Egnyte Expands Footprint in AEC Market

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (June 23, 2015) – Egnyte announced it has expanded its footprint in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Market. Egnyte’s solution powers enterprise file services for construction firms around the globe, and the enhanced solution includes new feature sets and third-party partner integrations to extend the value for project managers and IT decision makers. Some of the company’s latest AEC customers include Andersen Construction, Egan Companies, McKenney’s, Power Design Inc. and Tutor Perini Corporation.

Egnyte’s open, hybrid architecture is ideal for AEC customers looking to manage all aspects of projects through secure file sharing directly from integrations with third-party, AEC-focused apps, including those from Bluebeam and PlanGrid. By implementing Egnyte’s hybrid solution with these leading integrations, companies can easily go paperless and increase cost savings when collaborating with large files, such as blueprints, CAD drawings and images.

One of Egnyte’s premiere AEC customers Balfour Beatty Construction, a Dallas-based commercial construction company with full-service offices across the U.S., recently replaced its incumbent file-sharing solution Box and adopted Egnyte across all U.S. divisions based on its enterprise-class hybrid architecture, in addition to leveraging the integration with PlanGrid.

“We selected Egnyte in the beginning because of its high level of security and granularity of permissioning,” said Jeff Pistor, director at Balfour Beatty. “We stayed with Egnyte because of the efficiency and performance the solution provides in our geographically diverse business where collaboration is a critical requirement for our day-to-day operations.”

The newest features added to Egnyte’s solution for AEC teams include:

• Role-Based Administration Rights: For global construction firms, it’s not scalable for IT to administrate each project. With role-based admin rights, the project manager can gain some admin rights to delegate projects, add/remove employees and contractors, etc. for the duration of the project.
• Advanced Folder Templating: When AEC teams start a new project for building a new corporate campus, for example, instead of recreating the entire folder hierarchy of files used for each project (i.e., folders for contracts, blueprints, photos), there is now an advanced templating feature to automate this process. IT can then set folder permissions or delegate a role-based admin to add contractors and subcontracts to this project and remove them once the project is completed.
• Third-Party Integrations: The integrations provide optimized workflows with blueprint markups, annotations, image management and other project management requirements in this industry. Some of the popular integrations include solutions with Bluebeam, FotoIn, SmartUse and PlanGrid.

To address the growing use of construction-focused solutions and mobile apps, Egnyte has joined forces with an ecosystem of best-in-class construction partners. These partners provide mobile apps that reduce paper and enable instant sharing of project photos, blueprints and PDF files through Egnyte.

For more information, visit Egnyte.