E7 was acquired by Bentley Systems in 2021 and is now known as SYNCHRO Perform. SYNCHRO Perform forms part of Bentley Systems' infrastructure construction management software, SYNCHRO. You can read more about Bentley Systems here and SYNCHRO here.

Used on 350 projects valued at over $50 billion across civil infrastructure and resources, SYNCHRO Perform fills the gap left by traditional end-of-month reporting systems, giving you daily updates and a clear line of site at all times.

Solutions

SYNCHRO Perform offers a wide range of solutions to meet the ever-changing needs of those in the field, on site, or in the office.

Whether it's processing dockets, tracking progress, or recording delays, SYNCHRO Perform and SYNCHRO Perform Mobile are here to make sure you always know what's going on in your organisation.

Daily Diaries and Reports

Daily visibility is vital for managing tasks and wider project performance, and for addressing issues as they emerge to preserve your project's profitability.

Paper diaries take time and money to process, placing a burden on administration, creating a damaging gap between the project and project leaders, and offering no easy way to search for data.

SYNCHRO Perform's digital Diary and Reports solution fixes this with a standard daily record and centralised source for information that is otherwise difficult and time-consuming to extract. 

With fully-integrated data providing fast access to a rolled-up view of project activities, even when compared to electronic diaries from other companies SYNCHRO Perform has a clear advantage.

Photo Management

A picture is worth a thousand words, but without the right context even the best photos can create more confusion than clarity.

Projects traditionally gather images from multiple sources, taking time and money to source the right photo for the right report, and to track down where a photo came from and just what it's showing. 

Double-handling is then all but inevitable for project teams as they search for images to use, limiting their value as evidence for client reports, claims, progress tracking and more.  

SYNCHRO Perform solves this by immediately linking any photos taken through the mobile app to an Activity or Event, creating a traceable and searchable database of all images. 

With a real-time GPS log of when and where a photo was taken, images are also uploaded to your own private Google Map, showing you exactly what's happening across multiple sites.

With SYNCHRO Perform, images are now ready-to-use assets for reports and other key project documents.

Events and Notices

Unplanned events are a part of project life. What sets high-performing projects apart is the way they manage events, turning challenges into learning opportunities and improvements, and fast-tracking resolutions.

If a project has no formal system in place, it can only rely on individuals to identify and track unexpected issues. Depending on the site, it can take weeks or even months for management to become aware of a problem, creating vulnerability that small issues can recur and grow into a major delay before anyone can properly respond.

SYNCHRO Perform Mobile can capture any unexpected Event on site as it happens, with a clear, defined workflow and easily-accessible reporting system so that leaders at all levels can see exactly what's occurred and solve problems before they get out of hand.

Timesheets/Timecards

Fast, accurate tracking of labour, equipment and materials input on projects is vital to maintaining profitability.

A project can only ever be as efficient and reliable as its most basic record: timesheets. However, manually managed timesheets, whether they be on paper or Excel, are inevitably subject to error and oversight, reducing accuracy, verifiability, and efficiency. 

Using a third-party standalone record often just creates another point of failure when data needs to be reintegrated, reducing the flexibility of how the data can be used.

All this can have a major impact on data-driven insights and decisions, which is why SYNCHRO Perform offers a digital timesheet that allows employees to record an in-depth breakdown of their day-to-day work, and clear reports of overall trends as they occur.

Subcontractor Dockets

Subcontractors are vital to any project's resourcing, productivity and profitability, however their work must be managed correctly.

A paper docket takes time and money to process, creating inefficiencies, administrative burden, and delays, which can significantly impact the accuracy and timeliness of a project's records.

However with SYNCHRO Perform, subcontractors can fill and submit dockets on site whenever they start and finish a job, with the data immediately allocated to the right location. With improved accuracy and responsiveness, this streamlined process gives a clearer picture of a project's expenses, and allows subcontractors to get paid more easily.

Attendance and Competency

The efficient, accurate management of large workforces can have a major impact on project productivity and profitability.

Keeping track of your workforce, and where they're working, is at the heart of any business. Paper sign-on sheets take time and money to process, and can easily be lost or hard to find. Third-party digital systems can often add costs while reducing flexibility.

With the SYNCHRO Perform app, supervisors can scan in their workers direct from their own device, and organisations can create highly-mobile kiosks, to ensure everyone's attendance is always up to date, creating real-time, reliable, and searchable data.

The SYNCHRO Perform app can even show you which Competencies a worker is trained in, and when they're set to expire, giving supervisor's an instant understanding of what their workforce is capable of.

Plant and Equipment Tracking

Tracking plant and equipment availability and productivity are vital to a project's performance and profitability, yet they're often managed through inefficient manual spreadsheets and registers.

Manually tracking data creates a disconnect between costs and field use, and reduces management's ability to quickly identify under-performing resources. With SYNCHRO Perform, you can easily track your plant and equipment's day-to-day usage and performance, allowing you to quickly identify savings and improve usage.

Progress Measurement

With competing demands on most projects, tracking progress at various levels, is a common challenge, but one that's important to overcome to maintain profitability.

If a project has no central, daily record of activities across the board, it can be all but impossible to know what's actually going on with a project.

Not only does SYNCHRO Perform enable daily progress tracking across a wide range of inputs and metrics, with its dashboards and reports it offers clear and concise visuals to show leaders exactly what's happening.

Program/Schedule Collaboration

Construction programs are often managed by a select few, sharing only small extracts with project engineers and supervisors, creating a bottleneck that can bring projects grinding to a halt.

Field updates (actual start and finish dates, costs, unexpected events, etc.) are commonly only entered by a small number of the overall workforce, leading to data that's disconnected from real delivery.

SYNCHRO Perform is the only construction platform that directly integrates various programs, safely sharing them with the entire project team and dramatically the variety of information sources and opportunities to collaborate, prioritise, and improve. By effectively harnessing an entire team as a data resource, a project is no longer reliant on small groups to maintain accuracy.

Progress Claim Verification

For lump sum and schedule-of-rates projects, data that verifies progress claims has traditionally been captured in siloed spreadsheets, requiring significant manual effort to maintain, share and reconcile records.

SYNCHRO Perform supports clear, indisputable and efficient verification of subcontractor claims, with actual progress captured and assessed through standardised workflows, giving certainty and transparency to contractors and subcontractors alike.

Daily Cost and Production

Scattered project teams working with disconnected, error-prone spreadsheets prevent accurate, daily visibility of project performance, which is vital to maintaining a project's progress.

Manual spreadsheets typically cannot handle highly-detailed data and often are not centralised, which hinders insights, collaboration, and easy multi-team analysis.

By capturing real-time cost and production rates in an integrated system, SYNCHRO Perform is unique in the construction sector in its ability to overcome the weaknesses of manual spreadsheets and end-of-month reporting delays, allowing engineers and managers to analyse and report on real-time results.

Earned Value/Performance Management

Projects typically rely on each discipline running their own manual earned value and performance calculations in spreadsheets, making project-wide weekly and monthly reporting time-consuming and vulnerable to errors.

Rather than the siloed, unwieldy and inconsistent data often found in projects, SYNCHRO Perform provides a standardised, disciplined approach to earned value and performance management.

Integrating with planning and cost management systems, it gives teams a central system to easily collect labour timesheets and progress data.