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Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company selects ColumbiaSoft’s Document Locator for Affordable Electronic Document Management

Burns & McDonnell will manage engineering documents across the enterprise.

Kansas City, Missouri, Burns & McDonnell selects Document Locator – ColumbiaSoft Corporation announced today that Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company has joined the growing list of customers using Document Locator. Burns & McDonnell (“Burns & Mac”) is an engineering, construction, environmental, and consulting solutions firm with offices worldwide and more than 1,900 employee-owners. Burns & Mac’s management and IT department selected Document Locator for its ease of use, affordable total cost of ownership, and ability to capture, manage, view, and share engineering documents both internally and externally as part of project lifecycles.

“We were particularly influenced by the product’s ease-of-use, the seamless integration with Brava Enterprise for electronic viewing and markup of engineering drawings, and the ability to use the system to securely collaborate with our clients, contractors and suppliers,” said Greg Gould, Chief Technical Officer for Burns & Mac. “The excellent integration with Microsoft products, including Outlook, and the ability to easily configure the software to capture unique metadata for various types of documents were also major selling points for us. We spent almost two years evaluating other solutions before we found the right solution in Document Locator. We expect to deploy Document Locator to our entire enterprise for substantially less than competing solutions.”

“Because Version 4.0 includes workflow management, we also anticipate that Burns & Mac will be able to automate their engineering business processes using Document Locator,” stated Carl Azar, VP of Marketing and Product Development for ColumbiaSoft. “We tightly integrated Brava Enterprise to Burns & Mac’s specifications, and I believe other architecture/engineering/construction customers will also see high value in the combined solution.” Brava Enterprise is a product of Informative Graphics Corporation.

Burns & McDonnell is already using Document Locator and will be further deploying the solution across the enterprise in the coming months. Based on results to-date, Document Locator is expected to significantly improve the productivity, security, and accuracy of the project design-build cycle. Employees at all 16 permanent offices as well as construction sites around the world will be able to collaborate on engineering designs while Document Locator enforces versioning to ensure design change correctness. At project sites, employees will have instant access to engineering documents by using Document Locator Web Tools. Additionally, Burns & Mac’s clients, contractors and vendors will participate in project design cycles by exchanging engineering drawings through a partner portal implemented around Document Locator Web Tools. Document Locator security and workflow will be used to ensure that the proper design, review, and approval cycles have been followed.

About Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company

Founded in 1898, Burns & McDonnell is an engineering, construction, environmental, and consulting solutions firm with offices worldwide and more than 1,900 employeeowners. The firm delivers engineering and construction solutions in areas such as aviation, environmental studies, solid and hazardous waste, energy transmission & distribution, power generation, industrial and process plants, defense facilities, transportation, healthcare, information technology, and water/wastewater. Services include architectural design, business & management consulting, environmental permitting, and program management. Burns & McDonnell solutions have received numerous awards from industry organizations including the American Council of Engineering Companies, ASRHAE, the Design-Build Institute of America, and the American Consulting Engineers Council. For more information, visit www.burnsmcd.com.

About ColumbiaSoft Corporation

A private Portland, Oregon-based company, ColumbiaSoft is the creator of Document Locator® – a next-generation Integrated Document Management solution. Document Locator is deeply integrated with Microsoft Windows®, making document management easy and intuitive to use with virtually any Windows-compatible application. Thousands of information workers use Document Locator to capture, manage, and share paper and electronic documents, email, and faxes – saving costs, increasing productivity, and meeting compliance requirements. Document Locator is available directly from ColumbiaSoft and its reseller partners.

Media and Analyst Contact:

Carl Azar
V.P. of Marketing and Product Development
ColumbiaSoft Corporation
(503) 892-3975
cazar@columbiasoft.com

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