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Explore how Sitetracker connects projects, sites, assets and field teams, and learn what to consider when implementing it across your business.
Managing hundreds of projects across different locations means keeping track of more than deadlines. Teams need to know which sites are ready, what contractors have completed and where work is falling behind. Sitetracker brings this information together, helping businesses coordinate infrastructure projects from initial planning through to ongoing maintenance.
Sitetracker is a cloud platform for managing critical infrastructure throughout its lifecycle. It connects projects, physical sites, equipment, budgets and field activities so teams can follow the same work from development to day-to-day operation.
Built natively on Salesforce, it is particularly relevant to businesses delivering large numbers of similar infrastructure projects. Examples include telecommunications networks, renewable energy installations, utility upgrades and electric vehicle charging sites.
Its value comes from connecting the details of each location with the wider programme. A manager can review overall progress while the people responsible for individual sites work with the information relevant to them.
A growing rollout can become difficult to manage when every team uses a different spreadsheet, reporting format or definition of completion. Comparing progress takes time, and problems may only become visible when someone asks for an update.
Sitetracker supports common project processes while allowing teams to manage the details of individual sites. For example, a business can define the stages required to deliver an installation, assign responsibility and monitor progress across its portfolio.
This makes it worth considering when work is repeatable, geographically distributed and closely tied to physical infrastructure. During evaluation, focus on whether it fits your actual workflows, including approvals, contractor involvement and the handover to maintenance.
The practical benefit is better coordination between the people planning work, carrying it out and tracking its results. Here are the main areas where the platform can support that coordination.
Sitetracker’s project management tools bring together schedules, responsibilities and dependencies. Templates help teams start similar projects consistently, while portfolio views make it easier to see which activities are progressing and which need attention.
Consider a rollout where installation can only begin after a site receives approval. Connecting those stages makes the relationship visible, helping managers understand the impact of a delayed approval on the rest of the plan.
With site and asset management, teams can access location details, drawings, permits, equipment records and site history in a shared environment. This provides continuity as a project moves from planning to construction and operation.
For a maintenance team, knowing what equipment was installed and what has happened at a site is more useful than receiving a separate folder with incomplete records. Define the information that must be captured before the project is handed over.
Sitetracker’s field work capabilities support job scheduling, mobile forms, document markup and offline work. The Sitetracker Connect Portal also provides a way to share relevant schedules and information with external contractors.
Teams can capture evidence of completed work, such as photos and job details, as part of the closeout process. During setup, agree what contractors need to submit and who approves completion. Test offline working and synchronisation in the conditions field crews actually encounter.
Finance Central connects budgets, project costs and forecasts. Teams can compare spending expectations with the original budget and review purchase orders, invoices and projected remaining costs.
This helps bring financial discussions closer to delivery. If a schedule changes, managers can assess the potential impact on spending rather than reviewing time and cost in separate conversations. Finance Central is designed to complement the company’s financial system, with the required connections defined during implementation.
Sitetracker offers reports and dashboards that can be configured for different roles. A project manager may need overdue milestones and upcoming activities, while leadership needs an overview of progress, budgets and recurring delays.
Start with the decisions each report should support. Useful measures might include completion against plan, time spent waiting for approvals, budget variance or the time required to close a finished job. Agree how each measure is calculated so results remain comparable across teams.
Sitetracker also presents Scout, its AI offering for infrastructure operations. It is designed to help teams explore operational information, identify risks and support workflows. Examples include reviewing project status, comparing documents and assessing contractor performance.
Evaluate these capabilities against a specific task, such as preparing a portfolio review. Confirm what is available in the proposed solution, which information it can access and where human review is needed.
Sitetracker is especially relevant where a business needs to deliver and maintain infrastructure across many sites. These examples show how the same need for coordination appears in different sectors.
Telecom deployments bring together site selection, permissions, construction, equipment installation and ongoing maintenance. A shared view helps operators and delivery partners follow each site through those stages while tracking the wider network rollout.
Near Partner’s work with Tower One Wireless included support for managing sites and assets, field operations and reporting with Sitetracker. The underlying challenge was coordinating connected activities across a distributed infrastructure business.
Utility companies must coordinate installations, inspections, repairs and the records associated with each location. Sitetracker can support this work by linking sites, equipment and field activities, with project milestones providing a view of progress.
For example, a utility upgrading equipment across several areas needs to see which locations are ready, which still require preparation and whether completed work has the documentation needed for handover.
Sitetracker also supports energy projects, including renewables and EV charging. These deployments involve repeated activities across sites, but each location can have different permissions, construction requirements and operational needs.
A common process helps teams compare progress without losing those differences. Keeping project records connected to assets and maintenance also supports the transition from building a site to operating it.
QMC needed to improve how its sales and operational teams managed work across locations. Near Partner implemented Salesforce and Sitetracker, adapting the solution to the company’s sales and project delivery processes.
The work brought customer information, opportunities and contracts into a more structured environment. It also introduced workflows to improve task control, reporting and maintenance tracking, alongside a standardised approach to onboarding employees.
The QMC case study illustrates why implementation should connect departments as well as systems. Better access to information becomes useful when teams also share a clear way of working.
A useful implementation starts with how your business works today and what needs to improve. The following steps help turn platform capabilities into a process people can use consistently.
Identify where work currently slows down. Is the problem missing field updates, inconsistent schedules, duplicated data or limited cost visibility? Prioritise the issues that have the greatest effect on delivery.
Choose a few measurable outcomes and record the starting point. For example, you might aim to reduce the time needed to prepare a weekly report or increase the proportion of completed jobs with all required documentation. Use these measures to assess progress after launch.
Map the main stages of a project, including approvals and handovers. Define who owns each stage and what “complete” means. Decide which steps should be standard across the business and where local requirements justify a variation.
For international teams, agree how dates, currencies, reporting periods and local working calendars will be handled. Include contractors in this discussion when their updates are essential to the process.
Review existing records before migrating them. Remove duplicates, agree consistent site and project identifiers, and decide who will maintain each type of information. Test a representative sample before moving the full dataset.
Sitetracker supports integration with other business systems, including CRM, finance and mapping tools. Decide which system owns each record and what information must move between them. For example, an approved sales opportunity may initiate a delivery project, with progress updates then returned to the sales team.
Start with a manageable group of projects that represents real working conditions. Test the full process with project managers, field teams and contractors, including approvals, reporting and handover.
Agree what must work before expanding the rollout. A pilot should reveal unclear responsibilities and missing information, as well as configuration issues. Resolve those findings before asking more teams to adopt the process.
Tailor training to the work each person performs. A field technician needs to practise recording and submitting a job; a manager needs to review progress and handle exceptions. Use realistic tasks and provide a clear route for questions.
After launch, review usage, data quality and the outcomes defined at the start. Assign an owner to maintain templates and coordinate improvements as the business changes.
Near Partner helps organisations connect business processes with Salesforce and Sitetracker, from implementation to ongoing improvements. Our experience with QMC shows the importance of aligning sales, operations and the people delivering work in the field.
Whether you are considering a new implementation or improving an existing setup, we can help assess requirements, plan integrations and support adoption. Explore our Salesforce services or get in touch to discuss your project.
Here are common questions on Sitetracker and how it can help your company.
Sitetracker helps businesses manage infrastructure projects, sites, assets and field activities. It is particularly relevant to organisations delivering repeatable work across many locations.
Sitetracker includes offline capabilities for field work. Confirm that the tasks, forms and information your teams need are available in the proposed setup, and test synchronisation before rollout.
Its financial tools are designed to complement an ERP by connecting project delivery with budgets, costs and forecasts. Define which system remains responsible for each financial process and record.
