Case studies

Evidence-led stories, not generic claims

Client stories from construction and built environment organisations using Acumine to improve visibility, reduce reporting effort and build stronger data foundations.

McLaren Construction: future-ready data architecture

Challenge: create a more modern BI architecture and integrate critical business systems.

Acumine role: Microsoft Fabric data architecture, integration support, reporting foundations and visibility improvement.

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Enterprise analytics programme for a leading tier 1 contractor

Challenge: connect finance, commercial, programme, design and digital construction data across a national portfolio into a single reporting environment.

Acumine role: enterprise data platform, seven integrated solutions spanning finance, commercial, programme, design and digital construction reporting.

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Wates & SES Engineering Services: programme analytics and resource reporting

Challenge: give project teams and leadership meaningful programme visibility that Asta PowerProject and Asta Vision cannot deliver natively.

Acumine role: Asta integration, portfolio programme analytics, company-specific dashboards and Power Apps for resource capture and reporting.

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Tilbury Douglas: unified S-Curve reporting across Asta and Primavera P6

Challenge: deliver consistent programme reporting across a portfolio spanning two scheduling tools, with S-Curves at project and work package level from a single dashboard.

Acumine role: dual integration from Asta PowerProject and Oracle Primavera P6, normalised programme data model, and unified Power BI reporting with project and work package S-Curves.

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Dalux: extending quality reporting from project to portfolio

Challenge: augment Dalux's built-in reporting to give project teams, business unit leads and leadership portfolio-wide quality visibility and work package analytics.

Acumine role: Power BI reporting layer on top of Dalux data, covering portfolio overview, project and work package quality analytics, supply chain performance and overdue item tracking.

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Asite: extending design management reporting from project to portfolio

Challenge: augment Asite's built-in reporting to give design managers, project teams and leadership portfolio-wide visibility of document status, RFIs, submittals and task performance.

Acumine role: Microsoft Fabric medallion architecture, Asite API integration, Power BI reporting covering document status, overdue monitoring, forms analytics and supply chain design performance.

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IDP reporting: portfolio-scale design analytics with Morta

Challenge: consolidate fragmented project-by-project IDP tracking into a consistent, scalable reporting platform giving design managers and leadership visibility across around 100 live projects.

Acumine role: Microsoft Fabric medallion architecture, Morta integration, Power BI reporting, data quality assurance and row-level security.

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HoloBuilder: progress capture intelligence across a major construction portfolio

Challenge: give digital construction leaders and leadership a portfolio view of 360-degree capture compliance, business unit adoption and data quality — HoloBuilder captured everything project by project with no way to monitor performance across the portfolio.

Acumine role: HoloBuilder API integration, Azure Data Factory pipeline, six-page Power BI Progress Capture Report covering portfolio summary, business unit overview, capture compliance, project-level detail, system administration data quality and user adoption analytics.

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DroneDeploy: turning drone capture into operational insight

Challenge: transition from a non-scalable, at-risk CAA reporting process to a robust, API-led solution — with complex DroneDeploy API integration a core technical challenge — and extend it to provide operational drone insight for project teams and leadership.

Acumine role: DroneDeploy API integration, Microsoft Fabric data engineering, CAA compliance reporting and operational drone capture dashboards.

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Revizto: clash detection into design co-ordination insight

Challenge: turn Revizto clash issue data into a consistent management reporting tool, with a focus on clash resolution performance, supply chain engagement and driving consistent clash detection standards across the portfolio.

Acumine role: Power BI reporting layer, issue status and deadline tracking, user adoption analysis and audience-based access controls.

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FastDraft: turning contract management data into portfolio-wide insight

Challenge: get more from FastDraft beyond single-project views and native reports — giving leadership, business units and project teams consistent portfolio-wide visibility of contract values, communications and adoption.

Acumine role: integration across three FastDraft APIs, Azure and Databricks data pipelines, Power BI reporting covering leadership utilisation, adoption analytics, contract values, project events, communications intelligence and programme submissions.

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Salesforce to Power BI: automating sales stock reporting for a leading housebuilder

Challenge: replace a manual process of exporting multiple Salesforce reports to Excel with an automated, always-current sales stock reporting platform giving the sales team and leadership real-time portfolio visibility.

Acumine role: Salesforce Objects integration, Microsoft Fabric data model, Power BI reporting covering stock dashboard, sales forecast tracking, forward sales and current year available stock — refreshing eight times per working day.

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Development appraisals dashboard: from standalone Excel to portfolio intelligence

Challenge: give a leading housebuilder a live view of profitability, product mix and build programme across its entire development portfolio — without changing the Excel appraisal process teams rely on.

Acumine role: Microsoft Fabric data pipeline ingesting Excel development appraisals daily, Power BI dashboard covering portfolio metrics, unit mix, affordability, build programme forecast and cost vs revenue benchmarking.

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Zutec: from project-specific APIs to portfolio quality intelligence

Challenge: Zutec's project-specific API architecture meant portfolio-level quality reporting was not possible in the tool — leaving site management and leadership without a cross-development view of inspections, subcontractor performance and audit compliance.

Acumine role: Zutec API integration across all live projects, Power BI reporting covering inspection status, subcontractor performance matrix, open snag breakdown and a quality audit compliance dashboard with section and question-level drill-down.

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Commercial finance dashboard: live cost intelligence across a development portfolio

Challenge: commercial reviews, cost forecasts and actual finance data all lived in separate places — making portfolio-level margin, contingency and cashflow analysis impossible without significant manual effort.

Acumine role: finance system integration, standardised commercial review and cost forecasting submission via Power Apps, Microsoft Fabric data model, Power BI dashboard covering portfolio commercial performance, cashflow curves and project cost monitoring.

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Field View: portfolio quality and field management intelligence for a tier 1 contractor

Challenge: nearly 280,000 tasks and 93,000 forms recorded across a large project portfolio with no automated portfolio view — cross-project quality performance was compiled manually into monthly PowerPoint reports by regional teams.

Acumine role: Field View data integration, Microsoft Fabric data pipeline, Power BI dashboard covering task performance, form and permit activity, NCR root cause and financial liability analysis, and site diary reporting across all live projects.

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BIMcollab: portfolio design coordination intelligence for a tier 1 contractor

Challenge: over 165,000 coordination issues recorded across 32 live projects with no portfolio view of active issues, supply chain resolution performance, work package coordination pressure or platform adoption.

Acumine role: BIMcollab API integration, Microsoft Fabric data pipeline, nine-tab Power BI dashboard covering portfolio overview, project targets, coordination issue log, work package analysis, organisational performance and platform adoption analytics.

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Labour and productivity intelligence: from Datascope site data to portfolio workforce visibility

Challenge: workforce attendance data was captured in Datascope project by project with no portfolio view — leaving operations and leadership without a consistent picture of headcount, hours, workforce composition or productivity across live sites.

Acumine role: Datascope API integration, Microsoft Fabric data pipeline, finance system connection for productivity metrics, Power BI dashboard covering workforce trends, average daily headcount by project/subcontractor/person type and net cost per person and per hour benchmarking.

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Freshservice: IT service management intelligence for a leading tier 1 contractor

Challenge: give the IT department structured reporting on years of support ticket history — historical performance trends, per-agent analytics, a daily operational view and quarterly business-facing reporting that Freshservice could not deliver natively.

Acumine role: Freshservice API integration, Microsoft Fabric data pipeline, four-tab Power BI dashboard covering historical service analysis, team and agent performance, daily queue management and quarterly and yearly insights with period-over-period trending.

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Thrive: social value reporting from spreadsheet to live Power BI dashboard

Challenge: replace a manual Excel and PowerPoint social value reporting process with a live Power BI platform — giving senior leadership and project teams always-current visibility of social value performance against annual targets, driven directly from Thrive.

Acumine role: Thrive API integration, SharePoint annual target ingestion, Microsoft Fabric and Azure data pipeline, two-variant Power BI Social Sustainability Report covering leadership scorecard and project-level performance, with missing evidence housekeeping pages for proactive data quality management.

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Microsoft Dynamics 365: framework KPI reporting for public-sector construction procurement

Challenge: consolidate framework KPI reporting across Scape, CCS, Procure, Pagabo and NHS SBS — replacing spreadsheet trackers with a controlled, single-system platform that eliminated inconsistent calculations and compliance risk.

Acumine role: Microsoft Dynamics 365 model-driven apps (Opportunity Management, Projects, Project Data Capture), custom data model with 20+ plug-ins and workflows, controlled KPI calculation logic, automated framework-specific Excel and CSV exports, Power BI data quality reporting.

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Ynomia: precast manufacture performance intelligence for a tier 1 contractor

Challenge: Ynomia's native reporting could not be shared beyond a small, licence-limited group of users — leaving senior project leadership without visibility of a precast manufacturing process critical to the delivery of a major offsite programme of over 15,000 components across nine factories.

Acumine role: Azure data pipeline integrating Ynomia's internal API and the Dalux Build API, PCE delivery programme ingestion, and a four-page Power BI Pre-Cast Dashboard covering progress against plan (S-curve), unit-level data output, checklist summary and Dalux vesting — filterable by manufacturing supplier and unit type.

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Group BC: CDE document workflow intelligence for a tier 1 contractor

Challenge: document workflow, QA review and work package delivery data all lived inside individual Group BC project environments — giving design managers no portfolio view of document status, QA rejection rates, outstanding actions or supply chain performance across live programmes.

Acumine role: Group BC API integration, Microsoft Fabric data pipeline, nine-tab Power BI portfolio dashboard covering document workflow status, QA review performance, work package document delivery, design communications and supply chain performance — plus automated project-level workflow status and submissions review reports.

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