Connecting Construction Tools and Data with Interoperability

Your company (and your competitors) are already using dozens, maybe hundreds, of construction technologies between your different teams.

Adding to that, your vendors, subcontractors, project owner, other project stakeholders also come with their own technology stacks.

And the list is only getting longer.

Is everything compatible? Secure and compliant? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The complexity of modern construction projects makes it difficult to share large amounts of data between different systems and teams.

• Each project has many stakeholders, and different roles need different levels of access to information
• Each work group has a stack of different technologies that may not be integrated
• Each technology has different data validation, permissions, and security parameters

This struggle has prompted a move toward interoperability in construction.

Interoperability in construction is the ability to share and integrate information with different software systems, automatically.

It’s about meeting people where they are, with the tools they’re already using. You’ve probably heard of integrations or developer APIs, which is one way to achieve interoperability.

When critical data is connected automatically, businesses can scale. By removing barriers to share information, companies have better transparency with risk and profit, and your teams can trust the data.

Openness and interoperability are the future of construction management, and Trimble is constantly building new integrations that connect and automate the most common and labor-intensive construction workflows—including integrations with competing solutions.

For example, integration between service management provider BuildOps and Viewpoint Spectrum and Vista ERPs automates the flow of work orders, customer data, invoices, project KPIs and more, from the office to the field.

You can see all of Trimble’s internal and third-party integrations on Data Xchange.

We’re actively working on construction data integrations in the following areas:

1. Asset Management

2. Change Orders

3. Compliance

4. Document Management

5. Expense Management

6. HR Management

7. Material Management

8. Procurement

9. Project Management

10. Reporting & BI

11. Sales & CRM

12. Service Management

13. Time Management

See if Trimble supports an integration between the construction software programs your teams are already using every day—we might be able to make your life a little easier! Our latest ebook has the details.