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Australia’s mining boom propelled the economy forward while most other countries were faltering in the global financial crisis. Huge demand from China and India for resources such as iron ore and coal started climbing around 2003, but commodities prices began a downward trend in 2013.

Storms such as Cyclone Debbie and construction mishaps such as cut wires can wreak havoc on business connectivity. Given the importance of maintaining and restoring connectivity following disruptive events, many businesses have created data recovery plans. One of the key factors in such plans is choosing on-premise versus cloud-based storage.

Large or small, any builder taking on a new job wants to know how much profit they expect to make on that job.

Neverfail recently announced that it has opened a new data center in Sydney, Australia. The company said the new data center, which is now online and already serving the company's various ISV and enterprise clients, supports production and disaster recovery for customers and enables customer growth in the APAC region.

American disaster recovery and cloud company Neverfail announced the opening of its new data center this week. The Sydney data center has been online since February, already serving 38 customers.

Construction is a high stakes game, with massive projects and equally massive budgets balancing on a knife-edge between success and failure. ‘‘A 2016 report by McKinsey, Managing Construction’s Digital Future, showed that around the world, on average, large projects go 20 per cent over schedule and up to 80 per cent over budget,’’ says Ian Desbrow, managing director of Australia and New Zealand sales for US-based construction software firm Viewpoint, ‘‘Australia is no exception. The industry is highly volatile, many contractors operate with razor-thin margins and just a handful of project issues can dramatically affect profitability.’’

rom drones and wearable devices to BIM modeling, robotics for design and prefabricated building, it’s clear that the construction industry is no longer content in the shadows as a slow adopter of new technology. Now, as advanced cloud computing infiltrates nearly every aspect of daily life (e.g., Amazon and Netflix), contractors are realizing the potential of web-based software to streamline and simplify processes across their entire operations—from the back office to the field and beyond.

Construction management software provider Viewpoint debuted earlier this month ViewpointOne, a cloud-based platform that aims to eliminate the traditional silos that exist between project management, human resources and financial controls.

When it comes to effectively managing today’s complex construction projects, collaboration is the key to success. With large, multi-faceted projects involving the potential for dozens, even hundreds of subcontractors, keeping track of communications, processing data, tracking job progress and changes and managing compliance issues can be a hefty task for even the most skilled project managers and construction lead teams.

Today’s construction projects are increasingly more complex and managing them is no easy task. Larger, more ambitious projects, rising material costs, an ongoing skilled labor shortage, and more regulatory and safety compliance scrutiny are among the many things that can keep contractors up at night. Viewpoint is changing that.