The system is being used daily by about 25 people over eight sites. The Altris system is available however, to nearly 150 people, some at sites up to 500 miles away, connected by radio links, a dedicated modem line and e-mail. Users can now sit in their office to review documents instead of travelling to the construction site. The new system also allows quicker access to the documents electronically. Documents which use to take hours to transmit from the platform to the inland sites now take less than a minute.
Future upgrades to the system include the installation of a workflow solution.
This is being done in a phased approach. The first phase was to get the system architecture and then to define the database. This included not merely replacing the OMNI-doc system, but expanding it as well. Then up revving documents to the current number between platform and the main office. The final phase was the installation of related tables in WIN-Track v2.