Category: Marketing

Oct 24 2006

BIM – Asite targets US

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

Earlier this month, UK-based collaboration vendor Asite announced that it planned to release a collaborative BIM product (see 10 October post). It has just issued a further press release saying it will be announcing (again) the “forthcoming release of Asite Collaborative BIM at the Building SMART Week Conference” in Washington DC next week. BuildingSMART is the recent preferred …

Asite, BIM, BuildingSMART, collaboration, Construction, extranet, IAI, IFC, UK
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Oct 19 2006

e-PIN overhauls website (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
19 October 2006

Got an email today from Robin Shipston, a director of ePIN – a BIW competitor and one of the smaller UK vendors of construction collaboration technology. He gently criticises me for not including ePIN’s website on my links list. This was because the list was originally focused on members of the NCCTP – however, as …

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Oct 18 2006

Factors in buying software

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
18 October 2006

In “Why Do You Buy CAD Software? Survey Result (preliminary)“, Roopinder Tara of the CAD Insider blog (and the useful TenLinksDaily newsletter) gives an early indication of the key factors used in assessing CAD software for purchase – based on an online survey (still ongoing at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=891102592287). After over 120 responses, the key factors (listed in …

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Oct 12 2006

CJ Construction Industry Awards 2006

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, ROI/benefits, Vendors
12 October 2006

I have just skimmed through a supplement to this week’s UK trade magazine Contract Journal covering its annual awards event. Working in IT, I turned first to the IT Award page. This year’s winner was the BAA T5 project at London Heathrow Airport, rewarded for its 3D single model environment. Shortlisted in the same category …

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Oct 12 2006

ProjectWise StartPoint targets AutoCAD users

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing
12 October 2006

I have written before about Bentley Projectwise Startpoint. My latest communication from Bentley says the Microsoft SharePoint-based system, first developed to work with MicroStation V8 XM Edition, now supports AutoCAD 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Users can now also download a free 30-day trial of ProjectWise StartPoint for AutoCAD.

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Oct 10 2006

Asite’s “major new developments”

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

Asite’s website has revealed the “major new development” announced at last week’s half-day conference (see previous post). It was two ‘new’ products: Asite Workspace and Asite Building Information Model (BIM). Asite Workspace is described in Asite’s press release as: “an entry level collaboration tool, addressing the concerns of the industry highlighted by the 2006 NCCTP …

Asite, BIM, BIW, i-component, NCCTP, Union Square Software, Workspace
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Oct 06 2006

Construction Computing Awards 2006

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
6 October 2006

Nominations closed for the Construction Computing Awards (see previous post) on 15 September and voting on the final shortlists has now commenced. UK collaboration vendors are well represented among the finalists: 4Projects and BuildOnline both feature in three categories, as do Sarcophagus (two related to its collaboration system, the other for Etenderer). BIW Technologies features in five …

4Projects, AEC, BIW, BuildOnline, Causeway, collaboration, Construction Computing, extranet, magazine, Sarcophagus, UK
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Oct 05 2006

What was Asite’s “major new development”?

By Paul Wilkinson in Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
5 October 2006

A day after Asite‘s half-day conference in London and no clues on its website as to what "major new development" was launched at the event. Perhaps you had to be there….

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Sep 28 2006

Dochosting Data Management

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
28 September 2006

After discovering Dochosting via Contract Journal (see previous post), I have tried to find out more about the company. The Dochosting website is, to say the least, sketchy on details of the company, giving only telephone and fax numbers (not even an email address!); no postal address or contact names either. From the STD code of …

AEC, collaboration, Dochosting, extranet, UK
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Sep 28 2006

Contract Journal feature on online collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
28 September 2006

UK weekly Contract Journal has published a feature on online collaboration, written by Rebecca Froley. This mentions the findings of the NCCTP market research and links to the NCCTP website. Unfortunately, only half the NCCTP members are mentioned by name (no links or reference to two of the UK market’s major players BIW Technologies or Business …