What is PlanWell?

PlanWell provides a safe and secure way to organize, store and manage your project documents digitally, regardless of their original media. With a password and a set of permissions, your document collection can be posted to the web as a searchable project plan room.

Documents are stored on secure and redundant servers as a comprehensively indexed collection of plans and specifications, capable of incorporating revisions and addenda accurately, and in real time. Files are available whenever and wherever you need them via customized distribution lists, scheduling and delivery methods. Documents can also be sent as e-mail attachments.

For intensive real-time document management with e-mail notifications and plan set tracking, your document collection can become a web-based planroom available on the internet from anywhere in the world.

Setup is quick and easy, with no special equipment or software. You can often begin using your document collection just hours after submitting original documents.

How does PlanWell work?

With advanced large-format scanning and digital file format conversions, PlanWell transforms any project document into a non-alterable digital image.

Documents are then stored on secure and redundant servers as a comprehensively indexed collection of plans and specifications, capable of incorporating revisions and addenda accurately, and in real time.

Whether web-access is part of your project management system or not, your files will be available whenever and wherever you need them via customized distribution lists, scheduling and delivery methods. Documents can also be sent as e-mail attachments, transferred using an FTP site, or posted to a corporate intranet.

For intensive real-time document management -such as during the bidding process -your document collection can become a web-based planroom available on the internet from anywhere in the world.

Setup is quick and easy. You can often begin using your document collection just hours after submitting original documents.

PlanWell on the World Wide Web

Posting your document collection to PlanWell on the web will not force you to adopt new management techniques, learn new software or add additional layers of complexity to an already complex professional life. Plan Well simply increases the power and convenience of trade practices that are already widely accepted and understood. As your Printer, our goal remains the same: to help you manage your project content more effectively. The backbone of PlanWell on the Web is the backbone of our printing business:

• Your plans reside on our secure servers
• Your document collection is comprehensively indexed and able to accept revisions in real time
• Your plans are protected by redundant backup procedures
• Your plans are not alterable
• Activity within the document collection is recorded and updated
• You dictate distribution methods and schedules

PlanWell on the web simply offers you real-time, global access to your document collection and a powerful array of document management features via a basic Internet connection. By providing access to plans and specs during any phase of a project life cycle, it ensures that your team has a more comprehensive and more accurate understanding of the project from beginning to end. Even if several of your team members are not comfortable using a web browser, your use of the planroom doesn't exclude them. Sets of paper plans can still be ordered. produced and delivered with a simple phone call. Change doesn't happen overnight in an industry this large and diverse. But when you and your team are ready to explore the advantages of the web, you can count on PlanWel1 to show you the way.

Features & Benefits of PlanWell TM on the web

• Application workflow mimics industry procedures
• Online plan rooms are password protected with the secure socket layer (SSL) protocol
• No special hardware or software required
• Online ordering reduces costs and improves turnaround
• Common web-browser interface makes learning and using the application easy and intuitive
• A basic 56K or faster Internet connection allows full functionality of all plan rooms
• TIF or PDF documents posted to the application are safe, accurate and non-alterable
• Conduct full text searches of complete spec books to identity appropriate projects for bidding
• Plan owner can automatically track document access
• Revisions & addenda are posted and available in real time
• Plan holders receive automatic e-mail notification of revisions and addenda
• Online bid instructions and FAQs can be posted to reduce redundancies in answering questions and providing critical information to project participants
• Access plan rooms from any PC with a web connection
• Complete plan set availability reduces the risk of incomplete or inaccurate bids and their associated cost overruns
• Dramatically reduces distribution and communication costs
• Serve clients better and faster and increase your market appeal
• Online or conventional distribution through RGU abilities information sharing among "mixed" technology teams

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