Category: Marketing

May 04 2007

Asite Secure Invoicing

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
4 May 2007

UK collaboration vendor Asite has released another application to support online trading (see news release). Asite Secure Invoicing (ASI) is an e-invoicing solution that reduces the time and cost of processing invoices by at least 60%, Asite says. This adds a further product to its portfolio, which is now spread over three areas: collaboration, sourcing …

AEC, Asite, collaboration, extranet, Secure Invoicing, sourcing, trading, UK
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May 04 2007

Autodesk sustainability survey at Think 07

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Future, Marketing, People issues
4 May 2007

The recent Think 07 exhibition and conference event in London was used by Autodesk as an opportunity to canvass the opinions of visitors to the event on sustainability. The results are reported by Cadalyst (SURVEY: Better Collaboration, the Right Tools and Technology are Key to Sustainable Design). Of those questioned, 61% said that sustainability was now …

Autodesk, Cadalyst, sustainability, Think 07

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May 04 2007

McKinsey says buy SaaS

By Paul Wilkinson in Internet, Marketing, SaaS
4 May 2007

In McKinsey says buy SaaS, Phil Wainewright summarises some research from McKinsey consultants (Time for the IT Industry to Take Notice) that presents some compelling economic arguments in favour of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): “they say that SaaS has less financial risk for buyers, is cheaper to use and yet just as profitable for vendors.” The last …

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Apr 13 2007

ex-Graphisoft execs establish Vico

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Internet, Marketing
13 April 2007

As previously mentioned, the BIW office in Woking is in a building which also houses software business Graphisoft – no, make that “housed”. Graphisoft… some of the firm’s executives have now set up a new business, Vico Software, having acquired the Graphisoft Virtual Construction product line following the December 2006 acquisition of Graphisoft by Nemetschek. Now, 21-25 …

AEC, BIW, Graphisoft, Nemetschek, software, UK, Vico, virtual construction, Woking

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Apr 13 2007

ePIN overhauls website (3)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
13 April 2007

Just over a year ago, I mentioned that, ePIN, one of the smaller UK vendors of construction collaboration technology had refreshed its website. This must be an annual task, for they have just done it again (ePIN director Robin Shipston told me in October that it was “being re-vamped as we speak”) – and it is one of …

AEC, construction collaboration technology, ePin, extranet, goldfish, Robin Shipston, UK, website

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Apr 10 2007

United Construction IT (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues
10 April 2007

Last month’s update regarding the United Construction IT umbrella group has been quickly followed by an announcement from two of the UK organisations involved: the Construction Industry Computing Association (CICA) and its parent, the NCC. According to NCC’s Michael Gough, there has been: “a complete rethink of CICA’s offering and business model to ensure that we continue …

AEC, CICA, Construction Industry Computing Association, extranet, UK, United Construction IT

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Apr 10 2007

From SaaS to ‘Webware’ (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
10 April 2007

Since my pre-Easter post regarding Phil Wainewright’s suggestion to rename Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ‘Webware’, he says there has been some further debate, and he has started a poll. At 4pm GMT today, 69 votes had been cast and the leader was ‘webware’, gathering as much votes as ‘SaaS’ and ‘On-demand’ combined. (PS: If you are a …

ASPnews.com, on-demand, Phil Wainewright, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Webware

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Apr 10 2007

Salesforce.com acquires Koral

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
10 April 2007

In November and December 2006, I was talking about Koral, a content collaboration business set up by Mark Suster (former CEO of UK construction collaboration technology vendor BuildOnline) and two BO colleagues. Today, the Koral blog says Koral has been acquired by Salesforce.com – adding: “Our entire [nine-strong] team has joined salesforce.com to lead the content management …

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Mar 30 2007

Asite BIM

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
30 March 2007

Software news in the latest issue of UK construction industry magazine, Building, talks about Asite BIM, suggesting that the UK project collaboration vendor is “about to shake up the world of online collaboration again with the launch of an online single building model”. “Users will be able to collaborate on the design of the …

AEC, Asite, BIM, building information modelling, Octaga AS, Octaga Modeller, UK, viewer
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Mar 29 2007

Business Collaborator website overhauled

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
29 March 2007

The website of UK construction collaboration technology vendor Business Collaborator has just been overhauled. Compared to the clean interface of the previous site, the new home page is much ‘busier’ with a four-column layout and lots of links to further information. (The trite photo-library image of people in hard-hats on a construction site – see …