Why the Old Ways are Costing You New Money – Modernizing Technology
Modernizing Scheduling, Data, and Communication in Construction The 6 AM Crisis Your concrete crew arrives at dawn, ready to pour a foundation that represents weeks of preparation and coordination. By 6:15 AM, they discover the excavation is incomplete. The revised schedule that would have prevented this mistake never left someone’s inbox. The crew is angry […]
Keeping Trade Labor Happy with Tech
How Simple Frontend Software Can Keep Your Best Workers from Walking Tech + Labor: Can They Work Together? Technology provides powerful benefits for commercial construction, yet many companies discover that their tech investments are driving away the very workers they need most. The disconnect doesn’t lie in the concept of the tech, but in how […]
Meeting The Digital Consumer Where They Are
How Home Builders and Commercial Contractors Can Deliver Tech-Driven Buyer Experiences The New Reality of Home Buying It happens every day. Your prospective home buyer just finished buying a car through their smartphone during lunch, Postmated dinner while walking to their car, and matched with 3 potential dates before their commute ended. Now they’re […]
How Tech & Data-Driven Insights Can Transform a Construction Firm
Unlocking efficiency, visibility & profit across the jobsite What The Tech Is Going On The construction industry faces a perfect storm of challenges: project starts are declining, material costs are increasing, and skilled labor remains scarce and fickle. In this environment, competitive advantage no longer comes from equipment or materials—it comes from operational efficiency and […]
What defines places where software developers want to be?
What defines places where software developers want to be? “A record number of employees are quitting or thinking about doing so. More than 19 million U.S. workers — and counting — have quit their jobs since April 2021, a record pace disrupting businesses everywhere. ” This is an alarming statement from a McKinsey article titled […]
COTS vs Custom Software Development Comparison
COTS vs Custom Software Development Comparison What is COTS? COTS, short for ‘commercial off-the-shelf software, is any ready-made software or application created to address complex business challenges through a single application. Office product suites like MS Office and accounting software like QuickBooks are great examples of COTS products. What is Custom Software Development? Custom software development […]
5 Off-The-Shelf Software Advantages and Disadvantages
5 Off-The-Shelf Software Advantages and Disadvantages Off-the-shelf software products are generic software solutions that developers release for immediate use for the mass market. Unlike custom software, which is tailor-fit to meet the requirements of a specific user (and can give you a competitive advantage), off-the-shelf software packages simply come with a standardized set of features […]
Top 12 DevOps Best Practices
DevOps — the combination of development and IT system operations—has become an industry standard, allowing companies to be more nimble and deliver their software, services, and applications faster than ever. Despite its advantages, DevOps must be properly implemented to avoid potential pitfalls. For example, a recent report from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 team demonstrated the security […]
Your Application Deployment Checklist Template
Image Source: Pixabay Your Application Deployment Checklist Template Modern software is sophisticated, requiring complex infrastructure to run. At the same time, software deployment needs proper staging environments to push new updates, and small DevOps mistakes – such as forgetting to run particular scripts – can unleash new bugs instead of patching them up. But the […]
7 DevOps Challenges and How To Solve Them
As with any worthwhile endeavour, there are several challenges to implementing DevOps, and it is by no means an effortless venture. The first DevOps challenge is changing your existing culture, workflows and roles. Changing established processes to one that is leaner, more agile and more efficient takes time, follow-through and investment. Once you do, there’s […]
