IDG Contributor Network: How Procore brought the cloud to the $10 trillion construction industry

When the history of cloud software is written its beginnings will be traced to 1998 and the founding of NetLedger (Now Oracle-owned NetSuite) an accounting app. Over the course of two decades companies like Salesforce.com, Workday and Concur would follow, upending old assumptions about business applications, and creating a marketplace where the public companies alone are worth a combined $175 billion.Today pretty much any new business app runs in the cloud because it’s what the marketplace