1/ Introduce your company and your role
Hello, I am Laure Gajetti, Data Scientist at Bigsool. Bigsool is an innovative company specializing in the development of construction site monitoring software for the construction industry. Our flagship product, Archipad, is a complete solution for site visits, accessible from any browser thanks to Archipad Cloud, as well as on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) via the Archipad application.
Since its creation in 2010, Bigsool has evolved to integrate advanced cloud synchronization features, securing more than 150,000 construction site projects on our secure drive.
As a Data Scientist at Bigsool, my role is to enhance the value of the company’s data (from our application data to construction site data), by proposing continuous improvements for Archipad. My work also includes data management, ensuring its integrity, quality and security, a crucial step for the success of data enhancement projects.
2/ How is data enhancement strategic for your company? What should it address?
At Bigsool, our priority has always been and remains the customer. We strive to offer, through our software, new features designed to improve the daily lives of managers, employees and construction professionals in general.
Our construction site monitoring solution, Archipad, allows our customers to save considerable time in their daily tasks, particularly when generating reports after site visits. Data enhancement is part of this objective by offering a cross-sectional view of their projects and helping them make informed decisions.
3/ Why did you choose Data Acteur?
After launching many data projects, we often found ourselves with unreliable results or low added value. The same problem kept coming up: data quality, functional and technical knowledge of the data, and the difficulty of maintenance due to database modifications.
We understood that working on data is not the sole responsibility of the dedicated department, but involves all of the company’s employees. It is essential to set up data governance and raise awareness among all business stakeholders, as well as our partners, of the importance of data.
To assess our maturity in terms of internal data management, we decided to call on Data Acteur.
4/ What specific missions have you entrusted to Data Acteur?
First of all, Data Acteur carried out a data diagnosis through workshops organized with our main departments: company management, business management, Archipad solution developer management, marketing management, financial management, and HR management. These workshops made it possible to clearly identify the issues to be resolved and the areas for improvement (around pillars such as governance, quality, security, acculturation for example). At the end of this diagnosis, carried out in 11 days, Data Acteur presented us with a detailed action plan.
Initially, our mission was to identify the key points of the digital transformation of our company. However, this collaboration exceeded our expectations. We entrusted Audrey with the mission of training the Data team and raising awareness among internal stakeholders about the importance of data. In addition to her technical skills, Audrey excels in transmitting her knowledge, which has allowed us to gain autonomy. She is also an excellent Data coach.
Audrey not only supports us in the implementation of the action plan and the coaching of the data team, but she also helped us develop our first data valuation intended for our customers. Her intervention was extremely beneficial in acculturating both our internal employees and our customers on the use of data, taking into account the maturity of each. Thanks to her invaluable help, we were able to review our offer to guarantee that our customers can follow each step, without getting lost along the way.
5/ What were the concrete benefits of this work on data for your company?
The restructuring of our Data team was one of the main benefits: a clearer framing of everyone’s tasks, the implementation of complete documentation, more serene project management and increased productivity. Acculturation to data and the implementation of new processes also benefited the entire company thanks to personalized support.
The most important benefit, in my opinion, is the emergence of a reflection around data in the minds of each employee of our company. This awareness, which was not concrete before, has transformed our corporate culture. Now, everyone approaches data in a transversal manner, which has considerably improved exchanges and understanding of needs.
6/ Would you recommend Data Acteur to other companies? For what reasons?
Absolutely, even if it would mean sharing our key to success! I highly recommend Data Acteur to all companies wishing to enhance the value of their data. Their intervention facilitates the work of your employees. The teams can then focus on their expertise rather than on time-consuming processing tasks. The improvements made to the daily life of your teams thanks to the expertise of Data Acteur are invaluable. Data Acteur experts do not just provide steps to follow, but also help to understand Data issues in depth in a transversal manner. Data Acteur teaches you to manage your data in the same way that a good manager supervises his team, thus laying the foundations for a real digital transformation.