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Aug 08 2006
Autodesk Buzzsaw 7 released
One of Autodesk’s DWF bloggers (there don’t appear to be any official Buzzsaw bloggers), Scott Sheppard (Beyond the Paper) says Autodesk has released a Buzzsaw version 7 update. Mainly administration improvements by the look of things, plus an updated user interface.
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Aug 08 2006
Extolling the extranet ethos
The latest ITShowcase newsletter reports on the NCCTP market research, Proving Collaboration Pays (see previous post) – basically the text of the NCCTP news release, but at least the key messages are being disseminated.
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Jul 28 2006
QS News covers NCCTP extranet research
QS News is the latest journal to publicise the NCCTP market research published last week (see 20 July post – Contract Journal wrote about it earlier this week); read "QSs back web portals" (strange that they chose to use the word ‘portals’ – not a word employed in the NCCTP news release at all). The …
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Jul 28 2006
End of the PC era
The latest Microsoft admission that the future lies in internet-based services comes from new Microsoft boss Ray Ozzie. The Financial Times says the "top technology visionary" has declared an end to the PC era, laying out a vision for the company in which internet-based services, rather than PCs, lie at the centre of its worldview. …
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Jul 27 2006
“95% of email is junk”
The email management headache shows no signs of diminishing. According to a BBC report: "More than 95% of e-mail is ‘junk’". The article says spam, error messages or viruses account for a large proportion of email traffic – less than 4% is legitimate email. Of course, we don’t always see much of the junk – …
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Jul 25 2006
Construction disputes: are extranets the answer?
A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by a journalist for a UK construction trade magazine about Multiplex’s problems at London’s Wembley Stadium. The key issue she wanted to explore was whether having an ‘extranet’ would have prevented the disputes between Multiplex, the client, Cleveland Bridge, etc. The short answer was, I’m afraid, no. Like …
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Jul 20 2006
Clients increasingly require ‘Extranet expertise’: NCCTP research highlights benefits of using collaboration systems
The UK ‘project extranet’ vendors’ association, the Network of Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP) has today published its market research report, Proving Collaboration Pays. The research was undertaken by an independent market research consultancy, Benchmark Research, and is – to the best of my knowledge – the biggest ‘extranet’ user survey ever undertaken, certainly as …
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Jul 18 2006
2012 Construction Commitments: Olympics projects should exploit collaboration technologies
Construction collaboration technologies should be exploited during the delivery of projects for the 2012 London Olympics Games, says an influential task group of the UK’s Strategic Forum for Construction in its 2012 Construction Commitments (available here; see also the press release). I was recently appointed to the steering group of Constructing Excellence’s Building and Estates …
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Jul 17 2006
Cadweb.net 7 released
According to its latest news release, UK extranet vendor Cadweb has, "after 2 years of research and development," announced the release of the latest version of Cadweb.net (version 7). Following a "major database and functionality rewrite", the solution is claimed to be more secure, more customisable and faster. Things clearly move slowly in Cadweb. While …
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