Contractors, specialty trades and field service companies run a business whose value is created on sites the corporate network has never seen. Project accounting, estimating, scheduling and field capture rarely agree with each other, margin is discovered after the job rather than during it, and technology decisions get made by whoever was standing nearest when something broke.
Estimating, project management, field capture and accounting each hold part of the truth, and reconciling them is a person with a spreadsheet.
Job cost arrives weeks after the decisions that determined it, so the site team learns what a change order really cost long after they could have acted.
Connectivity, devices and access at temporary locations improvised job by job, which is also how credentials and equipment go missing.
Estimating, field capture and accounting joined so margin is visible while the job is still running, not at close-out.
A repeatable pattern for connectivity, devices and access at a new site, so mobilisation stops being invented each time.
Owner and contractor security demands translated into a sequenced programme you can actually bid against.