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Enhancement of Construction Collaboration and Viewing Application at BIW Technologies, UK

BIW Technologies Ltd provides supply chain integration services to the global AEC (architectural, engineering and construction) community. A leading application service provider (ASP), it deploys, hosts and manages access to software applications from a centrally managed facility. The core requirement that BIW wanted to meet was the need of enhancing their existing legacy viewer and integrating it to their existing web based project management tool for communication and collaboration of project related tasks and documents. The view and annotation tool would typically read project documents associated and place your communication remarks using textual and graphical annotations integrated with the viewer tool. The customized viewer needed to suit the regional audience. Moreover, the application being internet-based, maintenance of security of the content was of utmost importance.

Some of the main challenges were:

	Dispersed environment
	Already developed legacy viewing application was being used in the applications provided by BIW technologies. The applications were to be enhanced using Web4's viewing technology
	Need to add support for more formats such as DWF, PCL and PDF in the existing viewing application. Web4's expertise in viewing hundreds of formats is being applied in BIW technologies' Information Channel application
	A tighter integration with BIW technologies' Information Channel application
	Subsequently use Web4's eReview technology to provide seamless viewing and collaboration in the applications provided by BIW technologies
	Flexibility of customization to suit the regional audience
	Security of the content: Since the primary users of BIW Technologies are using their applicationsm from the Internet, the security was of primary importance
	Need for online collaboration

Company Profile:
BIW Technologies, UK is
a global leader in online business applications to support successful project
delivery and management

Industry:
Services

Website:
www.biwtech.com

Primary Business
Requirement:
Enhancement of their
existing viewer
application and
integrate with their
portal

BPOMS’ Solution:
BPOMS’ Customized
Viewer

The Solution

Using Web4's viewing expertise, BIW technologies' Information Channel application was enhanced to support more formats. The system was initially developed on ActiveX platform. In addition to enhancing the existing ActiveX viewers, Web4's product eReview was also integrated tightly with BIW Technologies' Information Channel application.

Using this integration, now BIW Technologies' users can view, find, examine, manipulate, and mark-up diverse documents including more than 450 types of 2D and 3D drawings/models, as well as conference/collaborate with others. This combined offering has given a leadership position to BIW technologies in UK and Europe.

	Enhancement of a legacy viewing application based on ActiveX
	Customized the legacy application to add support of more formats such as DWF, PCL and PDF
	Integration of eReview with BIW Technologies Information Channel application
	Provide Application Programming Interfaces (API) for online, real-time collaboration for BIW Technologies' users

Users of BIW Technologies' applications, now can not only view and annotate hundreds of file formats natively, but also can collaborate on the documents over the Internet. Some of the main advantages that BIW Technologies' users get from the combined solution are:

	View and Annotate documents that are stored in a secured document repository
	Totally web-based solution with no client installations. This is in lines with the overall business strategy of BIW Technologies.
	An affordable solution: Only Internet connection and web-browser needed
	Drawing on Web4's expertise in developing eReview, future releases of BIW's visual interface will support a wider range of file formats, deliver new online meeting, chat and messaging features, and incorporate advanced voice and video technologies
	End-users are able to collaborate in real-time, using co-view, co-markup and conferencing features; such 'design review meetings' are also capable of being saved, replayed and archived into BIW Information Channel's work environment
	Reduce cost of transferring information - online transfer and meetings through Internet
	Reduce errors - easy to check latest information
	Increase accountability - document control and task follow-up
	Achieve Better quality through alignment of processes

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