Partly out of historical interest, I continue to monitor the company reporting of BuildOnline, a construction collaboration technology vendor which is now part of the French-owned Sword Group, today trading as Sword CTSpace and offering a portfolio of products from former offerings BuildOnline, Citadon and, more recently, Cimage. BuildOnline (UK) Ltd’s Annual Report and Accounts …
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Sep 03 2009
Good numbers from 4Projects
Latest results, for the 12 months up to 31 March 2009, show that UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects enjoyed its most successful year to date. According to the latest returns submitted to Companies House, revenues grew 24% to £5.502m (up from £4.420m in 2008 – see 4projects turnover up a third), while pre-tax profits …
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Aug 27 2009
Storedata revenues down again
Interim results from Styles and Wood include half-year performance figures for its retail-oriented construction collaboration solution provider StoreData. Reporting for the six months to 30 June 2009, these show that the business’s revenues have shrunk again. The business generated revenues of £0.589m, down 11% from £0.663m for the same period in 2008; the £0.103m profit …
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Aug 17 2009
Newforma targets the UK
On the same day last week that I swapped emails with Knowledge Architecture’s Chris Parsons (see post), I read in AECcafe.com that New Hampshire, USA-based AEC software vendor Newforma was forming a user community in the UK (see Newforma Users Form Community in United Kingdom). Newforma hired former Excitech executive Tim Bates as a new …
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Aug 17 2009
I HATE LOSING!
UK construction collaboration technology vendors with long(ish) memories will recall the surge in interest by the major UK water utility companies in using web-based systems to support their Asset Management Programmes (AMPs) during the early 2000s. Former BuildOnline boss Mark Suster, now a venture capitalist in California, tells the story of a defeat clutched from …
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Jul 27 2009
How boom went bust at the click of a mouse
I’ve chronicled the slide of BuildOnline in a number of blog posts over the past four years (notably Investing in a dot.com/SaaS business: a history), and the losses suffered by the early BO investors have clearly been shared by numerous other Ireland-based start-ups, as this Irish Independent article makes clear. Writer Roisin Burke suggests BO’s …
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Jul 21 2009
Drop into drop.io
I had a transatlantic meeting via Skype this afternoon with three of the people at Brooklyn, New York-based drop.io, providers of “simple real-time sharing, collaboration, and presentation”. Their Software-as-a-Service solution has already achieved some media attention in the US – though the focus to date has been on generic file-sharing rather than on enabling industry-specific …
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Jul 15 2009
Enter e-grou
A new name in the online document management space is Portugal-based e-grou, which is about to launch a free edition of its web-based solution. Available “soon”, e-grou Free Edition is claimed to be “the first document management software solution made available on the web as a service, completely for free” and is aimed at “small …
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Jul 09 2009
Clouds UK: a new name and a competitive offering
Earlier this week, I had afternoon coffee in London with Andy Newsham and Alison Day, joint chief executives of York-based Clouds UK. This is the new name of what used to be a construction-oriented software-as-a-service business that I previously knew as e-constructionmanager.co.uk. The rebranding reflects the wider range of services now offered by the company, …
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Contract Communicator
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Today I discovered Johannesburg, South Africa-based Contract Communicator, a technology company providing web-based solutions aimed at managing contract issues involving any of five forms of the FIDIC contract or the NEC3 Engineering and Construction contract. Founded by technologist Leon Cilliers and lawyer Mark Ilbury in 2008, the company‘s core product (see PDF too) is a …
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