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Forecasting and capacity planning — What AEC businesses need to do right now

We want to talk you through whatever we know, and give you whatever we have, to help you look after your AEC business right now (at a distance, of course). Because we’re using this advice too.

Synergy product update — 22 March 2020 — updates to reports

Hot on the heels of the February release, we have another rapid update, this time focusing on updates to Synergy reports.

How moving to the cloud kept Contour Consulting Engineers focused on their foundations

Finance manager, Crystal, says the visibility on the performance of task, stage, and project levels of work is probably the area of most impressive improvement for Contour Consulting Engineers. Read how they used Synergy to achieve that improvement.

You can’t win ‘em all, but you can plan to be a (built environment) winner — the February 2020 Synergy update

There are two major updates in our February release that answer requests and wish-list items from our (always right-minded) customers. You won’t want to miss out on these winning scores for your AEC business.

Synergy product update — February 2020 — win/loss, reporting filters, new security level, weekly resourcing, SharePoint

The February Synergy product update brings a range of new and updated things. We have a new win/loss panel, updated reports that allow you to filter by project status and a new filter type, a new security access level to allow better permissions for your admin staff, and we’re excited to introduce the next iteration of our time-saving changes to the planning board.

Your AEC business’s greatest resource and how to use it — the January 2020 Synergy update

How do you know what the most valuable resource in your business is? Total Synergy’s Paul Hemmings tell you what it is here. How do you work out how to leverage it? Synergy’s January release answers that. Read on!

Synergy product update — January 2020 — Work breakdown, background reports, performance improvements

The first product update for 2020 brings a series of enhancements and performance improvements. From setting start/end days on the project schedule screen to generating reports in the background, we’ve covered a lot of ground focusing on areas you’ve asked for plus several performance improvements.

Synergy product update — 15 December 2019 — reports improvements and enhancement to how emails are sent

We're capping off the year with a release that covers a bit of maintenance and some subtle, but key, enhancements to how you send invoice emails from Synergy and some improvements to reports.

The milestones on the road to task management — Synergy’s November update

This release gives you more granularity and detail in the way you're managing your projects, and that means greater control. We’ve also added all of that into the project templates, and that means saving time.

Synergy product update — 18 November 2019 — Task management

This month’s product update is all about task management. You can now add tasks in the project schedule. We've also made enhancements to project templates to help you get out more accurate proposals, more frequently.

Cera Stribley Architects — how moving to the cloud gives the firm more time to learn

Melbourne-based Cera Stribley Architects began six years ago with four staff, and now has a team of 80 — a huge amount of growth in such a short time. Here’s how they did it and kept learning.

APIs — what they are and why you and your business care

One opportunity that’s come with moving to the cloud is that it's much easier now to integrate one software with another via APIs. So what are they and why do you need to know?

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