Friday, January 17, 2014

What To Look For In Your Project Management Software For Construction

By Marissa Velazquez


Project management software for construction is capable of aiding your organization to come up with accurate resource estimates, easier managing, organizing and planning of resource pools. The complexity of the application can help you manage plans and estimates, control costs, schedule and improve decision-making. Listed below are some features that any such application should present before you deploy it in your firm.

Time is an expensive and critical asset in any business involved in construction and the application you use should help speed up how you manage the projects. It means that an efficient system ought to offer the latest information that will enable decision making to go faster. A good system is ideally the one stop shop for all types of information including RFI statuses, changed orders, documents and photos.

The system you wish to use should also be easy to use and learn. Getting your entire team using the application is critical for a successful collaboration. This can be made much easier when using a simple easy to use app that comes along with a knowledge base of how to articles and tutorial videos.

No application is complete without an extensive customer support system that should be easy to locate. Ideally, support should be available no matter the time of day or night and ought to include online tutorial videos that are accessible on any type of mobile web-enabled devices. The support structure should also include emails, live chats as well as telephone support when required.

For a system that is web based, it is crucial to ensure that it comes along with a strict access agreement that will allow several members of your team access to it. This should be made possible for as many team members as possible without the need of having you invest more money or time. When all team members are familiar with the system, you will definitely see a remarkable increase in the level of efficiency in your firm.

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.

The best designed application should also be accessible through a number of platforms including iPad and smartphone (iOS and Android based) technologies. This way, managing your daily tasks becomes an easy task that will help in further improving information share between your team members as long as they have an internet connection. This allows sharing of critical data and information much faster especially when it comes to tracking the project's progression.

Project management software for construction can be a critical tool when used in an efficient manner otherwise it will generate lots of data that is not indicative of the critical issues that require to be addressed immediately. Instead, the best system ought to bring the weaknesses to light without confusing team members. To this end, the system should have the features explained above for easier tracking of various projects.




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