As of now, ViewpointOne is meant to give basic feedback on project performance, but Harris says the next step is building a robust analytics system to offer advice on project management and cost decisions. “Ultimately we want to turn this data into a predictive model to help predict the future,” he says.

At first, Viewpoint Analytics will focus on profit fade, offering top-level project and company managers an indicator on when their financial numbers are starting to slide out of control.

But before that can happen, Viewpoint has to get that data into a usable state. That’s where the new cloud-based dashboard ViewpointOne comes in. This platform, which come with a monthly subscription, will be the place to share data among various Viewpoint products. Harris also tells ENR that ViewpointOne will also serve as an integration point with the cloud-based, project-data services of Trimble, which acquired Viewpoint in 2018. “[Trimble] has a wealth of technology for field information capture that we can weave into our office, team and field platform,” says Harris. 

Early adopters are already feeding their data into Viewpoint’s analytics system. Kansas City, Mo.-based Garney Construction has begun the process of cleaning up its decades of digital project data to feed into Viewpoint’s new system. “We use Spectrum for all of our accounting—we’ve really been using it as a data warehouse,” says Meggan Krase, Garney Construction vice president and corporate controller. She says analytics would offer the company’s leadership a better understanding on how its projects are progressing across the country. “Our leadership came up working in the field, and now they can feel a bit cut off. Analyics can get them better information on how we are performing out there.”