Construct With Confidence Using the Right Construction Management System

Construction companies struggle to leave behind their legacy systems and upgrade to more flexible, scalable construction management systems.
Companies often have fragmented software solutions and require a unified network of solutions to help align the organization and achieve business goals.
The evolving marketplace makes it challenging to complete a picture of vendors, making it difficult to navigate available solutions.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

In a fragmented environment like construction projects, coordination is everything. A CMS acts as the operational center, aligning dispersed teams, merging workflows, and turning multi-location complexities into controlled execution.

Impact and Result

This buyers guide is intended to assist organizations in:

Analyzing the CMS market evolutions to identify key innovations.
Evaluating the business’s current state to understand organizational objectives and align goals with the new CMS.
Creating criteria, shortlisting vendors, scoring options, and choosing your next solution confidently.

Construct With Confidence Using the Right Construction Management System Research & Tools

1. CMS Buyer’s Guide Storyboard – Narrow your CMS search and align your tools with your needs.

A comprehensive strategy to find a solution that will fit your exact business case needs. The CMS landscape is large, and no solution is one-size-fits-all. Simplify your evaluation process and pick a vendor who can support your business.

2. CMS Evaluation and Scoring Tool – Evaluate selected vendors to narrow your search and find the vendor most suitable for your company.

An excel tool to assess evaluation criteria and mathematically prove which vendor is going to provide your organization with the most value. A preliminary tool to guide your discussions with vendors on final decisions.

3. CMS Scoping Activity Workbook – Assess key challenges your company faces and how a new CMS will combat them.

Guide discussions and compile results in an organized format for communication purposes. Keep your answers logged so you can assess the validity of needing a new solution, and prove the worth of a new system.

4. Construction Capability Map Workbook – Identify your company’s capability map and understand the current information assessment.

A deep dive into your company at a high-level to understand where your current shortcomings are in terms of data readiness and CMS support. Comprehend where your company needs to focus on improving through a new software solution.

Narrow your CMS search and align your tools to your needs.

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We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Get the help you need in this 3-phase advisory process. You'll receive 9 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Identify key market trends

Call 1: Scope objectives of new CMS and challenges being faced.
Call 2: Understand the market.
Call 3: Identify business goals and align objectives.

Guided Implementation 2: Define business requirements

Call 1: Identify current and target-state information assessment.
Call 2: Identify relationship between current state and expected gains.
Call 3: Identify key features that mend the gaps.

Guided Implementation 3: Identify Assessment Criteria and Assess Solutions

Call 1: Determine evaluation criteria.
Call 2: Score and evaluate solutions.
Call 3: Identify next steps.

Author

Michael Adams

Contributors

Tim Butts, CIO, Findorff
Farhana Ahmad, Senior Marketing Manager, CMiC
Steve Schmidt, Managing Partner, Info-Tech Research Group
Donn Griffin, Executive Counselor, Info-Tech Research Group
Hank Leingang, Executive Counselor, Info-Tech Research Group

Search Code: 108989
Last Revised: November 27, 2025

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