Construction Magazine February 2020 | Page 47

THE INNOVATION LAB
47 nation , job site mobility and payments . We ’ re giving our customers the insights they need to more efficiently perform their large capital projects .”
Burcin Kaplanoglu , Oracle Construction & Engineering ’ s Executive Director of Innovation , recalls the company ’ s goal was to create an ecosystem capable of looking at the market and evaluating new technologies . “ We decided to work with a small group of companies - some startups and some more mature - to validate their technol- ogy . By working with them and understanding their use cases we ’ ve taken a different approach ,” he says . “ Rather than being API-driven , we ’ ve focused on the problems we need to solve and the companies we can partner with to develop those applications and hardware solutions .”
THE INNOVATION LAB
To support Oracle ’ s exploration of new tech , the company chose to develop its own Innovation Lab . “ We
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