We spoke about Rogers Group Inc, a road and highway construction company based out of Nashville, Tennessee, back in November, but wanted to take this opportunity to update you on the company's progress and to share two new pieces of content... an article from Forbes, and a very cool video featuring Dawna Roberts, Rogers Group's IT Infrastructure Manager.
As you may recall, Rogers was looking for a way to increase both productivity and efficiency at its job sites. All of the company's on-site data, was recorded, entered, and tracked, usingpaper forms and spreadsheets, and an office clerk processed everything manually on the back-end into Oracle E-Business Suite applications. This led to construction site reporting delays and productivity loss.
Using a solution developed by AuraPlayer, an Oracle Partner that helps companies to integrate, extend, modernize and mobilize their E-Business Suite and Forms applications, as well as Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, Rogers was able to "wrap" its existing EBS infrastructure and expose it as a web service without changing any code. The company then collaborated with Sofbang, an Oracle Platinum Partner, to create a mobile app that would allow on-site managers to visualize and manipulate the now-exposed E-Business Suite data. For the full story of how the solution helped construction foremen, construction managers, estimators, and even IT managers, read the Forbes article!
With this solution set to go live in April at job sites around the US, Rogers anticipates that data collection and processing time will be reduced from one week down to one day, and that on-site managers will be able to make instantaneous decisions by comparing real-tme production costs to their planned budgets for each project. We'd call that a win for both speed and productivity!
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