- Author
- Construction Industry Institute
- Title
- Introduction to Integrated Database Systems.
- Coporate
- Construction Industry Institute, Austin, TX
- Report
- Publication 20-2, February 1993, 26 p.
- Keywords
- construction | databases
- Abstract
- Electronic technology in the construction industry today is entering a new era of advancement and sophistication. Management and implementation of the new technologies are becoming integral parts of company strategic plans. One emerging concept is the integration of systems and data structured in a manner compatible with the sharing of information both internally and externally. This philosophy is referred to as Integrated Database Systems. Companies and the industry are being driven in this direction by the potential for dramatic improvements in productivity. This technology holds the promise of speeding the engineering, procurement, construction operation and maintenance process, while improving the quality of and access to information. This CII publication provides examples of approaches and ideology in the implementation of integrated database systems within our industry. The examples display some of the issues that are being faced in the selection of hardware and software platforms in a chaning electronic environment. A pressing need is for standardization - to allow for the internal as well as external sharing of information. Today, this issue is being addressed through development of ANSI standards forElectronic Data Interchange (EDI) and additional standards under the Standard for the Exchange of Product Data (STEP) effort.