Dive summary:

• Just within a company, data come from numerous sources and in many forms, and integrating it all to manage a construction project gets even more complicated when mixed with information from outside the company.
• One company that offers technology to help with integration is Newforma, which offers products sduch as project analyzer for planning and deploying company resources.
• Another task is combining the stream of information about a project from all over the map with information used in a building information modeling application.

From the article:

With up-to-date revenue, billing, staffing, and budget projections by office, by practice, and across the company, firms are able to make more informed decisions about schedules, staffing, and budgets that ultimately determine project and firm success. ...