Case Study: Buildertrend achieves faster, more reliable performance and superb uptime with Google Cloud Platform

Buildertrend Helping home builders with reliable, responsive software

Buildertrend is an Omaha-based developer of cloud software and mobile apps that help construction professionals manage projects, customers, and finances; the company (founded in 2006) supports about 500,000 users across 40+ countries and helps manage roughly 65,000 homes under construction in the U.S. Rapid user growth and interdependent, real-time field workflows exposed performance and resource limits in its shared hosting environment, creating latency and reliability risks that could cost customers time and money.

Buildertrend completed a lift-and-shift migration to Google Cloud Platform (using Compute Engine, BigQuery, and Stackdriver), building 32 virtual servers and moving tens of terabytes of data with just six minutes of downtime. Since the move they’ve achieved record-low response times and superb uptime, better monitoring and transparency, lower operational overhead, and cost savings through committed/sustained-use discounts, freeing the IT team to focus on new features and global expansion.

Buildertrend

Jeff Dugger

Cofounder