Further to my recent post about Redsky IT’s acquisition by a Canadian software business (Explorer to acquire Redsky IT), Contract Journal reports “Explorer tours Redsky offices making redundancies“. MD Mark Chambers left the business (formerly known as Ramesys) rather than implement the cuts, so the cull has been delivered by former chief technician Mike Aspinall, with Redsky’s Blackburn …
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Feb 05 2007
Design review tools
The past week has seen some blogging about design review tools from two of the AEC CAD heavyweights: Bentley and Autodesk. Bentley has announced (29 January) the release of ProjectWise Navigator – “the first visual collaboration client for design review and analysis plus work packaging that fully supports iterative workflows and reuse of all content throughout …
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Feb 01 2007
PDF to become ISO standard
Cadalyst reports that Adobe intends to release the full PDF (portable document format) v1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization). It is, says Adobe’s Kevin Lynch, “the next logical step in the evolution of PDF from de facto standard to a formal, …
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Jan 30 2007
Kingston University research
From time to time, in my role as BIW Technologies’ head of corporate communications, I receive emails concerning student research projects. As a former researcher, I try to be helpful. The latest request for help comes from Kingston University, where student Cunal Manani has posted an online questionnaire for users to complete. Click on ‘Online Document …
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Jan 29 2007
Asite Workspace arrives
A new logo on the home page of Asite‘s website alerts us to the belated launch (or, given that Asite has previously marketed a similar product, should that read ‘relaunch’?) of Asite Workspace – announced in October 2006 as being available from December. The web-based collaboration product is positioned as an easy-to-use “cost-effective solution for small projects”. The basic …
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Jan 26 2007
New Autodesk collaboration blog
The growing Autodesk blogosphere now has a blog, Connected, dedicated to collaboration. Contributors (collaborators?) Jason, Alex and Mike will be delivering “perspectives on online project management and collaboration”, no doubt informed by their knowledge of Autodesk’s Buzzsaw and Constructware systems. However, they already seem quite prepared to look beyond company boundaries; witness posts about Gliffy (A …
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Jan 25 2007
ProjectDox rejects SaaS approach
I wrote briefly about US-based Informative Graphics‘ ProjectDox in July 2006. Today, thanks to Randall Newton’s AECnews.com (Informative Graphics Spins Off ProjectDox), I learn that IGC has created a subsidiary, Avolve Software, to manage ProjectDox opportunities, leaving the parent company to focus on its file visualisation products (eg: its Brava! viewer, etc). Looking at the website, …
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Jan 25 2007
Tom Dengenis resurfaces
Former Bidcom UK and Asite CEO Tom Dengenis is still actively interested in construction IT. He is now a “a senior manager at BearingPoint, a global management and technology consulting firm”, and has just written an article (Building Information Model: the Solution for Optimizing the Construction Delivery Process) on the US-based Riverguide for Construction Software …
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Jan 24 2007
Workspace confusion
One consequence of BT’s launch of BT Workspace (previous post) could be the potential for some confusion in the UK construction marketplace with other products and services called Workspace. Union Square, for example, has long had an intranet product (with extranet capabilities) called Workspace, and Asite has been talking about launching its second product with the same name for …
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Jan 24 2007
Change management seminar – 2
Yesterday, I travelled to Bristol to chair a Construction Productivity Network seminar on change management (see post). We heard an interesting pair of presentations from Robin Wilkin (MPS) and Professor Ming Sun (University of West of England). Ming (who, incidentally, was one of the people who encouraged me to write my book) has been leading …
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