CASE STUDY
Pond & Company( Pond) is a full-service architecture, engineering, planning, construction management and environmental services firm with several mid-size offices across the US and many smaller satellite offices.
Pond has also utilized application cloud sharing for about 40 % of projects that require BIM applications. 60 % of projects are with the Department of Defense( DOD), which limits cloud storage of project data( cloud portals must be FedRamp Certified).
The company works with clients in local and federal government, industrial and corporate sectors, operating in 50 US states and 29 countries worldwide.
As specialists in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction( AEC) fields, teams at Pond make extensive use of graphics-intensive applications including Building Information Modeling( BIM), Computer Aided Design( CAD), 3D rendering applications and analytical software. They also work with very large 3D laser pointclouds.
Pond supports these applications with in-house servers you would find in a typical AEC firm. Many offices have their own servers that sync project data.
During the COVID-19 pandemic Pond found connections for home and remote working – particularly on large data sets – to sometimes be subpar with the opening of 200 MB – 2 GB of BIM models, pointclouds and large CAD files having the potential to drastically reduce productivity. In addition, users from different offices were needed to work on the same projects, slowing productivity even further.
Post pandemic, Pond was keen to preserve its flexible working practices. To make this a viable option, the company needed a way to elevate performance.
‘’ The challenge we’ ve faced is giving people fast remote access to the data and applications they use
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