Blog feed- New Aconex CFOMelbourne, Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration technology provider Aconex has announced the appointment of a new chief financial officer, Steve Recht. The news release says Recht has 30 years’ operating and finance experience as a CEO, COO and CFO for venture-backed … Continue reading → […]
- From email to BIMIn the past couple of weeks, I have delivered two presentations on BIM (building information modelling). The first was an overview of BIM to the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Construction Industry Group (CIMCIG) at the Building Centre in London on … Continue reading → […]
- Viewpoint acquires Construction ImagingViewpoint Construction Software, the Oregon, US-based construction ERP vendor has made another move towards the collaboration sector with its just-announced acquisition of fellow US company Construction Imaging, a provider of enterprise content management solutions. I spoke to Viewpoint’s management in February and … Continue reading → […]
- A longer look at TrackerPlusIn January, I wrote about London-based environmental consultancy SouthFacing and its TrackerPlus online Software-as-a-Service solution to help BRE-licensed BREEAM assessors manage their workload. This week, I visited the company’s Islington offices and met Ben Cartmell to find out more about the … Continue reading → […]
- Docia opens South Africa officeCopenhagen, Denmark-based construction collaboration technology provider Docia (aka “Byggeweb” in its home market) has opened an office in Johannesburg, South Africa – founder and CEO Mads Bording tells me. Just over six months since the Scandinavian business opened an office … Continue reading → […]
- New Aconex CFO
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- ExtraEvolution: ExtranetEvolution: New Aconex CFO. Australian SaaS provider appoints American CFO... IPO impending? http://t.co/zRW1uTXd
- ExtraEvolution: RT @Aconex: Aconex names Steve Recht as #CFO http://t.co/C18Lqkf2 #AEC #construction #collaboration ^CP
- ExtraEvolution: Hearing @4ProjectsNews has Australian partner http://t.co/QJW4eAih. Will blog on this soon....
- ExtraEvolution: RT @eepaul: ExtranetEvolution: From email to BIM... + link to Loughborough Univ #BIM survey. http://t.co/1Jn9xWJP
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Category Archives: Future
Profiling think project!
Relatively unknown in the UK, Think Project! is one of mainland Europe’s leading SaaS construction collaboration vendors with an impressive client list. In London last Friday Thomas Bachmaier, CEO of Munich, Germany-based think project!, told me about the company, its … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged AEC/Communications, API, architecture, Audi, Australia, Bayer, BIM, BMW, Bosch, CAD, China, Conject, Construction, construction collaboration technology, E-on, email, Engineering, ERP, Germany, Hochtief, Incite, Leighton Holdings, Munich, NATO, Nexus Point Solutions, RWE, SaaS, SAP, Software-as-a-Service, Strabag, Think Project!, Thomas Backmaier, Toyota, UK, US, Vinci
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Unit4 combining collaboration, ERP and BIM in the cloud
The 2012 Unit4 customer conference this week at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre incorporated the annual user event for users of Unit4 Collaboration (formerly Business Collaborator), and there were some significant announcements both about the structure of that business and about … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged AEC, Agresso, Anwen Robinson, API, architecture, BC Assure, BIM, BIMaaS, building information modelling, Business Collaborator, cloud computing, COBie, collaboration, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Crest Nicholson, EC Harris, Engineering, ERP, Halcrow, IKEA, Mark Bew, marketing, mobile, MVA, SaaS, Sanjeev Shah, Social Media, Software-as-a-Service, Steve Crompton, UK, UNIT4, Unit4 Collaboration, Wessex Water, WSP
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Aconex revenues flat and losses deepen
Aconex reports flat revenues and a pre-tax loss for year to June 2011, but recent performance has been strong and longer-term prospects are promising. The latest annual report and accounts from Melbourne, Australia-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex show … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged Aconex, AEC, architecture, Australia, BidContender, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Engineering, Europe, Libya, Matthew Walsh, Paul Perrett, recession, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, US
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Stiktu: a social app, perhaps with professional potential
Thanks to a transAtlantic Twitter conversation with fellow construction technology fanatic Carol Hagen, I was alerted yesterday to a new mobile augmented reality application, Stiktu. From the people behind augmented reality browser Layar, this has just been released on both … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Mobile, Web 2.0
Tagged AEC, Android, architecture, augmented reality, Carol Hagan, Construction, Engineering, Facebook, iPhone, Layar, mobile, Stiktu, Twitter, Woobius, Woobius Eye
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CTSpace name to disappear
The latest change of ownership of CTSpace – whose software portfolio includes Software-as-a-Service and on-premise construction collaboration technologies – saw the company disposed of by Lyon, France-based Sword Group and acquired by IDOX last week (see IDOX acquires CTSpace for £11.6m … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged AEC, architecture, Australia, BuildOnline, C2Share, Cimage, Citadon, Construction, construction collaboration technology, CTSpace, Dubai, Engineering, Frankfurt, Gert-Jan de Kieviet, Glasgow, Houston, Idox, London, McLaren, Paris, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Sword CTSpace, Sword group, Tim Taylor, UK, US, ViaNovus
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Some October PR updates from collaboration vendors
New Unit4 Collaboration case study – BC Assure and Thames Water Following its September launch of BC Assure (post), Unit4 Collaboration has published a case study regarding the system’s use by Thames Water (registration required to read full case study). … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, AEC, architecture, BC Assure, Carillion, Chicago, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Dexter & Chaney, e-Builder, Engineering, Gradebeam, iSite, Textura, Unit4 Collaboration, US
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St Valentine’s Day massacre leaves Incite almost out-of-sight
Briefly one of the innovators of the SaaS construction collaboration technology market, Australia-based Incite has suffered under recent heavy-handed management by parent Leighton Holdings. A couple of years ago, I did some consultancy work for Sydney, Australia-based construction collaboration technology … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged AEC, API, architecture, Australia, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Engineering, Hochtief, Incite, Incite Keystone, Infoplex, Jamila Gordon, Leighton Holdings, Michael Baker, Nearmap, Nexus Point Solutions, Peter Gregg, Qantas, SaaS, Scott Crane, Sean Kaye, Software-as-a-Service, Sydney, ThinkProject!, Tyson Garrett, Wal King
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COMIT–where BIM meets augmented reality, point clouds and QR Codes (among other things)
Two weeks ago, I mentioned COMIT, Construction Opportunities for Mobile IT, and its forthcoming conference on how smart mobile devices can be used to add value to BIM. Since then (last week), I have attended the COMIT community day and … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Mobile, People issues, Telecoms, Web 2.0
Tagged #mobiBIM, augmented, Bentley, BIM, BT, COMIT, Costain, Halcrow, ICE, iPad, Korec, mobile, ObjectiveIT, point cloud, QR code, smartphone, Timico
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BIW talks contract administration over breakfast
Yesterday, I attended a breakfast briefing at London’s Building Centre organised by BIW Technologies. The Woking, UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor has been holding a series of early morning meetings to tell existing and prospective customers about its NEC3 contract … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet, Functionality, Future, Legal, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, AEC, BIW, collaboration, Construction, construction collaboration technology, contract administration, Engineering, ISG, London, NEC3, project financial control, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Sypro
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