CMiC
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CMiC, acronym of Computer Methods international Corp., is a software provider for the architectural, engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 and construction
Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...

 industry. Based in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, CMiC has been providing software solutions for over 36 years and has some of the largest general contractors in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

 as clients, according to Engineering News-Record
Engineering News-Record
Engineering News-Record is a weekly magazine that provides news, analysis, data and opinion for the construction industry worldwide...

 Magazine (ENR).

History

Computer Methods international Corp. was founded in 1974 to conduct software research and development, primarily for IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 computers. Since then CMiC has provided software solutions to primarily the project and financial management industries such as construction
Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...

 and engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

.

In 1978 CMiC developed and offered software solutions specific to the construction industry on the IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 System 5100 series and later migrated to the System 23, 36 and 38 platforms. In the mid-1980s, CMiC developed construction specific software solutions on a PC-networked environment utilizing Business Basic software.

Since early 1988, CMiC has applied resources and manpower in the research and development of their Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

  based software for the construction and engineering industries. The Oracle based product was developed from the ground up utilizing techniques available in relational database model design and did not use any legacy code or file structures from any previous product ever developed. The technology deployed was and still is 100% native Oracle, utilizing the Oracle development environment for the application code and the Oracle RDBMS for the database.

Beginning in 1994, CMiC embarked on a massive project to convert the entire product to client/server operating under a Windows GUI
Gui
Gui or guee is a generic term to refer to grilled dishes in Korean cuisine. These most commonly have meat or fish as their primary ingredient, but may in some cases also comprise grilled vegetables or other vegetarian ingredients. The term derives from the verb, "gupda" in Korean, which literally...

 environment. In 1995, the software was renamed as mPOWER and became the first construction specific product to be released in a client/server configuration on a relational platform. In 1997, mPOWER Software was released on a 32-bit platform providing additional stability to the software. Remote access to mPOWER was delivered through a Citrix  or Terminal Server
Terminal server
A terminal server enables organizations to connect devices with an RS-232, RS-422 or RS-485 serial interface to a local area network . Products marketed as terminal servers can be very simple devices that do not offer any security functionality, such as data encryption and user authentication...

 configuration.

In the fall of 2000, CMiC released its totally Web-based version of mPOWER, which enabled any user to operate the software solely through an Internet browser. In 2002, CMiC released the CMiC Self Service that served as the gateway to the entire corporate activity across the organization.

2003 was the start of CMiC’s new vision. CMiC was restructured for growth, all products were re-branded under the name CMiC, and a new look was presented to the industry. In 2004, a stand alone Project Management
Project management
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...

 Solution, called CMiC Project Management, was released along with a Collaboration application called CMiC Collaboration Manager. CMiC Integration, which contains CMiC Imaging and Workflow, was released soon after.

The CFMA IT Survey 2008 and a survey by McGraw-Hill
McGraw-Hill
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, education, publishing, broadcasting, and business services...

 Construction ranked CMiC in the top three spots for all five software categories, including financials, project management, collaboration, CRM and imaging/workflow.

In 2008, CMiC expanded in the Heavy Highway market by having American Infrastructure, a vertically integrated, heavy civil construction company in the Mid-Atlantic Region.

Also in 2008, CMiC expanded into the Capital Project Owners space, with BJC Healthcare, one the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, using CMiC software to build and maintain facilities.

CMiC also launched CMiC Emerging to target smaller contractors. This approach provides CMiC solutions as a Software As A Service
Software as a Service
Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...

 (Saas).

In 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 CMiC was recognized by Constructech Magazine as one of the Hottest Companies in the construction technology industry. In 2007 and 2008 CMiC was recognized as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies.

In 2009 CMiC released CMiC Open Enterprise v10, the newest version of CMiC software. Using XML
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

, CMiC Open Enterprise v10 increases interoperability
Interoperability
Interoperability is a property referring to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together . The term is often used in a technical systems engineering sense, or alternatively in a broad sense, taking into account social, political, and organizational factors that impact system to...

 and integrates Building Information Modeling
Building Information Modeling
Building information modeling is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle.BIM involves representing a design as objects – vague and undefined, generic or product-specific, solid shapes or void-space oriented , that carry their geometry, relations and attributes...

 (BIM) applications, online payment applications, online planrooms and other diverse applications into the enterprise.

Company Structure

CMiC is based in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, near York University
York University
York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

 http://www.yorku.ca. CMiC performs all programming, research
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...

, development and support at this location.

President: Gord Rawlins

CFO: Pat Shah

Vice President, Sales and Business Development: Jeff Weiss

Vice President, Solutions and Marketing: Bassem Hamdy

CTO: Larry Philips

Notable Clients

Turner Construction
Turner Construction
Turner Construction Company is one of the largest construction management companies in the United States with a construction volume of $8 billion in 2010. It is a subsidiary of HOCHTIEF Germany.-The early years:...

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A client of CMiC since 1996, Turner ranks first or second in major segments of the construction industry with construction volume of $8.6 billion in 2006.

J. E. Dunn Construction Group: In October 2006 the company was ranked 19th in Engineering News-Record Magazine's top 400 contractors based on 2005 revenue of $2.3 billion; Forbes Magazine reported it was the 144th largest Private company in the nation in 2006.[1] Some of the major projects J.E. Dunn has worked on include the Sprint Nextel corporate campus in Overland Park, Kansas, along with many others. J.E. Dunn has its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

.

Power Construction: A CMiC client since 1995, Power Construction is one of the largest, management-owned companies based in the Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 area. With revenues of over $500 million and about 500 employees, Power is one ENR’s Top 200 Contractors.

Cianbro: One of the East Coast's largest construction and construction services companies, Cianbro implemented CMiC in 1999. Ranked in the Top 200 of ENR’s Top 400 Contractors, Cianbro focuses on civil and heavy industrial
construction and construction services and has gross annual sales in excess of $300 million with over 2,000 workers.

DPR: Ranked in the Top 50 general contractors in the United States for the last 10 years, DPR Construction is a national commercial general contractor and construction manager. A client of CMiC since 1999 and based in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, DPR provides projects of all sizes and complexities.

The Walsh Group: Listed as the nation's 15th largest contractor in Engineering News-Record's Top 400, this Chicago-based company maintains twelve regional offices.

Gilbane
Gilbane
Gilbane, Inc., based in Providence, Rhode Island, is a family-owned, national construction and real estate development company. Forbes ranked Gilbane as the 108th largest privately held company in the United States in 2006 with estimated revenues of $2.83 billion and in 2009 named the company of...

:
One of the oldest builders in the United States, this family owned construction company is based in Providence, Rhode Island
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...

 and was ranked by Forbes
Forbes
Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...

 as the 108th largest privately held company.

Webcor Builders
Webcor Builders
Webcor Builders is a commercial construction contractor with headquarters in San Francisco, California. The firm also has regional offices in San Mateo, California, Alameda, California, Los Angeles, and San Diego, and is among the largest builders in California with clients including Starwood...

:
One of the largest commercial construction companies in the United States, with over 1800 employees and $2.5 billion contracts in place.

DeSilva Gates Construction: With its headquarters in Dublin, California
Dublin, California
Dublin is a suburban city of the East Bay region of Alameda County, California, United States. Located along the north side of Interstate 580 at the intersection with Interstate 680, roughly east of Hayward, west of Livermore and north of San Jose, it was named after the city of Dublin in...

, DeSilva Gates Construction specializes in heavy highway and civil engineering construction services for both public and private clients, who include many of the major commercial, industrial and residential development organizations as well as virtually all of the local city, county and state contracting agencies. A Heavy Highway client, DeSilva Gates is unique among CMiC users and went live in 2006.

Medco Construction: Headquartered in Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, Medco Construction is unique among CMiC clients because of its relationship with its parent company, Baylor Health Care System. Medco specializes in building health care facilities for Baylor. Medco became a CMiC client in 1999.

Gerald H. Phipps: Gerald H. Phipps, based in Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

, has placed in ENR’s Top 400 list since 1985 and is one of Colorado’s largest contractors. Founded in 1952, Phipps specializes in healthcare, advanced technologies, office buildings, education and advanced technologies. Phipps implemented CMiC in 2001.

Govan Brown and Associates: Govan+Brown and Associates, based in Toronto, Ontario, specializes in interiors and notable projects have included The Federal Court of Canada and the flagship Adidas
Adidas
Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, TaylorMade-Adidas golf company , and Rockport...

 store. Smaller than other CMiC clients, GBA chose CMiC in 2005.

Messer Construction Company: Messer Construction Company ranks in the Top 100 Contractors and performs an array of projects, including healthcare, educational, laboratories, industrial and non-profit. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...

 and covering the Midwest, Messer has revenues over $700 million and 1,000 employees and is an industry-leader in employing technological solutions and lean construction. Messer implemented CMiC in 2003. Messer won 1st place in the 2007 CMiC Innovation Awards.

The Neenan Company: The Neenan Company, headquartered in Fort Collins, Colo., designs and constructs commercial buildings and integration of all design and construction services in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Texas and Georgia. Neenan joined the CMiC user community in 2003.

Wachter: Wachter, based in Lenexa, Kansas
Lenexa, Kansas
Lenexa is a city in the central part of Johnson County, located in northeast Kansas, in the central United States of America. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 48,190. As a satellite city of Kansas City, Kansas, Lenexa is included in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area...

, is a specialty contractor that provides electrical construction and network services. Ranked in the Top 200 of ENR’s Specialty Contractors list, Wachter works with owners, architects, engineers and general contractors to complete design/build projects. Wachter, one of the first Specialty Contractors for CMiC, implemented in 2005.

The Beck Group
The Beck Group
The Beck GroupType:PrivateFounded:State of Texas Headquarters:Dallas, TexasMotto:Better Buildings, Better Built!Key people:Managing Directors:Henry C...

: Beck was founded as a general contractor in Houston in 1912. It opened its Dallas office in 1924, and has since developed into a full-service builder of international renown. Beck’s services include architecture, interior design and construction, real estate development, financial structuring and consulting, preconstruction, renovation, construction management, general contracting and program management. Beck chose CMiC in 2004. Beck took second place in the 2007 CMiC Innovation Awards.

Chatham-Kent: The Municipality of Chatham-Kent was formed by provincial order in 1997 and came into being on January 1, 1998. The new entity replaced 23 municipalities, 13 Public Utility Commissions, and five police services in the former City of Chatham and County of Kent. The Municipality of Chatham-Kent implemented CMiC Enterprise to help with the amalgamation of diverse systems and to handle its complex payroll requirements. Other governments and government agencies that use CMiC include the Town of Whitby, Whitby Hydro, Cambridge and Cambridge Hydro, Cornwall, Milton and Halton Hills.

The Layton Companies: The Layton Companies of Sandy, Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

, is a full service construction firm offering professional services including construction management, general contracting, design-build and construction through four wholly owned subsidiaries. Layton’s more than 50-years experience encompasses a wide range of project types, sizes and complexities and it is ranked in the Top 100 of ENR’s Top 400 Contractors. Layton has been a client of CMiC since 2001.

S.M. Wilson & CO.: S.M. Wilson & Co. is a St. Louis-based general contractor and construction manager that specializes in healthcare, education, retail, office, and senior care living projects. With a range of operations covering 13 states, S.M. Wilson ranks in the top 150 General Contractors and has over 250 employees. S.M. Wilson went live with CMiC in 2006.

Austin Industries: Ranked in the Top 50, Austin Industries and its operating companies engage in almost every type of civil, commercial and industrial construction. Austin also provides in-plant maintenance and capital construction services to the refining and petrochemical industries. Austin has 6,000 employees and focuses mostly on the southern part of the United States. Austin implemented CMiC in 2003.

Hunter Roberts Construction Group: Formed in 2005, Hunter Roberts Construction Group delivers a broad range of construction management services. Based in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, Hunter Roberts ranks in the Top 250 of ENR’s Top 400 list and services the Eastern and Mid-Atlantic states. HRCG implemented CMiC in 2005.

Summit Builders Construction Company: An ENR Top 400 contractor currently ranked 19th largest in the Southwestern United States. For the past 25 years Summit has provided pre-construction planning and construction services through Construction Management, Design-Build, Program/Project Management and Design/Bid/Build delivery methods. Summit builds projects in both the public and private sectors.
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