Tejari Construction
The Business Challenge
Tejari needed an Internet based collaborative application for project management in the building and construction industry. Traditionally, in the region, a project was managed based on extensive use of paper-based planning, follow-up and communication. The core requirement was that of a system that is suited well to the needs of the construction, engineering and IT industries that are looking to decrease lead-time and costs associated with a project. Moreover, the dispersed environment and a user-base consisting of people of various cultures neede the system to be extremely user-friendly.
- Dispersed environment
- Not too IT savvy audience in the region: the system had to be very easy-to-use. Ease of use of the system that can be used by people of various cultures and variety of IT experiences
- Tejari already had invested in oracle marketplace, so they wanted to a solution that can be integrated with their existing system
- Flexibility of customization to suit the regional audience
- Security of the content: Since the primary users of Tejari’s system are going to be using it from the Internet, the security was of paramount importance
- Need for online collaboration
- As a service provider (ASP), Tejari wanted to support multi-project and multi-company scenarios
- Enhanced administration of the system: Tejari wanted to enhance the current administration modules to be able to control every project and users to suit their business requirements
Company Profile
Tejari is a premier application service provider (ASP) catering
to the Construction industry in the Middle East.
Company Website
Industry: AEC
Primary Business Requirement:
Implementing customized ASP solution for web-based
collaborative project management
Web4’s Solution: eReview integrated with Webworks
The Solution
Web4 created a system that is far more capable and easier to use than any other system currently on the market. This system called Tejari Project Collaboration (TPC) is based on Web4’s eReview (Viewer & Online Conferencing) and WebWorks (Collaboration ASP system).
Tejari Project Collaboration is an Internet based collaborative application for project management in the building and construction industry. Traditionally, in the region, a project was managed based on extensive use of paper-based planning, follow-up and communication. TPC is a system that is suited well to the needs of the construction, engineering and IT industries that are looking to decrease lead-time and costs associated with a project.
Some of the actual tasks provided by Web4 include:
- Implementation of customized project management business logic of Tejari.
- Enhanced the administration module to give more control to Tejari administrators
- Implementation of reporting modules for report generation purposes
- Customized the user management module to have more flexibility for project administrators to manage users within projects
- System to support multi-project and multi-company scenarios, in lines with the overall strategy of Tejari
- Implementing eReview Meeting Management system in TPC to enable real-time document collaboration among project users
- Implementing customized “document upload utility” with WebWorks system
- Implementing document Access control level within WebWorks “Projects”
- Implementing eReview and “eReview Chat only” module with eReview messenger services to conduct instant meetings and chatting in project collaboration system
The Botom Line Advantage
- Effectively manage multiple projects
- Safely and securely leverage knowledge/document management system
- Instantly communicate with others through a real-time collaboration system, both in-house and around the globe
- Jointly create, integrate and share project files
- Seamlessly coordinate changes using a smooth online workflow system
- Follow up tasks and automate task management and reporting Benefits
- Obtain an affordable solution: Only Internet connection and web-browser needed
- Reduce time to find information – one common electronic file
- Reduce cost of transferring information – online transfer and meetings through Internet
- Reduce errors – easy to check latest information
- Increase accountability – document control and task follow-up
- Achieve Better quality through alignment of processes
Tejari Project Collaboration
