Construction Magazine December 2017 | Page 9

“ We face the challenge of lowadoption rates with new technologies in the construction industry where in many cases companies are still using outdated legacy tools ”

– Guy Barlow , Global Commercial Director to a range of industries , contractors and owners on a variety of projects . “ We face the challenge of lowadoption rates with new technologies in the construction industry where in many cases companies are still using outdated legacy tools ,” reveals Guy Barlow , Global Commercial Director for Aconex . “ I spent a number of years with Oracle working on their Primavera business unit so I ’ m very familiar with this space , because we had a competing product . Now , a lot of those products are built up of old technology , typically legacy on-premise , so the user experience is pretty weak given the prevalence of all the apps we ’ re so used to . Deploying
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