Efficient Design and Construction
AppEx is a cloud based tool for comprehensive knowledge management, planning and reporting.
It ensures that projects can be delivered efficiently and without surprises.
Virtual Coach
AppEx transforms experiences from projects into expertise and questions. AppEx works like a virtual coach, who asks the important questions at the right time. So that your clients don’t confront you with the question: “why didn’t you point that problem out to us a long time ago?”
Transparency
The AppEx process model shows you in detail which decisions need to be made when, what design documents are required for these decisions, and who needs to participate in their creation.
AppEx allows you to clearly identify dependencies and assign lessons to specific steps in a process.
Dynamic Checklists
AppEx replaces conventional static checklists, which are often not used, because they are of poor quality or not updated.
The dynamic AppEx checklists combine experiences from all projects and are updated automatically. A built-in review ensures a high quality of the content.
Efficiency Booster
AppEx saves time and raises productivity with a short learning curve. This is because of it’s proactive project management approach, which relies on a data driven methods, rather than document-based tools like xls spreadsheets or .doc documents.
Microsoft Interoperability
AppEx is not a stand-alone tool, but can be embedded into a Microsoft application environment. AppEx tasks can be easily synchronized with MS Teams or MS Planner. Lessons in AppEx can easily be linked to documents in MS SharePoint.
Risk Management
AppEx adds a reliable risk management tool to its project management and planning functionality. As a result, you can rely on a specific, meaningful, up-to-date risk management tool at every phase of the project.
This is how it works
Professional knowledge management
At the core of AppEx is a comprehensive knowledge database. Project lessons are translated into specific questions, which are then proactively asked at the relevant project phases. With an AppEx license you have access to the Knowledge Base Building Construction with over 2,500 lessons.
Existing knowledge, which may currently reside in different tools or folders, can be converted and imported into the centralized AppEx platform, using a structure defined according to your needs. With every completed project you can add new experiences and lessons to your knowledge database, which continues to grow and reflect your expertise. These lessons can easily be retrieved and applied to future projects through worksheets, which define responsibilities, tasks and due dates.
AppEx is your tool for process planning, management, and control. Tasks created in AppEx can be managed in AppEx or exported to MS Teams/Planner.
Health Check, Project Analysis
AppEx is a full-fledged reporting tool for project management and controlling. At the click of a button you can see if the project is on track, what the risks are and which decisions and documents are outstanding.
Agendas for Meetings
AppEx makes it easy to create agendas for meetings or discussions with all the questions that need to be addressed jointly by the designers, contractors and architects at this stage of the project. So that issues aren’t always uncovered when it’s too late.
Coordination, IPD
AppEx supports the collaboration of the entire project team across all project phases and clearly identifies responsibilities and due dates.
AppEx provides a set of topics and questions which need to be addressed by the design team and contractors in order for Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) to be successful.
Intelligent Archive
AppEx allows you to document your corporate expertise and knowledge in a freely configurable structure. These experiences are easily retrievable and can be applied proactively to projects. AppEx is a living tool which gets smarter with every completed project.
Reliable Scope Definition
AppEx helps you to clearly define the required scope and services together with your service providers and clients. AppEx also helps you to specify the design acceptance criteria of documents that allow for dependable decision making.
Lessons
The AppEx license entitles you to the use of over 1,800 trade-specific lessons related to building construction and another 700 lessons for project management. These lessons can easily be enriched with the lessons from your own projects.
Lessons
The AppEx license entitles you to the use of over 1,800 trade-specific lessons related to building construction and another 700 lessons for project management. These base package can easily be enriched with your lessons from your own projects.
Licensing
The AppEx software is available through a licensing model and is based on the number of monthly users. External project team members can use a limited version free of charge or can purchase a license for the duration of the project.
This ensures that the entire project team is involved in the design and construction process and provides the required transparency regarding deliverables, decisions and dependencies for all project phases.
Please contact us to discuss a solution tailored to your needs at info@appex.ch or at +41 79 520 62 18.
“We don’t have any time for new software tools!"
Better: AppEx frees up capacities for important tasks!
While there are a lot of professional software tools for project management, firms often rely on arcane tools for the important project planning and controlling tasks, such as work scheduling and process planning, risk management, etc. For these, they try to work with Excel checklists, Word documents, or similar static tools.
AppEx fills this specific gap by replacing these unreliable and often outdated documents with a modern data management tool, which can be structured to meet your knowledge and process management requirements and which bears fruit in a short amount of time.
By using AppEx you can free up capacities and resources for value adding tasks, instead of wasting time responding to and fixing preventable surprises and problems.
Consulting and Support
Apart from licensing the AppEx software, Applied Experience LLC offers consulting and project support, tailored to meet your individual needs.
Several clients have been successfully relying on us for years to manage the AppEx platform on their behalf. This is attractive if they don’t have an inhouse person dedicated to knowledge or process management.
In this context we go beyond setting up the AppEx platform. We support you in the development of a knowledge sharing and an proactive project planning culture with the following activities:
- Set up and customize the AppEx software to meet your needs. Train your employees
- Support your project teams with project and task planning, as well as reporting activities
- Schedule and manage lessons learned or risk management meetings for projects during all project phases
- Ongoing tracking of new lessons and maintenance of the knowledge database
Let’s discuss how we can help you get started with AppEx and how we can assist you with the successful and sustainable application of AppEx in your projects. Please contact us at info@appex.ch or at +41 79 520 6218.
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Structured Knowledge Management convinces
The lessons and experiences from completed projects are continuously added to the AppEx knowledge database and get added as shared knowledge to every project. Thanks to AppEx we are operating in a continuous improvement cycle and are able to improve the quality of our design process, while proactively reducing the number of design errors.
We benefit from the exciting collaboration with Applied Experience, which opens a lot of new perspectives for us and which noticeably improves the coordination with our design partners.
DPR Construction has been looking for a tool to make our lessons accessible in a structured and easily accessible manner for a long time. AppEx solved this challenge and the tool is increasingly getting used successfully by all employees.
As construction managers AppEx help sus ensure, that we can ask the project team members the important questions at the right time and thus avoid extra work. This tool helps us with knowledge transfer and quality control in all phases of a project. The documented experiences make us more efficient in the design, submittal and construction phases. As Valke construction managers we are betting on the future and on AppEx.
The think we like about AppEx, is that it doesn’t supply canned answers but that it’s thoughtful questions encourage our employees to think. This not only reduces mistakes, but enables experienced employees to share their knowledge with younger employees.
The topical structure and the intuitive user interface makes the tool easy and efficient to use.
Many mistakes are repeated too often. AppEx helps us to document problems on the jobsite, so they are not forgotten. At the end of the project we discuss these lessons and develop solutions for future projects. Thanks to AppEx we can prevent mistakes before they happen.