Iterare Arquitectura slp (Iterare)is a multi-disciplinary Architect firm with offices in the cities La Coruna and Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

1. O3Spaces® Customer Case Study
Iterare Arquitectura slp
Customer Profile Reasons for choosing O3Spaces Benefits of using O3Spaces
ARQCO Arquitecture S.L.  Mixed environment Effective centralized communication
Architect  Outstanding price/value proposition Centralized storage of documentation
Serving mainly public sector  Excellent support of primary process Fine grained security features
Customer Profile Use of O3Spaces
Iterare Arquitectura slp (Iterare)is a multi-disciplinary Architect firm with offices At Iterare O3Spaces Workplace is used to support projects, Dapena explains:
in the cities La Coruna and Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Their business "At Iterare an architectural project can be initiated in two different ways: By
portfolio includes Architectural Plans and Costing, Town Planning / winning the bid in an open public tender or by direct client’s commission.
Urbanism,Technical Building Management, Project Management work. and In the first instance, work starts with the preparation of a preliminary draft.
Consultancy work related to their area of expertise. Iterare Arquitectura is Documentation is generated by the people assigned to the work team and
mainly active in the public sector, both for Local, Regional Authorities and for shared through O3Spaces Workplace. Once the bid is won, the work process is
the Central Government. identical to the direct client’s commission process.
At the beginning of a project a Workspace is created: Project = Workspace.
Reasons for choosing O3Spaces Each project has its own calendar, document archive and communication zone
for team members (forum and bulletin board). The document archive and
Throughout 2008, Iterare carried out the gradual transition from IT systems version control functionality are fundamental in the process. The forum
based on MS Windows, towards Linux systems and Open Standards based substitutes electronic mail and ensures that all team members informed on
applications. The goal of this transition was to comply with the applications’ time, accurately and effective.”
legal licensing requirements, while securing the best value for the money spent Since Iterare's quality control is based on ISO 9001 Standards, every
on licensing and version control of all project documentation. Workspace has an identical directory structure. Because of ISO 9001
Standards, they are required to digitally file and classify all communications
The lack of proper document version control, as well as the lack of means to
(usually via email or fax), even with agents outside the work team: Clients,
control the flow of paperwork were the primary reasons for Iterare to start
external engineers, suppliers, etc).
searching for a document management and collaboration solution. Adhering
to their software philosophy and the different software in use by their clients, “The aim of our working method is to make it re-traceable, in other words, to
the new solution had to be platform and application independent. be able to revise the process and detect, isolate and correct any possible
development errors.”
"We migrated towards Open Standard Based Applications because we found
they delivered better price/value propositions. With this in mind, we made the
transition to a mixed environment while using our Ubuntu server. Benefits of using O3Spaces
Consequently, Sharepoint was no option for us. O3Spaces on the other hand
fitted perfectly into our software philosophy and working method thanks to its “With O3Spaces Workplace we can manage our document archives and
outstanding price/value proposition,its platform independence and its user projects effectively and we have full control over the security of our
friendliness. O3Spaces perfectly meets our organization’s data management documentation and project information” says says Daniel Dapena, project
requirements" says Daniel Dapena, project manager at Iterare Arquitectura, S.L manager at Iterare Arquitectura slp .
. “Effective communication among team members and the control of
information are other crucial benefits for us.”
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Implementation of O Spaces When asked about possible additions to O3Spaces Workplace that would be
beneficial to his company and other architects, Dapena names native AutoCAD
The deployment and implementation of O3Spaces Workplace at Iterare was integration and extended calender functionality. These additions are on the
concluded within a week. This efficient process was realized through mix of O3Spaces roadmap and will be added to the O3Spaces Workplace feature set
O3Spaces professional services and Iterare staff being able to become self in the near future.
sufficient by reading into the available documentation.
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