Category: Marketing

Mar 29 2011

ICT4Construction: a post mortem

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
29 March 2011

Rant alert! As regular readers may know, I was (I think, constructively) critical of the first ICT4Construction event last October, and as a result of my feedback organiser Recep Saffet asked if I would chair the next edition, on knowledge and document management. After some deliberation, I agreed, and also helped publicise the event through …

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Mar 28 2011

Aconex looking for SF-based senior VP, sales and marketing

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
28 March 2011

For a few idle minutes on Friday, I started contemplating a move to California –Australia-based construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex had just advertised an attractive sales and marketing role based in San Francisco (see LinkedIn jobs). Reality then kicked in (I have a business, wife and kids in the UK), but for the right person, …

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Mar 23 2011

SnagR: mobile but not SaaS

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, Vendors
23 March 2011

Ignore the marketing hype about SnagR being “the first its kind innovative Web and PDA-based site inspection and defect management system” (both BIW and BuildOnline – now part of Sword CTSpace – had PDA-based defects management systems in 2006), but SnagR is a user-friendly digitised system designed to speed up the process of capturing, reporting …

Android 2.2, Asite, audit trail, augmented reality, BIW, BuildOnline, CMToolkit, connectivity, construction collaboration system, defect management, Graham Henderson, integration, iPad, iPhone, licensing, Liz Henderson, Mark Henderson, marketing, Middle East, mobile, MPS, PDA, PDF, Pragmatech, property management, Qatar, reporting, SaaS, Screenshare, site inspection, SnagR, Software-as-a-Service, south-east Asia, Stafford, surveying, Sword CTSpace, Sypro, tablets, Tailormade Software, UK, ultra-mobile, Vimeo, Windows 7
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Mar 22 2011

Training in collaborative IT

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Marketing, People issues, SaaS
22 March 2011

Judging from the recent activities of some of the leading construction collaboration technology vendors, there seems to be a fair bit of (mainly London-based) training going on at the moment: 4Projects recently announced (14 March) a “new programme of training sessions designed specifically to help our users get the most from our 4Projects collaborative functionality” …

4Projects, Aconex, Asite, BIM, building information modelling, cloud computing, Collaborative IT for construction, construction collaboration technology, document control, Frank Carron, lifecycle management, London, mobile, on-premise, SaaS, training

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Mar 21 2011

Aconex to launch iPhone app in April

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
21 March 2011

Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex will be launching its first iPhone application next month (April 2011). A short note on its support page about release 10.2, says: Coming Soon – Aconex Mobile Now Aconex goes everywhere you go. We’re pleased to announce the launch of Aconex Mobile (for iPhone®) in April. Very soon …

4Projects, Aconex, Aconex Mobile, Android, API, Asite, Australia, BIW, Blackberry, BuildItLive, Conject, construction collaboration technology, Corecon, defects management, Foreman's Mate, Incite, iPad, iPhone, PDA, Rob Phillpot, Site Clean-Up, SmartBuilder, smartphone, Sword CTSpace, web-browser, Windows Mobile 7, Woobius
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Mar 15 2011

Online collaboration for marketing and sales

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
15 March 2011

Enhancing customer service is one area where many AEC firms could do better, and web-based tools can help support marketing and sales activities. Show Document and VeriShow I wrote about the SaaS generic design review application Show Document about 18 months ago. I didn’t devote much time to it from a construction perspective as it …

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Mar 09 2011

Vaulting your documents

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Legal, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
9 March 2011

Writing last week about the London launch of the RICS report on cloud computing and commercial property, I mentioned secure offsite file storage provider Vaultium, and – surely no coincidence – I have since been emailed about another UK-based “vault” vendor: BackUpVault. Neither cloud-based business specifically targets the construction collaboration sector, though Vaultium does offer …

AEC, architecture, archive, BackUpVault, Box.net, cloud computing, collaboration, commercial property, construction collaboration, data protection, drop.io, encryption, Engineering, EU, facilities management, file sharing, file storage, folders, large file handling, legal jurisdiction, mark-up, property, RICS, SMEs, Software-as-a-Service, The Bunker, UK, US, Vaultium

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Mar 08 2011

Virtual worlds and the built environment

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, Sustainability, Vendors, Web 2.0
8 March 2011

Virtual worlds and the built environment (PDF) is a white paper just published by Birmingham, UK-based Daden Ltd, about whom I’ve written before (post). Having explored Second Life very superficially a couple of years ago when Be2camp was in its infancy, I have watched with interest as Dave Burden and Soulla Stylianou have developed strong …

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Mar 07 2011

Who sits at the Sword CTSpace table?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
7 March 2011

The latest Sword-CTSpace news release concerns an integration between the company’s on-premise FusionEnterprise platform and ECM systems EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint 10 (somewhat confusingly, Sword-CTSpace talks about Engineering Content Management, as opposed to Enterprise Content Management, a term much used by other firms and industry analysts). I only mention this as the news release …

4Projects, Aconex, AML, Asite, BIW Technologies, BuildOnline, Cadweb, CEO, ECM, EMC Documentum, EMEA, Engineering Content Management, Enterprise Content Management, ePin, FusionEnterprise, Gert-Jan de Kieviet, integration, Lydie Francart, Mark Cappell, Microsoft SharePoint 10, PR, Product Management, search, Sword CTSpace, Tim Fleet, Unit4 Collaboration

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Mar 04 2011

Not just NEC3, JCT needs to be managed too

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Legal, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
4 March 2011

The web-based RICS Contract Administrator automates and speeds up the production of JCT contract forms, but why do some of its users still print them out and send them? Amid the recent burst of marketing activity by UK construction SaaS vendors promoting their NEC management capabilities (see links to previous posts below), it is easy …