- Author
- Construction Industry Institute
- Title
- Achieving an Integrated Data Environment: A Strategic Initiative.
- Coporate
- Construction Industry Institute, Austin, TX
- Report
- Publication 20-3, February 1993, 17 p.
- Keywords
- construction
- Abstract
- During the past decade the construction industry has witnessed dramatic improvements in electronic data generation and management. The industry recognizes that these improvements offer opportunity for enhanced performance and competitiveness. Thus, companies acting individually or with key customers are pursuing electronic data management opportunities that offer immediate payback. As a result, many successful examples exist of CAD drawing utilization and transfer, electronic purchasing, and related applications. This has resulted in the creation of "islands of automation." These islands continue to be linked, however, by low technology bridges such as facsimile and paper documents. The full benefit of electronic data management will not be attained until the low technology bridges are eliminated and industry work practices are modifeid to fully exploit the technology. When this occurs throughout the entire industry, the integrated data environment will have arrived.