Case Study
University of Iowa

A key advantage of the Attainia platform is the unmatched ability to access, format and leverage project data, says Trish Moyer, senior project manager for medical equipment.

“I used to plan medical equipment in spreadsheets, and it was just impossible to filter and export the data in an easy and meaningful way,” she said. “Imagine exporting an equipment list for an entire hospital – it would cover the wall of a house! With Attainia, you can filter and export exactly what you need.” 

“I have so many users – clinicians, finance people, you name it – and they all are interested in very different data. Being able to easily create a variety of reports tailored to the exact audiences I’m working with is extremely important.” 

With access to all active and historical project data at her fingertips, Moyer says that she constantly leverages the platform to answer questions during a project and long after its completion, such as:

• Did we receive a piece of equipment? “If someone tells me weeks later they didn’t receive something, I can quickly log into Attainia and verify that it was delivered because I save the packing slips in the platform.”
• Was a piece of equipment already specified? What model was specified? Will that work for the clinician? Is that OK for the budget? “I get these questions constantly from a variety of people during the course of a project,” Moyer says, “and because we manage our data in Attainia, I can provide this
  information in an instant rather than having to reach out to our external
  equipment planners and wait for a response.”
• If piece of equipment breaks down long after the project is complete: how long is the warranty on that equipment?

“We just sent out an RFP for a new project, and one of our criteria is that the firm would build the project in Attainia,” Moyer says. “Keeping our data in Attainia is an integral part of our process.”