Business Chief APAC+ANZ Magazine October 2020 | Page 17

EEI commitment on its 89th year
EEI commitment on its 89th year
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and resources which are required . For example , how many plumbers do we need ? what type of equipment , how much material is needed , and so on .” “ I have been a proponent of the cloud since I discovered elastic cloud computing , offered by a company not yet known to many as AWS , since at the time , we still referred to the company as Amazon ,” says Matias . Accordingly , he has made sure many of EEI Corporation ’ s systems are cloud-based . “ We are using Oracle for our ERP and migrated to its cloud ERP called Fusion . Our backups on our project sites are Synology drives that backup to AWS , so our backups are no longer tape drives , they ’ re backed up on the cloud . We ’ re just launching with Office365 this month , and we ’ re using a cloud-based anti-spam system as well as digital signatures .”
One of the core technologies deployed by the company is building information modeling ( BIM ). “ We ’ ve been a long time user of Autodesk , but here BIM has never had the same sort of focus as in Singapore , for example , where the government itself is mandating the use of BIM . Our government
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