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Better overview of building activities: Visualization of data with Exicute Cloud Platform
Exicute is a business intelligence setup developed by Exigo and implemented on multiple large scale projects with positive results. On this site, we want to share these results and inspire with examples of how important danish players have implemented business intelligence and big data to project and risk management.
Our costumers are among the largest and most influential entrepreneurs and builders. Read cases and customer opinions here.
Overview of time and economy with Exicute dashboard
In order to respond to the risks in the building process, the Exicute platform is set up to continuous calculation and reporting of earned value, and analysis (S-curves) of actually conducted work compared to the plan.
This is done by integrating the verified amounts from the building models with the bill of quantities and a location-based schedule. The progress is registered either by the building management or the entrepreneurs in a simple app. All data is gathered and visualized in business intelligence dashboards, which are updated daily or weekly. Deviations are identified and rectified before they cause additional costs. The same platform is used to controlling and managing on account invoicing.
Overview of your data with Exicute
We have developed a business intelligence solution designed to the building, construction and energy sector. In the construction sector, business intelligence can be used to gather and visualize data about cash flow, invoicing, security and soundness for a construction project.
Exicute Cloud Platform is the name. It sounds complicated, but actually it is not.
Our solution is a tool with adapted dashboards. Just like the dashboard in a car, which shows you how fast you are going, how far you have gone, how much petrol is left in the tank etc.
Overview of progress with the Exicute app
Exigo offers a customized mobile application solution, whose main purpose is to register and visualize progress for activities on the project locations. Exicute can be used together with the planning programs Schedule Planner Standard, Microsoft Project, Asta Powerproject and Primavera.
The parties of the construction process can furthermore register impediments and communicate through text and pictures. Likewise, the flow of information comprising these comments or updates regarding the state of an activity can be tracked in a “building feed” showing the latest changes or current impediments.
In short, the project acquires an app that can do exactly what the building management wants it to without any unnecessary functions and confusing options. Simple and effective.
BIM and business intelligence dashboards
Exigo offers configuration and operation of dashboards for management reporting of the temporal status and progress through the data visualization tool Exicute Dashboard. Exicute Dashboard is based on Microsoft Power BI technology. Using this you can clearly and easily see the newest available information. This is in contrast to the traditional process where information is spread out over many different documents.
Exicute Dashboard visualizes the planned progress from Vico Office/Schedule Planner compared to the actual progress, which is registered in the Exicute Progress App. In Exicute Dashboards a general overview of the temporal and economic status can be obtained. Moreover, the display can be filtered to show contracts, activities, and specific locations in the project (e.g. building, floor, zone) so that single specific parts of the execution can be analyzed.
Comprehensive documentation
Similarly, Exigos Dashboard shows a snapshot of the state of your construction project. Simultaneously you will receive comprehensive documentation regarding work that has been carried out as well as forecasts of the future development of the construction. Through these dashboards, you as a building owner or main contractor can in a short amount of time acquire the complete overview of the progress.
All you need is a tablet, PC or a smartphone.
We set up the dashboards according to your needs and we use the Microsoft program Power BI, which ensures you a reliable solution. The dashboards utilize analyses from the Vico Office program, but you don’t need to install that – we take care of it for you.
On this site you can read more about our dashboards and the different functions.
Please take a look around!
The new method makes it possible to minimize the risk that future costs will increase. There are many elements that can cause additional expenses, but if the deviations are detected during planning instead of during the construction, a considerable amount of money can be saved. […] It works really well and we can avoid having to raise more money for our project during construction. That is one of the advantages of enabling the building owner to carry out independent control. [Børsen 2015]
Financial Management
Tired of illegible spreadsheets that are rarely updated? And tired of having to pay invoices based on imprecise estimates and overly optimistic gut feelings?
The Exicute Cloud Platform allows contractors to report actual progress while at the construction site. This makes it possible to invoice only work that has actually been accomplished.
Live-updated cash flow-analyses, graphs of earned-value and deviations from the budget over time are only a couple of mouse clicks away.
Time management
Time management is not only about making good schedules. Rather, you also need to follow up and make adjustments if the situation changes.
For that reason, our Business Intelligence dashboards for construction give you the latest information on progress. When changes are made, the dashboards help you quickly gauge the consequences for project finances, scheduling and manning.
To sum up, due dilligence saves you time putting out fires.
Constructability and Model-Quality
If your construction project can’t be built as a digital model, it certainly also cannot be built as a physical building. At least not without exceeding the budget and schedule significantly.
Hence, it is extremely important to have – and use – high-quality, constructable 3D-models. Exigo can help you evaluate the quality of your BIM 3D-models. For example, we run clash tests, check object classifications, Level of Development etc.
As a result, you can view the results of our analyses as visualisations through Exicute Cloud Platform.
On-site Progress Reporting via the Exicute Cloud Platform App
The Exicute Cloud Platform includes the app Exicute, which facilitates on-site progress reporting. In other words, when you use the app to report progress, the data is sent to the analysis-software Vico Office. Likewise, Vico Office is linked to our dashboards to give you a reliable and data-based overview of your construction project.
In short, you are no longer dependent on other people’s excessive optimism or imprecise gut feelings.
Your Project Data, Safely Stored in the Exicute Cloud Platform
The dahsboard-setup utilizes cloudbased technology. To clarify, a ‘cloud’ is an online database where you may store information safely and easily. One of the benefits of storing your data in the cloud is that you are no longer dependent on any single computer. For instance, cloud computing lets you access your data from any computer, as long as you have the right security codes.
This means that you will not lose your data if an employee changes jobs or a computer crashes.
Of course, Exigo’s cloud-solution is protected against hacking, so you don’t need to worry about storing your information ‘online.’
Do you have any questions about the Exicute Cloud Platform?
Then please get in touch. We are ready to answer any and all questions you may have regarding how you may use the Exicute Cloud Platform, our Business Intelligence for construction, BIM, and much more in your individual project.
Kind regards
Kristian Birch Pedersen
Adm. director
Graduate engineer, Master of IT
+45 53 55 59 19
kbp@exigo.dk
Are you a Building Owner?
And do you want an overview of the various risks in your construction project?
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We help you
- ensure constructability from the get-go
- get a transparent overview of the project’s finances
- optimize the project schedule
- minimize financial risks
We help other building owners
- The Danish Construction Agency
- the Northern Denmark Region
- the Capital Region of Denmark
and many more…
Exigo offers both advice and do-it-yourself solutions
Exigo is a consulting company within the construction industry. We specialise in digitization, EIR, and digital risk management. In other words, our mission is to help the construction industry embrace digital methods and tools. Above all, we want to foster an understanding of the importance of relying on data in decision-making, not gut feeling. The Exicute Cloud Platform is the latest result of this work.
We offer assistance and advice on Building Information Modelling (BIM), 3D clash-detection, risk management, EIR-management, datadriven construction consulting, and creation/optimization of location-based schedules (LBS), for instance.
Furthermore, we are the Danish re-sellers of Vico Office. To clarify, they are the Swiss Army knife of digital construction management.
Certainly, the implementation of new digital methods is not something that happens overnight. For this reason, we offer a wide variety of courses in which people learn how to use these new tools and methods and to help their colleagues. Most importantly, we help them implement the methods in their current projects. This is how we think learning makes the most sense.
