Jan 31 2014
Double digit revenue growth and a ‘game-changing’ software release on 17 March are making SaaS vendor Asite excited about the future. London, UK-based construction collaboration and e-procurement technology developer Asite is gearing up for a major launch of its new release, Adoddle 17, on 17 March 2014 (St Patrick’s Day; Asite CEO Tony Ryan is …
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Jan 27 2014
SaaS construction collaboration provider Conject acquires Paris-based mobile AEC app developer, Wapp6. The Anglo-German SaaS construction collaboration technology provider Conject has acquired a French mobile software specialist Wapp6, based in Paris, allowing it to extend its capabilities to include dedicated inspection and defects management via iPad, Android and Windows mobile platforms. No value for the deal has …
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Jan 27 2014
My latest startup interview looks at a cross-platform health and safety compliance service, Hands HQ. Another day, another AEC startup, another Alex. The day after meeting Alex Siljanovski, CEO of BlueRonin (post), I met up with Alexander Green, CEO of HANDS HQ, a London-based startup providing online construction health and safety documentation services. A construction …
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Jan 24 2014
Basestone, a tablet application developed by London start-up BlueRonin, enables cost-effective mobile engineering drawing review. The architecture, engineering and construction market for mobile solutions is expanding rapidly. As I wrote earlier this week (2014: year of AEC mobile?), existing software developers are augmenting both conventional and SaaS applications with mobile tools for site-based activities, while …
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Jan 21 2014
As we increasingly access data and application on the move, AEC SaaS vendors will need to embrace the mobile cloud more in 2014. This morning I read a .Rising US news item predicting desktop traffic would be overtaken by mobile and tablet by July 2014, underlining, yet again, the growing importance of mobile and tablet traffic …
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Jan 14 2014
4Projects, the Sunderland, UK-based SaaS collaboration technology provider (and subsidiary of Viewpoint Construction Software), has announced it is partnering with Solibri UK, the British outpost of the Finland-based software company that provides BIM model validation, QA and interrogation software. The news release says the partnership will: “provide the UK building and construction markets an end-to-end BIM …
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Dec 30 2013
Aconex reports growing revenues, but expansion increases losses for year to June 2013. Melbourne, Australia-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex reported revenues up 18% in the year ending 30 June 2013. The business, now increasingly establishing itself in the USA, grew from Au$44.3m in 2012 to global revenues of Au$52.6m (£28.4m or US$46.8m). The company’s EBITDA showed a loss of Au$8.89m (c. £4.8m or US$7.9m) compared …
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Dec 16 2013
Christmas greetings from the Woking, UK office of SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Conject this year have included an e- newsletter from UK MD Steve Cooper. In it, he writes about some customer highlights from 2013 and gives some news of product development initiatives to support BIM in 2014 (presumably these were the features discussed …
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Dec 13 2013
Social media has become a convenient route for new (and not so new) start-ups to target bloggers like me or for me to hear about IT vendors targeting architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) of which I was previously unaware. For example…. Matt Schaefer of Chicago, US-based StratusVue contacted me via LinkedIn through Twitter, I learned that …
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Dec 06 2013
Bob Leung, a co-founder of Woobius, the ‘simply simple’ SaaS construction collaboration solution launched in early 2009, is now applying his architecture (ex Foster + Partners, Make) and his user experience design skills for Geniebelt, the Copenhagen-based developer of mobile construction SaaS solutions (post). The fit is good. Bob has a track record of innovating …
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