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PROGRESS AND WORKFLOWS

Activity Tracker

Replace your static spreadsheet tracker


Visual Tracker

Automatically colour-code designs & drawings


Mobile App

Report progress easily in the field


Automated Handover Notifications

Send notifications to trades' mobile devices


Deliverables List & Reports

See and share all deliverables in one report


Workflow Templates

Build repeatable process workflows


Progress Audit Trail

Stay protected with a digital progress record

 

Baseline Scheduling

Transform your baseline into a production plan


Look-Ahead Planning

Update look-ahead plan based on data

 

QUALITY AND COMPLIANCE

QA Checklist

Assure quality and build Right First Time


Activity Sign-off

Get notifications and sign-off trades' work


Issue Sign-off

Get notifications when issues are flagged


Issue List & Reports

See and share all issues in one report


Issue Templates

Build repeatable issues workflows


Photo Documentation

Stay compliant with geo-tagged photos


Quality Audit Trail

Stay protected with a digital quality record

 

PAYMENT VALUATION AND INTELLIGENCE

Commercial Dashboard

Link costs directly to your site activities


Commercial Look-Ahead

See forecasted costs from your programme


Commercial Planned Works Valuation

Easily valuate actual achieved planned works

 

Deliverables Dashboard

High-level milestones overview

 

Quality Dashboard

Spot quality issues and trends proactively

 

 

Run Rate & Performance Dashboard

Track team performance against the plan

 

Activity Drilldown

Identify challenges before they escalate

 

 

 

FEATURED

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Sablono Track Free replaces your existing spreadsheet tracker for simple progress reporting on-site.

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Use Sablono to minimise defects, get to the root cause of quality issues and streamline your workflows to get it right first time.

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NOVADE ALTERNATIVE

Novade vs Sablono

When it comes to planning and overseeing your construction projects, which construction management software is best for your company?
Novade vs Sablono

Why companies choose Sablono vs Novade

Novade and Sablono are two similar platforms, but what sets them apart?

1
Progress, quality and cost capabilities

Novade is a field management software that focuses primarily on progress and quality. Sablono is a construction project management software solution that connects all aspects of progress, quality and cost to provide accurate insights and true visibility across your project.

2
Commercial insights

Sablono allows you to cost-load individual activities to provide accurate commercial insights that help you avoid payment disputes, manage your costs and streamline payment valuation. Novade does not provide commercial insights.

3
Project visualisations

Novade does not allow you to visualise how your project is progressing. Sablono allows you to integrate your design models or drawings or use built-in schematics to automatically visualise the status of your project.

4
Creating detailed work sequences

Sablono allows you to plan and manage more than 200,000 activities and predefine your workflows down to the individual level. Novade has progress and scheduling capabilities but the level at which you can plan and manage your activities is less detailed.

Novade vs Sablono feature comparison

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SEE FEATURES 

Visualising project progress

Sablono allows you to easily visualise how your project is progressing

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Sablono's intuitive colour-coded tracker allows you to quickly understand the status at glance. In addition to this, Sablono features custom visual trackers that provide automated progress visualisations within drawings or schematics.

You can upload your floorplans, elevations, drawings or building models to build visualisations tailored to your unique project.

This allows you to visualise your project as it progresses in real-time. See Intuitive status visuals across all your packages - from fitout, facade, pods and more.

 

Novade does not allow you to visualise progress

Novade features pin-to-plan which allows you to attach drawings to tasks and forms and mark them up to easily locate them onsite.

However, this functionality is mainly used for snagging and the platform does not include features that allow you to track progress like 3D models or visual trackers.

 

Getting detailed commercial insights

Sablono provides granular commercial insights

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Sablono provides accurate commercial insights by linking costs directly to your individual site activities to provide detailed insights into what the status of your project means for your finances.

You can assign a budget to all your work packages and activities to clearly monitor budget consumption so you can stay on track.

Sablono also allows you to see forecasted upcoming costs for your project based on your programme. Because all your progress, quality and cost data is connected in Sablono, you’ll receive accurate predictions based on real project data.

You'll also always know who needs to be paid what. By assigning costs to work packages and activities, Sablono automates commercial valuations and payment application processes for individual packages, contractors, material suppliers and more.

Novade does not have commercial insights

While Novade provides insights around progress and quality, they do not currently have a commercial module.

 

Handling complexity


Sablono allows you to manage 200,000+ activites

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Sablono allows you to transform your baseline into a detailed production plan and streamline the scheduling and management of more than 200,000 activities per project.

Taking your project activity by activity gives you unrivalled precision and visibility.

You can plan your workflows down to the most granular detail. Define activities, responsibilities and sign-offs. Add hold points, QA checklists and more.

Then, turn your workflows into reusable templates and easily replicate your best practices across your project. Standardise processes across your project portfolio to further boost efficiency.


Novade provides less detailed workflows

Novade has progress and scheduling capabilities but the level at which you can plan and manage your activities is far less detailed.

While you can create standardised sequences of works which includes elements like durations, dependencies and responsibilities, you cannot manage 200,000+ activities. It can be argued that this makes Novade less suited to more complex projects.

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Novade vs Sablono

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PROGRESS
Import deliverables (e.g., areas or components) from Excel or scheduling tools
Standardised work sequences (incl. durations, dependencies & responsibilities)
Manage 200k+ activities
Tag QR codes to deliverables
Automated notifications for trade-to-trade handovers
Look-ahead planning
Visualise progress in schematics or drawings
Planned vs Actual dashboards (per trade, deliverable, area)
Full audit trail of progress
QUALITY
Digital QA checklists
Automated quality control via direct link of QA checklists into standardised work sequences
Raise issues with attached photos
COST
Cost-load activities
Automated valuations based on real-time progress
OTHER
Mobile app for on-site task management
Reporting API to create custom, real-time reports
  •  “Sablono is very useful for tracking on-site progress and predicting and forecasting the potential impact of any delays that occur. It’s a helpful tool to quickly assess the amount of work that has been completed in a given period by any individual trade.” 

  • "Sablono is a truly collaborative working platform which enables multi-user live updates providing real-time progress reports. The biggest benefit of Sablono is when used with a repetitive work stream." 

  • "Intradepartmental tools for progress tracking are no longer used, instead a unified and official tracking system powered by Sablono enables us to take a major step towards digitalization."  

  • "My favourite part of Sablono is the way it keeps a record of handovers. It is very efficient to carry out a handover walk on site, sign a sheet, complete the QA checklist on my phone and attach the signed sheet on the app."