Category: Marketing

Jul 04 2006

Aconex background

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
4 July 2006

Want some historical background on Aconex? Read this profile, Global team plays it fast and friendly, from the Sydney Morning Herald. Gentle PR stuff about Leigh Jasper and Rob Phillpot’s university careers, playing squash, reading books, and building a customer service ethos. There is a reference to the first manifestation of Aconex software (though it’s …

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Jun 28 2006

Fon (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, Marketing, Telecoms
28 June 2006

Back in February, I wrote about Fon, a Spanish start-up aiming to build a network of wireless broadband users. Today, the BBC reports (Wi-fi pioneers offer cheap router) that Fon plans to sell wi-fi routers for just $5 (£2.75) – but on condition that users agree to share their wireless connections with other Fon users …

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Jun 22 2006

Business Collaborator highlights Harvard OCPM research

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
22 June 2006

Business Collaborator‘s latest press release, entitled Harvard Report Shows UK Leads Way in Benefiting from Online Collaboration, gives a vendor-specific viewpoint on the research undertaken at Harvard University into online collaboration and project management (OCPM) technology (see my previous posts, eg: this one, and the most recent one). BC claims the research found "UK companies …

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Jun 15 2006

Deltek in UK (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Marketing, SaaS
15 June 2006

Last month I wondered why Deltek took an exhibition stand at the IT Construction Forum’s annual conference. Business Collaborator‘s Tim Blower told me yesterday that this move probably followed Deltek’s acquisition of Welcom, whose applications include a project collaboration solution, Welcom Home; he also mentioned that Welcom’s (now Deltek’s) Open Plan software was being used …

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Jun 14 2006

NCCTP AEC collaboration market research (3)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, SaaS, Vendors
14 June 2006

Members of the NCCTP marketing group today had their first presentation from independent market research agency Benchmark regarding the NCCTP survey of over 250 users of the leading UK construction collaboration technology solutions (aka ‘extranets’). Fieldwork was completed last month. There are some fascinating insights to come, but I cannot share them here yet as …

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Jun 09 2006

Newforma flooded

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
9 June 2006

In my Newforma post yesterday, I touched on the reduced risk for a project team that uses an external hosting service to manage its application and data. Newforma might appreciate the value of such a service themselves having just suffered a major flood at their Manchester, New Hampshire basement offices.

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Jun 08 2006

Newforma Project Center

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

In the US, Randall Newton at AECnews.com has been talking to the people at Newforma who, on 1 June, launched Newforma Project Center – a client/server based system that sits inside an organisation’s firewall. The product is "designed to help project managers and team members gain control over their burgeoning and complex project information". This …

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Jun 06 2006

Construction Computing 2006

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

Just received an email from Craig Molloy at BTC confirming the dates of the Construction Computing 2006 show. It will on 8th and 9th November at the Barbican exhibition centre, London. This year’s event will apparently be co-located with the Bentley User Community Conference; I expect this will ensure a good number of designers among …

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Jun 06 2006

Pearce-ing insight

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

The latest Contract Journal monthly insight of what working life is like within a well-known construction group looks at the Pearce Group ("We will be launching our new website soon…" it promises). The usual question about project collaboration tools prompts IT manager Dave Fox to eulogise to CJ business editor John Leitch about 4Projects: "We …

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Jun 05 2006

Sharepoint: first, ProjectWise StartPoint, then Citadon Jazz

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

The Bentley BE conference has now finished and various correspondents have compiled their reports, some mentioning the ProjectWise StartPoint product (previously covered here and here). In the AECbytes newsletter, Lachmi Khemlani describes the new entry-level solution, saying it is designed for smaller, co-located teams rather than larger teams in multiple locations which full ProjectWise caters …