Dudek is an environmental engineering consulting firm, helping its clients implement monitoring programs to make sure that they are taking care of the land that's been set aside for wildlife species.

In documenting potential impacts to wildlife, Dudek engineers often must monitor each species of animal spotted in an area, time, location, size, and behaviors in the habitat. This helps determine the viability of building a wind farm, solar plant, or any action that might impact an area. Over just a seven hour period, observers may collect several items of information on over a hundred species of animals, potentially accumulating thousands of points of data.

Before iFormBuilder
Dudek collected data traditionally with pen and paper, and as expected, issues often arose in entering data correctly, and speedily. Sometimes one observer would enter the information within one sub-category, while another engineer might input that information elsewhere. Often, the filtering of data was not only time-consuming, but frustrating, with a lower return on investment.

After iFormBuilder
Now, with iForm, as a solution, many of the problems in collecting data have been eliminated. One person can now do the work of two or three people, and in less time. As Project Manager Kamarul Muri added:

"With iForm, we were able to get up and running without any prior experience or expertise in databases or applications."

Muri added that Dudek is especially helped by iForm's ultra disconnected data collection features.

"Our sites are located in areas that are pretty remote, with no data service or connectivity. So its pretty key that we had a solution that was able to regardless of the conditions out there."