Common Data Environment Software2025-04-10T11:00:03+01:00

Common Data Environment (CDE) solution

Efficiently collaborate with FusionLive as your central repository for projects, to store and manage all project related information.

Efficiently collaborate with FusionLive as your central repository
for projects, to store and manage all project related information

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What is a common data environment (CDE) in construction?

A common data environment is a secure, single source of truth for all project related content. It allows project participants to access the latest documents, data, and models, facilitating collaboration for successful project outcomes. A CDE like FusionLive helps eliminate communication silos and enhance construction projects. With FusionLive, you’re empowered with a single source of truth, accessible in the cloud via our mobile app or web app, ensuring the accuracy of controlled project information, models, and documents.

FusionLive key features

Enhanced BIM model viewing

Experience unparalleled clarity with integrated BIM model viewing capabilities. There’s no more need for multiple software applications – with FusionLive CDE, you can federate and navigate complex 3D models in-platform and share models with stakeholders for clear visualisation and informed decision-making

Topic based collaboration

Pinpoint specific issues and discussions. Assign easy-to-interpret topics to elements or locations, which in turn facilitates focused communication and task management, and eliminates confusion

Issue Management mobile app

Empower your team with a mobile defect management app. Identify, document, and track defects on the job site using smartphones or tablets. Streamline the defect resolution process with real-time updates and clear communication

Benefits of using a CDE

Enhanced collaboration

Consolidate all project information, including BIM models, documents, and drawings, in a single secure cloud based platform. This fosters seamless collaboration between architects, engineers, contractors, and owners, so everyone’s on the same page

Centralized control & management

Take complete authority over project management – the CDE provides a centralised environment where document, model and data deliverables are linked to project processes including reviews, RFIs, and TQs

Advanced document control

Say goodbye to paper trails! Organize all project documents from specifications and contracts to RFIs and submittals to ensure everyone has access to the latest content

Centralized dynamic reporting

Provides a dynamic environment through which data is actively updated. That means the most current information you need is on-hand 24/7

Streamlined workflow and approval processes

The CDE enables automated approval processes for design reviews, change requests, and other critical workflows, reducing bottlenecks and accelerating project timelines. It ensures consistent application of best practice workflows and standards across projects by minimizing errors and improving overall project quality

Enhanced compliance and Risk Management

Manage and track compliance with industry standards, building codes, and regulatory requirements by maintaining comprehensive and accessible records. Our CDE provides detailed audit trails for all document actions, supporting accountability and transparency to minimize disputes

Idox’s cloud-based EDMS/CDE solution

Introducing FusionLive

Our secure, cloud-based project collaboration system for complex capital projects, ensuring accuracy of documentation, integrity of workflows, and safety through best practice controls.

You’re working with some of the most complex and critical assets in the world. FusionLive will help you manage projects from concept to decommissioning.

Partner with us for access to:

  • Expert advice and consultancy

  • Technical support from project conception to handover

  • Training for all team members

  • Industry insights and best practice guidance

  • Ongoing software improvements and upgrades

Other Idox solutions for construction

Who we serve

Issue Management

Capture defects and quality control issues on projects and manage them through to resolution

 

BIM

Visualisation of planning, design, construction and management

 

AEC

Manage complex construction projects and collaborate with project stakeholders

 

Idox CDE empowers your team to collaborate effectively, improve project efficiency, and deliver successful outcomes

Contact us today to schedule a free FusionLive demo and see how it can transform your construction projects!

FAQs

FusionLive is Idox’s secure, cloud-based Common Data Environment (CDE) designed to serve as a central repository for all project-related information. It facilitates efficient collaboration by allowing project participants to access the latest documents, data, and models, ensuring accuracy and enhancing project outcomes.

FusionLive offers integrated BIM model viewing, enabling users to federate and navigate complex 3D models within the platform. This eliminates the need for multiple software applications and allows stakeholders to visualise models clearly for informed decision-making.

FusionLive supports topic-based collaboration, allowing users to assign specific issues or discussions to particular elements or locations within a project. This focused communication and task management approach helps eliminate confusion and streamline processes.

Yes, FusionLive includes an Issue Management mobile app that empowers teams to identify, document, and track defects directly from the job site using smartphones or tablets. This feature streamlines the defect resolution process with real-time updates and clear communication.

FusionLive is ISO 27001-certified, ensuring that all data within the platform is fully protected. The system maintains comprehensive and accessible records to manage and track compliance with industry standards, building codes, and regulatory requirements, thereby minimising disputes and enhancing accountability.

A CDE is a digital information platform that centralises project data storage and access, serving as a single source of truth for all project-related content. It allows stakeholders to access the latest documents, data, and models, facilitating collaboration and improving project outcomes.

Implementing a CDE is crucial because it consolidates all project information into a single, secure platform, fostering seamless collaboration among architects, engineers, contractors, and owners. This centralisation ensures that everyone is working with the most current information, reducing errors and enhancing efficiency.

An effective CDE should include advanced document control, centralised dynamic reporting, streamlined workflow and approval processes, and enhanced compliance and risk management. These features help organise project documents, provide up-to-date information, automate critical workflows, and maintain comprehensive records for accountability.

A CDE enhances BIM workflows by providing integrated model viewing capabilities, allowing users to federate and navigate complex 3D models within the platform. This integration facilitates clear visualisation and informed decision-making, improving overall project quality.

Yes, a CDE can significantly improve compliance and risk management by managing and tracking adherence to industry standards, building codes, and regulatory requirements. It maintains comprehensive and accessible records, providing detailed audit trails for all document actions, which supports accountability and transparency, thereby minimising disputes.

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