Category: Collaboration

Jan 05 2010

Box.net and Motion Computing target construction

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
5 January 2010

I use Box.net as an online file back-up and storage solution, and chanced upon a blog post by Box.net’s senior business development manager Matt Soldo talking about a new reseller relationship with Austin, Texas-based Motion Computing, who produce ruggedised tablet PCs. Positioning itself as “Your plan room in the cloud” (a familiar US refrain), Box.net …

Bluebeam, Box.net, browser, CAD, Clouds UK, Colaab, Collabor8online, commenting, construction collaboration, drop.io, e-Grou, file sharing, FreightTrain, FTP, Glasscubes, Incite Toolbox, Latista, mark-up, Matt Soldo, Motion Computing, PDA, plan room in the cloud, ShowDocument, Skanska, smartphone, tablet PC, Tekla, Vela Systems, Woobius, workflow
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Jan 04 2010

And the stats say….

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
4 January 2010

2009 was a bit of an erratic year for me blog-wise. This was partly a reflection of my change of career path in the spring, coupled with all the effort that has to go into launching and sustaining a new business (meaning that blogging on construction collaboration technologies wasn’t always top of my “to do” …

Aconex, APIs, BIW, blog, Chief Construction Adviser, Contract Journal, ExtranetEvolution.com, page impressions, Rob Phillpot, SaaS, statistics, unique visitors

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Dec 17 2009

Brialto

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, People issues, Web 2.0
17 December 2009

I received an email earlier this week inviting me to join Brialto, an online business networking platform as a pioneer member. It claims it is “the first online business networking platform to replicate everything you would expect to see at an offline networking event – rooms where events take place, a list of members and …

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Dec 16 2009

Business Collaborator goes mobile too

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, SaaS, Telecoms
16 December 2009

UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor, Business Collaborator has just launched BC Mobile, “a new module for mobile devices that will enable users of its BC 5.3 project collaboration service to access files and information and to action tasks on the go”. According to today’s news release: “BC Mobile allows users of internet enabled mobile devices …

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Dec 15 2009

KA Connect 2010 – what happens in Chicago, won’t stay in Chicago

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Marketing, Web 2.0
15 December 2009

Sometimes I get invitations for events that are just irrelevant to me. Other times I get invitations that sound brilliant. The latest, from Christopher Parsons at Knowledge Architecture (post), definitely falls into the latter category. Knowledge Architecture will be hosting KA Connect 2010, a knowledge management conference for the architecture, engineering and construction industry on …

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Dec 09 2009

4Projects and profitability

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
9 December 2009

“We’re not always given credit for the consistent profitability we’ve achieved for a business that received no early start-up funding.” I recently met Steve Nelson, finance director of UK construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects, to learn more about the history of the company, its funding and the 2007 management buy-out (MBO) – the meeting took …

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Dec 02 2009

Asite keeps its community updated

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
2 December 2009

As a web 2.0 enthusiast, it’s good to see UK construction technology vendor Asite using its community forum to talk to users about its plans, and Tweeting about them (see post). Through Twitter, I saw a link to an update posted by Nathan Doughty, Asite’s CTO, in which he updates Asite users about forthcoming developments …

Aconex, API, Appbuilder, Asite, community forum, Construction, CTO, iPhone, LinkedIn, Nathan Doughty, OJEU, portlets, Product Library, Rob Phillpot, RSS, tender opportunities, Twitter, Web 2.0, wikis

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Dec 01 2009

Sage North America embraces project life-cycle management with BIW

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
1 December 2009

Yesterday UK collaboration technology vendor BIW Technologies* announced that it had created a hosting infrastructure to support its clients in North America – a network that it expects to grow through a partnership with Sage Construction and Real Estate (Sage CRE). This BIW announcement has been forthcoming for a while, since it is exactly two …

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Nov 30 2009

An open letter to the new Chief Construction Adviser

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
30 November 2009

[This is a re-post of an article from my pwcom blog, published 27 November 2009. Update (04 December): I added a post-script to the original post – read the response received back from Paul Morrell.] First mooted in July 2008, the appointment of the UK government’s first Chief Construction Advisor was finally announced this week. …

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Nov 30 2009

Rob Phillpot on Aconex, APIs and acquisitions

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
30 November 2009

Following my recent posts on Aconex‘s API announcement and its 2009 financial results, I spent 40 minutes quizzing Rob Phillpot, company co-founder and General Manager, Product, about planned developments of the Aconex construction collaboration system. It was a fascinating insight into the thinking behind the world’s most widely used SaaS collaboration platform. I was particularly …