“The pace of change has never been this fast, yet it will never be this slow again.”
Nearly 1,500 days since its last user conference, Trimble CEO Rob Painter welcomed more than 5,000 construction industry professionals to its Dimensions 2022 event November 7-9 at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas.
In his keynote, Painter addressed how the company is driving technological change to optimize the entire construction project workflow.
Painter said Trimble remains centered around its mission of changing the way the world works and doing so via its Connect & Scale strategy, launched in January 2020. The customer-centric strategic direction is two-fold: 1) connect hardware and software, and 2) dynamically link project stakeholders, data and workflows across project lifecycles.
“Connect & Scale is modernizing and simplifying how we do business and making ourselves easier to do business with,” Painter said. “We have tens of millions of users of our software at Trimble today. We manage over $500 billion of projects through our systems. It’s an enormous amount of breadth and reach that we have, and what we’re doing is intersecting that with our underlying technology stack.”
With that, Painter outlined some the progress that resulted from $2 million in research and development in the last two years:
To create more digital and open workflows, as well as enrich its software ecosystem, the company has also been active on the acquisition and partnership front. Recent acquisitions included construction financial management software provider Viewpoint and project management software provider B2W.
