TECH MAHINDRA very interesting in Malaysia in the construction sector . Where you ’ d think that was a steady old business rooted in doing things a certain way , it ’ s revolutionised itself inside of 18 months – [ our client ] wanted the best construction information system delivering the ability to help them make decisions anywhere .
“ It ’ s a cloud-based solution , moving a range of things they used to do across different processes on different systems , onto the cloud . This is a big enterprise with a variety of platforms and a varied infrastructure , a profitable company , doing well – but they had a vision to get to the next level .
“ It took us six to nine months to work out the entire blueprint , but it ’ s in action right now and you can already see the value that ’ s coming in . Their selling has improved , their ability to quote effectively has improved drastically , and the really interesting thing – which we ’ re working on right now – is how they can factor in how projects are progressing .
“ There used to be standard parameters , but with new technologies coming in you change that very drastically . It ’ s a very interesting process when it comes to ‘ snagging ’
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