Email is now the de-facto standard for communicating, collaborating and distributing documents within the construction industry. The management and retention of contractually important emails including attachments has become a crucial issue for company directors, project managers, claims management teams and IT departments.
Many companies have an email management policy but, ultimately, conformance with it depends on the voluntary participation of employees. Some of them file everything, but many are not so conscientious and everyone is under pressure to get more done in less time. The end result is an incomplete set of project correspondence, exposing the company to the risk of non-compliance. To be effective an email management solution needs to be slick, intuitive, non-intrusive and benefit the user themselves.
Even when emails are filed they tend to be saved within the user’s Outlook, creating silos of information and making collaboration difficult. Furthermore, construction projects typically last months or years and, consequently, people move into and out of the project team. Bringing new joiners up to speed and picking up / handing off the responsibilities of leavers is time-consuming.
Some of the key features pertinent to construction, engineering, and architecture:
The exponential growth of email presents companies with a financial headache. With no way of distinguishing between business critical emails and other content, the cost of storing and backing up this unstructured data grows year on year.
KnowledgeMill’s smart email management solution is a holistic one, providing a disciplined framework for ensuring a company’s emails and attachments are managed by project. The net result is more accessible information, less cost and greater compliance.