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

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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 Quality Management Power BI Residential

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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Microsoft Fabric Power BI Power Apps Residential

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 Quality Management Microsoft Fabric Power BI

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 BIM Co-ordination Microsoft Fabric Power BI

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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Datascope Microsoft Fabric Power BI Workforce Intelligence

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 Microsoft Fabric Power BI

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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Group BC Design Management Microsoft Fabric Power BI

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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