New Cloud Computing Trends

A few years ago the majority of construction professionals knew very little about the technology infrastructures that are available to them. This, however, has started to change.

Many construction companies are starting to move to cloud-based software as their hardware starts aging. This usually is the effect of having very little or no in-house IT staff to keep providing support. As the cloud starts maturing, companies become more confident in the technology's security and it's capabilities providing them with ways to reduce the IT costs.

In construction, cloud-based apps will move further away from being isolated solutions that solve few problems. Instead, we will have more integrated cloud apps that support many aspects of construction. This will allow construction companies to automate entire manual processes that often cross between the office and the field.

Additionally, cloud applications make it much easier and more cost-effective to analyze data from across a contractor's company and convert it into meaningful analytics for better decision making. Access to dashboards, back-end administrations, and other valuable analytics will be more accessible via mobile devices.

There's no doubt that cloud technology will continue to transform the construction industry. The Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, robotics and the next stages of BIM are just a few technology examples of this transformation.

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