Blog feed- New Aconex CFOMelbourne, Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration technology provider Aconex has announced the appointment of a new chief financial officer, Steve Recht. The news release says Recht has 30 years’ operating and finance experience as a CEO, COO and CFO for venture-backed … Continue reading → […]
- From email to BIMIn the past couple of weeks, I have delivered two presentations on BIM (building information modelling). The first was an overview of BIM to the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Construction Industry Group (CIMCIG) at the Building Centre in London on … Continue reading → […]
- Viewpoint acquires Construction ImagingViewpoint Construction Software, the Oregon, US-based construction ERP vendor has made another move towards the collaboration sector with its just-announced acquisition of fellow US company Construction Imaging, a provider of enterprise content management solutions. I spoke to Viewpoint’s management in February and … Continue reading → […]
- A longer look at TrackerPlusIn January, I wrote about London-based environmental consultancy SouthFacing and its TrackerPlus online Software-as-a-Service solution to help BRE-licensed BREEAM assessors manage their workload. This week, I visited the company’s Islington offices and met Ben Cartmell to find out more about the … Continue reading → […]
- Docia opens South Africa officeCopenhagen, Denmark-based construction collaboration technology provider Docia (aka “Byggeweb” in its home market) has opened an office in Johannesburg, South Africa – founder and CEO Mads Bording tells me. Just over six months since the Scandinavian business opened an office … Continue reading → […]
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Category Archives: BIM
think project! revisited (and visited!)
Already highly configurable, think project! functionality is set to expand over the next year, with BIM and mobile access high on the agenda. When I profiled Munich-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor think project! last month, I said I would … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged Aconex, AEC, architecture, AutoVue, Cimmetry, Construction, construction collaboration technology, CTSpace, Engineering, Eplass, Germany, Munich, Oracle, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Think Project!
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Asite grows revenues and profits
London-based software-as-a-service construction collaboration and e-procurement technology vendor Asite has published its financial results for the year to 30 June 2011. Revenue was up 44% to £2.914m from 2010 (£2.021m) and overall operating profit for the period more than tripled, … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, AEC, architecture, Asite, BIM, BIW, building information modelling, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Engineering, London, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Tony Ryan, UK, Unit4 Collaboration, US
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Profiling think project!
Relatively unknown in the UK, Think Project! is one of mainland Europe’s leading SaaS construction collaboration vendors with an impressive client list. In London last Friday Thomas Bachmaier, CEO of Munich, Germany-based think project!, told me about the company, its … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged AEC/Communications, API, architecture, Audi, Australia, Bayer, BIM, BMW, Bosch, CAD, China, Conject, Construction, construction collaboration technology, E-on, email, Engineering, ERP, Germany, Hochtief, Incite, Leighton Holdings, Munich, NATO, Nexus Point Solutions, RWE, SaaS, SAP, Software-as-a-Service, Strabag, Think Project!, Thomas Backmaier, Toyota, UK, US, Vinci
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Unit4 combining collaboration, ERP and BIM in the cloud
The 2012 Unit4 customer conference this week at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre incorporated the annual user event for users of Unit4 Collaboration (formerly Business Collaborator), and there were some significant announcements both about the structure of that business and about … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged AEC, Agresso, Anwen Robinson, API, architecture, BC Assure, BIM, BIMaaS, building information modelling, Business Collaborator, cloud computing, COBie, collaboration, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Crest Nicholson, EC Harris, Engineering, ERP, Halcrow, IKEA, Mark Bew, marketing, mobile, MVA, SaaS, Sanjeev Shah, Social Media, Software-as-a-Service, Steve Crompton, UK, UNIT4, Unit4 Collaboration, Wessex Water, WSP
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Aconex revenues flat and losses deepen
Aconex reports flat revenues and a pre-tax loss for year to June 2011, but recent performance has been strong and longer-term prospects are promising. The latest annual report and accounts from Melbourne, Australia-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex show … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged Aconex, AEC, architecture, Australia, BidContender, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Engineering, Europe, Libya, Matthew Walsh, Paul Perrett, recession, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, US
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ExtranetEvolution.com: the 2011 numbers
In April 2011, I migrated the ExtranetEvolution blog from TypePad to a hosted version of WordPress (post), and I have just been reviewing annual statistics for the site for the first time in two years (in fact, since my 2009 review). … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Web 2.0
Tagged Aconex, AEC, architecture, Australia, BIM, blog, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Engineering, Incite, Leighton, SaaS, Twitter, TypePad, UK, US, Web 2.0, Wordpress
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Corecon TeamLink Portal creates new ‘extranet’ player – and low-cost too
It’s been a while – 15 months – since I talked about Corecon, the California-based provider of web-based construction software, and more than 18 months since it launched its flagship product Corecon V7. Until V7, Corecon had been mainly focused … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, Aconex, architecture, BIW, collaboration, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Corecon, Engineering, extranet, Meridian Prolog, Norman Wendl, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, TeamLink Portal, US
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CadFaster speeds up BIM conversations
At COMIT’s (excellent) conference on BIM and mobile technologies (#mobiBIM) at University College London on 11 November (post) I met Tuomas Holma, VP Sales and Marketing of Finland-based CadFaster. We subsequently arranged to meet up, along with CadFaster’s chairman Raimo … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged #mobiBIM, AEC, architecture, Arup, BIM, CAD, CadFaster, collaboration, COMIT, Construction, Engineering, Finland, Raimo Kuismin, Software-as-a-Service, Tuomas Holma, UK, US, VoIP
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November PR and marketing updates from the construction collaboration vendors
Asite joins Autodesk Develop Network London-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Asite has joined the Autodesk Developer Network (24 November news release), looking to develop tighter integration between its Asite collaborative BIM (cBIM) and Autodesk’s BIM tools. Apparently: “through a fully … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Extranet, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged Aconex, AEC, Asite, Australia, Autodesk, Balfour Beatty, BIM, Business Collaborator, construction collaboration technology, Docia, Mads Bording, marketing, MPS, PR, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Sypro, UK, Unit4 Collaboration
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