Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Features Of Great 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.

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.

An easy to learn and use system is what you should be on the lookout for. The entire team in your organization should be involved one way or the other. This is made even easier when you have a system that has an extensive knowledgebase containing how-to articles as well as 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.

Web based systems should also be accessible to several members of your team through a watertight access agreement. The system should be capable of supporting as many team members as possible without requiring you to incur further costs. Once you have more team members using the system, their collaboration will become more efficient, adding value to your organization.

A data disaster can take place at any time and comes in various forms including hardware failure, software failure and even natural or synthetic disasters. The system you employ ought to have zero tolerance for such disasters and anything else that might contribute to downtime. A good system should be able to provide an uptime guarantee of 99.99%.

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 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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