Make Your Construction Business More Agile with Opticon Accelerator

Rajesh Ponnan, Vice President – Construction Enterprise Vertical, Soft Tech Engineers Pvt. Ltd.

It's a widely accepted principle these days that business is warfare. The business environment is often compared to the battlefield and leading managers apply principles like those from 'The Art of War' to business situations.

In the battlefield, the speed at which you can move determines your success. It's quite the same when it comes to business.

So, it's natural to ask the question: How agile is your construction business organization? It's difficult to give a precise answer to this question. But if one really tries to find an answer, one would come up with interesting revelations as to the state of business within the organization.

The level of agility your organization possesses is revealed by various factors like:

• The capability to do more than what's normally done by your peer organizations.
• The speed at which you get information as to what's happening in various sites of your business entity.
• How quickly you can act on what's going wrong or probably will go wrong.
• Your ability to accurately assess the state of various operational arms of your business, through key performance indicators.

In essence, for your construction business organization to become more agile, you must have a business management system that facilitates respon- siveness to changes within and outside the organization. Opticon Accelerator, the enterprise class construction business management system from SoftTech Engineers Private Limited, Pune is exactly designed for this purpose.

Opticon Accelerator is a ready to implement business suite meant specifically for construction industry. The product has built in industry specific best practices to address four major aspects of construction industry Project Management, Material Procurement, Sales Management and Finance Management. Opticon Accelerator enables optimal process integration and provides seamless collaboration among various functions of the enterprise.

Opticon Accelerator connects sites and head office through internet or intranet thus providing up-to-date information on all areas of your operations. It has clearly designed all modules that address critical needs of your construction business. It is made especially for construction industry by experts having more than 20 years of Industry experience.

It addresses the business process optimization, performance analysis, and risk identification requirements of your construction business at various levels of management.

Reduce process cycle time

By automating business transactions, optimizing processes, and integrating related process chains spread across multiple departments, offices, and locations, Opticon Accelerator reduces process cycle times significantly. This reduction in process cycle time helps your business to do more work with the same team in shorter time frame. In addition business activities can be completed faster than normal. This also brings in a lot of transparency to the what, how, when, and who: of business transactions, so that analy- zing and correcting the past mistakes becomes easier.

Business performance analysis

Opticon Accelerator addresses all the project management, financial and operational requirements to execute construction projects. It helps manage and control construction projects by giving complete and instant access to its progress, take real time snapshots of how profitable the project is with full analysis of costs, revenues, liabilities and subcontractor performance. Opticon Accelerator provides business performance analysis that helps in making timely, transparent, and well-informed decisions across all levels of management.

Risk monitoring

As the business leadership of construction organization, one's biggest concern is to find potential threats to the growth and profitability. That's why risk monitoring becomes a key top management priority. Opticon Accelerator help your management to identify business risks, and thereby prevents loss or wastage of time and money.

Meeting the construction business needs

Unlike generic ERP packages which are essentially designed for manufacturing industries and then are tweaked to suit the construction business requirements, Opticon Accelerator is a solution that maps the complexities of the construction business and speaks its language.

Opticon Accelerator is designed, and built by people who have extensive experience in the construction industry. The product development was started in the year 2003, and today, it is a well-tested and proven solution at customers across India, Middle East Asia and North Africa.

While preparing for a war, one has to use the weapons that are made for them and have allies who understand their strengths and weakness. In business too, we need partners who can help us achieve the desired outcomes. With Opticon Accelerator, you can be rest assured that you have the right tools, and with SoftTech, you have purpose trusted advisor and partner committed to your business success. Together we can achieve greater agility, and win in the battlefield of business.

About SoftTech:

SoftTech Engineers Pvt. Ltd. is a leading software product innovator in the Architecture - Engineering - Construction (AEC) vertical. We provide solutions that transform the governance and management capabilities of urban local bodies, public and private works organization and construction companies.

Rajesh Ponnan

Rajesh Ponnan is a product evangelist for Construction ERP solutions, organizational systems innovator, and thought leader in construction business. He brings in over 15 years of his expertise in Information Technology and consulting professional within enterprise class product and solution development and deployment.

He has varied experience on value chain management (design, development, delivery, & measurement), IT ROI realization and has worked on new product development relevant to emerging enterprise software engagement and deployment models.