It’s never a dull moment at BuildOnline – every few months, they move things around and change some job-titles. Having made a few changes in October 2005, then again in December, today we noticed from BO’s main website that Stuart Lander had lost his crown as the grand-sounding "President, Americas" (before that he was managing …
Category: Collaboration
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May 17 2006
BIW user conference 2006
No posts yesterday as I was managing the BIW user conference at the (fantastic) Oval conference centre in London. Previously, we used to run a series workshops for small groups (15-20 or so) at the BIW offices; this year, we decided to do one big event to promote greater interaction between users and with BIW …
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May 14 2006
ITCF 2006 conference (2)
Since my previous post on this subject, I have learned that Paul Castle of Turner & Townsend has confirmed that he will be the principal speaker in the NCCTP afternoon discussion stream session at the ITCF conference on 24 May.
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May 12 2006
Aconex selected for train station development (2)
Earlier this week, I received an email asking that I remove some content from one of my posts in early March regarding a train station project at London’s White City with which UK contractor Costain was involved. I promptly and prominently published a correction immediately underneath the original post, apologising and explaining that the inaccuracy …
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May 09 2006
ITCF 2006 conference
As members of the event’s headline sponsor, the NCCTP, BIW Technologies (along with 4Projects, Asite, Business Collaborator and Sarcophagus) will be exhibiting at the IT Construction Forum’s 2006 annual conference at the Oval in London on 24 May. Representatives of the same NCCTP members will also be participating in an afternoon stream session focused on …
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May 08 2006
WSP “driven by what our clients want”
The latest "Contract Journal" company profile (see Cyril Sweett on BIW in late March and Rok set on in-house capability in January) features consultancy business WSP. On the project collaboration tools question, Andy Scott, global IT director says: "… Internally, we have IBM TeamWorkplace and Microsoft Sharepoint. Externally, we’re driven by what our clients want …
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May 04 2006
CRM: Hosted vs packaged
A Silicon.com article weighs up the pros and cons of hosted applications by reference to the CRM market. I am encouraged by its talk of "greater acceptance of applications hosting as companies warm to outsourcing" – if this is happening in the CRM arena, particularly among small or medium-sized businesses, then companies may also warm …
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May 02 2006
Constructware and Autodesk
At AECCadalyst.com, an article, "Digitizing the Paper Trail", helps explain some benefits of using an online collaboration solution – in this case, Constructware. The final section mentions the recent acquisition of Constructware by Autodesk (see previous post) and gives a Constructware customer’s perspective (Debra Kunce, program director at design agency Schmidt Associates): Reflecting on the …
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Apr 25 2006
Google calendar
I sometimes find it difficult to reconcile my work, social and domestic commitments, particularly when my wife (Helen) and I have to juggle responsibility for taking and collecting our two children from school and after-school club (plus, in my daughter’s case, Brownies and Woodcraft Folk too). Microsoft Outlook has been OK as a personal calendar …
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Apr 25 2006
Eight SaaS myths
Business Week has an interesting article by Jeffrey Kaplan of THINKstrategies detailing eight Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) myths: SaaS is still relatively new and untested. SaaS is just another version of the failed application service provider, or ASP, and hosting models of the past, and will suffer SaaS only relieves companies of the up-front costs of traditional …
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