In an innovative move for the home building industry, Dunmore Homes in Roseville, Calif., is one of the first builders to successfully deploy business intelligence software, which lets users make database queries over a Web browser and view the results graphically or in a data format.
Dunmore is using software from DimensionalBasix ( www.dimensionalbasix.net ), a software maker based in Albuquerque, N.M., that has done numerous database management and Web development projects for builders. The software lets Dunmore's senior management, office, and field staff run queries against a series of databases that delivers up-to-date information on the status of the company's projects. Dunmore employees can make queries and view data by specific lot, project, and when the houses were released for construction and sale.
The DimensionalBasix software runs across the Dunmore Access Network (DAN), Dunmore's corporate intranet. Users access DAN via password on the company's intranet and run the application over a Web browser. Each user can customize a home page based on the information that's pertinent to him or her. For example, supers may want to have a weather link, while salespeople would want to see the past week's or month's sales results.
Kathy Mortensen, Dunmore's director of information technology, says the new system gets Dunmore away from storing information in 30-plus Excel spreadsheets scattered in the hard drives of desktop computers across the company.
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