Another service that I found after they followed me on Twitter is Okitoo. While it looks to be an interesting Software-as-a-Service mobile application for AEC professionals (developed by a France-based software developer Ideoserve SAS), it has been let down by poor marketing so far as the English-speaking world is concerned. The home page shows an …
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Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/01/okitoo-real-time-mobile-aec-collaboration-lost-in-translation/
Jan 14 2011
Asktobi.com
Launched in 2010, Asktobi aims to be an e-tendering-led ‘one-stop shop’ Gateshead, UK-based Asktobi is an “online business networking, e-commerce and information centre for the construction industry”. Its core offering is an online e-tendering system, providing tendering/subcontract enquiry and document management platforms, alongside third-party take-off and estimating tools (Take-off Live, and Fast-Estimate from Estek). The …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/01/asktobicom/
Jan 10 2011
Want to win “Best AEC collaboration application” at the Be2Awards?
The inaugural Be2awards celebrate the best in AEC use of social media and collaborative tools and techniques, including a category for best collaboration platform. In the middle of 2008, four people started a Twitter conversation about how people in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sectors might be able to use social media tools and …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/01/want-to-win-best-aec-collaboration-application-at-the-be2awards/
Dec 23 2010
Asite does enterprise deal with Canary Wharf Contractors
Asite seeks to differentiate its collaboration offering through its own definition of ‘pure SaaS’. According to a news release earlier this week, London-based construction collaboration vendor Asite has signed a five-year enterprise deal to provide its SaaS platform to support Canary Wharf Contractors’ projects. I don’t normally write about new deals, but there were a …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/12/asite-does-enterprise-deal-with-canary-wharf-contractors/
Dec 20 2010
Should we be teaching document control or collaboration?
Aconex is delivering document control training, but the technology aspect of collaboration is only occasionally covered. As a PR and marketing professional in the construction IT sector, I keep my eyes open for new ways in which businesses are promoting themselves or their products or services. A good example landed in my email inbox recently, …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/12/teaching-document-control-or-collaboration/
Dec 15 2010
See Howzee
Howzee offers a hyper-local service to manage the tenant/property management communication challenge at an individual block level. Alongside my main focus on ICT tools to help teams deliver construction projects, I have also taken an interest in how ICT tools can be used to help manage completed buildings or other assets. This includes online facilities …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/12/see-howzee/
Dec 14 2010
NEC3 Licensed Content partners announced
Two UK-based SaaS collaboration vendors have been officially licensed by NEC to deliver NEC3 construction contract information. By coincidence on the same day that I wrote about contrasting approaches to NEC construction contract management (post), it has been announced that two UK construction collaboration technology providers have been appointed as NEC3 Licensed Content Partners by …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/12/nec3-licensed-content-partners-announced/
Dec 14 2010
Sypro Management
Formed in 2007, Sypro is another SaaS player targeting the construction contract management market. Sometimes even just the simple step of following someone on Twitter can bring you some attention. Recently, I got a new follower using the Twitter handle @SyproNEC, representing Sypro Management Ltd, an East Yorkshire, UK-based company specialising in web-based collaboration software …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/12/sypro-management/
Dec 04 2010
Design by Many
One of those interesting coincidences…. Yesterday, the Institution of Civil Engineers, with the Advanced Institute of Management, hosted an event, “Engineering Management in a Digital Economy” in London which, despite the wintry weather and the associated transport difficulties, still drew around 40 people from both industry and academia. They assembled to discuss issues such as …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/12/design-by-many/
Dec 01 2010
Two recent UK vendor news releases
Asite, SaaS North America and ReproMAX sign Strategic Relationship A 30 November 2010 release from Asite, says US-based reprographics firm ReproMAX has signed a “major contract” with Asite’s distributor in North America (SaaS North America) to supply and host its “web-based collaborative Software as a Service (cSaaS)”. Let’s just dissect the announcement a little bit…. …
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