22 - February - 2008

Taylor Woodrow select Causeway ECM

Causeway has announced that Taylor Woodrow has opted to implement Causeway Enterprise Content Management (ECM), the industry’s leading information & document management solution across its entire organisation.

Established in 1921 Taylor Woodrow has become a household name acclaimed amongst the top contracting organisations in the UK. Taylor Woodrow offer construction and facilities management services across a multitude of sectors including retail, airports, education, housing, health and rail. An established Causeway customer having already successfully deployed Causeway Financial Accounting for corporate accounting, project accounting and commercial management of the business, Taylor Woodrow has selected Causeway ECM, which is set to become the company’s core business management solution. Causeway ECM will encompass the functional areas of corporate document and email management, initially across a user community of 1,000 users but it is also set to develop into the core solution behind the company’s Intranet promoting knowledge management and collaborative working.

Rob Ramsay, IT Director for Taylor Woodrow explained, “Following the recent changes with our parent company Taylor Wimpey, decisions needed to be made to establish Taylor Woodrow’s application architecture to take us into the future. Our goal was to identify a single solution that would encapsulate document and email management across the business, become our corporate Intranet and integrate with our existing systems. We embarked on a lengthy evaluation process considering all the major players in the market and consulting with industry independent analysts. The combination of the Livelink product and Causeway’s construction domain knowledge provided a compelling proposition”.

Causeway ECM is powered by Livelink ECM from the Open Text Corporation, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM). Industry analysts Forrester and Gartner recognise Open Text to be a leader in ECM solutions, having two decades of experience supporting 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries.

Used by companies up and down the construction supply chain, Causeway ECM provides the means to exercise complete control over information relating to projects, departments or entire organisations.Causeway ECM is used by over 26,000 construction professionals on a daily basis and firms including Arup, Kier, HBG, Higgins, Sharkey and McGee all manage enterprise information and project collaboration with Causeway ECM.

“We have been a Causeway customer for a number of years and have formed an excellent working relationship”, commented Ramsay, “Causeway’s vision for the future needs of the construction industry is impressive against which their partnership with Open Text is a perfect example. Whilst the functionality and flexibility available within the solution is unquestionably ahead of its competitors, we were also keen to identify a low risk investment that was future proof. Causeway ECM offered us exactly that.”

Paul Madeira, Director of Sales and Marketing at Causeway added, “We are delighted that Taylor Woodrow has extended its relationship with ourselves and selected Causeway ECM for managing all of their unstructured information. The whole area of managing documents, email, drawings and automating business processes across an enterprise and across projects is moving at a significant pace, and Causeway ECM delivers a world class solution to meet this need.

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