Category: Collaboration

Jul 04 2006

Aconex background

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
4 July 2006

Want some historical background on Aconex? Read this profile, Global team plays it fast and friendly, from the Sydney Morning Herald. Gentle PR stuff about Leigh Jasper and Rob Phillpot’s university careers, playing squash, reading books, and building a customer service ethos. There is a reference to the first manifestation of Aconex software (though it’s …

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Jun 30 2006

BuildOnline launches programme management ‘heatmap’ solution

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, SaaS, Vendors
30 June 2006

BuildOnline has launched what it claims is "the first ‘heatmap-based’ programme management system". Project managers get a real-time ‘pressure gauge’ to monitor progress across their projects. The system was developed in partnership with BNP Paribas, and is described as an "enterprise-class programme management system … targeted at project managers of mission-critical projects, such as the …

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Jun 30 2006

ASP: threat or friend?

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS
30 June 2006

Many IT directors and managers regard Application Service Providers (ASPs), On-demand or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) as a potential threat to their operations, but there are real benefits to be gained from adopting this mode of service delivery. An AECnews article, Easing IT Burdens with On-Demand Software argues the case well: "… The initial draw of SaaS …

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Jun 22 2006

Business Collaborator highlights Harvard OCPM research

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
22 June 2006

Business Collaborator‘s latest press release, entitled Harvard Report Shows UK Leads Way in Benefiting from Online Collaboration, gives a vendor-specific viewpoint on the research undertaken at Harvard University into online collaboration and project management (OCPM) technology (see my previous posts, eg: this one, and the most recent one). BC claims the research found "UK companies …

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Jun 22 2006

BIM nice but DIM

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

Lachmi Khemlani’s latest AECbytes newsletter talks about a new abbreviation. A presentation on building information modelling (BIM) at a recent American Institute of Architects conference derogatorily referred to current BIM solutions (eg: Revit, ArchiCAD) as DIM solutions – Drawing Information Modelling. "Their rationale was that these products are being used primarily by architects for drawing …

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Jun 22 2006

Constructing Excellence

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Vendors
22 June 2006

Asite‘s Nathan Doughty attended the Constructing Excellence Building and Estates Forum meeting in Reading on Tuesday (I normally attend these events, but couldn’t go as my wife is in Italy, leaving me to take/collect kids from school, etc). He apparently found it an interesting day, but gave no news on the Avanti project, which was …

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Jun 19 2006

ReproMAX DFS

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
19 June 2006

An article from the US publication, AIA Focus, entitled Digital Project Collaboration, looks at two US solutions: Newforma (see previous post) and ReproMAX DFX (sic), "a web-based, third-party document management system established by a consortium of more than 225 international printers familiar with the AEC industry". A user of the ReproMAX DFS (correct spelling) describes …

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Jun 15 2006

Deltek in UK (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Marketing, SaaS
15 June 2006

Last month I wondered why Deltek took an exhibition stand at the IT Construction Forum’s annual conference. Business Collaborator‘s Tim Blower told me yesterday that this move probably followed Deltek’s acquisition of Welcom, whose applications include a project collaboration solution, Welcom Home; he also mentioned that Welcom’s (now Deltek’s) Open Plan software was being used …

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Jun 15 2006

Asite share price

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
15 June 2006

After reaching a brief high of 4p last week following Nathan Doughty’s £10k investment, Asite‘s share price has fallen back towards the 2.5p level it has maintained for much of the past few months. When the London Stock Exchange closed yesterday, Asite shares were valued at 2.625p each.

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Jun 14 2006

NCCTP AEC collaboration market research (3)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, SaaS, Vendors
14 June 2006

Members of the NCCTP marketing group today had their first presentation from independent market research agency Benchmark regarding the NCCTP survey of over 250 users of the leading UK construction collaboration technology solutions (aka ‘extranets’). Fieldwork was completed last month. There are some fascinating insights to come, but I cannot share them here yet as …