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PRESIDENT, JBKNOWLEDGE

JAMES M BENHAM

What’s Here and What’s Coming in Construction TechTECHNOLOGY FORECAST

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BANDWIDTH IS GETTING WAY, WAY BETTER

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS


MOBILE JOBSITE COMPUTING BECAME MUCH EASIER


BLACKBERRY ROLLS OUT SOMETHING DECENT, ABOUT FIVE YEARS TOO LATE, ON THE WAY TO BECOMING A

PURE SOFTWARE COMPANY.



MICROSOFT TAKES TWO STEPS FORWARD (WINDOWS 8), AND ONE STEP BACK (WINDOWS 8.1)



I FINISHED ALL 4 SEASONS OF

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA



JOHNNY MANZIEL HAD A BUSY OFFSEASON… AND A GREAT ON-SEASON



WHATS IN MY BAG THESE DAYS


A RECENT QUOTE

“I got into construction in the decades ago because you didn’t have to be a rocket scientist, only to find out that now, you have to be a rocket scientist to be in construction”


WHO WAS SURVEYED


WHO WAS SURVEYED

FROM ACROSS THE INDUSTRY...


FROM COMPANIES OF ALL SIZES....


WHO WAS SURVEYED

THE CLOUD

WHAT IS THE CLOUD? IT’S: Self Service Resource Pooling Scalable Programmable Broad Access

PUBLIC/PRIVATE/HYBRID


PROMINENT PUBLIC CLOUD PLATFORMS


THEY IDENTIFIED WHICH OF THE SOFTWARE IN USE BY THEIR COMPANY CAN BE CLOUD-BASED


DOES THEIR COMPANY HAVE POLICES AND PROCEDURES FOR CLOUD SECURITY?


HOW ARE THEY SECURING THE SOLUTIONS THAT ARE CLOUD-BASED?


CLOUD SECURITY

Implementation Tools • Source Code and Database Escrow • Continuous Local Backup • Two Factor Authentication • On Site Due Diligence of Vendors


MY CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS RECOMMENDED CLOUD DEPLOYMENT

BIM CRM ESTIMATING PROJECT MANAGEMENT BID MANAGEMENT

ACCOUNTING ECM & INTRANET EMAIL PBX

PUBLIC/HYBRID CLOUD

PRIVATE CLOUD


ARE THEY USING ACCOUNTING TECHNOLOGY?


ARE THEY USING ESTIMATING TECHNOLOGY?


ARE THEY USING INVITATION TO BID/PLAN ROOM TECHNOLOGY?


ARE THEY USING PROJECT MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY?


ARE THEY USING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) TECHNOLOGY?


ARE THEY USING CLIENT RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) TECHNOLOGY?


HOW MANY OF THEIR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS INTEGRATE WITH EACH OTHER?


HOW DO THEY TRANSFER DATA BETWEEN SOFTWARE THET DON´T INTEGRATE?


ONE YEAR UPDATE

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WENT FROM 5 MEMBERS TO 12 !WRAPPING UP TWO DRAFT STANDARDS (PLAN ROOM AND TIME CARDS) !AGREEMENT TO SERVE AS AGCXML INDUSTRY TEST GROUP

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MOBILE


HOW IMPORTANT ARE MOBILE INTEGRATION & CAPABILITIES WHEN MAKING SOFTWARE PURCHASING DECISION?


DO ANY OF CURRENT SOFTWARE PROVIDERS OFFER A MOBILE APP?

IF YES, WHO?


WHAT PERSONAL AND CORPORATE MOBILE DEVICES DO THEY USE* DAILY?


DOES THEIR COMPANY ALLOW PERSONAL DEVICES TO BE USED FOR WORK PURPOSES?

IF YES, DOES THEIR COMPANY SECURE AND/OR APROVE THE DEVICE BEFORE USE?


WHAT ARE THE TOP 10 MOBILE APPS THEY ARE USING?

1 SmartBidNet * 2. PlanGrid 3. AutoCAD® 360 by Autodesk®

4. BIM 360™ Glue by Autodesk®

5. Sage Construction Anywhere

6. MagicPlan 7. Construction Master® 5

8. iAuditor 9. Prolog Mobile 10. Vela Systems® Mobile

* The developer of SmartBidNet, JBKnowledge, conducted this survey and many respondents were SmartBidNet clients. Therefore the results of this question may be biased.

WHAT ARE THE TOP 10 FREE WEB-BASED AND DESKTOP APPS THEY ARE USING?

1 Google™ Earth 2 DropBox 3 Google Docs 4 SketchUp™ (A Trimble® Company)

5 yousendit™

6 Box 7 Microsoft® Office 365 Live

8 join.me 9 Tekla® BIMsight

10 Microsoft® SkyDrive


MY CONCLUSIONS !

& RECOMMENDATIONS


MY CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS

At 1% of rev, construction companies’ IT budgets are abnormally small and staffs are stretched very thin. We have to do more with less than other industries.


Secure mobile & cloud is viable right now, and should be implemented. Adoption rate of mobile and cloud is already higher than expected.



Still far too reliant on Excel for Storage, Computing and Data Transfer !We need cross platform, not just closed-loop, integration



Industry needs to get Serious About On Premise and Cloud Security



Everything needs to be in a private or public cloud



MY PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE

Fiber and 5G Gig over Wireless become a reality everywhere


Lines continue to fade

between desktop, mobile

and web. It becomes more

about online/offline, and

which apps need more of the

CPU/GPU.



And Once This Integrated, Mobile, Connected World Comes Together...



Passwords become obsolete



All Users on All Apps Communicate in Real Time



Augmented Reality Becomes Pervasive



THE FUTURE OF CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY AUGMENTED REALITY


LIVE DEMO


WEARABLE COMPUTING TAKES THE PLACE OF TABLETS



CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS, THEN ENTIRE BUILDINGS, ARE PRINTED



HOW DO YOU IMPACT CHANGE?

Demand Integration

Try cloud integrated software

Give mobile tech a try now

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Adopt new tech and processes4


GET STARTED TONIGHT

1 Google™ Earth 2 DropBox 3 Google Docs 4 SketchUp™ (A Trimble® Company)

5 yousendit™

6 Box 7 Microsoft® Office 365 Live

8 join.me 9 Tekla® BIMsight

10 Microsoft® SkyDrive


smartbidnet.com

Plan Distribution

Subcontractor Data

Project Communication

Prequalification


http://www.smartbidnet.com

smartcomplianceinc.com

Vendor Compliance

Certificate of Insurance Analysis

Contract Storage

Auto Reminders & Notification


http://smartcomplianceinc.com

smartreality.co

Coming Soon

Augmented Reality

Plan File Overlays

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James Benham JB Knowledge Technologies, Inc.

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