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Oracle Aconex Reviews & Insights

Score7.1 out of 10

34 Reviews and Ratings

Oracle Aconex Reviews

5 Reviews

Resourceful Construction and Project Management Software

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Oracle Aconex facilitates the project management processes in our company, with reliable constructions features. Oracle Aconex gives us a budget tracking possibility, where events and operational expenses are marked and identified. Moreso, Oracle Aconex helps in incident reporting and operates online or even offline to reach more businesses. The tool has permit and insurance tracking features, allowing the entire project to run smoothly.

Pros

  • The existence of insurance and permit tracking.
  • Budgetary control measures and expense monitor.
  • Job costing and logistical management.
  • Skills and competencies improvement.

Cons

  • Oracle Aconex has no compliance management
  • More so, equipment management and asset valuation is missing.
  • The accounting integration lacks on Oracle Aconex.

Likelihood to Recommend

For outstanding project managing and operational assistance, Oracle Aconex is an incredible program. The budget that suits every project are met and followed. More so, Oracle Aconex takes the permits required, for instance, the insurance permit and the license tracking. The contractor management feature is also encoded on Oracle Aconex, making the investor and the contractor have the same objective.

Oracle Aconex - Project and Data Management Platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle Aconex across our organization to help teams collaborate on projects and tasks. It helps our team members in working together and ensuring that we use the available resources to achieve our goals. It gives us data intelligence that enables each department to prepare effectively and in implementation of our programs.

Pros

  • Control of processes.
  • Cost management across our organization.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is effectively suited for collaboration [amongst] team members when working on projects and tasks. It gives us insight into the future results of projects and how we can work towards improvement. It has contributed to teamwork across our company in the management of projects and tasks. It integrates data that we analyze to plan effectively.

Effective Cloud easy System for Construction Project Budgeting and Management.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Oracle Aconex provides great Cloud project management capabilities which are very reliable on construction projects. Budgeting tracking, easy on project document management. Scheduling capability and easy uploading of multiple project documents on Cloud make the Oracle Aconex my best management solution.

Pros

  • Time tracking functionality is amazing.
  • All the features are easy and active.
  • The Cloud services offered by Oracle Aconex is efficient.

Cons

  • Sharing of projects comments and document can be more efficient.
  • Estimation capabilities can be improved.
  • The initial configuration can easily confuse the beginners.

Likelihood to Recommend

When it comes to budgeting and also tracking of budgeting, and project scheduling, I effectively recommend Oracle Aconex on that. Safety management and the compliance management processes are quite effective using this platform as well as the easy project activities reporting.

Aconex and the documents it controls

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Aconex is being used as a client communication tool at my workplace for documents and mail queries. It is used across the whole organization by projects whereby the client's document control program uses Aconex. Aconex addresses the business issue of client-based programs, which we are required to use to comply with our clients' standards.

Pros

  • Revision Control.
  • Document Transmittal.
  • Bulk Processing.

Cons

  • Mail close out features.
  • Document searching.
  • Document selection for transmittal.

Likelihood to Recommend

Aconex is well suited to offices that have document standards across the board, that is the same identifiers for drawings and documents. Aconex is intelligently programmed to extract data from filenames, and has fields upon entering data for the review process. I have not come across a scenario where Aconex is less appropriate so far in my use.
Vetted Review
Oracle Aconex
3 years of experience

Although Imperfect - Robust, Neutrally Hosted and Strongly Functional

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Aconex was used by our project team on a $30 million horizontal infrastructure project in Toronto for a public sector client. The project participants were the client (owner), project manager (our firm), constructor, landscape lead consultant and a civil engineering consultant. The Aconex "project" was bifurcated into the design development/construction documentation and construction phase. Aconex addressed both neutrally hosted file sharing and business process control.

Pros

  • File Sharing - unlimited storage, version control and access control on a neutral host - Aconex is significantly superior to ftp, SharePoint or a contractor hosted platform in that once onboarded, each user organization has equal privileges and can in turn onboard any number of members within the respective organizations.
  • Process and Workflow Management - while imperfect, Aconex offers the opportunity to customize process control and enforcement. Our team used these processes for RFI preparation and response, submittal tracking and other custom requirements.
  • Neutrality - while mentioned, the neutral host places all project participants on a equal basis. Typically, non-neutral platforms favor in-house participants to the detriment of the project. Until shared, files are 100% private to the respective organizations.
  • Mobile interface - good (not perfect) access to unlimited project file information from a mobile device.
  • Audit trail - no more "I didn't get that document". File sharing and file opening is tracked by user. Transmittals are a matter of record and there's no 'delete' function.

Cons

  • Interface needs work; graphically inelegant, somewhat non-intuitive.
  • Process controls could be better 'templated' for industry standards.
  • Dashboard/to do for project managers - it's still too hard to see who is slowing the project down.

Likelihood to Recommend

[It is] well suited to large scale complex construction projects with many participants. Aconex requires patience and training and, although it's good, it could be better. Short duration, small projects probably aren't a good fit.