Touchplan Partner Newsletter | December 2021

Hello Partners!

Happy December! For those that celebrate, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and took some well-deserved time off. I’m personally grateful for our great Referral and Reseller Partners across the world and our amazing Touchplan partner team that supports them.

We’ve had an eventful month this November and I’m looking forward to sharing our new updates with you!

Please continue to share any comments or suggestions on what you would like to see or hear from me and the team!

Have a great December!
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What’s New with the Partner Program?

Whether you are accessing the Partner Portal as a Referral Partner or a Reseller Partner, there is content to help you better partner with Touchplan and your customers. If you are having trouble accessing the portal, please let us know.

[NEW TECH PARTNERSHIPS]

Oculo.ai

Oculo.ai is a leading reality capture, documentation, and collaboration platform based in the UK. We are excited to explore opportunities to make project teams more effective by combining collaborative lookahead planning with reality capture and BIM overlays. Check out our Press Release and look out for a blog post tomorrow with CEO Tom Kotecki!

ProjectSight by Trimble

We are happy to announce our new partnership with ProjectSight by Trimble, a leading project management platform designed to help field teams be more productive. Press Release and partnership announcement to come!

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Product Spotlight:

Align Your Master Schedule with Touchplan

Touchplan’s Master Schedule Alignment product enhancement empowers construction teams to vastly improve project performance and profitability by easily aligning their external master schedule with their daily jobsite execution plan.
What A Customer Is Saying About this Feature:
“With Touchplan connecting the two, we easily transition the CPM’s conceptual milestones from our scheduling software to set the goals for the daily planning effort. As a project progresses, we back feed the progress gathered from our look ahead plan into our scheduling software to gain insight into the overall health of the project. It’s a real game-changer.” Nathan Thompson, scheduling manager for Lee Kennedy Company. Read the full story here.
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What’s New with Touchplan?

The Saturday Shift

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Top Stories from November:

Take a look at the full November News Roundup and feel free to post, email, or share at your discretion. Here are some content highlights of the month:

Content Highlights

[WEBINAR ON-DEMAND] The Risk of Using Spreadsheets to Manage Project Planning
Yesterday, we hosted a webinar on “The Risk of Using Spreadsheets to Manage Project Planning,” which discussed risks when pull-planning or look-ahead planning and how the transition to a digital platform can minimize that risk. If you were unable to attend or would like to watch it again, you can watch it on-demand here!

[PODCAST] Voices Of Construction Ep. #9 What’s In The Code?
In case you missed it in our last newsletter, Noah Baker speaks with Nick Dimitruk founder and CEO of BitRip on a recent Voices of Construction episode. Nick and his company have created the next evolution of the QR Code connecting the digital and physical worlds of construction. Nick is extremely passionate about his company and how they are impacting the industry, and he is a former Marine Corps Harrier pilot, so he also has some fantastic stories to tell. You absolutely want to tune in.

[PODCAST] Voices Of Construction Ep. #9 Veterans In Construction
In honor of Veteran’s Day, we released a special episode of Voices of Construction. Noah chats with Partnership Touchplanner Andrew Piland (a Captain in the US Marines reserves) and Aaron Matkin (a former US Army Green Beret) and current Lean Consultant for Relevate. The two discuss their careers in the military and the comparison to working in construction. Take a listen here!

To read the full news roundup, check it out here!

As always, please don’t hesitate to share any comments or feedback for me and my team. Have a great December!

Best,

Jimmy Suppelsa