FASTTAC Delivers Advancements for the Construction Document Control and Collaboration Market
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:00

2008 Record Year for New Customers and Product Advancements

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — FASTTAC ®, an industry leader in simplifying the complexities of construction document control and collaboration, today announced record results for fiscal year 2008. Highlighted by a 300% increase in seat licenses, the company continues to set the bar with FASTTAC Pro™ enabling construction and facility management companies to drive competitive advantage, and improve productivity while generating cost savings.

“Especially in these economic times, construction industry professionals are under extreme pressure to improve profitability on their existing projects while aggressively trying to win new projects,” said Ray Steeb, CEO of FASTTAC. “Progressive companies are using FASTTAC to enable fast access to accurate information from the planning, design, bidding, and building phases of a facility and continuing through operation and maintenance activities during the facilities life.” “FASTTAC ensures the effective and timely delivery directly to users of drawings, specifications, and architectural changes; RFIs and related documents directly impacting the bottom line of all construction companies on all their projects.” Existing legacy systems, such as FTP sites and the traditional use of paper, simply lack the capabilities to deliver the information to the people who need it, when they need it most.

FASTTAC’s achievements in 2008 include:
  • Rapidly expanding customer list which drove seat license growth by 300% in 2008
  • Over 25,000 drawings and documents controlled by FASTTAC across a dozen construction projects
  • Expanded product offerings to include in addition to FASTTAC Pro™, FASTTAC Bid™ for use in the early phases of a construction project and FASTTAC Reader™ which ensures that everyone on a project is always working from the latest set of documents with the latest mark-ups
  • Delivered FASTTAC Pro 2.0 which was released in May 2009 with a new dashboard and User Interface that enhanced its ease of operation and functionality. Additionally, there were enhancements to the mark-up tools, print functionality, and communication capabilities. Specifically, the “cloud box” was introduced to allow for the further annotation of base drawings with sketch postings, RFI supplemental information and ASIs. These enhancements improve communications and collaboration between project team members during a project and reduce risk for an owner post construction phase.
  • The FASTTAC SaaS infrastructure was enhanced when FASTTAC moved its hosting services to Pair Networks in Pittsburgh due to its superior connectivity and support, ensuring our customer base 24/7 access to their project data. Pair Networks can be found at www.pair.com.
About FASTTAC

Founded in 2005 by industry veteran Ray Steeb in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, FASTTAC delivers Software as a Service (SaaS)-based suite of products that enables the construction and facility management industries to offer fast and easy access to accurate information from the planning, design, bidding, and building phases of a facility through its operation and maintenance. FASTTAC’s products are targeted at construction managers, owners and project managers that want to reduce costs and risk while improving productivity and profitability. FASTTAC provides real time mark ups to everyone on the project team, creating a “virtual drawing and document set” that reduces mistakes from using outdated drawings and documents across the various phases of a construction lifecycle. FASTTAC is the leader in distributed project and facility content that increases profits for it users.

Unlike simple file sharing systems, such as FTP sites or the use of paper documents, FASTTAC ensures that everyone on the project team has access to the most current drawings and documents and that thy are placed in the proper domain context. FASTTAC software products are being used every day by contractors and building teams on projects across the United States. FASTTAC can be found at www.fasttac.com.

 
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