomas and ADAMSON
"By adopting the Sword CTSpace solution we have seen a 15% reduction in our construction build times and significant cost savings. These benefits have led us to roll out the document management and collaboration software on all our build and maintenance projects."
Rod Constanti, Head of Development, East Thames
"Using Sword CTSpace early on in the bid management planning phase means that information is readily available in one place and the opportunity for delays and errors is greatly reduced."
Steve Tarry, Development Director, East Thames
"Paragon saved us time and helped us meet the reporting needs of the SFO Administration as best as possible. We will definitely use it on future projects."
Ashok Jain, F.E. Jordan Associates, Inc.
"Paragon has enabled us to better serve the client by addressing concerns of critical importance such as budget and funding allocation, project timelines and deadlines in a very timely manner."
Fred Jordan, F.E. Jordan Associates, Inc.
"When we're asked a question or need to resolve an urgent issue, we now have a centralized repository of real-time project data and documents to use and reference. All we need is an Internet connection and we can access the information almost instantly. This helps ensure that documents are routed efficiently and according to our predetermined business rules. Once our contractors and architects see how much time and frustration the system saves them it becomes much more than a 'forced' system - it's now a tool to help them do their work much more efficiently. Sword has always been very responsive to our requests, questions and suggestions. Their people are very knowledgeable about our industry, our business processes and the challenge we face. Having a seasoned and construction-savvy software partner has been a big plus."
Nigel Nightingale, Director of construction, Lakes Entertainment
"Sword CTSpace enables simple document organisation and a shared environment without constraints, neither geographical nor document size, as well as a more effective information exchange. Through its integration within our organisation, and compliance with our business processes, the Sword CTSpace solution allows us to enhance the quality of each of our transformation and refurbishment projects and we plan to store over 500,000 documents on the system. This solution will also help to provide global visibility over project progress while eliminating delays."
Benoit Spaety, Real Estate Services Manager, IMEX Real Estate Services, BNP Paribas
"Information that previously took about a week to prepare can now be accessed in an hour. Using Paragon is the first time we have been able to monitor all the cost and budget information in one place."
John Mahon, Bechtel, inc.
"We have to work very closely with Lakes and about 30 additional consultants in this project. As the point person for RFIs and other documentation, I have to read, receive and distribute virtually all of the project's documentation. Sword CTSpace allows me to manage this process much faster and with half the staff I would need if we were doing this manually."
Peter Legeros, Associate in the Cunningham Group
"Sword CTSpace on-demand document management has performed so well that one of our goals is to leverage their solution as a tool to help us bring on board more clients with high-volume building programs. I can’t imagine doing a large-scale program without a tool like Sword CTSpace's. We no longer have to spend a lot of time tracking people down and making sure they’ve finished what they are responsible for. Having consistency in document-naming conventions avoids costly delays and reduces the chance of error. It ensures that when we run a daily query of the Sword CTSpace database, which may include information for 300 or more projects, we can readily identify the latest documents to be uploaded."
Lanny McIntosh, founding principal, The McIntosh Group
"In the old days, you'd send out a lot of information in all directors and hope it got to the right people at the right time, and to none of the wrong people. But with Sword CTSpace, a project manager can gain one single view of his or her projects' health. And the information is totally secure. It's an excellent tool that really gives us the advantages we need and enables us to take on the kind of projects we want to take on."
Bo Memhave, Business Director & CIO, NNE
Government
"Without the Sword CTSpace solution, we could have drowned in a sea of paperwork. With over 50,000 drawings alone and 300 sub contractors to keep informed, the sheer volume of paperwork is immense."
Roger Stone, Project Controls Manager, Aspire Defence
"This rolling agreement with Sword CTSpace, which has the option to continue until 2011, provides an effective solution to streamline the procurement process, which is in line with the OGC best practice of transparency and audit ability."
Rob Edwards, Director of Turner & Townsend's Government
"We have been so impressed by the productivity improvements that we have gained using Sword CTSpace's solution that we have decided to roll the software out across several of our major development projects at Sunderland Arc."
Ben Hall, Operations Manager, Sunderland Arc
"Using Sword CTSpace on the Holmeside Project has streamlined the whole communication process and made decision-making easier and more efficient.”
Craig Taylor, Project Manager, Sunderland ARC
"About the construction of the £320 million Derby PFI Hospital: "At Skanska, we are not only responsible for construction work but also the hard facilities management contract to manage the buildings and their operations for the next 35 years. The use of a single document management system is vital for the delivery and ongoing management of the hospital. Sword CTSpace's On Demand software has the functionality to manage our wide remit, whilst its ease of use ensures that our supply-chain can swiftly embrace the software. (...) Skanska recognised the need for a system that would enable us to manage information and collaborate with our supply chain and interested parties. We selected Sword CTSpace's solution because of its easy to use product and exceptional levels of service.”
Cliff Bryant, Project Director, Skanska
“We needed a collaborative document management solution to exchange documents, circumventing the bulkiness of e-mail and the problems caused by heavy reference file/in sharing heavy reference file , to ensure that all participants were working on the latest version of documents at all times, and to be able to view and mark up technical documents without having AutoCAD installed. The solution had to meet our daily needs as well as comply with the Louvre's safety standards, be 100% web-based and be easily adopted by our geographically dispersed partners. The Sword CTSpace solution met all our needs. Collaboration is easier, and the solution provides a full audit trail of the projects, which is crucial for us, as a client.”
Geoffrey Albin, Project Manager, Louvre Museum, Paris
