Category: Business/Financial

Jan 17 2008

SaaS and construction collaboration in 2008

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
17 January 2008

After Reviewing 2007, I started thinking about some predictions or trends for 2008. My first instinct was simply to repeat last year’s five, but that would be too easy. Instead, I have decided to update two, and add three new ones. Here are the first two (the others will follow over the next couple of days). …

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Jan 16 2008

Asite directors invest (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, People issues, Vendors
16 January 2008

Just before Christmas, Asite COO Nathan Doughty and non-executive director Gordon Ashworth increased their stakes in the UK construction collaboration technology vendor. Today, another non-exec, Walter Goldsmith, purchased 150,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 3p per share, taking his total holding to 700,000 shares, representing approximately 0.68 per cent of the issued ordinary …

Asite, Walter Goldsmith

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Jan 14 2008

BC parent in takeover approach

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Collaboration, Vendors
14 January 2008

According to a London Stock Exchange announcement today, Coda plc, the parent company of UK construction collaboration technology vendor Business Collaborator, has been the subject of a takeover offer from Dutch-based business software provider Unit 4 Agresso. The move values Coda at £157.8m, but “news of the talks could well attract competitive bids from rivals …

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/01/bc-parent-in-ta/

Jan 02 2008

Reviewing 2007

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
2 January 2008

Last year, I made five ‘Extranet Evolution’ 2007 predictions. Were they correct? 1. Growing acceptance and use of web-based collaboration tools within the UK construction industry It was something of a no-brainer. The continued revenue growth trends of the leading UK-based vendors shows there is a strong appetite for the applications. I was also encouraged by the …

4Projects, BIM, BIW, collaboration, Constructing Excellence, Construction, CTSpace, mobile, MPS, NCCTP, Predictions, SaaS
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Jan 02 2008

More on Sword

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
2 January 2008

After a blogging break over Christmas and New Year, I have started 2008 with another quick look at the Sword Group – which announced it had acquired construction collaboration technology vendor CTSpace on 21 December (see previous post). Reviewing the Sword Group’s offerings, it seems CTSpace will augment the parent’s existing enterprise content management (ECM) or document …

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Dec 23 2007

CTSpace put to the Sword

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
23 December 2007

Just 53 weeks after its last major ownership change, SaaS construction collabaration technology vendor CTSpace (the result of a merger between UK-based BuildOnline and US-based Citadon) has been acquired by the international Sword group of IT companies (as far as I can tell, no value for the transaction has been given). The news came in a …

4Projects, BIW, BuildOnline, Carillion, Cimage, Citadon, construction collabaration technology, CTSpace, ECM, Heath Davies, Howard Koenig, Jacques Mottard, MASS Systems, PIMS, Royal Opera House, SaaS, Schal, Sword group, Tarmac Professional Services, TPS
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Dec 18 2007

Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Future
18 December 2007

I wrote earlier this week about online meetings, of which one kind is the webinar. Thanks to Sergio Aranda of e-Builder for sending me a link to a recording of an e-Builder webinar featuring Barry LePatner, a US lawyer and author of Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets. LePatner shares his experiences and insights into what is wrong with …

AEC, Barry LePatner, BIM, Broken Buildings Busted Budgets, e-Builder, US

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Dec 18 2007

Asite directors invest

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
18 December 2007

A Stock Exchange announcement says Asite CEO Tony Ryan, COO Nathan Doughty and non-executive director (and former CEO) Gordon Ashworth have increased their stakes in the UK construction collaboration technology vendor. Ryan bought 186,577 shares at an average price of 2.38 pence apiece, lifting his stake in the company to 442,156 shares (c 0.43%). Doughty acquired …

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Dec 12 2007

Aconex results hit by legal row

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Legal, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
12 December 2007

Some three months ago, I had a look at the 2006 financial results for Australia-based construction collaboration vendor Aconex, noting that its 2007 results would be available in November (as per Aconex marketing chief Frank Carron’s comment). After a slight delay (auditors requested an extension of time as some areas required additional testing), the latest …

Aconex, ASIC, Australia, collaboration, Construction, court case, Hawthorn Glen, legal dispute, UK
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Nov 12 2007

4projects boosts profits

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, SaaS, Vendors
12 November 2007

UK construction collaboration vendor 4Projects has lodged its annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2007 with Companies House (the figures were also reported by UK trade newspaper Contract Journal). The results relate to the last full financial year before the management buyout of 4Projects Holdings Ltd (see MBO at 4Projects) in July. …