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How Trackunit Built IrisX on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to digitize the construction industry
Construction is the backbone of society, building our hospitals, schools, and infrastructure. Yet, it remains one of the least digitized industries in the world, plagued by a paradox: despite high investment in IT, productivity has stagnated for 30 years. Project delays and budget overruns are the norm, not the exception. Trackunit is on a mission to change this reality by eliminating downtime. But their ambition goes beyond their own operations. By building IrisX on Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, Trackunit has done something rare: They turned their own data journey into a platform product that gives OEMs, Rental and Construction companies across the world access to enterprise-grade AI and analytics to harness data, improve efficiency, and finally deliver on their promises.
Solving the Productivity Puzzle
The construction industry faces a harsh reality: it is the second least digitized industry globally, trailing only behind hunting and fishing. "How can it be that we have so much investment coming into IT, yet the output is still lagging?" asks Domokos Speder, Vice President of Business Consulting at Trackunit.
To solve this, Trackunit needed to manage immense scale. With over 6 million connected machines generating 3 billion data points every day, the company required a robust architecture to ingest and analyze real-time telemetry. Previously, data was isolated in silos; Finance, Engineering, and RevOps all operated in separate "lakehouses," leading to massive inefficiencies. By adopting Databricks as their central Lakehouse, Trackunit harmonized these disparate sources, from Salesforce to Planhat to proprietary machine data, into a single source of truth. But unifying internal data was just the foundation. The real opportunity was what they could build on top of it - for their customers.
Empowering Customers to Build Faster
Trackunit isn't just using Databricks for internal analytics; they are a "Built-on" partner. They have integrated Databricks capabilities directly into their customer-facing platform, IrisX. This allows rental companies, contractors, and OEMs, who often lack the data capabilities, to access enterprise-grade data capabilities without building them from scratch. "Our customers get access to the full suite of Databricks capabilities through IrisX," explains Speder. The impact is tangible. Trackunit estimates that customers building on IrisX see a 5x faster time-to-market compared to trying to build their own data architectures on top of "internal spaghetti" systems. This allows the industry to move past basic digitization and start focusing on value-driving outcomes.
Future-Proofing with Predictive AI
With a unified foundation, Trackunit is moving the industry from reporting what happened to predicting what's next with the use of AI. Use cases like predictive maintenance and spare part lead generation are no longer just buzzwords, they are driving tangible ROI for manufacturers on the platform today.
Looking forward, Speder sees Databricks’ rapid pace of innovation as a competitive advantage that flows directly to every IrisX customer. By utilizing features like Genie and upcoming agentic capabilities (Agent Bricks), Trackunit aims to let non-technical business users adjust visualizations and query data using plain language. "If we had built a platform ourselves, it would not have evolved at the same pace," says Speder. "Having that innovative engineering muscle that Databricks has is the key reason for us choosing it."