The real estate industry is in the middle of a colossal paradigm shift in the way we operate buildings. Property owners and operators have had to constantly realign strategies to meet changing occupant needs and rely on data-driven insights to inform these key decisions in operations. The constraints imposed by the pandemic have made it even more crucial to have real-time building information readily accessible and therefore has put BAS and its many shortfalls in the spotlight today. While building automation has been hallmarked for years by outdated software, lack of openness, and an obsolete business model, property stakeholders have fully woken up to the problems in the BAS industry only now. The realization — that the traditional BAS software in buildings today is unsuited to access or share data in real-time, doesn’t interoperate with any other systems, and is questionably old school — has finally hit us hard.