BIMcloud

Facilitates seamless and efficient teamwork regardless of where team members are located – whether in the office, at home, or on the construction site, enabling flexible work arrangements.

Provides fundamental collaboration capabilities directly within Archicad, allowing teams to work together on design projects concurrently.

Offers sophisticated tools for managing teamwork on large, complex projects, including reservation features to prevent conflicts and intelligent libraries for efficient asset management and controlled access to project elements.

Enables immediate communication and discussion directly within the BIMcloud project environment, allowing for quick clarification and decision-making in context.

Messages and discussions are directly tied to specific parts of the BIM model, ensuring clarity and understanding by referencing the design directly during communication.

Extends communication and project access to mobile devices through BIMx PRO, enabling field teams and clients to participate in project discussions and view models on-site.

Allows stakeholders to open and explore interactive BIM models (Hyper-models) directly in a web browser via BIMcloud, making project reviews accessible to anyone with a link, without needing specialized software.

Provides an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows other software applications to connect directly to BIMcloud, enabling automated workflows for managing, uploading, and downloading project data, and extending BIMcloud's reach beyond Archicad.

Acts as a central repository for all project-related files, including BIM models, 2D drawings, and various documents, ensuring all team members across different disciplines have access to the latest project information in a coordinated manner.

Employs patented Delta technology that intelligently transmits only the changes made to the project, rather than the entire file, significantly reducing data transfer times and bandwidth usage, especially beneficial for large BIM projects and remote teams.

Further enhances performance for geographically dispersed teams by utilizing Delta Cache technology to store frequently accessed data closer to users, minimizing latency and speeding up access to project information across multiple office locations.

Specifically optimized to ensure efficient teamwork even when team members are connected via Wide Area Networks (WANs), addressing the challenges of collaboration across geographically separated offices or remote workers.

Delta Server technology is designed to maintain responsiveness and speed even when internet connections are slow or have limited bandwidth, making BIMcloud usable in diverse connectivity environments.

The Software as a Service (SaaS) version of BIMcloud automatically adjusts server hardware and storage capacity based on demand, ensuring consistent performance and eliminating the need for manual scaling or concerns about resource limitations as project needs evolve.

Will incorporate multi-factor authentication, adding an extra layer of security to protect sensitive BIM project data by requiring users to verify their identity through multiple methods beyond just a password, significantly reducing unauthorized access risks.

Will offer the option to enforce strong password policies, ensuring users create and maintain robust passwords, further strengthening access control and data protection measures within BIMcloud environments.

Implements comprehensive multi-level backup systems to safeguard project data against loss, ensuring data redundancy and enabling quick recovery in case of hardware failures, data corruption, or accidental deletions.

Includes a sophisticated monitoring system that continuously tracks BIMcloud's health and performance, proactively identifying potential issues and providing alerts, allowing administrators to address problems before they impact users or data integrity.

BIMcloud is engineered to ensure data security and confidentiality even when teams are collaborating and exchanging project information over the public internet, using encryption and secure communication protocols to protect sensitive data during transmission.

Provides a highly flexible and granular permission system that allows administrators to define hierarchical access levels and roles, with settings that can be inherited down through project structures, simplifying the management of complex team access rights and ensuring data security at all levels.

Offers fundamental permission settings that allow project administrators to control access on a per-project basis, defining who can view, edit, or manage specific projects and their data.

Provides dedicated tools and features specifically designed for BIM managers to efficiently manage large teams of architects and engineers, centrally controlling project access, user roles, and overall BIM project administration within the BIMcloud environment.

Streamlines the setup of team permissions by allowing administrators to create predefined team roles and groups with specific access rights, making it easier to assign permissions consistently to teams and manage access for larger groups of users working on multiple projects.

For on-premises deployments of BIMcloud, integration with existing office user directories (like Active Directory or LDAP) simplifies user account management, allowing administrators to synchronize user accounts and permissions with their existing IT infrastructure, reducing administrative overhead and ensuring consistent user management practices.

Extends beyond BIM models to host a wide variety of file types relevant to projects, such as SAF and BCF files for interoperability, site photographs, manufacturer catalogs, building permits, and other essential project documentation, creating a central repository for all project assets.

The SaaS offering eliminates the need for significant upfront capital expenditure on hardware and infrastructure, making BIMcloud accessible with a subscription, reducing initial costs and allowing for predictable operational expenses.

With BIMcloud SaaS, Graphisoft takes responsibility for managing the system's infrastructure, maintenance, updates, and security, eliminating the need for organizations to allocate internal IT resources to BIMcloud management, freeing up IT staff and reducing operational complexity.

BIMcloud SaaS is designed to be user-friendly and easily managed without requiring specialized IT skills within the organization, making advanced BIM collaboration accessible even to firms without dedicated IT departments.

The SaaS deployment model allows for a rapid and straightforward setup process, enabling teams to start collaborating on BIM projects in the cloud quickly, without lengthy installation or configuration procedures.

Offers a subscription-based pricing structure that allows organizations to adjust their BIMcloud usage based on project demands, scaling up or down the number of users and storage as needed, and paying only for the resources consumed, ensuring cost-effectiveness and adaptability to fluctuating project workloads.

Enables architects and engineers to directly link and integrate BIM models hosted on BIMcloud as hotlinks within their Archicad projects, streamlining model federation and collaboration workflows by providing direct access to shared models from within the design environment.

Provides direct access to Structural Analysis Format (SAF) and BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) files stored on BIMcloud from within Archicad, facilitating seamless interoperability with structural engineering software and streamlined BIM issue management workflows by allowing users to access and utilize these file formats directly from the central BIM collaboration platform.

Allows users to link and access external 2D drawings (like DWG or DXF files) that are hosted on BIMcloud directly within their Archicad projects, ensuring that all project documentation, including 2D drawings and BIM models, are centrally accessible and integrated within the design environment.

Automatically tracks and logs changes made to BIM projects within BIMcloud, providing a comprehensive audit trail of project modifications and enabling users to stay informed about project evolution and design iterations.

Delivers instant notifications to subscribed users whenever changes are made to BIM projects, ensuring that team members are immediately aware of updates, modifications, or revisions, fostering proactive communication and preventing teams from working with outdated information.

Provides tools and features to effectively manage and filter project change notifications, allowing users to customize the types of changes they are notified about and how they receive notifications, ensuring that change tracking enhances rather than disrupts their workflows.