Overview
A leading North American infrastructure and construction firm faced significant operational friction due to a “lack of trust” in data shared across an expansive network of subcontractors and material suppliers. By implementing BonData, they replaced a fragmented landscape of Excel spreadsheets and manual verification with a real-time, “golden record” for project assets. This shift created a single version of truth, eliminating the “toil” of manual reconciliation and drastically reducing the risk of expensive human errors in high-stakes project valuations.
Rapid Partner Onboarding
Integrated external subcontractors into the secure data ecosystem in under 72 hours.
Operational Cost Reduction
Achieved a 15% decrease in administrative overhead by automating cross-partner data verification.
Real-Time Visibility
Boosted project management productivity by 140% through instantaneous access to synchronized supplier updates.
Background
Based in North America, this large-scale infrastructure provider manages complex, multi-year projects involving a massive consortium of risk owners, including specialized subcontractors and global material suppliers. With billions of dollars in equity deployed across various sites, the company’s success depends on the ability to quickly verify and update valuations and customer information across a wide range of legacy and modern systems. Historically, they struggled with a high barrier to entry for distributed data sharing, which often required excessive technical expertise and cost.
Challenge
The primary obstacle was modernizing the secure exchange of data across a diverse partner network to reduce manual toil and financial risk.
Subcontractors and suppliers operated on “any-to-any” systems, leading to inconsistent data formats and a lack of transparency from start to end.
Project teams relied on “human-in-the-loop” processes to sync asset data, making it difficult to catch and rectify errors before they caused significant losses.
The need to share data across both modern and legacy stacks created a data sharing environment that was slow, unreliable, and difficult for non-technical users to navigate.
The result: A “black box” supply chain where inaccurate information made it nearly impossible to assign, assess, and pay for liability with confidence.
Solution with BonData
BonData provided an easy-to-use, low-code data automation platform that allowed the firm and its partners to query each other’s data using familiar frameworks like GraphQL.
BonData established a "trusted data ecosystem" built on immutability, ensuring that every update to project assets was traceable and verified by consensus.
The platform enabled the firm to onboard new partners regardless of their specific cloud or tech stack, providing them with control over their own data "node" while maintaining a shared source of truth.
Partners gained the ability to review the complete data lineage of project information, allowing them to see exactly how valuations shifted from the beginning to the end of the chain.
“BonData empowered us to create a secure, trusted, and real-time data ecosystem without compromising speed or scale. We finally have a single version of truth that everyone can access transparently, which has been the definitive use case for our digital transformation.”
– Director of Digital Operations, North American Infrastructure Group
Key Takeaway
For large-scale organizations managing complex external networks, the future of collective intelligence lies in automated, contextual data flows. BonData allows firms to unchain their data from legacy silos, providing a harmonized view that unlocks innovation and significant cost savings.