Industries
Property and Construction
With the high value low margin environment within both the property and construction markets, the value gained by successful analysis of data can make the difference between success and failure.
This analysis whether at individual property, project or at executive level, provides the opportunity to mitigate the risks promptly rather than only being notified after the financial impact has been felt.
Companies are striving to track, understand and manage information more effectively in order to evaluate their performance, plan their future and achieve competitive advantage in their marketplace.
Whether it is bespoke application development work or performance management we are committed to developing not just applications, but solutions to the problems faced by our clients. It is this commitment that means that you can be sure that we will first understand your business needs, discuss and agree with you the most appropriate course of action, and ultimately deliver a solution that is accepted into your business environment.
Our services to property and construction companies have included:
- workflow management enhanced by diary prompts with the objective of getting vacant properties let quicker
- capturing budgeting information outside excel to allow quicker analysis of costs against budgets. Advance warning of overspends can greatly increase the ability to recover the additional costs
- procurement analysis across all sections of your business allows for a greater basis for which you can manage your suppliers and try and reduce costs by guaranteeing business
- costs to date analysis to identify projects or properties that are not burning costs at the expected rates in order for that project to be on schedule or similarly to identify projects that are overspending on costs
- simplification of the production of information packs, whether for the internal board or to publish externally
Project Examples
Investment and Construction Company - development and implementation of a property management system.
Property Management Company - development of Surveying Management, Cost and Project Planning tool together with analytics capability to analyse property management contract data. With an Oracle back end and working closely with the in-house business and technical teams.
A London based Land Securities Company / Large Real Estate Investment Trust - worked with internal developers to design and build a mobile Asset Data collection system for use on pocket PC devices. The system enables maintenance engineers to attach a barcode to an asset, scan the bar code using the integrated laser scanner and enter details which get stored on a SQLCE database. The information is then uploaded once a day back to a central Asset Management System via a SOAP based XML web service. All software was developed in c# .NET.
Property Management Company - installation and implementation of a property management system comprising front-end for adding new content as well as viewing and updating existing data which had been migrated from their legacy system. Project was developed in C# .NET and SQL Server 2000.The reporting services tool generated reports via the application as well as via the tool.
Contract Management for Property Management Company - a .NET system developed for the contracts team to manage the thousands of leases handled by them. The system helped handle changes in lease, sub-leasing, applying multiple business rules and setting reminders to help the team manage workflow.
Scandinavian construction company - application development work for Business Performance Maanageement to improve key performance reporting, access to project data, easier report writing. Reduced complexity and number of systems users access, data delivered directly into excel, real–time project teams can review progress and drill down into specific project detail, improving business processes. Fully integrated specialist service from data capture, monitoring and KPI reporting to detailed forecasting models.
“Moore Stephens have been the most professional partner on the project in so many ways, when they say they will deliver something they do deliver it and on time. For us, the differentiator has been their understanding of the required business output and the business led solution approach”.