Rabu, 15 Januari 2014

Features Of Great Project Management Software For Construction

By Marissa Velazquez


With project management software for construction, you can finally improve the way your firm develops resource estimates, manages, organizes and plans the resource pools available. Each system has its own levels of complexity that can allow you carry out various tasks such as scheduling, cost controlling and manage plans and estimates. Before deploying a system for use in your organization, it is crucial that it has the following qualities for it to be an efficient managerial tool.

Since time is money in the construction industry, your application should be able to accelerate the process of managing your projects. This means that it should have the capability to offer up-to-date information that should make the decision-making process faster and more accurate. A great system should be a one-stop repository for all schedule changes, clarifications, responses, RFI statuses, photos, changed orders and documents.

Another important feature of a good system is that it should be easy to learn and use. The entire team should be involved in using it for successful collaboration of the individual efforts. A simple to use application should also include tutorial videos and how-to-use articles that will make it easier for staff to learn how to get the most out of it effectively.

Comprehensive customer support is vital and should be in an easy to locate location using a support button. The support provided should also be available at all times of day or night and should ideally include online video tutorials that can be accessed using any web-enabled device. Other support structures include phone support, live chat as well as email.

For a web-based system, you should insist on one that will provide access to several team members with a sound access agreement. Access provision to several team members will make it possible for them bring together their efforts thereby promoting and adding value to service provision levels in the organization. Such an application should provide this support without further investment in the infrastructure.

Data can be distorted irreversibly by different types of failures including natural disasters (earthquakes or tornadoes), man-made disasters (arson or industrial espionage), software failure as well as hardware failure. The system you choose should have mechanisms in place to alleviate against such disasters in order to avoid downtime. One of the main objectives of any system is to ensure that it is up and functional 99.99% of the time.

Not only should the project be accessible through the standard computers, but should also support mobile platforms like smartphones and iPads. Such a feature will make the running of daily tasks a breeze and improve the way information is shared between team members. Such a move will also allow the managerial team gets updated information at any time and from anywhere.

Project management software for construction is a useful tool but if used inefficiently, it can generate a humongous amount of data that does not indicate critical issues that need immediate addressing. A good system should instead illuminate such areas without creating further confusion. To that end, the best system should address the points elaborated above as well as many others in order to help managers keep track of the information generated on various projects.




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