Jan 14 2013
The latest SaaS collaboration vendor to report on its financial performance is Sunderland, UK-based provider 4Projects, whose latest (abbreviated) annual return to Companies House covers the year to 31 March 2012. CFO Chris Baty was happy to provide me with some more detailed background to the business’s 2012 performance. “Double digit growth” Revenues were up …
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Nov 16 2012
In May 2011, I wrote about RICS Contract Administrator, a web-based service provided by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors for managing JCT contract processes. At the time, the RICS told me take-up of the tool was mostly be small and medium-sized firms as larger firms tended to have other systems, and many users still apparently preferred …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2012/11/rics-jct-contract-administrator-no-longer-commercially-viable/
Nov 05 2012
Is Melbourne, Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex gearing up for an initial public offering (IPO)? Well, judging from the calibre of the executives it is recruiting, it is certainly making sure that it has some heavy hitters with relevant domain experience. The latest appointment (announced today) sees Patricia Cuthbert join as vice president …
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Oct 15 2012
Once scathing of the attractions of Software-as-a-Service, Newforma is now actively embracing the cloud, SaaS, BIM and mobile, and eyeing potential social media ideas for future product development. Last week I learned more about Newforma, developer of the enterprise-based Newforma Project Center application and now a recent entrant to the Software-as-a-Service collaboration space with its …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2012/10/bim-saas-and-mobile-driving-newforma-developments/
Sep 11 2012
Opportunity missed, I think, sums up my view of the findings from the the NBS National Construction Contracts and Law Survey 2012, at least so far as construction collaboration technologies are concerned. I was hoping that, following recent years’ growth in the use of web-based platforms to support project team communications – and contract administration …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2012/09/nbs-contracts-survey-mute-on-contract-tools/
Jul 25 2012
I had an update this week from EADOC Software‘s Founder and CEO Eric Law regarding the California-based collaboration technology vendor’s latest Software-as-a-Service release and its trading performance. We set up the call after Eric emailed me regarding new integration between the EADOC platform and planning and scheduling tools MS Project and Oracle Primavera P6. Of …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2012/07/eadoc-links-to-scheduling-tools/
Jul 20 2012
Last month (Document control takes a vacation?), I linked to an infographic produced by McLaren Software regarding the potential value of document control within a major capital project when something goes wrong (that infographic is now linked from a new McLaren blog, Document Control Unplugged, by the way – good to see another vendor start …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2012/07/document-control-saves-1million/
Jul 02 2012
(A guest post by document control manager Edward Surgeon, partly stimulated by my previous coverage of contract change management features on construction collaboration platforms.) As a document control manager, a big part of my job is to maximise user adoption of our collaboration system across our projects. This means that my radar is always scanning …
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Dec 13 2011
Almost underlining that it is just focused on its internal group customers, Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration technology provider Incite (aka Nexus Point Solutions – part of the Leighton Holdings group) has reduced its website to a single page. Incite and Nexus Point Solutions now share equal billing at the page top, and there is a selection of Leighton group business …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/12/keystone-disappears-in-incite-rebrand/
Nov 21 2011
Just over a month after I researched, wrote and published a blog post about my view of changes at Leighton Holdings Ltd’s construction collaboration technology subsidiary Incite, the Sydney, Australia-based giant has flexed its not inconsiderable muscles and sent me a letter. A response to my version of the events at Incite since February? Perhaps some …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/11/leighton-gets-legal/
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