Category: AEC

Dec 13 2006

2006 – a strange year for extranets

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
13 December 2006

As a PR professional, I always read Rachael Dalton-Taggart’s observations (on her blog PR, Marketing and the Business of CAD) with interest. While she writes from a US perspective and is mainly focused on the CAD sector, her views sometimes coincide with mine (UK-based, mainly concerned with web-based AEC collaboration tools). In her latest post, 2006 …

Building, CAD, construction collaboration technologies, Construction News, Contract Journal, extranet, extranet vendors, ITCF, marketing, NCCTP, PR, project extranets, QS News, US

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Dec 08 2006

Autodesk University – little collaboration buzz

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
8 December 2006

Amid the stream of blog articles discussing Autodesk University 2006, there has been very little about construction collaboration technologies. I had hoped that this major US event, which attracted 7,500 people this year, might have been the platform for Autodesk to make some major announcement, perhaps regarding its Constructware product (following the acquisition earlier this …

AEC, AECbytes, Autodesk, BIM, Buzzsaw, construction collaboration, Constructware, extranet, US

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2006/12/autodesk_univer/

Dec 04 2006

BuildOnline “has merged with a US player”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
4 December 2006

At PodTech, there is a podcast of former BuildOnline CEO Mark Suster (see previous post) talking about Koral and his “past life” at BO. However, Robert Scoble, the interviewer, corrects himself to say BO “is still your present life as you’re on the board of directors,” to which Suster responds: “that’s true” (interpretation: Suster is …

AEC, BuildOnline, construction collaboration, extranet, Koral, Mark Suster, merger, UK, US
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Dec 04 2006

Who’s running BuildOnline UK?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
4 December 2006

Following my earlier post about UK-based collaboration vendor BuildOnline CEO Mark Suster and his US-based Koral venture, I now wonder if I should perhaps refer to him "as the former BuildOnline CEO". In the 3 December post to his Koral blog he twice mentions being Koral’s full-time CEO: We [Koral] will hopefully close on a …

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Dec 04 2006

EatYourCad Babbage Award goes to … Avanti

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
4 December 2006

On the excellent EatYourCad blog (see December 2005 post) Nigel Davies has had an irreverant look back at 2006 and made some awards for ‘“things that should not be”, things that have drawn a wry smile or things that have been plain crazy’. And ‘The Cart Driving The Donkey Award’ goes to … Avanti. Nigel writes: …

4Projects, AEC, Asite, Avanti, Babbage, BIW, blog, EatMyCad, extranet, Nigel Davies, PIX Protocol, UK

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Dec 01 2006

ConVisia

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
1 December 2006

A new name to me since I started watching developments in the US market (in addition to that in the UK) is ConVisia. Founded in July 2005, this business initially said it was specialising in “instant wireless collaboration of complex documents … hosted wireless solutions [for whom] the initial audience … is the architecture, engineering …

Autodesk Buzzsaw, construction collaboration, Constructware, Convisia, e-Builder, extranet, ProjectTalk, US, wireless

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Dec 01 2006

Bentley ProjectWise StartPoint extends SharePoint functionality

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Vendors
1 December 2006

In May and October, I noted developments relating to Bentley’s entry-level collaboration system, ProjectWise StartPoint. The latest release from Bentley (see AECcafe.com), says that StartPoint will now connect to and extend new capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

AEC, Bentley, Microsoft, ProjectWise, SharePoint, StartPoint
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Nov 27 2006

BIM, BIMs or SBIM?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
27 November 2006

After last week’s Construction Computing Show (see previous post), I have finally got round to reading the show edition of Construction Computing magazine (November/December 2006), which incorporates CAD User. In the latter, there is an article (not yet on the CAD User website) from Mervyn Richards, which I think gives a good, if ultimately somewhat …

AEC, Asite, BIM, Collaborative BIM, Construction Computing, Mervyn Richards, people issues, UK
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Nov 24 2006

Construction Computing Show 2006

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
24 November 2006

I have just spent two days at the Construction Computing Show at London’s Barbican Centre. BIW took a stand this year, taking advantage of an arrangement between the organisers and the IT Construction Forum whereby ITCF IT Partners could get space at a special rate. I also presented an ITCF seminar each day entitled The Extranet …

4Projects, Aconex, AEC, Asite, Autodesk, awards, Bentley, BIW, BuildOnline, Business Collaborator, construction collaboration, Construction Computing, Mark Suster, NCCTP, UK, Union Square

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Nov 24 2006

Autodesk Buzzsaw revenues up 79%

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
24 November 2006

Cadalyst’s report on Autodesk’s latest financial statements includes the following paragraph about its Buzzsaw offering: “Revenues from Buzzsaw, a collaborative project management solution, increased 79% over Q3 2006. [Autodesk president and CEO Carl] Bass attributed that gain to the company’s focus on market segments where Buzzsaw has been successful, such as home builders, as well …