Data Panda brings your ABAX data together with the data from the rest of your business. From one place, we turn it into dashboards, automations, AI workflows and custom apps your team uses every day.
ABAX is a Norwegian telematics company, founded in 2008 in Larvik and active in Belgium from its office in Diegem. The platform has three parts: ABAX Fleet for vehicle tracking and the electronic trip log, ABAX Worksite for machines and equipment (position, operating hours, fuel level and utilisation) and ABAX Locator for tool tracking with small Bluetooth trackers. Its customers are mostly construction and infrastructure firms, landscapers and equipment rental companies. Facility managers, utilities and transport companies use it too.
Vehicles and machines report through an ABAX unit or, with ABAX Smart Connect, straight from the manufacturer's own telematics (Cat, JCB, Volvo and Stihl among others). Drivers mark a trip as business or private in the ABAX Driver App. The ABAX Open API makes that data available outside the platform: vehicles, trips with odometer readings, equipment with its usage log, people and departments, and driving behaviour scores. That is what lets it be reported on and combined with your ERP, accounting and planning systems.
Kilometres, operating hours and tool locations next to the job, the invoice and the payroll.
Let ABAX trips and usage logs start the paperwork instead of the office typing it.
Use trip and usage history to predict maintenance, idle machines and site overruns.
Small tools on ABAX data for people who do not need an ABAX admin login.
A list of concrete reports, automations and AI features we have built on ABAX data. Pick the one that matches your situation.
Which machines cost us more standing still than running?
Operating hours per machine from the ABAX usage log next to its lease or depreciation cost from accounting. Shows the excavator that ran forty hours last month against a fixed cost built for a hundred and sixty, before the next one is ordered.
Did we invoice every hour the rented machine ran?
Usage log hours per machine per site set against the hours on the rental invoice for that customer and period. The gap per contract comes out as a list, not as a discussion when the customer disputes the invoice.
How much of our fleet mileage is private, and does it match the payroll?
Trips per vehicle and per driver with their business or private class from ABAX, next to the mileage allowance and the benefit in kind in payroll. Finance sees per driver whether the numbers agree before the year-end tax file is prepared.
Kilometres, operating hours and tool inventory from ABAX next to leasing, depreciation, fuel and payroll. The cost of a van or a machine per job becomes a monthly number instead of an estimate made once at budget time.
Realised kilometres and machine hours per customer and per site behind every quote. The next offer for a similar job is built on what the last one really took, and a rental customer gets an invoice that matches the usage log.
Which machines and tools are on which site, which vans are moving and which machines are due for service, on one board. The site manager plans tomorrow from today's positions, not from a round of phone calls.
Business trips per customer address and operating hours per rented machine land in Exact Online as draft invoice lines per customer and per period. The office invoices what the ABAX units registered, and the rental customer sees the same hours on the invoice as in the usage log.
Operating hours per machine and kilometres per vehicle from ABAX are posted as resource usage on the matching job and job task in Business Central. Job cost stays in step with what ran on the site, and finance closes projects on real machine hours instead of the planner's estimate.
Equipment in ABAX is matched to the products and rental orders in Odoo, so each running rental order shows the current location and operating hours of the machine. Returns, over-use and equipment that is not on the customer's site show up on the Odoo order instead of in a separate portal.
Trips to a customer address and machine hours on that site are attached to the matching project in Teamleader Focus. The project manager sees the travel and equipment cost of a project next to the hours already logged, and the final invoice covers all of it.
A morning post per site in Teams with the machines present, the vans that arrived, tools that were left behind and any geofence exits overnight. The site manager starts the day from one message instead of opening the ABAX map and phoning the depot.
You keep the reporting tool you already have. We connect it to the warehouse where your ABAX data lives.
OAuth authentication. Read-only by default. We sign a DPA and your admin keeps the keys. Read our DPA
Data flows into your warehouse on your schedule. Near real time or nightly, your call. You own the data.
We build the first dashboard, workflow or AI feature with you, then hand over the keys. Or we stay on for ongoing delivery.
We set up the foundation. Your team builds on top.
Best fit Teams that already have a BI analyst or data engineer and want to own the build.
We build the whole thing, end to end.
Best fit Teams without in-house BI or dev capacity. You tell us what you need and we deliver it.
You do. It lands in your warehouse, on your cloud account. We don't resell or aggregate it. If you stop working with us, the warehouse stays yours and keeps running.
Near real time for most operational systems. For heavier sources we schedule hourly or nightly. You pick based on what the reports need.
No. If you don't have one, we help you pick one and set it up as part of the first delivery. Common starting points are Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or a small Postgres start.
Yes: an ABAX administrator account and API credentials from the ABAX developer portal. ABAX has a machine-to-machine flow (client credentials) for integrations limited to your own organisation, which is what a warehouse sync uses; ABAX switches the credentials to that flow on request. The API allows 60 requests per minute by default, so we schedule the sync to stay within that.
Every trip in ABAX carries a business or private class and, if the driver set one, a purpose. We keep that class on every row, so private trips stay out of customer and job reporting and only count as totals where payroll or the tax file needs them. Who sees which rows is set per role in the warehouse, the same way ABAX limits access in its own admin.
Vehicles with their unit, driver and department; trips with start and finish odometer readings, business or private class and purpose; equipment with location, operating hours and usage log; people and departments; and driving behaviour scores per driver and for the organisation. The API gives live positions as a current snapshot, so we store them as a history over time rather than replaying them minute by minute.
We review your ABAX setup and the systems around it. Together we pick the first thing worth building.