SmartPM Technologies, a construction project analytics provider, has added an automated narrative report feature to its platform. The program automatically generates a narrative based on the schedule data set. The report is a text-based summary of multiple aspects of a construction job. It is designed for stakeholders involved in a project, as well as construction executives who want information about a project’s status but don’t have the time or expertise to decipher charts and graphs.

SmartPM scans through all the schedule data, analyses it, then automatically produces the results in text format by automatically filling in the fields of an internal template with standardised text, customized with the project’s unique numbers. The report pulls from a wide spectrum of schedule data, including schedule quality, performance (plan vs. actual), critical path analysis, milestones, compression and more.

As project updates are added into SmartPM, the program pulls in those new parameters and incorporates them into the narrative. Regardless of the frequency with which these reports are produced, as long as the program is being updated with the most current information, the report will present an up-to-date snapshot of the project.