Category: Collaboration

Sep 27 2006

CIO skepticism

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Marketing, SaaS
27 September 2006

From SaaScon, a US conference on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Phil Wainewright has been blogging about CIO Skepticism. The CIOs participating in a conference session were apparently dismissive of some SaaS vendor claims, and judged SaaS propositions in the same way as on-premises propositions. They also dismissed some claims: It’s not any easier to implement and use. Nor should …

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Sep 22 2006

Knowledge – an untapped resource

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues
22 September 2006

Inbetween the PIECC event on Tuesday and yesterday’s Constructing Excellence event, I attended a seminar at the RICS organised by an Oxford Brookes University team, led by Esra Kurun, presenting a study of social networks and their role in knowledge management. It was interesting stuff. There were two case studies, the first from Bovis Lend Lease …

BIW, Bovis, knowledge management, social network analysis

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Sep 22 2006

Acrobat 8

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet
22 September 2006

The past week has seen Adobe make announcements regarding its new Acrobat functionality: Adobe Drives Next Generation of Electronic Documents with Acrobat 8 Software Adobe Expands Acrobat Family with New Acrobat Connect Product Line Critical reaction in the AEC blogosphere and online world has been quite positive (see, for example, AECnews.com and Cadalyst – see also CADdigest’s review …

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Sep 20 2006

SaaS traction in the AEC industry

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
20 September 2006

Back in June (see post), I discussed some provocative claims (in Randall Newton’s AECnews) from US vendor Newforma about ASP traction in the AEC sector. In a comment at the time, I expressed the hope that US providers would back up my own UK-based experiences. Today (in Autodesk Takes Exception to Newforma’s ‘No ASP Traction …

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Sep 20 2006

Give PIECC a chance

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Books, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, People issues
20 September 2006

Yesterday I attended a workshop at Loughborough University to discuss Planning and Implementation of Effective Collaboration in Construction, the PIECC (pronounced ‘peace’) project. The event was one of the final deliverables of a two-year, EPSRC-funded project run by Loughborough’s Mark Shelbourn and Dino Bouchlaghem (with industry involvement from Avanti, Arup, Buro Happold, Capita Symonds, Mott …

Avanti, collaborative working, Constructing Excellence, Loughborough University, PIECC, research

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Sep 18 2006

Changes at BuildOnline (5)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
18 September 2006

The latest batch of changes at UK-based on-demand extranet vendor BuildOnline see the sudden departure of Bob Godfrey (Managing Director – Northern Europe) and job-title changes for his former colleagues Gert-Jan de Kieviet and Franck Meudec, now respectively managing directors of BO’s North EMEA and South EMEA regions. Careful readers of the website of the …

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Sep 14 2006

Lagan favours SharePoint

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE
14 September 2006

The latest Contract Journal profile looks at Belfast-based contractor Lagan Construction. Asked about collaboration tools, IT manager Jim Fennell says: “Our in-house collaboration tool is SharePoint, while the choice when operating externally is driven by the client or the joint venture we are in.” tags: Contract Journal, contractor, SharePoint

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Sep 13 2006

A co-ordinated approach to construction IT in the UK

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, Vendors
13 September 2006

Back in February (Long overdue CICA changes), I touched briefly on the need for there to be a more coordinated approach to managing IT interests in the UK construction industry. I suggested there was a potentially confusing array of organisations – the CICA, the IT Construction Forum and Construct IT for Business – representing general …

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Sep 07 2006

Asite to hold conference

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
7 September 2006

UK collaboration vendor Asite is to hold a half-day conference in London on 4 October 2006. Its "ReThinking Construction Update Conference" programme includes a "Presentation of Asite progress" and a keynote from former Asite chairman Sir John Egan, plus the interesting prospect of a "Major new development to be launched".

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Sep 05 2006

NCCTP research featured in “Building” magazine

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
5 September 2006

The latest publication to feature the NCCTP’s recently published research report "Proving Collaboration Pays" (see previous post) was the leading UK weekly, Building (25 August 2006 issue). The article, How good are extranets?, by Sonia Soltani, doesn’t just focus on the report though; it gives the views of numerous users – from Bouygues UK, Gleeds, …