Company Infrastructure

The term “Infrastructure” is a new term in the English language. It was first coined in 1927, and referred to the military organizational structure. It comes from the French, where it means subgrade, the native materials under a constructed pavement or railway. Around the time of the foundations of NATO, the term was synonymous with the military complex. The term became popular in the English language during the 1980s, in the United States.

But it was really only properly defined as a term in 1987, by the U.S. National Security Council, thusly:

"...both specific functional modes - highways, streets, roads, and bridges; mass transit; airports and airways; water supply and water resources; wastewater management; solid-waste treatment and disposal; electric power generation and transmission; telecommunications; and hazardous waste management - and the combined system these modal elements comprise. A comprehension of infrastructure spans not only these public works facilities, but also the operating procedures, management practices, and development policies that interact together with societal demand and the physical world to facilitate the transport of people and goods, provision of water for drinking and a variety of other uses, safe disposal of society's waste products, provision of energy where it is needed, and transmission of information within and between communities." [Infrastructure for the 21st Century]

Infrastructure is very important, indeed, the foundation of any construct, whether a road, a railway, or a business. The term covers the facets of any undertaking that are required in order for that undertaking to be conducted smoothly and with a minimum of hassles.

The term ‘infrastructure’ is used in two modes:

1. “Hard” : Hard Infrastructure refers to physical networks. This includes fixed assets (the building, for example) and the control systems or software used to operate, manage, and monitor the system.  Each type of business has its own infrastructure requirements.
2. “Soft” : Soft Infrastructure refers to the physical networks necessary for entity (whether it be a nation, or a business) functioning. This includes any highly specialized buildings and equipment needed for a particular type of entity, as well as non-physical systems such as the body of rules and regulations governing the particular entity, the financing of those systems, training institutions for professionals required to maintain the operation of the entity, and disciplining organizations (such as laws, rules, and regulations), and professional accreditation associations, among others. 

The basic difference between the two is “hard” refers to general necessities for any organization, while “soft” refers to specific needs for particular organizations.  

Business Infrastructure includes the following, among others:

• Security issues
• Proper work space for each employee
• Physically separate Technical department  
• State of art technology enables computers
• Security camera surveillance of office premises
• Separate rest rooms for gents and ladies employees
• Centralized Air conditioned office campus.  
• First-aid facility 
• Guest house availability
• Office library
• Pantry Facility or Break Room
• Separate server room
• 24 hour power backup

Lexprosoft Technologies takes a serious and comprehensive approach to its infrastructure, with the goal of serving its clients efficiently, and prominently; thus we treat the success of our clients as our own success.