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Figure 4: EcoSys EPC – Enterprise Planning & Control - Project Dashboard

supporting engineering and design, materials, • It enables Work Sharing over internet or on the
procurement, sub-contracting, and construc- cloud on a global basis, therefore maximizing
tion management, and relevant data integra- cooperation and collaboration among all sta-
tion. keholders. It enables a huge productivity incre-
• EcoSys EPC – Enterprise Planning & Control, ase on liaison engineering side and massively
supporting a fully configurable set of execu- reduces coordination costs.
tion management functions, which spans from • It allows Automation, which enables automatic
estimating & budgeting, down to earned value rules based data processing to either execute
management, resources management, fo- transactions or get outputs from system, like
recasting, costs, profit and progress control, reports or notifications about something that
project portfolio financial evaluation. is happening. The consequence? Powerful
execution control, with no additional costs,
Disruption from adopting Intergraph and EcoSys less risks, and less error prone manual exe-
data centric technology provides Companies and cutions and a huge decrease in contingencies
stakeholders with several benefits: amounts.
• It allows Objects Correlation, which is digital • It provides real time Change Tracking and Ma-
ability to recognize objects in the system and nagement, which is key in executing and con-
automatically understanding how they work trolling detailed design, especially with today’s
together. Depending upon the tool and the fast track projects. Some key enabling featu-
work process, it has important implications, res are the following:
all bringing value and efficiency to project sta- The ability to record each digital version of the
keholders: same document and automatically compare them;
• Multi-discipline coordinated consistency: as Highlighting differences in budgeted costs, man-
soon as all the data describing given objects hours, material requirements among various project
are in the standard database, the system statuses and phases;
can recognize whether a component2 in the Receiving system notifications about deliverables
project is the same among several tools. This reflecting a design change, which needs to be re-
is a key feature to maintain and reuse consi- leased with a higher revision number. This is funda-
stent information across different disciplines mental information that needs to be available timely
and functions. to the construction companies.
• Multiple objects design change implication: as
soon as a design change has to be executed
on a given component, the database will know Dynamic Analysis on Data
and point out which objects will be impacted, and HTML 5 Based Mobile
supporting the 3D designer accordingly. Hen-
ce, a better, more accurate design solution Execution
can be achieved with just a few clicks.
• Automatic Roll Up& Drill down: which is the As mentioned earlier in this article, data centric ap-
ability aggregate results, with the ability at the proach to develop digital applications has actually
same time to link details in the background pulled an increased need for storing data, and the-
that originate given summary. refore an increased need for successfully proces-

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