Saturday 6 December 2014

Facing dissatisfaction of clients in your construction projects?

In an organization it must be happened you may feel your customer receives good service and they are satisfied with your service. But realizing customer satisfaction surveys is an important element of good business. Understanding customers, strengthen relationship between customer and client.

Construction industries, customer dissatisfaction come from the delivery time of the project and site seeing. There are many management methods are used to managing the project time, but most of the clients like to see their building by caring with their own; it is a natural, all are like to watch the progress of their building. From the industry point view, it can be easily done by view only task in construction management software. It shows the progress of the project to client and client can't modify it but they suggest about project.

Solution through web based software
Using web based software we can create numerous login with their access level. Among these login set one administrative login for accessing and modifying all the information for managing the project and another one for view only, it is for client who want to see their project progress. It can be achieved by web based construction software, by implementing the authorization level of the user by viewing all the details as a report.

Wednesday 12 November 2014

Managing Risks in construction industries by implementing software

Risks teach more powerful experiences in life are a truth fact, but how many of us like to learn from risk, the answer is "No". Because all are like to learn "How to prevent risks and managing risks". Preventing risks are the best choice than another one after came risk. In construction industries, risks are known, but it can be avoided by appointing a faithful person. This is also difficulty task, for all the places and environments. Following are the known risks can be solved by implementing the software, Material management and Payroll management

These risks easily solved by implementing software in construction industries. This task is more useful for avoiding the fraud activities. Because these tasks have both risk and fraud activities, while it goes low it will affect the project delivery time, but when it goes to high amount it will makes a loss

So Construction industries are concentrating these things into deeply. Software for material management, payroll management and project management in a single package tend easy access to the other process details. Now day's software is integrated into accounting software for avoiding the double entries and need not to maintain all of the bill records.

Monday 3 November 2014

Construction Management Software Functions

Construction management deals with economical consumption of resources such as men, materials and machinery requires effective planning and scheduling of each activity. It also covers the entire gamut of activities from conception to realization of a construction project. Above resources effectively manage using the following construction management software functions;

Material management
In construction industry, the materials are used for construction require 40% to 50% of project cost, so managing the material is the big consideration factor. Having the right material at the right time in required place tends efficient task. For accomplishing this function requires inventory functions, adding and deleting material while that purchased or applied.

Vehicle Management
According to the new construction works, vehicle management is important. Because it is also leading for increases the cost of the project by making it as idle or improper fuel report.  All accounts related area can directly integrate with accounting software.

Email alert
Sometimes the improper or unusual situation occurs in projects, but the effects are reflecting some more time, that time problem gone out of control. For rectifying this problem the software can automatically send mail while any actions are executed against the regulations. That time project director can easily handle the problem and avoid big affect due to that problem.

Other functions can be included in the construction management software is useful for construction field. Commonly payroll and other integrated software's such as Tally are available for efficient management.

Wednesday 29 October 2014

Switching from Excel to a Customer Relationship Management Software



An excel was used in the past years to run their sales and marketing activities. Some B2B company uses excel to keep track of all customer details now-a-days, because it is easy to use and well known by employees. Why do so many sales, marketing professionals still using excel to manage their customer lists. However, when it comes to sales or marketing purposes, Excel falls short in a number of areas: multiple users can’t access easily at the same time, storing huge data is cumbersome and it is difficult to view, difficult to analyze customers current statistics in excel.

Excel Spreadsheets
Excel's advantages are offset by more disadvantages. Excel spreadsheets are great calculators, but, they are not good databases. We can store lots of data’s in excel but it is difficult to retrieve, manage that data over long time. Only limited interface capabilities an excel have.

CRM
The modern environment requires one business to interact with another via the web. According to a Sweeney Group definition, CRM is “all the tools, technologies and procedures to manage, improve, or facilitate sales, support and related interactions with customers, prospects, and business partners throughout the enterprise”. It assumes that CRM is involved in every B2B transaction.

In other words CRM enables you to concentrate on your organization’s relationships with individual people, whether those are customers, service users, fellow workers or suppliers. Some of the biggest gains in productivity can come from moving beyond CRM as sales and marketing tool and embedding it in your business from HR to customer services and supply chain management.

Excel's Disadvantages
  • Multiple users can’t access at a time or easily create modifications
  •  May take a long time to review, comprehend, and use spreadsheet data
  • Difficult to share data
  • Possible to lose data
  • Too easily transportable to outside the business -- maybe even to competitors
CRM's Advantages over Excel's Spreadsheets
In CRM, we
  • Develop strong, long-lasting relationships with customers through more personalized service.
  • Improve profit by reducing costs through streamlined, more efficient operations.
  • Respond quickly to customer requests and needs.
  • Know where to up-sell and cross-sell.
  • Manage leads and track sales for selling more products and services, quickly, easily, and cost-and-time effectively.
  • Overcome Excel's disadvantages.
In Excel
  • Easy to use
  • Well known by most employees
  • Economical for a small database with transactional sales
Why CRM Software
However, to more efficiently manage and profitably use data, other B2Bs use web-based CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Software. A CRM consists of a database and a user-interface with which you can easily create, update, manage, process, share, and report data. By choosing the right CRM software can help your sales team identify the best leads and can help your marketing people to see the ROI for each campaign.

Currently, many CRM Software’s available in the market to take care of all sales & marketing activities.  Picking out the right CRM for your business means obtaining the software that best suits the company’s needs.CRM software comes with many features and tools, and despite the fact that many CRM products offer similar features.

Monday 20 October 2014

Security guard management software functions

A number of security guards for an organization can be varied from small to large. All are known the importance of the presence of a security guard in a place. But sometimes it causes, problem due to the absence of the security guard and scheduling of the security guard. Managing schedule for the security guard is the big job for an industry. Setting up a schedule for all stations or branches is the most unmanageable. At the same time the salary calculation of the security guard is not like an ordinary salary calculation, it is based on the shift and hours calculation.
Most of the industries leave it to the agency's responsibility. The security guard agency has the responsibilities for handling their client industries security guards.  Managing security guards reflect two main operations, scheduling and salary calculation.


Scheduling for security guard
We want to schedule every second of a day for all the places.  The first process on a schedule is desire important places and optional places. That is a necessity of the security guard indispensable place is different from other places. While scheduling the guards, first confirm these places guards availability in a shift time. The next processes are checkout next level security services needed places and so forth.

Salary management
In salary management includes ESI and PF management, leave calculation and other details based on the industries policy, the salary details will be calculated for each security guard.

Managing security guards through special software gives effective management process. Managing multiple branches security guards are also under this management software. Through security guard managing software, we don't have worry about the guard management.