I serve as our company’s project management software administrator. I was selected for that role because of my project/operations expertise, not my software expertise. I am not a software expert and that is why I love Owner InSite. As the administrator, it is my job to set up projects, give the staff access, and train the users (including the project’s A/E’s, Contractor and Owner). I can have the project set up and the team trained in an hour or two! I know how remarkable that is because some of our clients occasionally require us to use other software, so I have been exposed to the competition. I can’t imagine managing software that requires administrators to participate in two weeks of training or that takes months to set up. Who has the time (and money) for that? Owner InSite is easy to set up, easy to train and easy to use because it is intuitive. Things are located where you expect them to be – where I would put them if I were setting up project files. And the processes and routing are built in, so team members don’t have to figure out to whom to send items like design drawings, RFI’s, ASI’s, Submittals, meeting minutes, change requests and pay applications. Speaking of pay apps, I’m not an accountant either, but I can use and train on the accounting module of Owner Insite easily. It just makes sense. I highly recommend Owner InSite to any firm looking for an economical, simple to use, simple to implement project management solution that encompasses all phases of the project.

As the Operations Director of a large Program Management firm, I know from experience that one of the biggest reasons projects go off track is lack of communication. If key stakeholders aren’t communicating and continue to rely on their own proprietary software where the information is locked away, the team is not on the same page and problems arise. So I personally looked at numerous software solutions to fit our needs. We wanted software that not only allowed all of the project’s team members to communicate on one platform, but to do so economically. After evaluating numerous products we decided to use Owner InSite because it enables easy information sharing for a single project or an entire program. One key feature is that Owner InSite keeps the team informed by delivering key project information and event milestones directly to their email inbox. The system also includes a complete accounting module with full audit capability, document management, and project controls like Field Reports, RFIs, Submittals, and Issue tracking to seamlessly provide the information our owners and project managers need. Owner InSite has no per-seat license fees, so we can have unlimited users including contractors, sub-contractors, architects, engineers, and commissioning agents entering data and communicating instantaneously among each other. Owner InSite makes it easy to leverage essential information to keep a project on track and on budget. We think it’s the best product on the market today.

Owner InSite PMIS Review

Pros

User friendly, great support.

Cons

Integration of approval process for specific design team members. Using a default of Architect creates liability issues. Also, if the software had alerts for overdue RFIs or Submittals, it would help facilitate the approval/review process.

Owners Love Owner InSite

Pros

Owner InSite is an excellent Owner based Construction Project Management Software System from Design to Maintenance

Cons

At times Owner InSite can be difficult to use with lack of consistency in how certain items are used by Contractors

Simple and Effective

We strongly recommend this product and the team supporting it.

Pros

As Owner's Representatives we fill a unique niche in the industry and this software meets our needs perfectly. We tried other softwares only to leave them behind as they were cumbersome and frustrating for us and our owners. This software is easy to use, intuitive and efficient. For us the two most important features are the "Issues" tracking, no longer do we have to send a myriad of emails and files, we use this feature to discuss and track items in conjunction with our owner's, design team and contractor team members. The other feature is the budget tracking. This is a robust and fully coordinated system that reduces our risk and tracks detail in an easy to use format. Finally the team at Owner InSite respects the industry is changing and continues to evolve with it and its clients. Customer support has been enthusiastic and responsive.

Cons

Nothing significant.