Jonas Explains Its Product, AND the Cloud

Get a concise overview of the SaaS aspect of the cloud, and learn more about Jonas’

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PlanSwift, RSA Alliance Embraces the Cloud

This partnership opens up a new avenue to the cloud for estimating and

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BeyondTrust Awarded Significant Patent for PowerBroker Desktops

Read how this technology helps with identity management and increases security for cloud processes

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Pacific Timesheet Rolls Out New Cloud Pricing Option

Company expands licenses based on access instead of just headcount to

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Dexter + Chaney Takes Measured Step Toward the Cloud

About three years ago, company president John Chaney realized the move to cloud computing was inevitable so he invested

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Initiatives Aim To Bring the Clouds Down To Earth

Two heavyweight cloud associations are combining their efforts to advance cloud interoperability and

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Textura and Grade Beam Join Forces

Textura and GradeBeam said the combination will create an integrated platform covering the

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Estimating and Takeoffs Take Wing to the Cloud

It wasn’t that long ago I was writing about digitizers and tools that allowed people to work on plans right on the computer screen. But now, with

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Obayashi Eyes Large Scale BIM in the Cloud

Deal among Obayashi, Graphisoft and NEC Corporation leverages full scale BIM in the cloud and

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Cloud Terminology

What would we do without acronyms, those little splashes of letters that substitute for a series of words? Well, we might find we’d have to develop a new word to describe what happens when your mind gets tongue-tied from having to decipher the same string of words repetitively. After all, SaaS, once you know it stands for software-as-a-service, is much easier to read, and to say, than its long form counterpart.

With cloud computing’s rise, people have come to question just how some of the new acronyms relate to old ones. One place that’s evident is the comparison between ASP, application service provider, and SaaS. Aren’t they the same thing? Not really. According to Tech Target, an ASP makes a customer-specific application available to a specific client, often through an online interface such as a browser. SaaS makes an internet-specific application available to many users.

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