Category: Marketing

Jul 27 2010

Panama landmark project for Aconex

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
27 July 2010

Yesterday I talked to Aconex‘s Dexter Bachelder (VP Americas) and Frank Carron (VP marketing) about a major deal that, for me, is a landmark in the adoption of web-based construction collaboration technologies. Australia-based vendor Aconex announced yesterday (see news release) that it had been selected to provide collaboration support services to the US$3.2 billion Panama …

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Jul 21 2010

Websites overhauled at BIW and 4Projects

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Marketing, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
21 July 2010

The corporate websites of UK construction collaboration technology providers 4Projects and BIW Technologies* have both been refreshed recently. Despite my past involvement with BIW, I think the changes in 4Projects’ online presence are more extensive, building on website changes that the company instigated on its subsidiaries 4Retail and 4Exergy sites last year (post). 4Projects appointed …

4Exergy, 4Projects, 4Retail, Asite, BIW Technologies, Cadweb, Clare Watson, construction collaboration technology, literature, marketing, PR, SlideShare, Social Media, Twitter, UK, Web 2.0, website
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Jul 20 2010

Site Clean-up iPhone app

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Web 2.0
20 July 2010

Earlier this year I met up in London with Peter Daly, founder and MD of Dublin-based software developer SmartBuilder Software Ltd, and we talked about the future of construction collaboration technologies and about mobile solutions in particular. I recently met Peter again when he talked about his first iPhone application at the Be2camp East 2 …

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Jun 29 2010

Carbon calculation

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Sustainability, Web 2.0
29 June 2010

Almost two years ago, when I was helping (un)organise the first Be2camp ‘unconference’ event in London, the sustainability theme that underpins this built environment/social media advocacy movement attracted contributions from several people with an active interest in calculating and then reducing the carbon footprint of the architecture, engineering and construction, AEC, sector (we had talks, …

AEC, Alex Albon, AMEE, architecture, Be2camp, BioRegional, built environment, carbon calculation, carbon footprint, CarbonCalculated.com, chief construction advisor, Claire Hardwick, cloud computing, commuting, compliance, consolidation centres, ConstructCO2, Construction, corporate social responsibility, credentials, CSR, design, EarthExchange, embodied emissions, energy consumption, Engineering, Evolution-ip, Fam ily Housing Association, fit-out, in-situ construction, Jamie Andrews, Jason Green, Liz Collett, logistics, London, Martin Brown, materials, off-site fabrication, Overbury, Pachube, Paul Morrell, pre-qualification questionnaires, procurement, refurbishment, smart meters, Social Media, Summerfield, sustainability, tenders, Tom Chance, unconference, Usman Haque, Vimeo, waste

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Jun 11 2010

MyOnlineToolbox.com

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
11 June 2010

My recent live-blog post about Tradeshift wondered whether there might be an opportunity for SME firms in the architecture, engineering and construction sectors to expand their adoption of online platforms, perhaps even integrating project delivery processes with the associated financial transactions. It seems one business in the United States is already starting to do this: …

advertising revenues, approvals, architecture, B-2-B-2-C, Brian Javeline, Business-to-Business-to-Consumer, Construction, design, drawings, email, Engineering, estimates, extension, fax, financial transactions, Florida, home repair, invoices, marketing, messages, Myonlinetoolbox.com, notes, orders, product manufacturers, project delivery, recommendation, refurbishment, remodelling, RFQs, SaaS, SME, Tradeshift, United States
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Jun 09 2010

Tradeshift launches in the UK

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
9 June 2010

London: 1930hrs BST – Given that the construction industry is a sector dominated by the small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME), any application that can help the small business improve its efficiency has to be welcome. I am attending and live-blogging from the London launch of Tradeshift, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) invoicing platform, originally of Danish origin, …

accounting system, APIs, Christian Lanng, COINS, Construction, ERP, ERP systems, ERPly, Freshbooks, Intuit, invoicing, launch, London, MYOB, north America, Oracle eBusiness Suite, Quickbooks Online, RedSky IT, SaaS, Saasu.com, Sage, SAP, SME, Software-as-a-Service, subscription service, text messages, Timberline, Tradeshift, Tradeshift Basic, Tradeshift Connect, Tradeshift Enterprise, transactions, Xero, Zoho

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Jun 09 2010

Aconex streamlines bid and tender management process

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
9 June 2010

Australia-based construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex has today issued a news release regarding a platform upgrade streamlining its bid and tender management processes for construction, infrastructure and energy projects. This was something that was mentioned briefly when I did a telephone interview with Aconex co-founder and General Manager of Product Rob Phillpot last November (see …

4Projects, Aconex, Asite, Australia, bid, BIW, Business Collaborator, Construction, construction collaboration technology, CTSpace, Energy, infrastructure, ricsetendering.com, Rob Phillpot, SaaS, Sarcophagus, tender management, UK

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May 25 2010

CTSpace talks about FusionLive

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
25 May 2010

Last week I travelled to Brentford and the London offices of Sword CTSpace to learn more about the company’s FusionLive platform. After blogging about the product’s launch last month, I had been invited by business unit director John Pomeroy to meet some of the FusionLive team (including George Britton, Andre Gunter and Mathieu Pollet) and …

4Projects, Aconex, AJAX, Andre Gunter, API, Asite, asset data, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, BIM, BIW, Brentford, building information modelling, BuildOnline, Business Collaborator, Cable & Wireless, Cimage, content management, Documentum, Dubai, EDMS, Engineering Community, France, Fusion, FusionEnterprise, FusionLive, gadgets, George Britton, Germany, Google Mail, hosting, IBM, India, iPhone, John Pomeroy, marketing, Mathieu Pollet, Microsoft, Microsoft Outlook, migration, multi-tasking, NEC3, Novasoft, oil and gas, on-premise, Oracle, Outlook integration, Poland, PR, revenues, SaaS, screen-sharing, search engines, single sign-on, Software-as-a-Service, Sword CTSpace, Sword group, Tarmac Professional Services, UI, UK, Unit4 Collaboration Software, US, user interface, WIBNIs, workflow
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May 21 2010

From AsBuilt to Exquando

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
21 May 2010

From time to time, I get asked about non-UK collaboration vendors operating in mainland Europe. I can talk with some knowledge about Munich-based Conject (see The conject interview) and Madrid-based Bricsnet (see The Bricsnet interview), but otherwise I generally struggle. However, a little bit of this information gap has recently been filled with respect to …

Alstom Power and Hydro, AsBuilt, AutoVue, BIAC, Bricsnet, Brussels Airport, BuildOnline, Causeway, Cimmetry, Conject, Dara Duong, Dexia Bank, ECM, Europe, Exquando, Fabricom, Fortis Bank, Fujitsu Services, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, LiveLink, Marc Ansoult, OpenText, Solvay

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May 20 2010

Corecon releases V7

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
20 May 2010

I last wrote about California, US-based SaaS construction software vendor Corecon Technologies almost two years ago (post). In 2008, Corecon’s, er… core business management capabilities were being expanded to include online file storage and collaboration capabilities (though not document markup/red-line or commenting capabilities). At the time, Corecon president Norman Wendl was hoping to launch v7 …