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By Marissa Velazquez


Project management software for construction has the ability to help your organization to develop resource estimates, manage, organize and plan available resource pools. Depending on the complexity, this application can aid in managing estimates and plans, cost control, scheduling as well as prove pivotal in decision making. Below are some of the features that such an application should have before you employ it in your business setup.

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.

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.

Data disasters can be found in several forms as either hardware failure (disk or server failure), software failure (application or database failure) or man-made or natural disasters (like tornadoes or earthquakes). For each of these disasters, your application should have a zero tolerance by preventing against any type of downtime. The system's primary objective should be to provide 99.99% up time with few interruptions.

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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