Robinson Industries, headquartered in Miami, Fl., is an electrical construction firm with offices in New Orleans, La., and Dallas, Tx. Not long after Hurricane Katrina, Robinson Industries was awarded the contract to maintain the nearly 55,000 street lights in New Orleans.

The Cram Group began hosting Robinson Industries' system management needs remotely when they were awarded the city contract. It developed a solution that gave Robinson project managers an integrated software suite with Timberline Service Management system at its core.

The system allows them to track each of the thousands of lights, seeing if any lights are out, what repairs have been scheduled, and which have been made; and they can monitor it all from anywhere they have Internet access.

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Our role as IT professionals is to provide and support enterprise solutions for the construction industry in order to make their jobs easier. Encompass Mobile is one of many tools that offer companies that are looking to streamline their data entry processes. This software platform grants users the flexibility to access any project within a Prolog database while still maintaining a familiar format for those that are versed in Prolog Manager.

One of the main advantages of using Encompass Mobile is that it's easily installed on a laptop or tablet PC, and when installed it becomes a mobile data entry tool for field staff. Along with allowing seamless transfer to and from the Prolog Manager database, Encompass honors the same security restrictions and access rights set forth by Prolog Manager security. Above you can see that each module is logically and conveniently laid out at the fingertips of the user. Field staff on the job will now have the opportunity to easily navigate the application with their stylus, enter in the data, and upload all the collected information into a Prolog database.