Campbell, Calif. – Nov 19, 2019 – Panzura, the leader in collaborative file and data management for global enterprises, today announced a partnership with AVAIL, a leading digital content management platform for building professionals, to help distributed design teams deliver high-quality Building Information Modeling (BIM) projects faster and with more predictable outcomes.  

The companies’ joint solution, announced today at Autodesk University, introduces an integration between AVAIL, Panzura Freedom and Vizion.ai. The integration unifies data silos across the organization into one global cloud file system, and enables team members to collaborate efficiently using a single source of truth to data. 

 When AVAIL’s visually aesthetic content management system is combined with Panzura’s global cloud file system, team members can access graphics-intensive design content in seconds, irrespective of geography and file sizes. In addition, multiple team members can work on the same data sets or even the same file at the same time, if that application supports it, from discrete locations without any fears of collisions, overrides, or versions being lost in the system. Very low latency results in improved productivity for the entire team. 

In turn, AVAIL’s innovative approach to virtualizing thumbnail images allows designers to browse massive libraries with little or no latency across any network, LAN, WAN or cloud. Previously this process was so painful as to make visual browsing impossible.

Vizion.ai allows file search, monitoring and audit through one single dashboard, regardless of the cloud in which files are located. Vizion.ai log analytics include a built-in dashboard for Autodesk’s Revit 3D collaborative CAD application, allowing specific views over what Revit files teams are working on. 

Randall Stevens, CEO of AVAIL, said: “As the sophistication levels of BIM design tools reach new heights, the end product and massive amounts of embedded data remain siloed, anchored to individual software and hidden within an office or project. Panzura, when bundled with AVAIL, unifies content silos into one global cloud file system with greater transparency and support for collaborative workflows that drive consistent, high-quality design outcomes.” 

Jason C. McKinney, SVP of Alliances and Channel at Panzura, said: “The cloud is often billed as offering freedom to AEC professionals to collaborate together from anywhere, but conventional cloud data storage technology is actually having the opposite effect – it’s stifling collaboration and productivity and racking up long-term harm to unsuspecting businesses,” said Jason. “When AVAIL’s solution is combined with Panzura’s global data file system, team members worldwide can access graphics-intensive files of any size in seconds and work collaboratively on the same data sets or in some cases even the same file. Very low latency results in improved productivity and better outcomes for the entire team.” 

AVAIL and Panzura “as-a-service” cloud solutions facilitate real-world collaboration and position AEC firms for accelerated growth through increased productivity:

• Powerful search engine and data visualization capabilities eliminate time wasted searching endlessly for information, recreating work that can’t be found, or worse, reusing work that’s defective.

• Near instantaneous file retrieval.  Users can access any file in seconds, rather than minutes, including bandwidth-intensive files, irrespective of their size, geographic location, or date last accessed.

• Data insights and transparency helps drive IT decisions that eliminate scale and performance bottlenecks.

About AVAIL

AVAIL is quickly gaining recognition among architectural firms as the software of choice for managing Building Information Modeling (BIM) content. Spun-out of ArchVision, a provider of rich photo-realistic content (RPC), AVAIL leveraged its industry expertise to address the growing problem of digital asset management. AVAIL’s unique solution is why industry leaders like Gensler, Dialog, LEO A DALY, and Populous have adopted its Software-as-a-Service platform to help their teams create and manage successful architectural designs. To learn more about AVAIL, visit getavail.com.

About Panzura

Panzura is the leader in collaborative file and data management for the global enterprise, which includes Panzura Freedom and Vizion.ai. Panzura Freedom provides software-defined, multi-cloud file services to enterprises in over 7500 sites globally across 33 countries. The Vizion.ai multi-cloud data management service enables enterprises to meet the most demanding requirements for data search, ML analytics, and governance in a multi-cloud world. To learn more about Panzura, visit panzura.com.

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Contact : Jim Clifton, jclifton@getavail.com, 859-421-2324

Lexington, KY and Bozeman, MT. – Nov 18, 2019 – AVAIL and iconicBIM are teaming up to help design and construction firms manage the health of their Revit content and projects. This partnership enables Guardian technology to be provided alongside the AVAIL platform with a joint commitment to maintaining compatibility and developing tightly integrated features. These new capabilities will become part of “AVAIL Health, powered by Guardian”.

AVAIL is currently used to deploy and manage Revit content across many of the world’s leading design firms.  Guardian will become a key part of AVAIL’s Revit content management strategy to Evaluate, Cure, Deploy, and Defend.  While the companies work to jointly develop Revit content evaluation capabilities, AVAIL will begin introducing existing Guardian technology to its Enterprise customers as part of the AVAIL Health “Defense” strategy in January.

“Taking on BIM-related content management is a thankless job that falls in the laps of many BIM Managers across our customer base,” says Randall Stevens, AVAIL CEO. “Our partnership with iconicBIM to integrate their Guardian technology with AVAIL helps fulfill a holistic Revit content and project health strategy that will relieve much of that burden.”

AVAIL improves productivity by providing fast and easy access to the vast amounts of digital content and information across a firm’s network. Guardian improves project health for leading firms by cleaning content that deviates from company standards and guiding users’ decisions.

“Our customers really desire cohesion between their most preferred business critical solutions.  This partnership represents our commitment to that,” says Parley Burnett, iconicBIM CEO. “We are very excited to add AVAIL as one of our valued partners in our mission to bring unprecedented user guidance and standards automation to the masses in both native and integrated ways.”

AVAIL  and iconicBIM will be exhibiting at the annual Autodesk University conference between November 19-22, 2019, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Visit the AVAIL AU event page for updates.

You can find more about AVAIL at getavail.com and iconicBIM’s Guardian at iconicbim.com/guardian.

About AVAIL

AVAIL has gained recognition among architectural firms as the software of choice for managing Building Information Modeling (BIM) content. Spun-out of ArchVision, a provider of rich photo-realistic content (RPC), AVAIL leveraged its industry expertise to address the growing problem of digital asset management. Our unique solution is why industry leaders like Gensler, Dialog, Leo A Daly and WATG have adopted our Software-as-a-Service platform to help their teams create and manage successful architectural designs. To learn more about us, visit getavail.com

About iconicBIM

The many challenges faced during the building design and construction process are causing leading firms to discover the bold, new software solutions developed by iconicBIM LLC.  Our flagship product, Guardian, focuses on allowing administrators to prevent issues with standards misalignment and user actions rather than attempting to react later.  This ability to act proactively in an automated, cloud-driven, manner, causes users to claim Guardian as “one of the core programs necessary to globally manage BIM.” Visit iconicbim.com to learn more.

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Contact : Jim Clifton, jclifton@getavail.com, 859-421-2324

Seattle, WA – July 19, 2019 – BIMsmith^®, the leading building product research platform, and AVAIL™, a leading digital content management platform for building professionals, today announced a new partnership to develop new integrations for users of both platforms. 

The partnership, announced at Digital Built Week North America in Seattle, WA, involves new integrations between BIMsmith and AVAIL that will facilitate easier transition between the two platforms that are each used in separate phases of the design process. AVAIL users will benefit from direct access within the AVAIL interface to manufacturer BIM content and technical documents found on BIMsmith. BIMsmith users will likewise find the BIMsmith platform equipped with new functionality to allow them to more easily save and share BIM content to their AVAIL accounts.

“BIMsmith and AVAIL are natural partners,” said Randall Stevens, CEO of AVAIL. “Each platform occupies adjacent portions of the design lifecycle, so building a bridge between the two of them only adds value to both the platforms and the users.” 

“AVAIL and BIMsmith both operate with the same principles of efficiency and time savings,” said Benjamin Glunz, CEO of BIMsmith. “By forming direct connections between both platforms, this partnership will enable designers to save even more time and effort in their daily workflow.”

Both BIMsmith and AVAIL are exhibiting at Digital Built Week North America (BiLT) from July 17-20 in Seattle, Washington. Visit them in person in Seattle or online at www.bimsmith.com and www.getavail.com.

About AVAIL

AVAIL is quickly gaining recognition among architectural firms as the software of choice for managing Building Information Modeling (BIM) content. Spun-out of ArchVision, a provider of photo-realistic content, AVAIL leveraged its industry expertise to address the growing problem of digital asset management. Our unique solution is why industry leaders like Gensler, Dialog, Leo A Daly and WATG have adopted our Software-as-a-Service platform to help their teams create and manage successful architectural designs. To learn more about us, visit getavail.com.

About BIMsmith

BIMsmith®, the leading cloud-based building product discovery and selection platform, cultivates global business-to-business relationships between building industry professionals and building product manufacturers. Through direct integration of real product data into the BIM workflow, BIMsmith continues to shape the future of building science technology, placing its clients at the forefront of BIM innovation while addressing the true needs of industry professionals. Learn more about BIMsmith at bimsmith.com.

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Contact : Jim Clifton, jclifton@getavail.com, 859-421-2324

Lexington, KY – July 17, 2019 – AVAIL, a content and information management platform that helps architects and engineers organize, find and use their digital assets, has released its AVAIL Browser for Rhino. The new integration expands AVAIL’s mission to improve the access and sharing of data among teams and across a building project’s lifecycle. Robert McNeel and Associates’ Rhino software, a leading application used extensively by architectural firms, allows designers to create complex geometrical surfaces, while enabling 3D modeling for downstream processes and eventual fabrication. Customers now have the ability to consume over 30 Rhino-supported file formats directly within the AVAIL content management interface, while they are working in Rhino.

“AVAIL is pioneering the next generation of content management and we’re excited to see direct support for Rhino and Grasshopper. Rhino has become instrumental in helping shape the AEC industry’s most challenging designs. I anticipate AVAIL will prove just as crucial in managing the very wide range content that integrates all the products used in the AEC workflow including Rhino and Grasshopper,” says Scott Davidson, Business Development at McNeel & Associates.

Architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms generate extensive amounts of data across numerous software applications for their Building Information Modeling (BIM). Efficiently managing that content across those individual and disparate systems continues to be a challenge that prevents designers from working as fluidly as possible. AVAIL’s deep integrations of broadly used applications, like Rhino, builds upon the firm’s strategy to bridge content silos and streamline the user experience, in turn freeing up designers to do what they do best — design. 

“Our mission is to build a content bridge across the entire design and construction continuum. Rhino is one of the most popular design tools in our customer’s workflow warranting special attention from us”, says Randall Stevens, AVAIL Founder and CEO. “We’ve had a great relationship with Robert McNeel & Associates for many years supporting Rhino’s native ArchVision RPC integration. Adding AVAIL support for Rhino has been a common customer request and a natural extension for AVAIL.” 

AVAIL’s strategic approach to content carries over to sister company, ArchVision, who helps designers elevate their modeling and visualization with Rich Photo-realistic Content (RPC). AVAIL users will receive full RPC support via the new Rhino integration, including the ability to drag-and-drop RPC content directly into their Rhino application.  

“Our RPC and F+DW content is already delivered across applications by AVAIL in very user friendly ways”, states Corey Rubadue, ArchVision CEO. “With the new AVAIL Browser for Rhino our customers get an integrated, consistent and even more intuitive user experience when working between applications. In concert with AVAIL, we will drive content to desktops with unprecedented efficiency during the entire architectural process.”

About AVAIL

Headquartered in Lexington, KY, AVAIL’s Software-as-a-Service platform helps teams in the AECO industry better organize, find, reuse and connect information throughout the complex building lifecycle.Privately-held, AVAIL was spun-out of industry pioneer ArchVision in 2016 after discovering a unique way to manage the rapidly growing amount of Building Information Modelling (BIM) content. Industry leaders like Gensler, Leo Daly, and Populous have adopted AVAIL to more efficiently create high-quality designs and predictable project outcomes. Learn more by visiting getavail.com.

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Contact : Jim Clifton, jclifton@getavail.com, 859-421-2324

Atlanta – July 15, 2019 – UL, the developer of SPOT®, today announced a partnership with AVAIL, an enterprise content management solution for design teams. AVAIL improves productivity of industry professionals by providing access to the vast amounts of digital content across an architecture engineering and construction (AEC) design firm’s network. This integrated approach for product sustainability data will enable users to access and manage product- and manufacturer- specific digital content, such as sustainability certifications, directly from UL’s SPOT integration with the AVAIL Marketplace.

This partnership enables users to streamline access to SPOT’s comprehensive sustainability data by leveraging AVAIL’s search and filtering functionality, increasing the quality of digital content delivered and saving users valuable time.

“We’re excited to work with our customers and UL to enable the next generation of information management,” said Randall Stevens, CEO of AVAIL. “Improved access and management of this information is critical to delivering an experience that is digital from end-to-end.”

UL’s SPOT, one of the largest sustainable product databases with more than 100,000 product families, found a natural fit with AVAIL, an innovative platform for AEC design firms seeking to manage and organize their different databases of content and file formats. Once implemented, this partnership will help meet the accelerating demand for effective and relevant delivery of specific information about products’ sustainability performance. Together, AVAIL and SPOT will provide the AEC community with a dependable, accurate source of data for products that have received third-party verification of their sustainability claims.

“Historically, sustainability content has been accessed from disparate sources and managed with inefficient manual processes. Thanks to the UL SPOT and AVAIL partnership, AEC professionals will be able to efficiently manage and use important sustainability data in their digital project workflows, saving time and resources,” said Alberto Uggetti, vice president and general manager for UL’s Environment and Sustainability division.

You can find more about AVAIL at getavail.com and UL’s SPOT at spot.UL.com.

About AVAIL

Headquartered in Lexington, KY, AVAIL’s Software-as-a-Service platform helps teams in the AECO industry better organize, find, reuse and connect information throughout the complex building lifecycle.Privately-held, AVAIL was spun-out of industry pioneer ArchVision in 2016 after discovering a unique way to manage the rapidly growing amount of Building Information Modelling (BIM) content. Industry leaders like Gensler, Leo Daly, and Populous have adopted AVAIL to more efficiently create high-quality designs and predictable project outcomes. Learn more by visiting getavail.com.

About UL

UL helps create a better world by applying science to solve safety, security and sustainability challenges. We empower trust by enabling the safe adoption of innovative new products and technologies. Everyone at UL shares a passion to make the world a safer place. All of our work, from independent research and standards development, to testing and certification, to providing analytical and digital solutions, helps improve global well-being. Businesses, industries, governments, regulatory authorities and the public put their trust in us so they can make smarter decisions. To learn more, visit UL.com.

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Contact : Jim Clifton, jclifton@getavail.com, 859-421-2324

Lexington, KY – April 10, 2019– Content management leader for the AECO industry, AVAIL, announced the hiring of Kent Lewis as their Director of Customer Success. Kent brings more than 17 years of experience in software technology and innovative ideas for customer training, onboarding and retention. Kent joins AVAIL after three years as Operations Manager at House Right Production where he designed new processes around sales, purchasing and contract management.

“Kent’s extensive experience in the software industry is unmatched and he brings a wealth of knowledge to our growing team and customer base. He’ll be driving our customer success initiatives that will help lead the company to the next level,” said Randall Stevens, AVAIL CEO and founder.

Kent joins a customer-centric sales team who works closely to guide prospective buyers through the purchasing journey towards successful implementation and user adoption. With this position, the firm continues its commitment to providing clients a seamless experience as they transition to AVAIL. Kent will oversee the entire customer process from onboarding and training, through support to user adoption. “I am thrilled to be a member of the AVAIL team,” states Mr. Lewis, “The majority of my career has been spent in the software industry and I look forward to leveraging my background to ensure that we exceed AVAIL’s current and future customers’ expectations.”

Kent holds a BBA in Computer Information Systems from Morehead State University. He worked for six years in Global Business Development and Worldwide Product Solutions at startup Exstream Software before helping transition the firm during their purchase by HP in 2008. Community-minded with an appreciation for how the sharing of ideas can create positive change, Kent produced Kentucky’s first TEDxLEX event and was named as a Top 50 Connector in Central Kentucky, a public nomination process recognizing civic contributors.

About AVAIL

Headquartered in Lexington, KY, AVAIL’s Software-as-a-Service platform helps teams in the AECO industry better organize, find, reuse and connect information throughout the complex building lifecycle.Privately-held, AVAIL was spun-out of industry pioneer ArchVision in 2016 after discovering a unique way to manage the rapidly growing amount of Building Information Modelling (BIM) content. Industry leaders like Gensler, Leo Daly, and Populous have adopted AVAIL to more efficiently create high-quality designs and predictable project outcomes. Learn more by visiting getavail.com.

Lexington, KY – January 30, 2018 – AVAIL and ArchVision announced today that both companies have made new hires to augment their executive lineup. Corey Rubadue joins ArchVision as Chief Executive Officer and Jim Clifton joins AVAIL as Chief Operating Officer.

Mr. Rubadue has refined his knowledge of visualization development and software engineering during his experience with ASGVIS and Chaos Group. First-hand knowledge of the challenges faced in architecture led to the founding of ASGVIS in 2005 and pioneered the integration of the V-Ray renderer into SketchUp and Rhino. ASGVIS was acquired by Chaos Group in 2011 and Rubadue and his team continued to refine the software. In late 2016, he oversaw the launch of V-Ray for Revit. In August 2017, Rubadue founded Oonix Solutions LLC to expand his focus on visualization to support a broader range of technologies and applications.

“I’ve always had a great appreciation of the ArchVision technologies,” says Rubadue. “Joining ArchVision is a strategically aligned fit with where my professional sights are set.”

“Corey’s expansive experience in the visualization industry is unmatched and he brings a wealth of partner relationships he has developed over the past 15 years in the field. I’m looking forward to having Corey at the helm of ArchVision and know that he will lead the company to the next level”, said Randall Stevens, founder of ArchVision.

In Mr. Rubadue’s new role as ArchVision CEO, he will oversee Product and Content development, Sales, Marketing and Personnel.

Mr. Clifton comes to AVAIL most recently from Bluegrass Vascular Technologies where, as Chief Operating Officer/Founder, he developed technology from product concept to regulatory approval to initial market launch. With over twenty years of experience in software product management, Jim provides energy, drive, and creative force to early-stage, complex technologies.

“Jim’s experience with every phase of the product development process makes him the perfect candidate for his new role as Chief Operating Officer”, said Randall Stevens, CEO of AVAIL.

Mr. Clifton will focus on developing and refining AVAIL’s go-to-market process and provide oversight for Sales and Marketing, Operations and Finance.

About ArchVision

Founded in 1991, ArchVision improves design modeling and visualization with RPC technology that provides architectural entourage in the form of people, tree & plant and automobile content and environment clutter. The newest product to the ArchVision lineup, Family and Detail Warehouse, is a collection of over 27,500 Roof, Window, Door and Foundation details, available as native Revit Drafting Views and AutoCAD DWGs, with unlimited downloads. ArchVision currently serves customers located in over 100 countries. For more info visit www.archvision.com.

About AVAIL

AVAIL’s enterprise and content management software solution indexes content and helps users find it in new ways. Based in Lexington, KY, AVAIL grew out of a need for a better way for AECO professionals to access the voluminous content being managed across their enterprise. With over 50 combined years in the AEC industry, the AVAIL team is passionate about helping firms discover a new way to find and manage content. For more info visit www.getavail.com.