F E AT U R E How a Connected Platform Translates to Improved Performance by Michelle Turner, Procore Technologies
Procore’s Groundbreak 2020 featured more than 50 breakout sessions on a wide range of C&E topics, featuring in-depth conversations with industry players who know them best. One such session, “How to Leverage a Connected Platform to Maximize Productivity and Profitability”, centered around the perennial issue of productivity and how a real-time, connected platform can help construction pros save time, money, and aggravation every single day. For this breakout session, I sat down for a virtual conversation with Brad Sandidge, CFO of Marathon Electrical Contractors. Sandidge spoke about his first-hand experience in how a company
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What Is a Platform? Lagging productivity is a known issue in the industry, and its impacts cost the global economy tremendously. A connected platform can solve most, if not all, productivity challenges, bringing together a full suite of solutions all packed in one, easy-touse application. Construction projects are more expensive and complex than ever. Simultaneously, contractors are under increasing pressure to tighten
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deadlines, keep costs in line, and look for efficiency wherever possible. To make it all work, companies far too often end up depending on a cobbledtogether set of programs or systems that don’t even work together. Even the robust tech stack of specialty contractor tools are useless if they’re not integrated, disjointed or disconnected solutions really prevent your teams from effectively communicating and managing workflows between field and office. Sandidge, no stranger to the complexities of technological implementations, said he had known right away that a platform was the right
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