Category: Marketing

Dec 01 2006

ConVisia

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

A new name to me since I started watching developments in the US market (in addition to that in the UK) is ConVisia. Founded in July 2005, this business initially said it was specialising in “instant wireless collaboration of complex documents … hosted wireless solutions [for whom] the initial audience … is the architecture, engineering …

Autodesk Buzzsaw, construction collaboration, Constructware, Convisia, e-Builder, extranet, ProjectTalk, US, wireless

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Dec 01 2006

Microsoft Vista support for Autodesk DWF format

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing
1 December 2006

Autodesk has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to integrate DWF technology with the Windows Vista operating system (released to business customers today – see BBC news story). Vista users will be able to view and manage DWFs without additional downloads of plug-ins or special viewing software. Viewers are a feature of all construction collaboration technologies, or …

AEC, Autodesk, AutoVue, BIW, Brava!, Cimmetry, construction collaboration, DWF, extranet, Informative Graphics, Microsoft, Vista

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Nov 24 2006

Construction Computing Show 2006

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
24 November 2006

I have just spent two days at the Construction Computing Show at London’s Barbican Centre. BIW took a stand this year, taking advantage of an arrangement between the organisers and the IT Construction Forum whereby ITCF IT Partners could get space at a special rate. I also presented an ITCF seminar each day entitled The Extranet …

4Projects, Aconex, AEC, Asite, Autodesk, awards, Bentley, BIW, BuildOnline, Business Collaborator, construction collaboration, Construction Computing, Mark Suster, NCCTP, UK, Union Square

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Nov 17 2006

Styles&Wood – an update

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
17 November 2006

Further to my 8 November post on Styles&Wood, a Tesco insider has been in touch to correct and update my information. He writes: Although our initial implementation was the Union Square Workspace, we have bespoked the system significantly since then (using Styles and Wood developers)….so S&W are becoming more than just re-sellers. However, I was …

4Projects, AEC, Styles&Wood, Tesco, UK, Union Square, Workspace
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Nov 14 2006

BuildOnline and Koral

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
14 November 2006

BuildOnline CEO Mark Suster is running two companies. As well as running the UK-based construction collaboration vendor, Suster is also CEO of California-based Koral. This is an interesting development on two or three levels: first, Koral itself seems an interesting business with a strong Web2.0 content collaboration product; second, I wonder whether this will have an …

AEC, Alfresco, BIW, BuildOnline, construction collaboration, content collaboration, extranet, Koral, Mark Suster, UK, US, vendor
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Nov 09 2006

Changes at 4Projects

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
9 November 2006

I notice that sales director Gerard Callaghan no longer features among the senior people at UK collaboration vendor 4Projects, while executive chairman Paul Callaghan has become non-executive chairman. (23 November update: Having met Gerard at this week’s Construction Computing Show, I am pleased to say that he is still 4Projects sales director – the disappearance …

4Projects, AEC, collaboration, Construction, extranet, UK

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Nov 08 2006

BIW’s growth continues – but what about the others?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
8 November 2006

The latest news release from UK construction collaboration vendor BIW Technologies says it has just completed its sixth straight year of growth. Turnover in 2006 (year ending 30 September) reached £4.6m – up from just over £4m in 2005. BIW has always been very open about its performance, regularly publishing news releases, but some of its UK competitors are more …

4Projects, Aconex, AEC, Asite, BIW, BuildOnline, Business Collaborator, Cadweb, Causeway, construction collaboration technologies, ePin, extranet, finances, profit, Sarcophagus, turnover, UK
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Nov 03 2006

“QS News” feature on mobile working

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
3 November 2006

UK trade magazine QS News has published a feature article written by me: Why ‘I’ always comes before ‘T’. In the article, I argue that providers and users of mobile IT solutions in the construction industry need to focus on ‘whole life information‘ instead of getting hung-up about technology hardware and connectivity issues. The key …

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Nov 01 2006

US: Trimble buys Meridian Project Systems

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
1 November 2006

Latest collaboration news from the USA concerns the acquisition in an all-cash deal (terms not disclosed) of leading project management software business Meridian Project Systems by GPS and mobile IT systems specialist Trimble – the latter’s seventh acquisition of 2006 (says AECnews.com). Trimble has been assembling a suite of software, hardware and services with the …

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Oct 30 2006

BuildOnline statistics

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
30 October 2006

Thanks to a software review in the latest (November 2006) issue of Project Manager Today, we learn that UK AEC vendor BuildOnline: "markets a ‘project extranet’ hosted Web system, that has 8,000 customers and 1,300 projects and programmes currently on the go, with 43,000 users; all in the construction industry. … there are currently 3.7 …