Agricultural and construction tech firm Trimble is working with Microsoft to accelerate digital transformation in the construction, agriculture and transportation industries. The two companies will collaborate to develop new industry cloud platforms, which Trimble is describing as a milestone in its Connect and Scale 2025 strategy to develop new cloud-based technologies.

Initially, Trimble and Microsoft will focus on building the Trimble Construction Cloud powered by Microsoft Azure.

The partnership expands Trimble and Microsoft’s existing relationship to combine the Microsoft cloud with Trimble’s construction solutions and industry domain knowledge.

Trimble’s construction solutions include on-machine and field technology, modelling and collaboration software, project and resource management, and all underlying analytics. The two companies will deliver the Trimble Construction Cloud built on Microsoft Azure, fully enabled for 3D constructible models to reduce risk and increase efficiency across the construction project lifecycle, in 2022. 

In addition to cloud engineering development, Microsoft and Trimble will partner on joint go-to-market strategies and deliver innovative solutions to multinational and regional enterprises. The first solutions will enable continued support of infrastructure investment cycles, and be used for large-scale projects, on which multiple stakeholders work in parallel to deliver connected construction projects. 

“Trimble and Microsoft will create a powerful partnership to advance technology adoption in the construction industry. Using Microsoft technologies, Trimble will be able to more rapidly develop a construction cloud to connect stakeholders and workflows throughout the industry,” said Bryn Fosburgh, senior vice president, Trimble. “We are building on our combined success to help construction companies use digital data to improve productivity, reduce costs, increase collaboration and create agility. By leveraging the Microsoft cloud, Trimble technology and our combined engineering capabilities, we will empower construction businesses to realise the benefits of the cloud and accelerate digital transformation throughout the construction lifecycle.”

“Industry customers are accelerating deployment of cloud-based services and solutions to facilitate better decision making based on data-driven insights, gain efficiencies, reduce costs and engage customers in new ways,” said Casey McGee, vice president Global ISV partners, Microsoft. “We are excited about our enhanced collaboration with Trimble as it will help customers, across industries, evolve their cloud strategies and realise business transformation.”