Meeting the needs of its clients often requires Gresham Smith & Partners (GS&P) personnel from several locations to work on the same projects. This brought about the need for a plotting solution that would enable professionals from all locations to collaborate on a single project, sharing files and plotting documents as easily as if they were down the hall from one another.

ProjectWise’s Web-based archival system provided a central repository to organize and store plot files for easy retrieval from any GS&P location, allowing users to share files and collaborate on projects with team members at other locations. The firm currently has 10 different servers with over 120 archived projects. To help reduce the impact on bandwidth involved in moving large files across their WAN, GS&P developed acceleration devices that achieve an 80 percent compression rate.