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What is a Common Data Environment (CDE)?

A Common Data Environment (CDE) is a centralized system used to manage and share data among various stakeholders during the design, construction, and operation of a built asset, such as a building or infrastructure project. The CDE serves as a single source of truth for project-related data and helps to ensure that everyone involved in the project has access to the most up-to-date and accurate information. This can help to improve collaboration and decision-making, reduce the risk of errors and delays, and support compliance with relevant standards and regulations.

The requirements for a Common Data Environment

What are the requirements for a CDE?

The requirements for a Common Data Environment will depend on the specific needs and goals of the project and the stakeholders involved. In general, however, a CDE should be able to:

  • Store and manage a wide range of data types, such as documents, drawings, models, specifications, schedules, and cost information.
  • Support collaboration among project team members, including version control, access control, and commenting and annotation tools.
  • Provide a user-friendly interface that allows stakeholders to access, view quickly, and interact with the data.
  • Integrate with other project-related systems, such as project management software and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
  • Provide robust security and backup measures to protect the data and ensure its availability.
  • Support compliance with relevant standards and regulations, such as data management and information security.

Why Assai's CDE solutions for complex projects and operations?

Best Practices

Assai understand the challenges of managing data in large and complex projects. That’s why we developed a centralized, secure, and user-friendly platform to help you and your team collaborate effectively and make better decisions.

Installations & Services

Document Management & Control

Assai enables the organizations to store, manage, and share your project-related data in one place. This includes documents, drawings, models, specifications, schedules, and cost information. Our platform is designed to support a wide range of data types, so you can easily access and interact with the information you need.

Core Functionality

Collaboration

Assai makes it easy for your team to collaborate. With features like version control, access control, and commenting and annotation tools, you can work together seamlessly, even when you’re not in the exact location. And our user-friendly interface allows everyone on your team to access, view quickly, and interact with the data.

Solutions by role

Flexibility & Customization

At Assai, we believe that data should work for you, not the other way around. That’s why we’ve designed our platform to be highly customizable and flexible. You can tailor the system to your specific needs and goals and easily integrate it with other project-related systems, such as project management software.

Assai's Solutions

Digital Twin

Asset Information Management in Assai allows you to define the structure of your asset, including metadata, and implement revision control on your asset items. A full history of your asset items is easily accessible and links to all related documentation. View your asset structure via 2D-drillown.

Asset Information Management

Security

We have built our platform with robust security and backup measures to protect your data and ensure its availability. And we ensure to stay up-to-date with the latest standards and regulations, so you can be confident that your data is compliant.

Assai Cloud

Benefits of CDE

With CDE and Assai, what can be expected?

Improved collaboration and decision-making

Assai’s CDE provides a centralized platform for storing, managing, and sharing project-related data, which can help to improve collaboration and communication among project team members. This can support better decision-making and help to avoid errors and delays.

Increased efficiency and productivity

Assai’s Common Data Environment eliminates the need for duplicate data entry and reduces the risk of conflicting information by providing a single source of truth for project data. This can save time and effort and help to increase efficiency and productivity.

Enhanced transparency and accountability

Assai’s CDE can provide a transparent and auditable record of all project-related data and activities, supporting transparency and accountability among stakeholders.

Improved data security and availability

Assai’s Common Data Environment provides robust security and backup measures to protect the data and ensure its availability. This can help to reduce the risk of data loss or breaches and support compliance with relevant standards and regulations.

Support for compliance with standards and regulations

We ensure that project data is managed in compliance with relevant standards and regulations, such as those related to data management and information security. This can help avoid costly fines and penalties and support the project’s success.

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Other applications and solutions

Assai for EPC's

Our EPC solution puts project stakeholders in control, allowing them to manage revision processes and time-dependent interactions proactively.

Assai for EPC’s

What our clients say

Capterra reviews

"Enterprise functionality with bespoke Vendor support"

5

We primarily moved the Document Control work outside of our perimeter. Reduced our manpower by 80% and doubled throughput in terms of deliverables. Assai gave us the opportunity to unify our systems through their connecter, saving time maintaining two systems and removing the inherent risk of data mismatches. We moved from a manual distribution of deliverables for comment to semi-automated and finally onto automated, this was all enabled and managed by the Assai product enabling a step change in the way we handle documentation pertaining to our Assets.

Matthew C.Document Control Lead, Oil & Energy, 1001-5000 employees

"Assai continues to be an integral part of capital project information delivery."

5

From my perspective, Assai has been deployed in both Upstream and Downstream capital project areas and on projects ranging in size from small 60 million USD projects to very large projects up in the tens of billions USD range. Assai was and continues to be an integral part of capital project information delivery.

Major Energy Company

"Using Assai significantly reduced risk for Atkins"

5

Assai provided Atkins with a web-based document control tool that enabled the tracking of all deliverables on a major infrastructure project. This significantly reduced the risk of deliverables being issued incorrectly and provided thorough reporting to the management team on the progress of our work.

Atkins

"Assai was my product of choice"

5

Having already been a user of Assai document control software for eight years when I joined Thames Water’s London Tideway Tunnels project in 2008, Assai was my product of choice for delivering fully user-configurable and comprehensive document control services.

Les RossLondon Tideway Tunnels

"Management of our technical records is crucial to safe operations"

5

Assai will be a positive step change improvement in how EnQuest Malaysia’s Technical Documentation is managed. Management of our technical records is crucial to safe operations, and we are looking forward to seeing it expand into the other areas of EnQuest’s business.

EnquestMalaysia Operation

"Feedback on Assai"

4.5
Overall: Very good. Surely will recommend to anyone
Pros: 
1) Easy and short implementation
2) Cloud based and fully support & maintenance free
3) Very user friend licensing structure
4) Good pricing approach
5) Small team and responsive support
Raymond S.Information Manager, Oil & Energy sector, 1001-5000 employees

"Assai is one of the best Document Management/ Project Monitoring System in the Market"

5
Overall: Projects can be completed on time.
Pros: It’s very efficient, user-friendly, excellent functionalities, amazing support resources. Never came across a situation with an issue with the product
Raed A.Project Manager in Oil & Energy sector, 1001-5000 employees

"The data and it’s management have been rock solid through every upgrade"

5

Our projects are very long in duration, 5+ years easily, and we’ve been using Assai since 2012. The product’s user interface has come along way from when it was first installed, but the data, and it’s management have been rock solid through every upgrade. Our business relationship has been good, and Assai is customer focused.

Robert M.Director, Information Systems, Transportation, 201-500 employees

"Maximum Return on Investment"

5

I have succesfully deployed Assai on multi-billion£ programmes such as Highspeed 1 (CTRL), Dublin Airport Expansion and the London 2012 Olympic Park construction. Assai is unique because it was designed from the inside out around proven best practice business processes. It is highly user configurable. The reporting suite is comprehensive and powerful. Assai can interface with Primavera P6 to roll up accurate progress to the plan. Assai is better equipped for BIM than any of the many pretenders on the market; the Asset and Data Management suite is second to none.

John B.IM/DC Manager/SME/Trainer, Oil & Energy sector

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