Category: Marketing

Sep 27 2006

Extranet Evolution – a year old

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Books, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing
27 September 2006

Looking back at what I was doing 12 months ago, I have just realised that this blog is now been in existence for over a year (my first post was on 15 September 2005). In the first full month (October 2005), according to my StatCounter.com stats, there were a very modest 317 page-loads by 155 unique visitors. Since then numbers have …

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Sep 27 2006

CIO skepticism

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Marketing, SaaS
27 September 2006

From SaaScon, a US conference on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Phil Wainewright has been blogging about CIO Skepticism. The CIOs participating in a conference session were apparently dismissive of some SaaS vendor claims, and judged SaaS propositions in the same way as on-premises propositions. They also dismissed some claims: It’s not any easier to implement and use. Nor should …

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Sep 20 2006

SaaS traction in the AEC industry

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

Back in June (see post), I discussed some provocative claims (in Randall Newton’s AECnews) from US vendor Newforma about ASP traction in the AEC sector. In a comment at the time, I expressed the hope that US providers would back up my own UK-based experiences. Today (in Autodesk Takes Exception to Newforma’s ‘No ASP Traction …

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Sep 20 2006

Give PIECC a chance

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Books, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, People issues
20 September 2006

Yesterday I attended a workshop at Loughborough University to discuss Planning and Implementation of Effective Collaboration in Construction, the PIECC (pronounced ‘peace’) project. The event was one of the final deliverables of a two-year, EPSRC-funded project run by Loughborough’s Mark Shelbourn and Dino Bouchlaghem (with industry involvement from Avanti, Arup, Buro Happold, Capita Symonds, Mott …

Avanti, collaborative working, Constructing Excellence, Loughborough University, PIECC, research

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Sep 13 2006

A co-ordinated approach to construction IT in the UK

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, Vendors
13 September 2006

Back in February (Long overdue CICA changes), I touched briefly on the need for there to be a more coordinated approach to managing IT interests in the UK construction industry. I suggested there was a potentially confusing array of organisations – the CICA, the IT Construction Forum and Construct IT for Business – representing general …

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Sep 07 2006

Asite to hold conference

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

UK collaboration vendor Asite is to hold a half-day conference in London on 4 October 2006. Its "ReThinking Construction Update Conference" programme includes a "Presentation of Asite progress" and a keynote from former Asite chairman Sir John Egan, plus the interesting prospect of a "Major new development to be launched".

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Aug 22 2006

Podcasts

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Internet, Marketing
22 August 2006

By coincidence, I found two bloggers doing their first podcasts on Friday. QSNews editor Phil Clark has done one on that most basic form of communication: speaking (click here), and SaaS pundit Philip Wainewright’s first podcast, Why Business is driving SaaS adoption, is here.

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Aug 17 2006

SaaS checklist

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Legal, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
17 August 2006

What to look for in a SaaS vendor is Phil Wainewright’s excellent 8-point checklist on what prospective customers should seek from a vendor, with a ‘best in class’ vendor achieving 6-8 out of 8. It’s quite a demanding list and one that would pose some serious challenges for some of the leading UK construction collaboration technology …

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Aug 11 2006

UK extranet vendor PR update

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
11 August 2006

The past couple of months have seen a flurry of UK deals reported on the websites of the leading construction collaboration technology vendors. For example: BIW Technologies has just announced a three-year corporate deal with contractor Fitzpatrick Business Collaborator signed up Parkman Mouchel in June BuildOnline is to support Thomas and ADAMSON and the City …

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Aug 08 2006

Construction Computing Awards 2006

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Marketing
8 August 2006

Since my previous post regarding the UK’s Construction Computing Show 2006, I have received an email about the inaugural Construction Computing Awards 2006: "the Hammers 2006" (potentially confusing for any West Ham United football supporters!). The email and associated website currently focus on the attractions of the awards dinner – tables for ten a cool …