At AECnews.com, Randall Newton discusses a new experimental offering from Autodesk Labs (this is Autodesk’s own version of the ground-breaking Google Labs – the technology playground home of, among other things, web-based spreadsheets – see my post). Randall talks about Project Freewheel, which allows users to view DWF versions of CAD drawings in a web-browser …
Category: Functionality
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Jun 30 2006
BuildOnline launches programme management ‘heatmap’ solution
BuildOnline has launched what it claims is "the first ‘heatmap-based’ programme management system". Project managers get a real-time ‘pressure gauge’ to monitor progress across their projects. The system was developed in partnership with BNP Paribas, and is described as an "enterprise-class programme management system … targeted at project managers of mission-critical projects, such as the …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2006/06/buildonline_lau/
Jun 30 2006
ASP: threat or friend?
Many IT directors and managers regard Application Service Providers (ASPs), On-demand or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) as a potential threat to their operations, but there are real benefits to be gained from adopting this mode of service delivery. An AECnews article, Easing IT Burdens with On-Demand Software argues the case well: "… The initial draw of SaaS …
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Jun 22 2006
Business Collaborator highlights Harvard OCPM research
Business Collaborator‘s latest press release, entitled Harvard Report Shows UK Leads Way in Benefiting from Online Collaboration, gives a vendor-specific viewpoint on the research undertaken at Harvard University into online collaboration and project management (OCPM) technology (see my previous posts, eg: this one, and the most recent one). BC claims the research found "UK companies …
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Jun 22 2006
BIM nice but DIM
Lachmi Khemlani’s latest AECbytes newsletter talks about a new abbreviation. A presentation on building information modelling (BIM) at a recent American Institute of Architects conference derogatorily referred to current BIM solutions (eg: Revit, ArchiCAD) as DIM solutions – Drawing Information Modelling. "Their rationale was that these products are being used primarily by architects for drawing …
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Jun 19 2006
ReproMAX DFS
An article from the US publication, AIA Focus, entitled Digital Project Collaboration, looks at two US solutions: Newforma (see previous post) and ReproMAX DFX (sic), "a web-based, third-party document management system established by a consortium of more than 225 international printers familiar with the AEC industry". A user of the ReproMAX DFS (correct spelling) describes …
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Jun 14 2006
Gmap pedometer
As a keen cyclist I sometimes compare routes with other cyclists. One friend told me about a route and sent me a link to Gmap Pedometer (the tool is also used by runners), and I’ve now started using it to share routes or to give directions to people (how to find a particular construction site, …
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Jun 08 2006
Newforma Project Center
In the US, Randall Newton at AECnews.com has been talking to the people at Newforma who, on 1 June, launched Newforma Project Center – a client/server based system that sits inside an organisation’s firewall. The product is "designed to help project managers and team members gain control over their burgeoning and complex project information". This …
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Jun 08 2006
Google Spreadsheets
The latest Google tool aimed at sharing information within workteams could end the constant exchange of updated Excel spreadsheets. Google Spreadsheets (see link at http://labs.google.com/) allows me to import an existing Excel spreadsheet and then share it with any of my colleagues, even ones that may not have Excel on their PCs. It’s still at …
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Jun 07 2006
Microsoft pulls PDF publishing from Vista
In Construction Collaboration Technologies: The Extranet Evolution, I talked about file formats and the increasingly common practice of publishing drawings and other documents in the Adobe PDF format. That trend may be about to change, with another document format just over the horizon. At AECnew.com, Randall Newton says: "the ability to publish directly to PDF …
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