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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Intellection Group Client Wins 2006 TAG Excalibur Award
ATLANTA, GA (October 16, 2006) -- Macon E. Gooch, III, Building Consultants, Inc., a client of The Intellection Group, Inc., has been awarded the 2006 TAG Excalibur Award in the Small Organization category for "innovative use of technology" by "tech-enabled" companies.
"Macon E. Gooch III Building Consultants, Inc. provides inspection services to the residential and commercial construction industry throughout the Atlanta area. They decided to engage The Intellection Group to create a web-based system that supported order handling, field work and office functions. The system captures information from the initial contact through the billing process."
Nominees for the Excalibur Award were judged on a variety of criteria including the scope of the problem solved, the creativity of the technology- enabled solution, return on investment and business results.
"As we concluded the second year of this event, we were thrilled with the wide range of support from the technology community," said Marc Fleury, chairperson of the event and chief executive officer of JBoss. “We doubled our number of applications for the Excalibur Awards over last year. The event is continuing to build momentum and we look forward to bigger and better Excalibur Awards in coming years."
Results Through Collaboration
Since 1992, market leader Macon Gooch has performed well over 250,000 inspections, including not only foundations and framing systems, but all mechanical and building finals. The firm has diversified its scope of services to include complete framing plans, structural design, follow-up home inspection reports, remodeling design and specification, FHA foundation inspections, Elevation Certificates and Expert Witness Testimony. Over 250 distinct billable services are offered by the firm. By 2004, however, company's growth had created an overwhelming paperwork handling problem, which created a series of additional downstream challenges.
The company turned to state-of-the-art information technology to solve these problems. Existing off-the-shelf solutions were expensive and inadequate in addressing the company’s unique business rules and distinctive services. In the end, they engaged The Intellection Group to create a unique web-based system that supported order handling, field work and back office functions, capturing all job information from the initial customer contact through to the billing process. The Intellection Group invested the resources and time to become familiar with the company’s business and unique complexity, then the two companies collaborated to build a comprehensive software solution, unequalled in the marketplace.
For every piece of field work, complex forms, each with a myriad of enforced business rules, need to be filled in by the inspector, now accomplished with a mobile TabletPC device and cellular Internet connection. Photos and scanned documents can be uploaded over the remote Internet connection; even the current local weather conditions are automatically logged by the system. Orders created back in the main office show up immediately and automatically on each inspectors machine in the field. Pay logs are automatically calculated and available at the main office. In short, the inspector can remain "on station" far longer each day and perform more inspections, without ever having to visit the main office.
Back at the office, incoming orders are created in the system, scheduled and assigned to the appropriate inspector. Legal affidavits, special letters and other documents are automatically created as needed for each order, each with it's own complex set of rules according to the type of work done, the county originating the work and other factors. Completed orders are passed through a system process that carefully controls how invoices are electronically posted to the off-the-shelf backend accounting system.
In short, work capacity almost doubled and inspector efficiency and accuracy improved immeasurably. The company now has the resources to pursue new markets and opportunities as never before. Centralized, real time information has given the owners powerful new ways to tune the business and improve profitability.
About The Intellection Group
The Intellection Group, Inc., specializes in delivering award-winning custom web-based business applications, especially hosted extranets, which can be hosted on our infrastructure. Our specialized development framework enables us to quickly build sophisticated, high-quality database applications that are available anytime and anywhere. We are also experienced in emerging technologies such as voice recognition, text-to-speech, natural language processing and RFID. Our patent-pending (now patented) technology architecture marries these areas together with database technology to deliver state-of-the art applications to wireless handheld devices and personal computers.
For additional information, contact Dave Bernard (dbernard@IntellectionGroup.com, 678-283-4283).
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