McLaren Software’s recent announcement of its private cloud offering for enterprise-class engineering document management (see previous post) has been quickly followed by the launch of the latest release of its Software-as-a-Service FusionLive collaboration offering. The release is the first major update since McLaren absorbed the former AEC-focused CTSpace business in late 2011, and includes over …
Category: Collaboration
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Oct 10 2012
McLaren launches Enterprise OnAir
Some six months after I talked to McLaren Software about its dual offering of SaaS and on-premise engineering document management platforms (post), the London-based vendor has announced a third option: McLaren Enterprise OnAir, a private cloud-hosted solution. Complementing the company’s existing SaaS offering, FusionLive, this development means its McLaren Enterprise engineering document control suite (aimed at …
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Oct 08 2012
iSite develop “Assetology” and launch ‘The Hub’
In 1987, actress Maureen Lipman famously said: “You get an ology, you’re a scientist,” in a TV advertisement for British Telecom, and I was reminded of this last week. I had been invited to the London launch, by Styles & Wood’s UK-based IT subsidiary, iSite, of ‘The Hub,’ an application of its web-based property information platform to …
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Oct 04 2012
ProjectCentre acquired by RIB Software
Sydney, Australia-based SaaS construction software developer ProjectCentre has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by the German technical ERP and BIM software business RIB Software AG. The announcement was made on Sunday 30 September, and is RIB’s second acquisition in under a month. RIB expanding through M&A On 11 September RIB announced the purchase (also for an …
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Oct 03 2012
Corecon expands V7 mobile access
California-based construction estimating, collaboration and project management software vendor Corecon Technologies has unveiled updates to its web-based Corecon V7 platform (launched in May 2010). The enhancements provide further mobile access options and integration with other popular tools including QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, Sage Simply Accounting and SAP Business One. Corecon V7 is now compatible with Google Chrome and Apple …
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Sep 24 2012
HP SaaS drawing storage set to expand (and integrate?)
Reprographic hardware corporation HP launched its SaaS-based cloud storage service, ePrint & Share nearly two years ago (post), and has continued to market itself to UK users ever since (I wrote about its Android app launch in May 2012). I was invited to a launch event at the RIBA in London today (24 September), where it announced: “the …
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Sep 20 2012
Aconex extends mobile offering to iPad
I’ve mentioned its imminent launch a couple of times recently but now it’s official: Aconox Mobile for iPad. The Melbourne, Australia-based SaaS collaboration vendor Aconex launched an iPhone app in May last year (post), and has now expanded its portfolio to include an iPad app (already winner of the 2012 Australian Mobile Award for Project Management), …
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Sep 18 2012
Asite heads list of collaboration vendors vying for Construction Computing Awards 2012
The shortlists for the 2012 Construction Computing Awards have been published, and reveal many familiar names vying for “Hammers” across equally familiar ranges of sometimes overlapping categories. Voting for the awards is now open (and will remain open until 8 November), the winners will be announced at a London event on 22 November, and London-based …
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Sep 17 2012
Collaboration vendors invite votes, and Eneo pitches in
With London Social Media Week fast approaching, I worked late one night last week sorting out the crowd-sourced nominations for the second running of the Be2Awards, which are being held at London’s Building Centre on the afternoon Wednesday 26 September (register here). As with the first running of the Awards last year, the winners are …
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Sep 11 2012
NBS Contracts survey mute on contract tools
Opportunity missed, I think, sums up my view of the findings from the the NBS National Construction Contracts and Law Survey 2012, at least so far as construction collaboration technologies are concerned. I was hoping that, following recent years’ growth in the use of web-based platforms to support project team communications – and contract administration …
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