Category: Functionality

Jan 18 2010

The Bricsnet interview

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
18 January 2010

Having been impressed by Bricsnet‘s marketing during the dot.com boom years, I followed developments sporadically (mainly because the ProjectCenter extranet product was not heavily marketed in the UK), and have only mentioned the company in this blog a handful of times over the past four years – most recently last November (posts here and here). …

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Jan 18 2010

Still coming soon: tender.ly

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
18 January 2010

In October last year, I chanced upon tender.ly, “web-based software, for Architecture, Engineering and Construction companies to conduct their tendering for suppliers and subcontractors”. The service, from Sydney-Australia-based Constrex, was due to be launched in late 2009, but I understand the launch of the web-based service has been delayed. I received a Twitter: “We aim …

architecture, Australia, Constrex, Construction, Engineering, Sydney, Tender.ly, tendering

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Jan 13 2010

iConstruction

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
13 January 2010

“… developed from the ground up by former Hong Kong Construction industry professionals for the local industry. With a simple English and Chinese interface, ISO 9000 friendly design, and minimal training and support requirements, iConstruction brings real benefits from the first few months of operation, and straightforward licensing options for companies of all sizes to …

Chinese, construction industry, document control, English, Hong Kong, iConstruction, ISO 9000, website

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/01/iconstruction/

Jan 07 2010

Project Bluestreak and the ‘collaboration kernel’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Vendors, Web 2.0
7 January 2010

I wrote about Autodesk’s experimental BIM collaboration environment, Project Bluestreak, last November, being interested in both its promise of accelerated building information modelling (BIM) and its deployment of Web 2.0 tools to help speed up the application’s development. On his StressFree blog, David Harrison has written a long and detailed paper, Bluestreak and the birth …

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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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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 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

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 …