Procore

Austin, TX based Software Advice provides a software purchasing advisory service that we’ve written about before on the PowerTool blog. Software Advice takes calls from people seeking construction software and then directs those callers to the appropriate software vendor. These software vendors pay Software Advice for generating relevant customer leads, and the software user gets free advice and direction on which of the many types of available software vendors to contact.

For everyone involved, this is a great service. Customers quickly learn who makes the right kind of software for their needs, and vendors don’t get calls from customers interested in a type of software that the vendor doesn’t make.

Software Advice gets paid by their software vendor clients regardless of whether any software is actually purchased. As a result, we have found that Software Advice has a market viewpoint that is remarkably free of bias towards one vendor or a single type of product. Each year, Software Advice speaks with thousands of prospective software buyers. As a result of these conversations, the company has a great perspective on what’s going on in the construction software market.

Software Advice has recently provided an overview of the construction market with a blog post entitled Construction Software State of the Industry Report. This analysis is a timely summary of trends that Procore also sees in the market for construction software—particularly the nearly complete acceptance of Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery. In addition, the Software Advice piece notes the growing demand for LEED Certification Tracking systems, an area which Procore has expanded into with the recent release of our LEED Credit Tracking module.

We’re pleased to see that Software Advice agrees that Procore is on the leading edge of two of the strongest trends we’ve seen with our own customers—LEED Certification Tracking, and Software-as-a-Service application delivery.