Architectural Engineers

For small and medium sized architectural engineering and consulting teams that work remotely without the benefit of a shared server, using an extranet to share and access files, especially through shared drive letters, can dramatically increase productivity.

WORK FROM ANYWHERE

Because your users can access their CAD drawing from any computer with a browser, your team can suddenly work anytime, from anywhere.

KEEP YOUR CLIENTS UP TO DATE

Rather than e-mail and FTP projects to your clients, you can grant access to released projects or even grant access to web folders containing work in progress. Ideally, this will reduce the amount of time spent coordinating and sending files.

MANAGE SUBCONTRACTORS

You can add and remove users as needed for various projects, and grant read, read/write, or read/write and drive-letter access for each web folder, depending on what subcontractors should have access.

FTP REPLACEMENT

Many prime contractors use FTP servers built into websites for subcontracting jobs. FTP is inherently insecure, especially since files are stored in your website, and because as you add more users that can see all of your projects. Through an extranet, you can create a web folder for each project, and grant access for only the subcontractors that will be working on that project.

ROLLING BACKUPS

Luminys maintains nightly snapshots for seven days of all your web folders which you can access as an administrator. If somebody accidently (or maliciously) deletes a file or even an web folder, you have the power to restore your files from any point in the last seven days.