Interoperability Intrigue: COSA & agcXML
|| Make Carrozzo published Interoperability Intrigue: COSA & agcXML in Constructech Magazine in the May/June 2013 issue. ||
Although you’ll never him to admit as much, James Benham stirred the pot in construction. When the founder and president of JB Knowledge, www.jbknowledge.com, Bryan, Texas took the stage at the AGC IT Conference last fall, his announcement to the construction industry was direct: The formation of COSA (Construction Open Software Alliance). His message to the construction industry, however, was a bit more indirect: “Let’s get moving here.”
The concept he is pushing is “get moving” for open standards and interoperability, which is where COSA comes in. Made up of cloud and desktop-based technology offerings, such as…