Jasper’s strategy reflects a broader push within Oracle to better share data across its construction products, including Primavera and Textura. Oracle realizes there is still much to be gained by providing better integration between its platforms without forcing big changes in how they function, says Mike Sicilia, senior vice president and general manager for Oracle Construction and Engineering.

“I’m not a big believer in tightly coupling everything together from a data standpoint,” he told ENR. “The best way to bring these systems together is through composite analytics.” Oracle plans to launch, sometime in 2019, a cloud-based analytics platform that compiles data sets from different Oracle products, says Sicilia.

In addition, Jasper says Aconex was already working on supply-chain data before the deal, and sees it as key to better overall analytics. “We’re working with Textura so we can track manufacturers. There’s a big data opportunity there. We’re getting all this data in one place, and you start to see how it changes how you do business. No one has 100% of the data puzzle, but these are the big pieces.”