Trimble Connect connector

Use your Trimble Connect data for reporting, automation and AI.

Data Panda brings your Trimble Connect 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.

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About Trimble Connect

The BIM coordination hub from Trimble, the parent of Tekla and SketchUp.

Trimble Connect is a cloud common-data-environment built by Trimble Inc., the Westminster, Colorado company that also owns Tekla Structures, SketchUp and Viewpoint. It runs as a project hub for construction teams: 2D drawings, 3D BIM-models, ToDos, RFIs, documents and field comments live on one project, with a free tier for small teams and Business and Business Premium tiers for larger projects. The platform reads more than forty file types, with IFC and the Tekla model format at its core, and is reached from desktop, web and a mobile app on the werf.

The point of pulling Trimble Connect into a warehouse is that BIM-coordination data does not stop at the model viewer. Open ToDos against a discipline, RFIs that have been waiting since the structural model was last updated, clash counts that move with each new architect-revision, document review SLAs per project phase. In a warehouse, those signals sit next to the construction ERP that runs the contract and the planning, the accounting ledger that carries the bouwsom and the fleet feed from the bestelwagens. The werf where the model coordination is silently slipping becomes visible vóór de werfvergadering, not after.

What your Trimble Connect data is for

What you get once Trimble Connect is connected.

BIM-werf reporting

Open RFIs, ToDos, clashes and document reviews per werf on one screen.

  • Open ToDos per discipline and project phase
  • Clash backlog per architect-revision, per werf
  • Document review SLA per uitvoeringsdossier

Connect automation

Let Trimble Connect events drive the project and finance stack.

  • Closed Connect ToDos open a Robaws or Bouwsoft work item
  • Approved IFC-revision triggers a planning update in Business Central
  • Field comments tagged on the model push into the werf-team channel

AI workflows

Turn Connect history into coordination and risk suggestions.

  • RFI close-time forecasting per discipline pair
  • Clash-recurrence detection on similar bouwknopen across past werven
  • Document-review bottleneck scoring per project phase

Custom apps on your data

Internal tools on Connect data for werfleiders, BIM-coordinators and finance.

  • Werf coordination dashboard with open RFIs against the planning
  • BIM-coordinator board with clash backlog by discipline
  • Owner view with model-revision history per werf
Use cases

Use cases we deliver with Trimble Connect data.

A list of concrete reports, automations and AI features we have built on Trimble Connect data. Pick the one that matches your situation.

Open RFIs per werfOutstanding RFIs by discipline and project phase.
Clash backlogOpen clashes per discipline pair, per architect-revision.
Model-version driftTime gap between disciplines on the same werf.
Document review SLADays between upload and approval per project phase.
ToDo close rateClosed Connect ToDos per week, per werf and assignee.
Field commentsMobile-app comments per werf and discipline.
IFC upload cadenceHow often each discipline ships a new IFC, per werf.
Coordination meeting prepOpen issues snapshot per werf, ready for the weekly call.
Project phase handoverOpen items at design-to-build handover, per werf.
Multi-project consolidationGroup view across all Trimble Connect projects.
Real business questions

Answers you will finally get.

Which werven have open RFIs the design team has not answered in two weeks?

Open RFIs by werf, by discipline and by age, joined to the planning so the question turns from 'how many' into 'which RFIs are now blocking work that started this week'. The list lands on the werfvergadering instead of being remembered halfway through it.

Where is the architect model running ahead of the structural model on the same werf?

IFC upload dates per discipline, per werf, with the gap between disciplines surfaced as model-version drift. Reveals the werven where the bouwknopen on the contractor's screen no longer match what the structural engineer last published, before that drift turns into a clash backlog.

Which clashes keep coming back across our werven, on which kind of bouwknoop?

Clash records joined to the part of the model where they recur, grouped by bouwknoop type across past projects. Surfaces the recurring detail that the studiebureau and the contractor keep stumbling on, so the standard detail can be fixed once at the source.

Value for everyone in the organisation

Where each function gets value.

For finance leaders

Open RFIs, clash backlog and document-review SLA tied to project finance in your construction ERP. The werven where the coordination is slipping show up next to the bouwsom and vorderingsstaat, before the slippage turns into onderaannemer-meerwerken.

For sales leaders

BIM-coordination signals per werf and per studiebureau partner, joined to your CRM. Aannemers see which design partner consistently produces clean coordination on the kind of werf they want to bid on next.

For operations

Open ToDos per discipline, IFC-upload cadence and clash backlog per werf, with the planning beside them. The werfleider walks into the wekelijkse werfmeeting with the open coordination items already grouped by who needs to act.

Ideas

What you can automate with Trimble Connect.

Pair with Robaws

Open Robaws work items from closed Trimble Connect ToDos

ToDos closed in Trimble Connect on a coordinated bouwknoop open the matching uitvoeringstaak in Robaws on the right werf, with the IFC-revision and the assignee carried over. Belgian contractors keep BIM-coordination in Connect and the werf-administration in Robaws, with the handover automated.

Pair with Visma Bouwsoft

Match Trimble Connect issues to Bouwsoft uitvoeringsdossiers

Open RFIs and clashes in Trimble Connect are joined to the matching werf in Visma Bouwsoft, so the uitvoeringsdossier carries the open coordination items beside its uurboekingen and materialen. The wekelijkse werfmeeting reads from one list instead of two screens.

Pair with MS Dynamics 365 Business Central

Push Trimble Connect milestones into Business Central project finance

Approved IFC-revisions and closed coordination phases in Trimble Connect trigger the matching project-phase update in Business Central, so the projectplan that drives WIP and revenue recognition reflects what was approved on the model. Project finance stops lagging the BIM-coordination by a week.

Pair with TraxGo

Line up TraxGo werf-arrivals with Trimble Connect open ToDos

TraxGo arrival events at the werf are placed beside the open Trimble Connect ToDos for the same werf and discipline, so the ploeg that just rolled in sees what coordination items are still open before the first hour goes on. Travel and on-site time are no longer reconciled apart from the coordination state.

Data model

Tables we make available.

These are the 24 tables we currently pull from Trimble Connect into your warehouse. Query them directly in SQL, join them to the rest of your stack, or build reports on top.

  • Activities
  • Clashsets
  • Custom Pset Defs
  • Custom Psets
  • Groups
  • Model Entities
  • Model Entities Selected
  • Model Hierarchies
  • Model History
  • Model Layers
  • Model Owners
  • Model Property Set Definitions
  • Models
  • Models Selected
  • Primary Folders
  • Projects
  • Releases
  • Shares
  • Tags
  • Todos
  • Users
  • Viewgroups
  • Views
  • Views D

Missing a table you need? We can extend the sync. Tell us what is missing and we will build it for you.

Your existing tools

Your data lands in a warehouse. Your BI tools read from it.

You keep the reporting tool you already have. We connect it to the warehouse where your Trimble Connect data lives.

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Power BI Microsoft
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Fabric Microsoft
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Snowflake Data warehouse
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BigQuery Google
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Tableau Visualisation
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Excel Sheets & pivots
Three steps

From Trimble Connect to answers in three steps.

01

Connect securely

OAuth authentication. Read-only by default. We sign a DPA and your admin keeps the keys.

02

Land in your warehouse

Data flows into your warehouse on your schedule. Near real time or nightly, your call. You own the data.

03

Reporting, automation, AI

We build the first dashboard, workflow or AI feature with you, then hand over the keys. Or we stay on for ongoing delivery.

Two ways to work with us

Pick the track that fits how you work.

Track 01

Self-serve

We set up the foundation. Your team builds on top.

  • Trimble Connect connector configured and running
  • Warehouse set up in your cloud account
  • Clean access for your Power BI, Fabric or Tableau team
  • Documentation on what's in the data model
  • Sync monitoring so you're warned before reports break

Best fit Teams that already have a BI analyst or data engineer and want to own the build.

Track 02

Done for you

We build the whole thing, end to end.

  • Everything in Self-serve
  • Dashboards built to the questions your team actually asks
  • Automations between your systems
  • AI workflows scoped to real tasks your team runs
  • Custom apps where a dashboard does not cut it
  • Ongoing delivery at a pace that fits your team

Best fit Teams without in-house BI or dev capacity. You tell us what you need and we deliver it.

Before you book

Frequently asked questions.

Who owns the data?

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.

How fresh is the data?

Near real time for most operational systems. For heavier sources we schedule hourly or nightly. You pick based on what the reports need.

Do I need a warehouse already?

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.

Does the sync cover Tekla Structures models published into Connect?

Yes. Tekla Structures publishes constructible models into Trimble Connect as a first-class file format alongside IFC, and the sync brings the model-revision metadata, the discipline tag and the publish date into the warehouse. That makes coordination drift between the Tekla model and the architect's IFC measurable per werf, not anecdotal.

Are ToDos, RFIs and field comments all available beside the model data?

Yes. ToDos, RFIs and field comments tagged on the model are pulled with their assignee, discipline tag and werf reference, so coordination workflow runs on the same grain Connect already produces. Open-issue counts join cleanly to the werf in your construction ERP without rebuilding the project structure on the warehouse side.

GDPR-compliant
Data stays in the EU
You own the warehouse

A first deliverable live in four to six weeks.

We review your Trimble Connect setup and the systems around it. Together we pick the first thing worth building.