ContactInfo Tech, Inc. Construction Management Software Recognized by Computerworld Magazine’s Honors Program
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – October 14, 2002: Info Tech, Inc. and the Michigan Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) FieldManager software application was named as one of seven finalists in the Transportation category for this year's Computerworld Honors 21st Century Achievement Award. FieldManager is a comprehensive electronic highway construction management system.
Tom Rothrock, senior vice president, and Joseph Phelan, director of sales and customer support for Info Tech, attended the awards ceremony in Washington DC on June 2.
According to Daniel Morrow, Executive Director of the program, “The Computerworld Honors Program identifies and honors men and women from around the world whose visionary use of information technology produces and promotes positive social change.”
FieldManager was co-developed by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and Info Tech, Inc. of Gainesville, Florida. Sybase CEO John Chen nominated the application to the Computerworld program.
FieldManager is an easy-to-use PC-based, construction management system designed for use by state transportation agencies, local government agencies, engineering consultants and large contractors. It eliminates a time-consuming and error-prone paper process for managing road construction projects and is as an example of what can be done when the public and private sectors work together to create an application to transform the way business is done.
MDOT estimates that FieldManager saves their organization more than $20 million per year in reduced hands-on staff time, while construction projects are finished faster and contractors are paid sooner. Five other states and hundreds of cities, counties and consulting firms are now using the software and achieving comparable results.
“FieldManager is a great story to tell because it’s such a great example of the power of partnerships, both between state agencies and between the public and private sector,” said Teri Takai, Michigan Department of Information Technology director. “By putting our heads together and working as a team, we were able to develop a highly innovative suite of software used to manage and track road and bridge construction. I think the true success of the project is defined by the fact that other states are now using the software.”
The case study about FieldManager is now an official part of the Computerworld 2003 Honors Collection. The Computerworld Honors Program brings together the Chairmen or Chief Executive Officers of the foremost information technology companies in the world and the world’s leading universities, libraries and research institutions to document a revolution in progress: the global information technology revolution. For more information, visit www.cwheroes.org.
Info Tech, Inc., headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, is a nationally recognized company providing customer-oriented, highly technical consulting, software development, implementation, systems integration, network communications services and user training for state and local government highway transportation agencies and their consultant communities. For more information, visit www.infotechfl.com.
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