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14 4 Essentials to Consider When Choosing Construction Project Management Software Construction project management software is transforming the construction industry. Its digital capabilities help project managers and contractors improve collaboration and communication, allocate resources more efficiently, and reduce costs, enabling them to complete projects on time and on budget. The market for construction management software is steadily growing, which is great news for construction project managers and general contractors, who can now reap the benefits of digitized project management processes over traditional manual ones. But even with these capabilities, managing multiple construction projects can get complicated. All projects have some aspects in common, and they also have differences. This is where construction project management software is really put to the test. Most solutions are standardized, forcing you to fit your projects to the software and not the other way around. Reconfigurations to address different project needs, if they can be done at all, require you to go back to the vendor. That can be costly and time consuming, or a complete dead end if reconfiguration isn't an option. The technology you choose should deliver all of the benefits you need and be capable of managing multiple projects that have different timelines, budgets and resource requirements — without creating added inconvenience or escalating costs. When considering construction project management software, it's important to ensure that the choice you make is configurable to your company's project needs. Construction project management is transforming the construction industry" " Is your construction project management software meeting your requirements? As you think about how well your software is meeting your multiproject needs, consider the following: • Is the software you use flexible enough to meet the specific requirements of each project? Or are you constrained by standardized elements that require costly and time-consuming vendor intervention to customize? • Does it easily deliver the critical data analytics you need to understand every aspect of each of your projects, so you can make the best decisions going forward? Or are you being left in the dark about important information? • Is it helping you manage resources across projects to your best advantage, especially in this time of resource constraints stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic? Or has it instead become another cumbersome resource for you to manage? • When it comes to managing multiple projects and multiple or duplicate data fields, are you plagued by redundancies that add to your workload instead of streamlining it? All these questions represent pain points for construction managers in any situation, but these pain points are magnified when you're working on multiple projects at the same time. Fortunately, there is a solution that addresses all of them and more.