Current BuildingConnected (BC) Functionality:
- Each BC, BidBoard (BB) Company must be a separate entity.
- Domain name and email addresses cannot be duplicated between companies.
- This functionality keeps each company secure and protects their Intellectual Property.
Opportunity for New Functionality Example:
- Situation:
- Company A has a paper subsidiary or paper sister company, Company B.
- Company B exists in name only for accounting structure purposes.
- Company B has no employees.
- Company A is set-up in BuildingConnected, can be pre-qualified by General Contractors (GC) in TradeTapp (TT), and receive bid requests in BB.
- Company A's sales department can review and act on these within BuildingConnected.
- Company A wants to set-up Company B in BC-BB to be pre-qualified by GC's in TT and receive bid from GC's in BB.
- Company A employees need to see all of the information for both Company A and Company B.
- Difficulty:
- Company A employees cannot do this with the same email addresses.
- Company A must create a new domain, new infrastructure, duplicate BC-BB Offices, new emails, etc. for the same employees.
- When Company A employees want to review pre-qual. and bid requests in BC-BB/TT for Company B , they must logout of Company A and use their Company B credentials to log-in to BC-BB/TT.
- This duplication of infrastructure is not only cost prohibitive but is also inefficient for employees as they have to merge both data sets into a single set of orders for Manufacturing.
New Functionality Idea:
- Allow companies to set-up another affiliated BC company with the same BC Office structure and employees as their original company.
- Allow company employees to review all TT pre-qual. requests and BB bid requests from both companies in the same BC queues.
