For capital projects, business intelligence is our “why”; we take the data we’ve gathered and leverage data analysis to help create better project outcomes and improve overall business operations. Maybe that means coming in under budget, solving a minor supply chain issue before it can disrupt the project progress, or simply finishing a job according to schedule.

Data analytics is a broad term used to describe finding data insights. Data analytics tools can be as simple as spreadsheets to more advanced database management tools and software. The primary purpose behind data analytics is to find trends, investigate outliers, and measure performance.

Capital projects create enormous amounts of information every day, but how that data is gathered, organized, accessed, and used separates the top players from the average ones in the industry landscape. Managing large-scale construction projects requires many moving pieces to keep the operational wheels turning.