Datamine has launched Expenditure Watch 2.0, a fully web-based expenditure compliance and reporting platform for mining and exploration companies managing mineral title obligations across multi-tenement portfolios. Originally built for Western Australia’s expenditure reporting rules, the new version is configured to handle multiple jurisdictions and operating environments, centralising tenement spend, work programmes and statutory deadlines. For geology, land and finance teams, this signals tighter control of relinquishment risk and more defensible audit trails on exploration and development expenditure.

GBM Konect has released Konect 2, a complete rebuild of its 15‑year‑old Australian field data capture and mobile mapping platform used on infrastructure sites and remote corridors with poor connectivity. The new version is designed to synchronise geospatial and asset data from tablets and phones to central systems once coverage is restored, reducing manual re‑entry and gaps between as‑built field records and office GIS/asset databases. For civil and road projects, this targets more reliable inspection, defect logging and construction QA data directly from the workfront.

Construction projects are losing productivity not from lack of BIM, drones or field apps, but from fragmented information spread across client CDEs, ERPs, email, shared folders and specialist platforms. Procore/Dodge data show UK and Irish professionals spend about 18% of project time – over eight working weeks a year – just searching for information, while 74% of US professionals move AI-generated work between applications at least three times a day. The emerging focus is on permission-aware integration so tools like Autodesk, Dropbox Sign and AI search (e.g. ChatGPT connected to Dropbox) can surface authoritative, up-to-date records without forcing all parties onto a single system.