SYDNEY -- Hyland introduced on Wednesday a range of content services to the local construction industry, which are targeted to improve efficiency in several large projects in the region.
Content services, which includes an enterprise content management (ECM) solution as well as intelligent capture and a variety of tools for managing and visualizing digital documents, is solving many pain points for companies in today's rapidly growing industry.
"Today's challenges for the construction industry are multifaceted. Businesses face rising energy prices, stringent regulatory requirements and an increased focus on health and safety. As capital-intensive businesses with large-scale and expensive projects, construction companies continually need to search for ways to improve their rate of success and minimize risks, and, improving the efficiency of document management and workflows is a big step on that path," said Eugene Chng, Asia Pacific director at Hyland.
Using content services delivers many benefits to project management including:
-Simplify and standardize information creation and data capture processes throughout the organization.
-Improve users' ability to correctly capture content and actively manage the life cycle of content.
-Improve access to and control of all document-based assets for all staff, key alliance partners and contractors.
-Complete view of all documentation including images and mobile data.
Businesses that have automated processes in place, based on tried and tested methodology for tracking, capturing, accessing and managing the flow of information, will avoid unnecessary expenditures, reduce risk to the business and avoid loss of information and the associated cost of having to locate or recreate information when the project moves from the construction phase to being operational.
Ensuring the latest revision of every drawing is critical when communicating with dispersed and varied members of the engineering and construction team.
Information held within an ECM solution can solve many of these knowledge and process challenges, allowing focus on specific tasks, mitigating project risks, managing key documentation and communication.
"Organizations adopting a content services solution are able to access and manage all information on capital projects throughout the full lifecycle of the content, helping project teams streamline operations and procedures. Any advanced organization in this industry needs a 360-degree view of documents and workflows to make sure their company stays ahead of the competition and is always operating at its most efficient," Chng said. (Asianet)
