An Innovative, IT Outsourcing Approach With ConstructionReports.com

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Brad Blaicher is an established presence in the Phoenix, Arizona, community who guides OnSite Temp Housing, providing RV temporary housing solutions for planned events and natural disasters. Focused on innovation, Brad Blaicher also has experience cofounding ConstructionReports.com, Inc., which employed a cost-saving, technology-driven approach and was successfully sold in 2017.

As reported in Forbes in 2010, the startup built on Mr. Blaicher’s past experience running IT for a construction data publisher. With ConstructionReports.com, one of his core aims was to establish an enterprise that did not have an IT department, as infrastructure had progressed to a point where IT facets operations did not need to be handled in house.

In enabling subscribers to search and browse through recent construction activity reports, the firm did not rely on its own database administrators and programmers. Instead, it made use of the web-based database administration, publishing, and design tool Caspio.

A rapid-application development tool that employed cloud computing principles before that was a common term, Caspio allowed Mr. Blaicher’s company to utilize JavaScript on the web page to publish database applications from content hosted on the Caspio servers. This allowed him to outsource technical burdens while publishing database content created by in-house reporters.

This efficient approach to sales data gathering and dissemination allowed his company to allocate resources that would otherwise have gone toward web development to areas such as sales and marketing, and producing quality content.