By Cyndee Hoagland, Senior Vice President, Owner and Public Sector Solutions, Trimble
At Innovate 2025, we gathered with public- and private-sector asset management and capital program leaders who share a common challenge: doing more with less. Across infrastructure, utilities and public works, owners are being asked to deliver faster, operate smarter and stretch budgets further—all while modernizing assets that were designed for a different century.
Last year, we introduced Trimble Unity, our vision for a connected asset lifecycle platform—one that breaks down silos and empowers collaboration across the entire field-to-office continuum. This year, that vision is coming to life.
In my general session, I invited attendees to think about infrastructure like a football game—where success depends not on a single star player, but on a well-coordinated team executing a shared playbook.
For decades, infrastructure has been built and managed with point solutions and disconnected systems. But just like you can’t win today’s game with 1950s formations, you can’t build and manage modern assets with legacy tools.
The new playbook requires a connected, open ecosystem—one that unites data, workflows and people across every phase of an asset’s life. That’s exactly what Trimble Unity delivers.
Across North America, infrastructure owners are proving what’s possible when they embrace connected asset lifecycle management.
Salt Lake City has built a unified ecosystem for its 13,000 miles of water infrastructure using Trimble and Esri solutions, reducing paper use by 50% and cutting processing time in half for key workflows.
Edmond, Oklahoma is implementing Trimble Unity Construct to manage a $60M capital improvement program, integrating capital planning, construction management, and maintenance into one data-driven strategy.
And in South San Francisco, the city has become the first to migrate to Trimble Unity Maintain, linking maintenance operations, construction tracking, and citizen engagement—resolving more than 72,000 service requests with real-time data and mobile tools.
These stories share a common thread: success through connection. When data flows freely and teams collaborate seamlessly, performance follows.
Playing for the future
True innovation doesn’t happen in isolation. It comes from ecosystems—from teams who share information, build trust and adapt faster together. That’s why Trimble continues to invest in open, extensible platforms, AI, machine learning and predictive modeling, helping our customers make faster, smarter decisions with confidence.
Beyond providing technology, our ultimate goal is to build partnerships that last across the asset lifecycle—from maintenance to modernization, from project to platform.
Our challenge to customers this year is simple:
Modernize outdated processes.
Empower teams with the right data at the right time.
Adopt an asset lifecycle-first approach to drive efficiency and resilience.
The clock is running. The field is set. And the future is connected.
We’re ready to play—and win—together.
