Introduced information technology for a construction company

written by: H.J.R.K.Jayasinghe; article published: year 2010, month 05;

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In order to discuss introduced information technology to a construction company, I have discussed that with a example read below.

ABC Construction Company is a large company which gives its contribution to the constructions around the country the head office of the company is at Colombo and when the projects are run in the various areas there will be a project office at the site in the relevant area, the company is having a staff of 100 including clerical and technical officers, and at the each project office the management have decide that there should be at least 10 staff members and according to the requirements this amount will be changed under these preliminary conditions we have to introduced information technology to the ABC construction company and that should be accomplished the following requirements,

1. It is need to find and install systems to the company which can accomplish the following requirements

1.1. Head office is at Colombo and the other sites are locating in distance areas from the Head office therefore it is needed to connect all the sites to the head office so that to get easier to control the activities going on project office and to keep the steady connection between sites

1.2. Company must have a centralized inventory control system to control the activities going on

1.3. Higher management and the project managers of the ABC construction company need to access the company information when they are in an out of the office for share the information of the company, and give some orders to their assistance and therefore its need a system by which the Managers can do theses task confidently and reliably without any problem like delays, etc.

1.4. Technical officers and Designers of the ABC construction need special computing requirements to carry out their daily rooting therefore the system that we choose help for the above tasks

2. Configuration of the computer hardware

2.1. Main computer which runs the inventory control system- Select a computer relevant as the main inventory control system

2.2. Other computers use by the staff- Select computers to use for the staff like clerical officers, receptions ( front office officers), Managers , financial editors and administrators etc

2.3. Mobile user's computer that means the project managers and the higher management of the ABC construction company must be provide computers with mobile facilities so that they can connect with the company information

2.4. Users having special computing requirements- Select computers for special tasks like Designing , Technical purposes

3. It is need to select an operating systems

3.1. Operating systems should be selected for above selected computers and those operating systems must be compatible with the relevant works done through those computers

4. Select Application software

4.1. Application software that can be used in above computers in relevant to their task and specially users having special computing requirements such as

4.1.1. Designers must be given application software that can help for their design purposes software such as

4.1.1.1. Software that help to create better designs

4.1.1.2. Help to create 3D, 2D drawings

4.1.1.3. Software that can animate the designs

4.1.2. Technical experts must be given software like

4.1.2.1. which is help to technical experiments like finding the bearing capacity of the soil

4.1.2.2. Software which is help in some measurements like finding the strength of a concrete etc

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