Submittals: Greengrade vs. LoraxPro

We have looked into Greengrade, LoraxPro and Greenwizard. We got to test drive them and get introduction via webcast to all of them.
Greengrade is a sister company/product of submittal exchange and a great tool to manage documents in projects especially if you have a lot of stakeholders, a large project and lots of phases. It does not automate any LEED Online forms. You can fill out the pfds using their software and submit it, but you won't have automatization. Also they cooperate with Greenwizard.

Greenwizard is the perfect tool (I think) for finding materials and products for your project. It's an online data base of products and their attributes like FSC, recycled content, VOC, ect. If there is information missing, you can contact the manufacturer directly from there and request an update of information, additional documents, you name it.
I had some manufacturer call me to ask if we need more information or different one, since they just started entering their products into the database. We are still in an early phase of testing it with having the GCs enter information, but it's already cutting out a lot of the research in regards to products.
Greenwizard also offers increasingly support for other credits in LEED. Their strong suite however is material and product information.

LoraxPro is great if you are looking for true automatization for LEED Online. It's replacing LEED Online since you don't enter information into the pdfs, you are using their platform instead. That comes with a whole bunch of advantages such as automatic cross checks, easy data entries, some of the credits like SSc2 even generates maps for you since it has google maps integrated. They are also working on more tools and apps for your iphone to make documentation easier. You can already take a picture onsite and upload it to your project and the appropriate credit. one of our project is starting construction soon so I'm excited to see how much it will help us there.

All three softwares have a high standards of security and are used by security sensitive projects. They are all cloud base with free training for users and great support.

One more thing I come across when looking into all those applications was that because of the constant changes in the LEED Online pdfs, there seems to be some trouble with forms not getting filled out correctly. I couldn't verify how much that is or is not an issue.

We are using Greenwizard and LoraxPro on our smaller projects and have had a great experience with both so far.

Susann - Have you had any experience using Greenwizard on International projects? Is the database entirely US product focused?

Yes. It's based on US products. I'm sure they would like to offer this in other countries and there might be some products, which you can get anywhere. But it's US for the most part.