There is a lot of data in construction, so much that how to deal with it efficiently is an issue. This issue of operations around data has been explored in many other industries, and we can benefit from their learning curve. I've asked Ryan Gross to join for a second time to go deep on this important issue. We discuss a bunch of tools that construction teams can work with at low cost to extract, transform, analyze and otherwise manage their data. We also talk about processes and considerations for standing up data processes. The importance of a tried and tested technology, Structured Query Language, or SQL, and why teams should learn SQL, is a big takeaway, amongst others.

This episode is a must listen for innovation teams, IT teams, PMs and other looking to up their Data Game.

Where will your company's data architecture need to be in 5 years? Probably where some more data-intensive industries, like social media and finance, are now. Join Al Vazquez and Ryan Gross, two very accomplished data architects, as they discuss how massive, petabyte-scale systems are created, how distributed cloud can make jobsites into data-rich ecosystems, and how to get started will all of this. A truly fantastic episode.

Through their Aconex, P6 and other construction software products, Oracle has access to a great deal of construction data. In recent years Oracle has created data-driven, artificial intelligence offering called the "Construction Intelligence Cloud," which they are releasing now. Karthik Venkatasubramanian is responsible for the strategy and execution that led to this new product, and he talks us through some of the process Oracle underwent to create this new product, and crucially, how Oracle manages to keep contractor data proprietary while still using a state of the art, data-driven system.

The Construction industry has seen rapid and unprecedented adoption of software, which has in turn created a wave of new data, and appreciation for existing data. But what do we do with all this data? Is all data valuable? How do we protect, leverage and partner to get value from data? This first episode lays out and explores some of the issues that we'll dive into in greater depth in future episodes. Stephen Poppe, a former PM and current customer success leader in construction technology, joins me as moderator.