Bentley Adds MANAGEservices Offering for Construction Managers through Acquisition of EADOC Cloud Services

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, announced that it has acquired the business of Oakland, Calif.-based EADOC, LLC, provider of construction management cloud services. This newest addition to Bentley's MANAGEservices offerings helps construction managers at engineering/construction management firms and infrastructure owner organizations with capital projects to easily reduce risk and staff hours, improve information quality, and provide owners with real-time visibility into costs. EADOC empowers facility owners to increase ROI through faster project completions, easily monitor project financial performance, and maintain detailed construction records without administrative staff.

EADOC enables construction management professionals to track construction project documentation including design clarifications, inspectors' daily reports, special inspections, memos, action items, deficiency items, and schedules. EADOC also uniquely integrates project cost controls, including budget, funding sources, contracts, schedule of values, pay estimates, change requests, and change orders, with this project information.

The solution, which is immediately accessible to the project team, provides fast access to documents and cost information from virtually anywhere. At the same time, it incorporates security features to make sure the right people have access to the right information.

EADOC, LLC was founded in February of 2006. The idea for the EADOC construction management solution came from experience working for a large contractor on commercial and industrial projects as a project engineer. Users of EADOC include construction managers at:

• engineering/construction management firms – for example, Brown & Caldwell, Carollo Engineers, CH2M HILL, HDR, HNTB, Jacobs Engineering, MWH Constructors, and Arcadis;
• facility owners – for example, East Bay Municipal Utility District; City of Bend, Oregon; Lee County, Florida; Central Utah Water Conservancy District; and West Valley Mission Community College District.

The many benefits of the EADOC solution include improved:

• accessibility – keeping construction projects up to date with real-time information;
• accountability – providing faster return on investment;
• productivity – enabling time savings of up to 30 percent;
• efficiency – reducing costs;
• risk mitigation – tracking and controlling risk to mitigate cost and schedule impacts.

Keywords: Construction Management, Cloud Services, Project Cost Controls, ARC Advisory Group.