Applications

Software licence compliance is something that many will have to achieve during 2004. The risk of a licence audit by any of your software vendors has increased greatly during the last 6 months; many audits have been done and a high proportion of those auditees have found themselves to be in violation of their agreements. It’s time to consider your position and plan a course of action. ...

The need to more efficiently manage the enormous volumes of documentation which construction projects produce has been acknowledged, within the industry, for some time. With the increasing complexity of projects and the different models for project delivery this volume is increasing significantly and, along with this increase, the need for more efficient systems becomes even more important.

Leighton Contractors recently made a significant decision in choosing to continue with in house development to upgrade core modules, in our enterprise applications suite, rather than going down the path of package acquisition and third party implementation. It has been an interesting exercise arriving at this conclusion which, at face value, appears to conflict with the generally accepted way of i...

This month Optus announced the development of a trading exchange specifically for the Australian Construction Industry today. The exchange, named InCITE, will be built, owned and operated by Optus E-Solutions and is planned to be launched in early 2003.