Category: Business/Financial

Jul 10 2013

McLaren appoints Houston-based SVP

Idox plc subsidiary and engineering document control and project collaboration solutions vendor McLaren Software has announced it has appointed Bill Stephenson as Senior VP of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations overseeing global sales, professional services and customer support. He joins McLaren from IHS, where he was VP of Sales, Global – Energy Technical Analytics, responsible …

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Jul 09 2013

Nominations open for Construction Computing Awards 2013

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Nominations for the 25 categories in the 2013 Construction Computing Awards opened on 4 July, and close on 5 September. Comparing the awards from last year, the 2013 Awards event in London on 21 November will feature five new awards: Construction Computing Marketing Campaign of 2013 IT Project of the Year in the Public Sector …

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Jun 17 2013

Simple collaboration still competitive

I enjoyed a chat with Colin Barnes, CEO of Manchester, UK-based SaaS construction collaboration vendor Collabor8online, recently. His business launched in late 2009 (post) and is pitched at the competitive, small-to-medium sized business (SME), low-cost end of the construction collaboration market (post), but that hasn’t stopped him developing features emulating some of the more sophisticated …

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Jun 14 2013

From property viewing to post-occupancy reviewing (updated)

Why stop at creating apps to sell luxury homes, when all built assets could have an online owner’s manual and feedback loop? Working in technology for the construction and property sectors, I have long been interested in the use of mobile tools and applications, and the industry’s enthusiasm for apps shows no signs of abating. …

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Jun 13 2013

RIB launches second-generation ProjectCentre: iTWOcx

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RIB rhetoric is focused on combining ERP and collaboration, but it’s not the only vendor eyeing this AEC opportunity. Talking with Milton Walters of 4Projects‘ Australian partner, ProjectCollaboration last week, I noted that things appeared to have gone quiet at its Sydney-based competitor ProjectCentre following the acquisition of this cloud-based construction collaboration provider by Germany-based …

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Jun 10 2013

Remembering Kalexo. Now Flashback

Launched in 2009, Kalexo looked to change collaboration approaches, and was acquired by Autodesk. Now founder Hannes Marais has a new project… Four or five years ago, I discovered a technology start-up called Kalexo which was looking at ways to advance task management, file-sharing, online meetings and video chat online in construction (see BIM: All …

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Jun 06 2013

ProjectCollaboration growing 4Projects in Australia

In its first year of business, 4Projects’ Australian distributor ProjectCollaboration.com.au has gone from start-up to supporting a Au$10bn mining project. Launched in May 2012 by former Aconex and Teambinder executive Milton Walters (post), Melbourne-based ProjectCollaboration has won some significant projects in Australia and in south-east Asia during its first year of operation. As a reseller …

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May 30 2013

McLaren launches enterprise document control service

As briefly mentioned yesterday, McLaren Software has launched a new service, offering outsourced document control for capital projects. The vendor provides a privately hosted cloud-based implementation (OnAir – post) of its enterprise EDMS, McLaren Enterprise, supported by experienced and trained McLaren document controllers “for a flexible, all-inclusive fee structure”. According to the news release: …the …

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May 29 2013

4Projects reporting “double-digit” growth in Q1 2013

A first quarter trading update from Viewpoint suggests 4Projects is thriving rapidly under its new owners, with north American interest in its SaaS AEC collaboration and BIM services growing. A trading update news release from Sunderland, UK-based SaaS construction collaboration vendor 4Projects (now proudly “a Viewpoint Construction Software® company”; see also my March 2013 post) says it …

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May 16 2013

Mclaren launches CAFM Explorer OnAir

The Facilities Show is at the NEC in Birmingham, UK this week (last day today) – a good place for firms to make announcements to their FM audiences. This week, for example, McLaren Software – describing itself as a provider of “engineering document control, project collaboration and CAFM (computer aided facilities management) solutions” – has …

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