Elevate your steel detailing to new heights with Virtual Workspaces
Discover how Virtual Workspaces, our virtual cloud environment created specifically for the structural steel industry, can increase your efficiency, reduce costs, and improve your bottom line.
- Physical location of your workforce is no longer a barrier to your workflow. Everyone can access and work on your live data in real time from nearly anywhere in the world.
- All project stakeholders can have access to real time data. Now you can integrate engineers, architects, general contractors, fabricators, etc. into your workflow in real time. An engineer utilizing SDS2 Model Review can see in-model changes in real time, work with expanded design calcs, and approve changes on the fly. The architectural team can view proposed changes in the 3D model without trying to visualize them based on an emailed description. General contractors can use the SDS2 viewer for field verification when questions arise on the job site. By leveraging the power of Virtual Workspaces, you can dramatically reduce RFI timelines and offer your customers shorter design cycles.
- When your IT infrastructure is virtualized, you are no longer limited to traditional brick and mortar offices with local employees. You now have the ability to utilize remote workers from nearly any location plus you can offer your traditional employees the flexibility to work from home. With Virtual Workspaces, geographical location is no longer a barrier to attracting the best talent.
- The size of your company is no longer limited by your physical office space. By leveraging remote and at-home workers, you no longer face the dilemma of needing to hire additional staff but having nowhere to house them.
- Multiple cloud based detailing firms can combine forces to collaborate on, and land, larger jobs than they are capable of individually.
- You can offer your unallocated capacity to other Virtual Workspaces based detailing firms who need additional manpower. Detailing no longer needs to be a “feast or famine” endeavor. When your schedule is slow you can keep your workforce happily employed by helping other firms who are in a crunch and vice versa. Many Virtual Workspaces based detailing firms have established long term reciprocal relationships with their peers by leveraging this capability.
- Reduce, or even eliminate your IT support costs. Virtual Workspaces users enjoy the benefits of a fully managed cloud infrastructure. All software installation, maintenance, and upgrades are handled for you. Data backup, restoration, anti-virus and anti-malware management, OS patching, server maintenance and monitoring are all included with your subscription.
- Track and monitor your user’s production and productivity with the optional user monitoring feature available within Virtual Workspaces. Our powerful monitoring software will give you peace of mind knowing that all your employees, even the distant remote workers, can be tracked and held accountable.
- Dramatically reduce your spending on IT hardware. You no longer have the expense of purchasing, maintaining, and upgrading file servers and their associated support hardware.
- Further reduce your IT hardware costs while increasing security by replacing PC’s with thin clients which are impervious to malware infection and connect directly to your cloud account.