As a keen cyclist I sometimes compare routes with other cyclists. One friend told me about a route and sent me a link to Gmap Pedometer (the tool is also used by runners), and I’ve now started using it to share routes or to give directions to people (how to find a particular construction site, …
Category: Collaboration
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Jun 08 2006
Newforma Project Center
In the US, Randall Newton at AECnews.com has been talking to the people at Newforma who, on 1 June, launched Newforma Project Center – a client/server based system that sits inside an organisation’s firewall. The product is "designed to help project managers and team members gain control over their burgeoning and complex project information". This …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2006/06/newforma_projec/
Jun 08 2006
Google Spreadsheets
The latest Google tool aimed at sharing information within workteams could end the constant exchange of updated Excel spreadsheets. Google Spreadsheets (see link at http://labs.google.com/) allows me to import an existing Excel spreadsheet and then share it with any of my colleagues, even ones that may not have Excel on their PCs. It’s still at …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2006/06/google_spreadsh-2/
Jun 07 2006
Microsoft pulls PDF publishing from Vista
In Construction Collaboration Technologies: The Extranet Evolution, I talked about file formats and the increasingly common practice of publishing drawings and other documents in the Adobe PDF format. That trend may be about to change, with another document format just over the horizon. At AECnew.com, Randall Newton says: "the ability to publish directly to PDF …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2006/06/microsoft_pulls/
Jun 06 2006
Construction Computing 2006
Just received an email from Craig Molloy at BTC confirming the dates of the Construction Computing 2006 show. It will on 8th and 9th November at the Barbican exhibition centre, London. This year’s event will apparently be co-located with the Bentley User Community Conference; I expect this will ensure a good number of designers among …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2006/06/construction_co-6/
Jun 06 2006
Pearce-ing insight
The latest Contract Journal monthly insight of what working life is like within a well-known construction group looks at the Pearce Group ("We will be launching our new website soon…" it promises). The usual question about project collaboration tools prompts IT manager Dave Fox to eulogise to CJ business editor John Leitch about 4Projects: "We …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2006/06/pearceing_insig/
Jun 05 2006
Sharepoint: first, ProjectWise StartPoint, then Citadon Jazz
The Bentley BE conference has now finished and various correspondents have compiled their reports, some mentioning the ProjectWise StartPoint product (previously covered here and here). In the AECbytes newsletter, Lachmi Khemlani describes the new entry-level solution, saying it is designed for smaller, co-located teams rather than larger teams in multiple locations which full ProjectWise caters …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2006/06/sharepoint_firs/
Jun 05 2006
Latest Asite results
Simultaneously with last week’s announcement of Asite’s change of CEO (see preceding post), was the Stock Exchange announcement of Asite’s final results for the year ending 31 December 2005. Turnover was down 9% on the previous year at £1.529m (from 2004 figure of £1.674). Underlying trends were a little more optimistic – for example, the …
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Jun 05 2006
Asite CEO change
Less than six months ago, in Asite CEO goes permanent, I noted that Asite‘s Gordon Ashworth had been appointed CEO instead of acting CEO. It seems this move wasn’t particularly "permanent", as last week (see Asite announcement or Stock Exchange notice) Ashworth stepped down to be replaced by former sales director and then chief operating …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2006/06/asite_ceo_chang/
Jun 05 2006
FMI/CMAA survey
Keeping an eye on US developments, I see AECcafe.com talks of the results of a forthcoming survey to be announced at a conference in November. Thinking this sounded interesting, I Googled the survey and found it can be read at http://cmaanet.org/user_images/sixth_owners_survey.pdf. When talking about project collaboration, it says: "Only 45% [of owners] had their own …
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