Category: Marketing

Jan 18 2007

Nathan ups his Asite stake

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
18 January 2007

Days after Asite CEO Tony Ryan bought nearly £9,000-worth of shares in the company (see Now Tony invests in Asite), it has been announced that CTO Nathan Doughty has increased his stake by purchasing 65,362 shares at 3.41 pence each (total cost around £2,230). I am a little concerned at the timing: working for an …

AEC, Asite, Business Collaborator, Coda, construction collaboration technology, PR, shares, StoreData, Styles & Wood, UK
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Jan 15 2007

Managing your AEC content – part 2

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
15 January 2007

Last week, I moaned (Outdated claims on document management) about an AECWeekly feature (thanks to E-builder ‘s Sergio Aranda for his supportive comment). The follow-up piece, Managing Your AEC Content Part II, has just appeared and the reason for last week’s brief mention of Bentley ProjectWise is now clear. This week’s article is built around a …

AEC, Bentley, e-Builder, ProjectWise, ProjectWise StartPoint

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Jan 11 2007

Construction Computing Show and Awards 2007

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Internet, Marketing
11 January 2007

Just received an email and media pack from Construction Computing magazine, which mentions plans for the 2007 Construction Computing Show, to be held this year at the Arsenal Emirates Stadium in London, and the associated Awards programme. No dates or further details yet, though the media pack mentions November – when last year’s took place (see Construction Computing Show …

AEC, Construction Computing Awards, Construction Computing Show, exhibition, marketing, PR, UK

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2007/01/construction_co/

Jan 10 2007

Sarcophagus revamps website

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
10 January 2007

UK construction collaboration vendor Sarcophagus has revamped its website and corporate branding, probably to coincide with the company’s move to new offices in central Wakefield. Most of the website’s content remains the same as before, but the site has a brighter ‘look and feel’.

AEC, construction collaboration, extranet, Sarcophagus, UK, website

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Jan 08 2007

Outdated claims on document management

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
8 January 2007

Sometimes you read things that are just plain wrong. Take today, for instance. I spotted a potentially interesting headline at AECcafe.com: Managing Your AEC Content – Part I, so I click on the link and, scanning the opening paragraph, see the words ‘document management’. So far, so good, but then I read the piece…. The opening …

Adept, AEC, Autodesk Buzzsaw, Bentley, Carillion, construction collaboration, Constructware, Documentum, e-Builder, Project Extranet, ProjectTalk, ProjectWise, Schal, Synergis Software, UK
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Dec 15 2006

CTSpace dissected further

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
15 December 2006

Following on from yesterday’s post (CTSpace dissected), the Citadon/BuildOnline merger to form CTSpace has continued to occupy my thoughts. In today’s post, I point out that the merger marks yet another consolidation of the extranet space since the start of the 21st century, have a quick look at what the combined business is offering post-merger, discuss …

AEC, applications, Autodesk, BIW, branding, BuildOnline, Citadon, construction collaboration, Constructware, CTSpace, marketing, merger, Project Extranet, UK, US, website
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Dec 14 2006

CTSpace dissected

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
14 December 2006

Yesterday’s announcement of a merger of BuildOnline and Citadon to form CTSpace (see earlier post) presents a positive view of the past history of the two firms, so it is worth analysing some of the background. Let’s start with BuildOnline. BuildOnline backstory BuildOnline was actually originally founded in Ireland and set out to become an e-marketplace …

Aconex, AEC, BIW, BuildOnline, Citadon, Citadon CW, construction collaboration, CTSpace, Howard Koenig, Mark Suster, merger, Project Extranet, ProjectNet, SaaS, UK, US
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Dec 14 2006

BuildOnline + Citadon = CTSpace

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
14 December 2006

UK collaboration vendor BuildOnline is to merge with US-based vendor Citadon (see news release). The new business will trade as CTSpace. The move was confirmed late yesterday after several weeks of UK industry rumours (see 14 November BuildOnline and Koral, for example), and a succession of BO management changes over the past year or so, culminating in the …

AEC, BuildOnline, Citadon, construction collaboration, CTSpace, Howard Koenig, Mark Suster, merger, Project Extranet, SaaS, UK, US
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Dec 13 2006

2006 – a strange year for extranets

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
13 December 2006

As a PR professional, I always read Rachael Dalton-Taggart’s observations (on her blog PR, Marketing and the Business of CAD) with interest. While she writes from a US perspective and is mainly focused on the CAD sector, her views sometimes coincide with mine (UK-based, mainly concerned with web-based AEC collaboration tools). In her latest post, 2006 …

Building, CAD, construction collaboration technologies, Construction News, Contract Journal, extranet, extranet vendors, ITCF, marketing, NCCTP, PR, project extranets, QS News, US

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Dec 08 2006

Autodesk University – little collaboration buzz

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
8 December 2006

Amid the stream of blog articles discussing Autodesk University 2006, there has been very little about construction collaboration technologies. I had hoped that this major US event, which attracted 7,500 people this year, might have been the platform for Autodesk to make some major announcement, perhaps regarding its Constructware product (following the acquisition earlier this …