I read that US construction collaboration vendor e-Builder is planning a major announcement later this month that will have a “resounding impact in the industry for years to come”. I am intrigued. Mind you, the last time I got interested in such a pre-announcement it was only UK vendor Asite‘s build-up to the launch of its collaborative BIM product (and I …
Category: Marketing
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Jun 12 2007
Une étude intéressante… (deux)
Since last week’s post regarding the French market for construction collaboration technology, I have had some interesting background from Emmanuel Netter (of Prosys – one of France’s leading Software-as-a-Service vendors) regarding the country’s main vendors, including our friends at BuildOnline. Market beginnings Apparently, collaboration products for the construction market have a slightly different history in …
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Jun 08 2007
Datum KnowledgeWorker
According to a news release on Buildingtalk.com, UK-based enterprise content management software vendor Datum International has released a version of its KnowledgeWorker software aimed specifically at the construction sector. It says the software provides firms with “central control over drawings management and health and safety procedures”. Reading the Datum website description of KnowledgeWorker it sounds more like …
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Jun 07 2007
Une étude intéressante…
Une étude intéressante sur le marché anglais du travail collaboratif – No, I haven’t decided to blog in French, but I found a French blogger interested in what is happening in the UK construction collaboration market. My French is poor but (with a little help from the Babel Fish website translator) I think the writer, …
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Jun 01 2007
Croser v. Baxter (‘Building Design’ collaboration debate)
An IT feature in the 16 March 2007 issue of UK trade weekly Building Design is something of a debate between Joe Croser of Bentley and Autodesk’s Pete Baxter on the future of collaboration. You can read the articles yourselves (available online here), but I have picked out what I think were the key exchanges – I wish …
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Jun 01 2007
Autodesk acquires Navisworks
Just a few months after Nemetschek acquired Graphisoft (see post), further consolidation of the AEC design software market comes as Autodesk announces that it is acquiring UK-based 3D/4D software vendor NavisWorks – best known for its JetStream design review products.
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Jun 01 2007
BIW wins 3 Peaks award
A team of my BIW colleagues recently competed in the COINS 3 Peaks Challenge, which involved climbing the three highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales in a 24-hour period on the weekend of 12-13 May. The team completed the Challenge, raising over £5000 for charity in the process, and – I have just discovered – …
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May 29 2007
CJ blog renaissance
According to a comment on my 9 February post, First Blogs, then splogs, now flogs (and CJ), no fewer than six blogs are to be launched this week at UK trade journal Contract Journal. (If you want lots of video of construction equipment in action and other construction-related stuff, the blog of commenter, James Stafford, has loads of …
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May 17 2007
UK vendor trends
This blog has reported several times on the financial performance of the main UK vendors of construction collaboration technologies (aka ‘extranets’). In light of recent results, I thought I would provide a quick graphical update/overview of the performance of the main UK vendors (those for whom I have some financial information) over the past four years. …
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May 10 2007
Aconex researches FM needs
Australian-based construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex has undertaken some research into the information needs of facilities managers. The survey, conducted in partnership with the Facility Management Association of Australia (FMA), got responses from 555 individuals. You can read the full story here, but the headline findings are unsurprising for anyone working in the field of collaboration …
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