Choose software from the work and the exchanges you must make, not from features. Then plan the IT around it: hardware, storage, networks, licences and backups.
Software choices last for years and touch every project. The temptation is to compare features. The better question is: what work must the tools do, and what must they exchange with clients and partners? Then plan the IT that makes them usable day to day.
Most firms need authoring tools (to model), coordination and checking tools (federation, clash, rules), access to a CDE (often the client's or the lead party's), and the IT to run them: workstations, storage, network or cloud, backups and access control.
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