Category: Collaboration

Aug 18 2006

e-Builder offers low-cost design collaboration in US

US vendor e-Builder has launched ‘e-Builder Professional’ – described as “an economical solution tailored to meet the specific needs of design professionals”. The new offering combines a “low price point” with “full document management capabilities, drawing management view and markup, and collaboration capabilities, … unlimited storage options … [and] the ability to add specific modules on …

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Aug 17 2006

SaaS checklist

What to look for in a SaaS vendor is Phil Wainewright’s excellent 8-point checklist on what prospective customers should seek from a vendor, with a ‘best in class’ vendor achieving 6-8 out of 8. It’s quite a demanding list and one that would pose some serious challenges for some of the leading UK construction collaboration technology …

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Aug 16 2006

3D CAD standards

Need a quick run-down on the potential ‘standards war’ between different 3D CAD standards in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) space? Look no further than AECnews.com and Randall Newton’s comprehensive overview: "3D CAD Publishing is the New Vendor Battleground". It will be important from the perspective of construction collaboration technology or ‘extranet’ vendors as …

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Aug 16 2006

Bovis partnership with BIW

The 16 August 2006 issue of Contract Journal has the latest monthly insight into a well-known UK-based construction group – this time Bovis Lend Lease. The standard question, “Does your company make use of project collaboration tools?” gets the following response from chief information officer Scott Farquhar: Bovis became famed for Hummingbird, our earlier project collaboration …

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Aug 11 2006

UK extranet vendor PR update

The past couple of months have seen a flurry of UK deals reported on the websites of the leading construction collaboration technology vendors. For example: BIW Technologies has just announced a three-year corporate deal with contractor Fitzpatrick Business Collaborator signed up Parkman Mouchel in June BuildOnline is to support Thomas and ADAMSON and the City …

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Aug 08 2006

Autodesk Buzzsaw 7 released

One of Autodesk’s DWF bloggers (there don’t appear to be any official Buzzsaw bloggers), Scott Sheppard (Beyond the Paper) says Autodesk has released a Buzzsaw version 7 update. Mainly administration improvements by the look of things, plus an updated user interface.

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Aug 08 2006

Extolling the extranet ethos

The latest ITShowcase newsletter reports on the NCCTP market research, Proving Collaboration Pays (see previous post) – basically the text of the NCCTP news release, but at least the key messages are being disseminated.

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Aug 08 2006

ASP, SaaS, On-demand or the “business web”?

At ASPstreet, an article – What do you call your ASP? – by Minda Zetlin usefully sums up some of the debate about terminology, and proposes a term that we may hear more of in the months ahead. Zetlin points out that the term ‘ASP’ became discredited in some people’s eyes by its much-hyped associations …

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Jul 28 2006

QS News covers NCCTP extranet research

QS News is the latest journal to publicise the NCCTP market research published last week (see 20 July post – Contract Journal wrote about it earlier this week); read "QSs back web portals" (strange that they chose to use the word ‘portals’ – not a word employed in the NCCTP news release at all). The …

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Jul 25 2006

Causeway links with National Federation of Builders

Contract Journal reports that the UK trade association, the National Federation of Builders has named Causeway Technologies as its "Strategic IT Solutions Partner". NFB members, which are primarily small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), will get preferential rates on Causeway software solutions which include estimating and project accounting products, along with offerings for content management, document …

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