Category: Marketing

Mar 29 2007

From SaaS to ‘Webware’

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
29 March 2007

Following on from my previous post (about defining BIM), my favourite Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) blogger, Phil Wainewright has identified a new alternative term for SaaS. In So long SaaS, welcome webware, Phil also links to a new Webware website, and, as “SaaS is a throwback to the past”, gives the older term “a couple years at most”. One slight complication is …

on-demand, Phil Wainewright, SaaS, Webware

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Mar 23 2007

Uniting Construction IT

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Marketing
23 March 2007

Last September (see A co-ordinated approach to construction IT in the UK), I mentioned an initiative to create a more coordinated approach to managing IT interests in the UK AEC industry. You can now read about United Construction IT on the website of ConstructIT for Business (one of the organisations competing for our attention). It talks about creating “one …

AEC, Avanti, BRE, BSRIA, CICA, CITE, COMIT, Construct IT for Business, Constructing Excellence, IAI, ICE, ITCF, NCC, NCCTP, UK, United Construction IT
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Mar 22 2007

2006: OK for StoreData

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

In the year ending 31 December 2006, Styles & Woods’ StoreData division did not achieve the “penetration of new customers” that it planned but it apparently still achieved its annual targets, according its preliminary results released to the Stock Exchange today. Engaged in bespoke development of the Union Square Workspace product (see last year’s posts Styles & …

AEC, Asda, Barclays, BIW, collaboration, Construction, extranet, Marks & Spencer, Nationwide, Sainsbury's, Sarcophagus, statistics, StoreData, Styles & Wood, Tesco, UK
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Mar 14 2007

SaaS boom to continue

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
14 March 2007

“According to Gartner, the market for SaaS applications grew by 26 percent last year, from $5 billion in 2005 to $6.3 billion in 2006. The consulting firm expects demand for SaaS to continue growing at a 25 percent compound annual rate over the next five years, to $19.3 billion by 2011. Most of those …

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Mar 05 2007

Photo library

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Marketing
5 March 2007

In a footnote to an article last year, I noted that two separate collaboration vendors (Dochosting Data Management and Business Collaborator) were both using very similar photographs. I hope the photographer is keeping track of his royalty payments – I have just seen the DDM image used in an e-newsletter from Dubai-based Construction Week (see …

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Mar 02 2007

Viewing design visuals (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues
2 March 2007

Having looked at collaboration for viewing marketing collateral, etc, I have just read a fascinating AECbyte by Lachmi Khemlani. In Exploring Second Life and its Potential in Real Life AEC, she describes her (or her avatar’s) first steps into Second Life – the online virtual reality “alternate” world. She describes how one US architectural firm, …

AEC, AECbytes, BIM, CAD, collaboration, Second Life

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Mar 02 2007

Viewing design visuals

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
2 March 2007

When I first started working in marketing in the construction industry 20 years ago (for Halcrow in Hammersmith), working with a graphic design consultancy involved motorbike couriers delivering artwork mounted on foamcard boards. A few years later, we began to use PDFs asynchronously (batting comments and revisions backwards and forwards until we reached a final version we …

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Feb 22 2007

BricsNet, Bricsys and Vondle

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
22 February 2007

Ralph Grabowski at WorldCAD Access alerts us to the change of name of Belgium-based CAD vendor BricsCAD to Bricsys. He also briefly mentions collaboration vendor BricsNet, but doesn’t delve into the history – which is quite interesting from a construction collaboration point of view. To recap, BricsNet was originally founded as BricsWorks in 1986 by …

AEC, ASP, Belgium, BricsCad, Bricsnet, Bricsys, collaboration, Construction, extranet, licensing, Vista, Vondle
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Feb 21 2007

Disappearing domains

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Internet, Marketing
21 February 2007

Sorting out some old website bookmarks on my home PC, I found a few construction IT and e-business ones dating back, in some cases, to 2000 (ie: before the dot.com bubble burst in 2001). Since then, numerous businesses have merged, rebranded or simply disappeared; for example: Architec.net – “page cannot be displayed” Bidcom – merged into Citadon, which …

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Feb 17 2007

Leading, largest, global – how do you measure it?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
17 February 2007

Australian-based construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex says it is now “providing its online information management service to $100 billion worth of construction and engineering projects” (I’m not sure if this is US dollars or Australian dollars; in British pounds sterling, this would be around £50bn or £40bn respectively). According to its news release: “Global uptake of the …