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Trimble announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Viewpoint from Bain Capital in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.2 billion. Viewpoint is highly complementary to Trimble's e-Builder business, and will extend Trimble's ability to provide more complete and integrated project, jobsite and business workflows across the construction lifecycle.

Viewpoint is pleased to announce the acquisition of Keystyle Data Solutions (Keystyle). Based in Monrovia, Calif., Keystyle has been a leading Viewpoint technology partner since 2014, developing easy-to-use browser interfaces which extend the value of Viewpoint construction management software to a contractors’ employees, project managers, and job site superintendents.

Neverfail recently announced that it has opened a new data center in Sydney, Australia. The company said the new data center, which is now online and already serving the company's various ISV and enterprise clients, supports production and disaster recovery for customers and enables customer growth in the APAC region.

American disaster recovery and cloud company Neverfail announced the opening of its new data center this week. The Sydney data center has been online since February, already serving 38 customers.

Viewpoint today announced significant growth in the fourth quarter of 2017. The results build on the record growth achieved by the company earlier in the year, sparked by demand for its integrated cloud-based construction software solutions. Viewpoint's integrated software suite helps its nearly 8,000 clients increase efficiency and profitability across the office, team and field.

Viewpoint today announced record customer growth in Q3 2017. The company continues to see increased demand for its innovative, cloud-based software solutions that enable contractors to increase productivity and profitability by integrating operations across the office, team and field.

Viewpoint today announced a partnership with drone mapping software platform DroneDeploy to help construction companies track job progress, save time and reduce risk with drone maps and 3D models. Drone technology is becoming increasingly prevalent on jobsites as an efficient means of collecting aerial data to aid in design, planning and construction management.

Industry leaders Viewpoint, BKD LLP & FMI Corporation have teamed up to perform deep research into construction productivity issues in order to make practical recommendations for areas of improvement. The lag in global construction productivity has been widely reported by a number of leading research firms and has been estimated at as much as 1.2 trillion dollars annually. Improving productivity by as much as 10-20 percent could make a huge impact on the construction economy, providing more funding and/or resources for critical infrastructure projects which have been traditionally underfunded.

Storms such as Cyclone Debbie and construction mishaps such as cut wires can wreak havoc on business connectivity. Given the importance of maintaining and restoring connectivity following disruptive events, many businesses have created data recovery plans. One of the key factors in such plans is choosing on-premise versus cloud-based storage.

Australia’s mining boom propelled the economy forward while most other countries were faltering in the global financial crisis. Huge demand from China and India for resources such as iron ore and coal started climbing around 2003, but commodities prices began a downward trend in 2013.