Aquifer

At Procore, we are excited to highlight our partnership with Aquifer. Aquifer is the first integration platform to connect ArcGIS with Procore, allowing your field teams to use Esri's field tools and sync that data into Procore, or vice versa, syncing Procore objects into ArcGIS for display. Learn more --> https://ow.ly/p0fh50Q769g

Since next week is all about GIS, I thought I'd talk about what I'd like to see merged, BIM and GIS. BIM (Building Information Model), digital twin, there's a few terms out there and each term has a more specific context, like certain standards around BIM, but what it really means is representing real world objects in the physical world in a computer in order to design, build, maintain, and operate them. BIM is used more by vertical (building) construction folks and has some specific standards. Horizontal (roads, pipelines, etc) construction folks are starting to use BIM, and some of the same standards, but of course the B in BIM gets awkward. Digital Twin was used more in manufacturing space, then bridge and complex infrastructure, and it's now somewhat interchangeable. Another key is that it's not just the spatial data (2D and 3D points and shapes) but also information about those real world objects and their relationships (the material, the model, speed of a turbine, etc). However, the tooling out there doesn't seem to be made for the web, APIs, or client (web browser) <-> server viewing and manipulation. GIS has been doing this for decades at this point, now in 2D and 3D. I had to wait two minutes for a BIM viewer to load a file in my web browser, use GBs of memory, and be slow. Using 2D and 3D tiling, Google Maps, ArcGIS Online, and similar web viewers are able to visualize 2D and 3D objects and display information. There's also standard APIs that can read and write information. Can we get BIM here? Can BIM, digital twin, and GIS merge in spatial data or digital twin (no B and not necessarily geo)?

ERP file attachment limits are small Two of the leading web based ERPs have 2.5 MB and 10MB limits. That's in 2024, but those limits were set years or even decades ago, closer to when those applications were originally created. Other ERPs are based on old fashioned database and thick Windows desktop clients. Many of those have low file limits and store files directly in the database. More businesses than you would think use these ERPs. Most file attachments going into an ERP are small, hundreds of KB PDFs, but some are larger and need to be. Especially in construction and industrial applications where POs and Invoices may contain detailed specs, plans, or diagrams for the order. For ERPs that allow for custom fields and custom objects, we've been able to help customers get around this by storing files as links to other file storage like SharePoint or S3, where file limits are in the GBs or TBs and cost pennies per GB to store. #erp #erps #sharepoint #s3 #integration

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“When looking at who is renting at Piazza Alta . . . we found over half of residents are from out of state, in their early 30s or older and have six-figure incomes,” Matthew Pestronk Post Brothers co-founder told Forbes. “They’re choosing to rent with us because they want bigger, high-quality apartments that are virtually unheard of in densely populated urban areas. All of this points to the larger idea that cities aren’t dead, they’re simply evolving.” https://lnkd.in/eTAjgEd9