Purchase will enable Oracle to pursue plans to expand its AI-based safety analysis to other areas of construction on its cloud platform. 

As drone photography, reality capture and site scanning continue to grow in importance for contractors, so have the skills of the pilots.

Oracle expands its cloud analytics capabilities, while Procore partners with Amazon on digital twins.

On the Scene, Midwest Events, May '22.

As more firms store their project data in the cloud, it offers the chance to dig through that data for new insights. Oracle has already offered some limited business intelligence dashboards for its cloud service, but the technology giant is now bringing machine-learning advice to company's scheduling and project data. 

Looking to bolster development of new technologies for construction and give industry players a place to test new products, Oracle has created a Construction and Engineering Innovation Lab.

Seeing drones and augmented-reality headsets up close isn’t the novelty it was for construction professionals just a few years ago.