Category: Collaboration

Aug 02 2007

MBO at 4Projects (3)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
2 August 2007

So how much did the August-backed management team at 4Projects pay for the business (see previous post)? No figure was quoted in the release, and there are no hard and fast rules that we can apply. Business valuation is something of a mixture of art and science, with several ways to estimate a fair price. …

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Aug 01 2007

MBO at 4Projects (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Vendors
1 August 2007

Not being a financial wizard, I have been doing some research on what is involved in a management buy-out, so that I understand the implications of yesterday’s 4Projects announcement better. Wikipedia’s MBO entry yields some interesting background on private equity-backed MBOs: “The private equity investors will invest money in return for a proportion of the shares in …

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Jul 31 2007

MBO at 4Projects

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
31 July 2007

There has been a momentous announcement from UK construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects today: 4Projects Holdings Ltd has been bought by its management team, led by MD Richard Vertigan and finance director Steve Nelson, with the support of a private equity firm, August Equity LLP. 4Projects was previously a subsidiary of the Leighton media group, …

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Jul 30 2007

e-Builder makes its “major announcement”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Vendors
30 July 2007

I wrote last month about US construction collaboration vendor e-Builder and its impending major announcement. I waited well into July to see what this would be, but nothing appeared on the e-Builder website until just over a week ago when a release finally appeared, backdated to 29 June. e-Builder announced “the launch of e-Builder Enterprise 6.0, …

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Jul 30 2007

Emap Construct titles to move?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
30 July 2007

Like some of my counterparts at rival UK construction collaboration vendors, I have enjoyed working with one-time marketing director (now strategy and development director) Ross Sturley and his colleagues at Emap Construct, publisher of trade papers Construction News, New Civil Engineer and Architects’ Journal (among others) and past organiser of ‘project extranet’ conferences. I was …

AEC, AJ, Construction News, Emap, NCE, Project Extranet, UK

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Jul 20 2007

More on email (and Newforma)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
20 July 2007

I am a keen reader of Lachmi Khemlani’s AECbytes newsletter, particularly for the insights into what is going on in the USA, and the latest issue is a good example. Lachmi writes about attending ZweigWhite’s AEC Technologies Strategies conference, held in Las Vegas on 7-8 June. As well as some interesting case studies on building …

AEC, AECbytes, BIM, BIW, Buzzsaw, Documentum, email, Eppstein, Lachmi Khemlani, MessageSave, Microsoft, Newforma, Outlook, Primavera, SharePoint, Uhen, Union Square
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Jul 16 2007

Some Saas background

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Internet, SaaS
16 July 2007

I occasionally get asked: “where can I read up on Software-as-a-Service?” One place to start is ASPnews.com, which last week had a good background article SaaS: An Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come … Again.

ASP, ASPnews.com, SaaS

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Jul 11 2007

Autodesk Buzzsaw adoption

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
11 July 2007

A news release from Autodesk gives some clues about the scale of adoption of its Buzzsaw construction collaboration application. The release reports “a powerful but steady growth in European sales”, with Autodesk’s Mark Ellis adding: “We had been experiencing an average of two new customers a week for the past nine months, but more recently …

AEC, Autodesk, Barking Riverside, BIW, Bristol City Council, Buzzsaw, collaboration, Construction, extranet, Gleeson Building, Mark Ellis, NCCTP, statistics

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Jul 05 2007

ShareWorkz: intranet and extranet collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
5 July 2007

I, and several of my colleagues, have received emails from Microsoft VAR ICS Solutions about ShareWorkz, described as “a functionally rich, best practice intranet and extranet collaboration platform, based on Microsoft SharePoint technology, that enables you to build a collaboration solution in less than one hour”. While it describes itself as “a world first”, I guess …

AEC, collaboration, extranet, ICS Solutions, Microsoft, on-demand, SaaS, SharePoint, ShareWorkz, UK
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Jul 05 2007

Promotion for Nathan

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, Vendors
5 July 2007

UK construction collaboration vendor Asite announced yesterday the promotion of my friend Nathan Doughty, previously the firm’s chief technology officer, to the position of chief operating officer. I have got to know Nathan quite well through meetings of the NCCTP, where Asite is this year’s chairman. Another announcement says Nathan has also joined the board …