A few years ago, my young children would rise at unfeasibly early hours of the day and watch kids TV, including a programme called Bear in the Big Blue House. I was reminded of this when reading news of a new offering from IBM: a web-delivered service that provides extranet services to SMEs (aka SMBs) …
Category: Collaboration
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Jan 23 2008
More SharePoint for AEC
Earlier this week, a Microsoft employee frankly admitted to me that SharePoint was not particularly easy to implement for extranet-type collaboration in the typical geographically distributed structure of a construction project team. As a result, Microsoft has tended to be reliant upon partners such as the Sword Group’s C2Share (see post) to expand its SharePoint footprint in …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/01/more-sharepoint/
Jan 18 2008
SaaS and construction collaboration in 2008 (2)
Continuing my thinking about some trends for 2008 (see yesterday’s post), here’s my next prediction…. 3. Collaboration vendors to push SaaS and sustainability Vendors of construction collaboration technologies have generally been pretty upbeat about the contribution their systems can make to helping construction project teams work more sustainably (see my first IT and sustainable construction post). The usual examples …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/01/saas-and-cons-1/
Jan 17 2008
SaaS and construction collaboration in 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 14 2008
BC parent in takeover approach
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 09 2008
4Ps confusion
Within the UK construction collaboration technology market, vendor 4Projects is sometimes abbreviated to 4Ps (‘four peas’). The latest news release on the 4Projects’ website therefore initially confused me, as it concerns a partnership with another business known as … 4ps (a local government project delivery specialist, apparently).
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/01/4ps-confusion/
Jan 02 2008
Reviewing 2007
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/01/reviewing-2007/
Jan 02 2008
More on Sword
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/01/more-on-sword/
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Dec 20 2007
Web conferencing, ICT and paper savings?
Earlier this week, I wrote about web conferencing and its potential contribution to reducing carbon footprints by eliminating some travel. In a comment, Cece Salomon-Lee of ON24 noted that such online sessions also reduce the need to print out copies of presentations, etc (assuming, of course, that participants don’t later download the presentations and print them out …
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