Category: Marketing

Mar 24 2010

The end of the construction collaboration era?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Marketing, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
24 March 2010

[This is a slightly expanded version of an article from my pwcom blog.] I am due to speak next Tuesday, 30 March at the Collaboration Cafe symposium at the Building Centre in London. The event is one of the final contributions to an ongoing research project being undertaken by Slider Studio and funded by …

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Mar 11 2010

Top 10 Construction IT trends

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors, Web 2.0
11 March 2010

This is the original draft of an article I wrote that has just been published in the March 2010 issue of Construction Manager magazine (link to digital edition), alongside a bigger feature looking at the new generation of construction collaboration platforms (including Woobius, Collabor8online and SliderStudio‘s StickyWorld – all of which I’ve recently talked about …

3D, 4Projects, accounting, Aconex, APIs, Apple, archINFORM, Asite, augmented reality, BIM, BIMaaS, BIW, blog, BuildingSMART, Business Collaborator, CAD, CIOB, Collabor8online, construction collaboration, Construction Manager, contracts, CoverItLive, Daden, ERP, Gartner, GPS, internet of things, iPad, iPhone, Latista, Layar, LiveMeeting, mobile, Motion Computing, Pachube, procurement, SaaS, Second Life, Skype, SliderStudio, SlideShare, smartphone, Software-as-a-Service, StickyWorld, Tablet computing, tCn, the Construction Network, Twitter, UNIT4, Ustream, Vela Systems, Virtual worlds, Web 2.0, web conferencing, WebEx, wifi, Wikipedia, WiMax, Woobius, Woobius Eye, YouCanPlan
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Mar 02 2010

tCn – The Construction Network – launches

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, Web 2.0
2 March 2010

[This is a re-post of an article from my pwcom blog, published 2 March 2010. A debate has been kindled in the comments section that is reminiscent of conversations around the time of the dot.com boom in 2000.] Late last year I was contacted by Ryan Briggs, one of the co-founders of a new social …

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Feb 27 2010

Maybe there’s a SaaS for that?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms
27 February 2010

Writing a “ten construction IT trends” feature for a UK construction publication this week, I found myself reflecting again on tablet PCs (partly stimulated by the launch of Apple’s iPad), and on the rise and rise of smartphones. I found myself asking: why focus on downloading ‘apps for this and that’ when you might be …

3G, ABI Research, Android, Apple, apps, Be2camp, browser, Construction, EMS, Information Age, internet access, iPad, smartphones, Software-as-a-Service, tablet PCs, The Cloud, wi-fi, WiMax
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Feb 23 2010

StickyWorld and the ‘Collaboration Cafe’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
23 February 2010

About 18 months ago I met Slider Studio architect Michael Kohn when he presented at the first Be2camp event I co-organised, at London’s Building Centre. I have remained in contact with him ever since (he spoke about principles of democratic design to another Be2camp event in Birmingham last August) and have just received an invitation …

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Feb 22 2010

Woobius simplifies pricing of “simply simple” collaboration solution

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
22 February 2010

Since I first came across UK-based low cost file-sharing and collaboration vendor Woobius in April last year, I have kept tabs on their development. [Disclosure: I have also undertaken occasional paid PR consultancy projects for the company.] Their latest news (see also blog post) concerns a simplified approach to the pricing of their core collaboration …

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Feb 01 2010

Collabor8online: talking low-cost collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
1 February 2010

I had a long telephone chat on Friday with Colin Barnes, founder of Collabor8online (see post), a little over two months since the construction collaboration solution’s UK launch. Colin explained that Collabor8online was very much targeted at the SME end of the market. “Recognising that for many businesses email is too messy and difficult to …

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Jan 28 2010

Exit Business Collaborator – enter UNIT4 Collaboration Software Ltd

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
28 January 2010

With the parent company, Unit 4 Agresso NV, announcing a groupwide name change to UNIT4, UK construction collaboration technology vendor Business Collaborator will be rebranded as Unit4 Collaboration Software Ltd with effect from 1 February. The announcement follows various acquisitions by the group which is now one of the world’s leading ERP software suppliers. It …

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Jan 26 2010

Glasscubes updates interface

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
26 January 2010

I wrote about Glasscubes last October (post), and have just received an email from Rob Hallums telling me about a new, more intuitive user interface to the application (read his blog post). There are changes to the navigation to create a Dashboard view (right) and a files repository, and the ‘Cubes’ have been renamed Workspaces …

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Jan 25 2010

Filegenius – yet more low-cost file-sharing targeting AEC

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
25 January 2010

Last week, I had lunch with a long-time friend in the construction collaboration technology sector, and we talked about low and no-cost file-sharing. It is, we agreed, easy to take a generic file-sharing system and claim that it is invaluable for users in the architecture, engineering and construction industry, but a lot harder to actually …