Category: Collaboration

Apr 17 2007

BIM – realistically, still over the horizon

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
17 April 2007

AECcafe.com has reprinted a couple of interesting articles from AIArchitect by Michael Tardif, both on the subject on Building Information Modelling (BIM): Faith-based BIM (originally published 27 October 2006) BIM 2011: A Five-year Forecast (5 January 2007) BIM “not yet” The first article starts by echoing an argument I made in my book in that, despite …

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Apr 13 2007

ePIN overhauls website (3)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
13 April 2007

Just over a year ago, I mentioned that, ePIN, one of the smaller UK vendors of construction collaboration technology had refreshed its website. This must be an annual task, for they have just done it again (ePIN director Robin Shipston told me in October that it was “being re-vamped as we speak”) – and it is one of …

AEC, construction collaboration technology, ePin, extranet, goldfish, Robin Shipston, UK, website

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Apr 11 2007

Cadweb misclaims ISO leadership

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, SaaS, Vendors
11 April 2007

UK extranet provider Cadweb says it “is the first Project Extranet to be certified to the new International Standard ISO/IEC 27001″. Its news release also says that it is “the only Project Extranet to be certified to this standard”. Wrong on both counts, Cadweb, and by over a year. ISO/IEC 27001 concerns information security management …

AEC, Attenda, BIW, BS7799, Cadweb, construction collaboration technology, extranet, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO17799, UK

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Apr 10 2007

From SaaS to ‘Webware’ (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
10 April 2007

Since my pre-Easter post regarding Phil Wainewright’s suggestion to rename Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ‘Webware’, he says there has been some further debate, and he has started a poll. At 4pm GMT today, 69 votes had been cast and the leader was ‘webware’, gathering as much votes as ‘SaaS’ and ‘On-demand’ combined. (PS: If you are a …

ASPnews.com, on-demand, Phil Wainewright, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Webware

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Apr 10 2007

Salesforce.com acquires Koral

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
10 April 2007

In November and December 2006, I was talking about Koral, a content collaboration business set up by Mark Suster (former CEO of UK construction collaboration technology vendor BuildOnline) and two BO colleagues. Today, the Koral blog says Koral has been acquired by Salesforce.com – adding: “Our entire [nine-strong] team has joined salesforce.com to lead the content management …

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Apr 02 2007

4Projects sales reach £3.4m

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
2 April 2007

According to a 24 March 2007 article, Jobs created as group wins new markets, in north-east England newspaper The Journal, UK construction collaboration vendor 4Projects has “currently” achieved sales of £3.4m, and “is expected to reach £5m by the beginning of next year”. 4Projects non-executive chairman Paul Callaghan said: “With 4Project [sic] we supply project management software services …

4Projects, AEC, BIW Technologies, Business Collaborator, collaboration, Construction, extranet, StoreData, Styles & Wood, turnover, UK
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Mar 30 2007

Ecospace

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, Vendors
30 March 2007

UK trade publication, Building, says: “A big complaint about collaboration tools is that everybody is familiar with a different system, which means companies have to spend time and money training their staff when they start a new project.” It goes on to report that UK collaboration vendor Business Collaborator is working on Ecospace, a €12m (£8.1m) …

AEC, Business Collaborator, collaboration, Construction, Ecospace, extranet, UK

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Mar 30 2007

Asite BIM

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

Software news in the latest issue of UK construction industry magazine, Building, talks about Asite BIM, suggesting that the UK project collaboration vendor is “about to shake up the world of online collaboration again with the launch of an online single building model”. “Users will be able to collaborate on the design of the …

AEC, Asite, BIM, building information modelling, Octaga AS, Octaga Modeller, UK, viewer
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Mar 29 2007

Business Collaborator website overhauled

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
29 March 2007

The website of UK construction collaboration technology vendor Business Collaborator has just been overhauled. Compared to the clean interface of the previous site, the new home page is much ‘busier’ with a four-column layout and lots of links to further information. (The trite photo-library image of people in hard-hats on a construction site – see …

AEC, Business Collaborator, collaboration, Construction, extranet, marketing, UK, website

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Mar 29 2007

Brava! woes at 4Projects?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
29 March 2007

Industry sources tell me that UK construction collaboration vendor 4Projects has been having major problems with its third-party drawing viewer application (Brava! from Informative Graphics). I have been emailed several bulletins from 4Projects’ status ticker, spread over a three-day period up to and including this morning: Updated 29/03/2007 10:02:30 – We are still experiencing problems with …