Category: Future

May 08 2008

Cadweb tries to catch-up

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
8 May 2008

The latest news release from UK construction collaboration technology vendor Cadweb – who describe themselves as “the longest and oldest, established project extranet provider in the UK” [just how long is Cadweb?] – shows that Cadweb has finally woken up to functional advances made by most of its UK competitors several years ago. Cadweb says it plans to add several …

4Projects, BIW Technologies, BuildOnline, Cadweb, CDM, compliance, Construction (Design & Management) Regulations, construction collaboration technology, CTSpace, financial control, health and safety, MPS, NEC, Sainsbury's, Sarcophagus, tendering, UK, workflow

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May 07 2008

Breeding toxins from dead PCs

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Marketing, Sustainability
7 May 2008

I am off later this afternoon to Think 08 sustainability event at the ExCel in east London (which I can just see through the haze across the River from where I live in south-east London) – where (time-permitting) I also hope to meet up with two or three fellow bloggers (see iSite post). While on …

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May 02 2008

SaaS market “to undergo very rapid revenue growth”

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
2 May 2008

Recent market research conducted by UK-based Ovum suggests the SaaS (software as a service) market is set to undergo very rapid revenue growth. The company forecasts that the revenues generated by SaaS vendors will increase, in some regions, by at least 50% each year for the next four years (source: news from the Sofnet …

Ovum, SaaS, Sofnet, Software-as-a-Service, UK
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Apr 30 2008

Microsoft: SaaS update

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS
30 April 2008

It’s difficult to avoid talk of Microsoft at the moment, what with talk of its (stalled?) bid for Yahoo (post) and recent falling profits; what interested me last week was news of Microsoft beginning trials of web-based Office, and its later Live Mesh announcement. Here’s a quick update…. Web-based Office According to the Times: Microsoft is poised …

Aconex, Excel, Google Docs, Leigh Jasper, Live Mesh, Microsoft, Office suite, PowerPoint, SaaS, web-based Office, Word, Yahoo

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/04/microsoft-saas/

Apr 29 2008

McKinsey talks up SaaS again

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, SaaS
29 April 2008

Management consultants McKinsey have again talked up the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) opportunity (see post, McKinsey surveys the new software landscape, by Nick Carr) – almost exactly a year since I last wrote about them in this context. Carr writes: … software-as-a-service is rapidly “becoming mainstream,” with three-quarters of software buyers saying they are “favorably disposed to adopting …

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/04/mckinsey-talks/

Apr 20 2008

Asia Pacific SaaS market

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
20 April 2008

Springboard Research has provided me with some useful background on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market in Asia and the Pacific Rim in the past (see here and here, for example). News of its latest research was published last week. It says: Local ISVs and smaller global vendors offering Software-as-a-Service solutions have captured an estimated 54% …

Asia, collaboration, CRM, ISVs, Pacific Rim, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Software-as-a-Service, Springboard Research, WebEx
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Apr 08 2008

SaaS on the rise in Europe

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Future, Internet, SaaS
8 April 2008

Another survey reports growing interest in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), this time across Europe (see CRN news story). After last week’s BIW UK survey, this week it’s the turn of analyst IDC, who interviewed 2077 managers from European organisations with 20 employees or more. Their survey found 37% of IT decision-makers will use SaaS to replace or supplement their …

BIW, complexity, CRM, CRN, Customer Relationship Management, enterprise resource planning, ERP, Europe, IDC, risk, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, supply chain, upfront costs
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Apr 07 2008

Information meltdown

By Paul Wilkinson in Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, Sustainability
7 April 2008

There’s been lots of talk about the credit crunch – now, techies are talking about the ‘broadband crunch’, apparently. Yesterday’s Observer newspaper had a feature, Video boom threatens to gridlock the internet, which said that “the amount of data travelling across the internet is growing so fast that the network could become overloaded and grind …

BBC, broadband crunch, Internet Innovation Alliance, iPlayer, Nick Carr, Observer, online video, Video boom threatens to gridlock the internet, YouTube, Zoli

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Apr 04 2008

Site Waste Management Plans and collaboration platforms

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Legal, SaaS, Sustainability
4 April 2008

In England, Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs) will become a legal requirement this weekend – from 6 April 2008 – and will affect anyone procuring, designing, planning or managing a construction project costing more than £300,000, plus suppliers to the construction industry, and environmental regulators ie: local authorities and the Environment Agency. Awareness of the …

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Apr 02 2008

Web-hosted software on the rise

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, SaaS
2 April 2008

Various IT publications and websites (eg: Infomatics) are covering market research commissioned by [my employer] BIW Technologies which suggests the global credit crunch could prove to be a boost to the software as a service (SaaS) sector, as businesses opt to spread software spending over a longer period, according to research. These are the headlines, …