Case Study: Forest City Ratner Companies achieves portfolio-wide business intelligence with Trimble's Proliance (Meridian Systems)

Forest City Ratner Companies Uses Proliance® From Meridian Systems® To Achieve Business Intelligence Throughout The Plan-Build-Operate Lifecycle Of Its Real Estate Portfolio

Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC), the Brooklyn-based development arm of Forest City Enterprises, manages an extensive portfolio of residential, commercial and retail projects across New York City. FCRC faced fragmented IT systems across the Plan‑Build‑Operate lifecycle—multiple disconnected tools, paper approvals and duplicate data entry—that undermined data integrity, real‑time visibility and business intelligence for large, partner‑shared projects.

To address this, FCRC implemented Meridian Systems’ Proliance integrated with SAP and OpenText Livelink, migrated legacy data and rolled the solution out across four major projects. The integrated platform standardized workflows and approvals, provided an audit trail, eliminated double entry, improved cost forecasting and reporting, reduced risk and increased productivity—delivering clear ROI potential even from small percentage improvements on billion‑dollar developments like Atlantic Yards.

Forest City Ratner Companies

Raj Patel

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer