ARES PRISM Enterprise Project Controls Software
ARES PRISM is an Integrated Project Controls solution that enables organizations to manage all aspects of their project and programs throughout the project lifecycle. In today’s dynamic world, improved planning, budgeting, earned value management, performance measurement and cost control have become essential for reducing project risk and secure on-time, within budget delivery. In addition, capital projects are increasing in size and scope and are under constant scrutiny. With an integrated cost management solution, PRISM G2 helps organization reduce project risks by aligning cost and schedule throughout the project lifecycle:
Combine budget, committed costs, resource requirements, and schedule dates
Effectively communicate project performance with statistically-accurate estimate at completion information
Complete and comprehensive earned value
For over 25 years ARES Project Management, LLC. has helped owners and contractors manage and control capital projects more effectively. Integrate and standardize processes from Cost Management, Change, Engineering, Procurement, and Contracts to Field Management and access real-time Project Intelligence with the only complete, integrated project management solution – ARES PRISM.
EXECUTIVE DASHBOARDS
PRISM Dashboards is an intuitive drag & drop tool that lets you see every change as you make it. Project Controls Professionals use it to see and understand project, program and portfolio performance at a glance. Work at the speed of thought without ever taking your eyes off the data. Anyone comfortable with Excel can get up to speed quickly.
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COST MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
PRISM G2 Cost Management is the heart of the PRISM product. This complete cost management solution supports all required processes including budgeting, resource planning, time-phasing, progress and performance measurement, Earned Value Management, cost and schedule analysis, risk tracking, funds allocation, forecasting, and reporting. Each user integrates project schedules and initial cost estimates to develop time-phased budgets and forecasts. This tight cost and schedule integration eliminates the need for schedulers to resource load and update progress in their schedule after the initial project plan is input. With more than 25 algorithms supporting even the most complex progress measurement, PRISM G2 is the clear winner for complete cost control.
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CHANGE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
PRISM Change provides organizations with a complete and auditable system for tracking cost and schedule changes to the project’s baseline and forecast. Change management helps support communication between all stakeholders within an organization and fosters better project control via transparency, increased awareness, and better decision-making.
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ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
PRISM G2 Engineering is designed for budgeting engineering tasks and deliverables by hours and quantities to calculate progress achieved. It helps an easy understanding of the progress percentages from engineering tasks and link them to budget line items for accuracy in performance measurement of overall progress and Earned Value Performance.
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PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
PRISM G2 Procurement provides the required functionality to manage the complete procurement process for any size or type of project. Customers can easily generate purchase requisitions, Requests for Quotation (RFQs), bid analyses, and purchase orders by accessing process equipment and bill of material databases. Upon award, manage shipments to ensure items are properly tracked and delivered to the job site according to plan.
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CONTRACT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
PRISM G2 Contracts is an essential contracts management tool, whether you are an Owner, EPC or Construction Management firm. Customers take advantage of this solution to create Prime Contracts, manage Request for Proposal (RFPs), conduct bid analysis and award committed contracts, as well as complete payment processing. The result – complete revenue tracking and cash flow.
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FIELD MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
PRISM G2 Field Management is an essential progressing tool for efficient and timely status updates from the field. Keep your team, including contractors and subs, on track by identifying critical issues when tasks are going over budget or falling behind schedule. Accurately report progress based on hours, costs and installed quantities with user-defined rules of credit for complete performance measurement. With detailed field management throughout the project lifecycle you will be alerted to issues in a timely manner allowing the rapid development of corrective actions to keep your projects on-time and within budget.
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ESTIMATING SOFTWARE
PRISM Estimating was designed for large Enterprises that require consistency and centralization of their estimates and estimating data. The developers of PRISM Estimating were pioneers in enterprise software development and were amongst the first globally to develop solutions over the Jboss Application Server (Java for Enterprise Software). This gives PRISM Estimating a strong footprint as a product that can operate and deliver maximum results within a multi user environment.
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PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
PRISM G2 Cost Management is the heart of the PRISM product. This complete cost management solution supports all required processes including budgeting, resource planning, time-phasing, progress and performance measurement, Earned Value Management, cost and schedule analysis, risk tracking, funds allocation, forecasting, and reporting. Each user integrates project schedules and initial cost estimates to develop time-phased budgets and forecasts. This tight cost and schedule integration eliminates the need for schedulers to resource load and update progress in their schedule after the initial project plan is input. With more than 25 algorithms supporting even the most complex progress measurement, PRISM G2 is the clear winner for complete cost control.
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DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
PRISM G2 Cost Management is the heart of the PRISM product. This complete cost management solution supports all required processes including budgeting, resource planning, time-phasing, progress and performance measurement, Earned Value Management, cost and schedule analysis, risk tracking, funds allocation, forecasting, and reporting. Each user integrates project schedules and initial cost estimates to develop time-phased budgets and forecasts. This tight cost and schedule integration eliminates the need for schedulers to resource load and update progress in their schedule after the initial project plan is input. With more than 25 algorithms supporting even the most complex progress measurement, PRISM G2 is the clear winner for complete cost control.
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INTEGRATION PLATFORM
PRISM G2 Cost Management is the heart of the PRISM product. This complete cost management solution supports all required processes including budgeting, resource planning, time-phasing, progress and performance measurement, Earned Value Management, cost and schedule analysis, risk tracking, funds allocation, forecasting, and reporting. Each user integrates project schedules and initial cost estimates to develop time-phased budgets and forecasts. This tight cost and schedule integration eliminates the need for schedulers to resource load and update progress in their schedule after the initial project plan is input. With more than 25 algorithms supporting even the most complex progress measurement, PRISM G2 is the clear winner for complete cost control.
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PRISM SERVICES
With over 25 years of providing project management solutions to customers in multiple industries, ARES Corporation has the capabilities and expertise needed to help any client succeed. From scheduling, to developing work processes and procedures, to PRISM G2 implementation, ARES has the processes, the personnel, and the tools required to effectively manage projects, all backed by a reputation earned by solving our clients’ toughest challenges.
Service offerings include:
Project Constructor:
Synchro Project Constructor provides 4D construction visualization, project scheduling, advanced risk management, synchronization with 3D design changes, supply chain management and cost allocation for comprehensive virtual construction simulation.
Synchro Project Constructor enables alternative scheduling options, resource allocation and time and cost savings to be evaluated.
Use Synchro Project Constructor to define, visualize, present and communicate on what, when and where work is occurring on your project.
Project Constructor works as a stand-alone workstation managing the project model independently and is dedicated to the Google SketchUp *.skp 3D file format.
Synchro Project Constructor is available for $990 or $825 each for the software plus its required first year maintenance fee of $165.
Synchro Project Constructor can be upgraded to Synchro Professional our fully featured, collaborative solution enabling the connection to Synchro Server and our comprehensive project team environment.
Project Constructor and Synchro Professional, for connecting with full functionality to the entire project team, can synchronize the elegant 3D models of Google SketchUp with project scheduling and management to bring Google SketchUp into the 4th Dimension by adding Time.
We provide a User Manual, including comprehensive help files and weekly Webinars for three different levels of BIM user experience.
We invite you to request a 10-day, free trial license of the latest version of Synchro.
Task scheduling and status control
- 🢖 What if scenario with side-by-side comparitive analysis
- 🢖 Resources management
- 🢖 Multiple baselines to compare actual performance against your plan
- 🢖 Progress tracking
- 🢖 Rescheduling options
- 🢖 Critical path planning and analysis
If 80% of all we perceive is visual, Synchro is the perfect planning environment to exploit the power of visualisation and construction simulation. Synchro significantly enhances the task sequencing of the Gantt chart with vivid time scaled 3D views of the corresponding solid model at the same point in time.
Recommended Minimum Requirements
- 🢖 3.0 GHz Dual Core Processor
- 🢖 2 GB of RAM
- 🢖 512 MB graphics card (OpenGL compatible)
- 🢖 700 MB hard disk space for installation files plus 1 GB for each typical project
- 🢖 1280 x 1024 screen resolution
- 🢖 Network connectivity: supported graphics card and driver levels are at: http://developer.techsoft3d.com/hoops/hoops-visualize/graphics-cards/
Supported Operating Systems
- 🢖 Microsoft Windows 7
- 🢖 Microsoft Windows XP Home and Professional
- 🢖 Microsoft Windows 2003 All Editions
- 🢖 Microsoft Windows Vista (32 and 64 Bit Modes)
Synchro Professional:
The Synchro Professional 4.3 Release provides complete construction visualisation, project scheduling, advanced risk management, synchronisation with design changes, supply chain management and cost allocation for comprehensive, virtual construction simulation.
Synchro Professional 4.3 enables consideration of alternative scheduling options, resource allocation, and time and cost savings to be evaluated.
Use Synchro Professional 4.3 to define and communicate to your entire construction project delivery team what, when and where work is occurring on your project.
Synchro Professional 4.3 can work either standalone – managing the project model independently – or in combination with Synchro Server in managing collaborative access to a centralised project model.
Here is a brief movie clip on YouTube that you may want to view as an introduction to the capabilities of Synchro.
To gain a better sense, you can preview this brief YouTube movie clip on 4D BIM for Delivery.
Where is Synchro Professionalat work and how?
To see Synchro at The Glass Shard at London Bridge, simply click on this YouTube Video Clip.
For a more detailed Training view, we offer weekly Webinars for three different levels of BIM user experience.
We provide a User Manual, including comprehensive help files and a downloadable, self-taught tutorial with sample 3D and scheduling files.
We invite you to request a 10-day, free trial license of the latest version of Synchro.
Functionality Planning
Synchro provides a full range of planning features:
- 🢖 Task status control Task sequencing options
- 🢖 Resource management
- 🢖 Multiple baselines to compare actual performance against your plan
- 🢖 Progress tracking
- 🢖 Rescheduling options
- 🢖 Critical path analysis.
Synchro can create risk buffers for chains of activities to protect the critical path and avoid unnecessary rescheduling as well as reduce or mitigate identified risks.
Design
Synchro resource management includes the 3D representation of material, equipment, human and space resources. The planning process can now also effectively manage task locations. Moreover, these resource representations can be synchronised with revised CAD data, as it becomes available.
Cost
Resources and tasks can be assigned fixed or variable costs, which are then displayed for selected individual or a hierarchical range of tasks, and are reported for Earned Value Analysis.
Communication
80% of all we perceive is visual: Synchro exploits the power of visualisation. Synchro significantly enhances the task sequencing of the Gantt Chart with vivid time-based 3D views of the corresponding solid model at the same point in time.
Multiple 3D views can be presented for clarity and each can be modified interactively. This means you can improve the delivery of projects through a better understanding of site conditions and the implications of logistical plans. You can visualise and evaluate the impact of alternative construction sequences and avoid conflicts in assigned work locations.
Use Synchro to clarify and agree on proposed schedules with the entire delivery team, and interested parties, by sharing video simulations generated from the 3D views.
Interoperability
Import and export project schedules in Microsoft Office Project Standard XML file format, and import, export and synchronize with Primavera™ and Asta Powerproject.
Import and synchronize with DWF, DWG, HSF, CATIA V5, SolidWorks formats and Google SketchUp. Import from Bentley MicroStation™ and 3D Studio Max™ via an HSF export plug-in.
Activity costs can be imported and a range of actual cost data can be accommodated through customised file interfaces.
Reporting
Generate clear and unambiguous documentation for presentations of tenders and proposals, site team meetings and management review via:
- 🢖 Task list and Gantt Chart
- 🢖 3D views, optionally red-lined
- 🢖 Resource and task usage
- 🢖 Earned Value Analysis
- 🢖 Line of Balance view
- 🢖 Audio and Video AVI output
Deployment
- 🢖 Synchro Professional can create and modify standalone/local project files.
- 🢖 In combination with Synchro Server, Synchro Professional can also provide concurrent access to a shared project model to enable efficient and synchronised ongoing collaborative planning and problem solving.
- 🢖 Synchro can handle offline working, when there's a temporary network communications failure, and the submission of clashing instructions from multiple contributors like the modification of a task only just deleted by a previous transaction.
Synchronisation
- 🢖 Autodesk design file updates on import
- 🢖 Bentley design file updates on import
- 🢖 Primavera API import and export
- 🢖 Asta API import and export (Asta Powerproject version11)
- 🢖 Delivery team collaborative activities
- 🢖 Supply chain collaborative activities Synchro Express
Recommended Minimum Requirements
- 🢖 3.0 GHz Dual Core Processor
- 🢖 2 GB of RAM
- 🢖 512 MB graphics card
(OpenGL compatible) - 🢖 700 MB hard disk space for installation files
plus 1 GB for each typical project - 🢖 1280 x 1024 screen resolution
- 🢖 Network connectivity: supported graphics card and driver levels are at: http://developer.hoops3d.com
Supported Operating System
- 🢖 Microsoft Windows 7
- 🢖 Microsoft Windows XP Home and Professional
- 🢖 Microsoft Windows 2003 All Editions
- 🢖 Microsoft Windows Vista (32 and 64 Bit Modes)
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