Aecom is one of the largest multinational engineering and infrastructure consulting firms, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges.
Headquartered out of the United States, it operates across all continents with 86.000 staff and is ranked 189th on the global Fortune 500. It delivers professional services throughout the project lifecycle, with projects spanning from transportation, water, new energy and environment in both the public and private sector.
During rapid year on year growth, AECOM struggled to manage its most important assets, it's people! This was a complex manual process, utilizing spreadsheets with a variety of supporting software solutions that resulted in a lot of inaccuracy, cost overruns, operational bottlenecks and manual interventions. Since majority of the projects are relatively small (duration of approx. 4-6months) and primarily based on skillsets, most of the staff are working on a minimum of 3-5 projects at a time. Prior to establishing a strategic relationship with Keross, A
Distinguished through key performance indicators, Keross implemented a fully tailored resource management solution in under 2 months, with absolutely no compromise. The resource planning and management solution integrated all technical and functional requirements, while removing dependency towards obsolete and fragmented third party systems, such as PowerBI, Primavera P6 etc. The solution enabled the business to have aggregated, real-time access to information across all projects with tailored visual dashboards & reports. Aside from providing granular visibility into demand and availability, Ikon enabled Aecom management to act-upon their business thresholds resulting in a drastic improvement of resource allocation, reduction of manual effort and an increase in customer satisfaction.
The complete and very granular Resource Management tool was implemented using Ikon in less than 2 months. The industry was not able to achieve the development of such a solution using a variety of different vendors.
Amer Mneimneh, Vice President Middle East and Africa, AECOM
The resource planning and management solution integrated all technical and functional requirements, while removing dependency towards obsolete and fragmented third party systems, such as PowerBI, Primavera P6 etc.
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Revolutionizing Fee Estimation: The Bid Model Solution for Centralized, Transparent, and Streamlined Bidding Processes
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More than 20,000 large projects of Atkins, a well-known British AEC company, worked with separated management processes, resource planning and solution testing. Low compatible systems and manual reporting were used. Ikon allowed Atkins to integrate in real time data from finance, ERP, management, HRMS, CRM, and many sources, creating a “single source oif truth”, dashboards, resource management, trend and discount analysis, and more. Atkins is one of the a architecture and engineering consultancies responsible for designing some of the most iconic buildings in the world.
Aecom is one of the largest multinational engineering and infrastructure consulting firms, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Headquartered out of the United States, it operates across all continents with 86.000 staff and is ranked 189th on the global Fortune 500. It delivers professional services throughout the project lifecycle, with projects spanning from transportation, water, new energy and environment in both the public and private sector.
Atkins is one of the leading architecture and engineering consultancies responsible for designing some of the most iconic buildings in the world. The industry is under pressure with increasing competition, low margins and relative high risk. To survive and grow, the industry needs to modernize while driving productivity through agility and innovation in order to win bids, improve margin and offer new services.
Amadeus is one of the top travel technology companies in the world helping travel companies connect to the travel ecosystem. Amadeus builds critical solutions that help airlines and airports, hotels and railways, search engines, travel agencies, tour operators and other travel players to run their operations and improve the travel experience.
The explanation how automation can benefit professional services businesses in six ways: increasing efficiency, reducing errors, improving customer satisfaction, enhancing collaboration, enabling scalability, and gaining competitive advantage. It also introduces Ikon, a platform by Keross that automates data orchestration and enables digital transformation for various industries. The automation is not a threat, but an opportunity for professional services businesses to grow and thrive.
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Is the AEC industry broken? The discussion about a growing view that the current Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry operating model, relied upon all over the world for the delivery of infrastructure, is broken. Success in the AEC industry is now measured in isolation by each federated entity in the supply chain. Sharing data and using technology is the key to changing the landscape.
The introduction of the concept of data orchestration, which is the process of integrating, managing, and analyzing data from various sources and systems. It explains how data orchestration can help businesses achieve digital transformation and data-driven decision making, as well as improve data quality, security, and governance. It also relates data orchestration to the author’s personal experience of ordering a latte, and how it can enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty.
The criticism of the low-code/no-code (LC/NC) development trend as a convenient distraction that does not address the real problems of software development. It argues that LC/NC platforms are limited, costly, and risky, and that they create more complexity and dependency than they solve. It also suggests that the true solution is to empower developers with better tools and practices, and to adopt a data-driven approach to software engineering.
Data orchestration is more than just a new buzz phrase. Learn how Keross uses its solution, the Ikon Platform by Keross, for business operations integration and illumination. Read about how Ikon platform automates routine tasks, predicts upcoming issues, and provides user analysis and reporting in easy-to-understand visual panels.
