Category: Functionality

Jul 30 2007

e-Builder makes its “major announcement”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Vendors
30 July 2007

I wrote last month about US construction collaboration vendor e-Builder and its impending major announcement. I waited well into July to see what this would be, but nothing appeared on the e-Builder website until just over a week ago when a release finally appeared, backdated to 29 June. e-Builder announced “the launch of e-Builder Enterprise 6.0, …

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Jul 20 2007

More on email (and Newforma)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
20 July 2007

I am a keen reader of Lachmi Khemlani’s AECbytes newsletter, particularly for the insights into what is going on in the USA, and the latest issue is a good example. Lachmi writes about attending ZweigWhite’s AEC Technologies Strategies conference, held in Las Vegas on 7-8 June. As well as some interesting case studies on building …

AEC, AECbytes, BIM, BIW, Buzzsaw, Documentum, email, Eppstein, Lachmi Khemlani, MessageSave, Microsoft, Newforma, Outlook, Primavera, SharePoint, Uhen, Union Square
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Jul 05 2007

ShareWorkz: intranet and extranet collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
5 July 2007

I, and several of my colleagues, have received emails from Microsoft VAR ICS Solutions about ShareWorkz, described as “a functionally rich, best practice intranet and extranet collaboration platform, based on Microsoft SharePoint technology, that enables you to build a collaboration solution in less than one hour”. While it describes itself as “a world first”, I guess …

AEC, collaboration, extranet, ICS Solutions, Microsoft, on-demand, SaaS, SharePoint, ShareWorkz, UK
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Jul 02 2007

“Entry-level” collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
2 July 2007

Just over a week after the previous one (see post), a second news release has appeared on Asite‘s website telling how a further customer has opted for its low-cost Asite Workspace solution, launched late last year. Engineering and environmental consultancy Wardell Armstrong LLP has become the latest to select Asite Workspace, using the tool for …

AEC, Asite, collaboration, extranet, intranet, UK, Workspace
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Jun 28 2007

FIATECH and COMIT to collaborate, but don’t forget the others…

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Telecoms, Vendors
28 June 2007

At a Harvard University conference in Boston last year, I briefly met Ric Jackson of FIATECH and talked about the NCCTP’s efforts to develop a data exchange standard that would allow data to be transferred between different construction collaboration (‘extranet’) platforms. From a Cadalyst article, I see FIATECH has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with UK-based group …

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Jun 19 2007

Workspace + Workspace

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Vendors
19 June 2007

According to a news release on Asite‘s website, the company has secured a customer for its entry-level solution, Asite Workspace. REID Architecture, who recently merged with 3D to become 3DReid “chose Asite Workspace to collaborate with its supply chain at the early stages of the Gibraltar’s new air terminal project”. This will presumably be the same REID architecture …

AEC, Asite, collaboration, Construction, extranet, Reid Architecture, UK, Union Square, Workspace
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Jun 15 2007

Email compliance

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Legal, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
15 June 2007

According to a news release on BuildingTalk.com, Union Square Software has launched a Seven Step Guide to email compliance for the construction industry. With email now, it says, “the de facto standard for communication within the construction supply chain”, management and retention of contractually important email is becoming a crucial IT issue. Union Square argues, with some …

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Jun 12 2007

e-Builder to make “major announcement”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Vendors
12 June 2007

I read that US construction collaboration vendor e-Builder is planning a major announcement later this month that will have a “resounding impact in the industry for years to come”. I am intrigued. Mind you, the last time I got interested in such a pre-announcement it was only UK vendor Asite‘s build-up to the launch of its collaborative BIM product (and I …

Asite, BIM, collaboration, Construction, e-Builder, US
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Jun 01 2007

Croser v. Baxter (‘Building Design’ collaboration debate)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
1 June 2007

An IT feature in the 16 March 2007 issue of UK trade weekly Building Design is something of a debate between Joe Croser of Bentley and Autodesk’s Pete Baxter on the future of collaboration. You can read the articles yourselves (available online here), but I have picked out what I think were the key exchanges – I wish …

4Projects, Autodesk, Bentley, BIW, Building Design, Buzzsaw, construction collaboration technology, Constructware, extranet, FTP, Joe Croser, Pete Baxter, ProjectWise

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Jun 01 2007

Autodesk acquires Navisworks

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Internet, Marketing
1 June 2007

Just a few months after Nemetschek acquired Graphisoft (see post), further consolidation of the AEC design software market comes as Autodesk announces that it is acquiring UK-based 3D/4D software vendor NavisWorks – best known for its JetStream design review products.