According to the latest assessment from Springboard Research, the strategy of 'Software plus services' being pursued by Microsoft is still "a work in progress". Drawing on insights gained at the Microsoft's Asia Pacific Analyst Summit last month (when it announced Windows Live and Microsoft Online – see post), Springboard says it expects "Microsoft to struggle …
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May 20 2008
CTSpace website taking shape
As mentioned last week, the new CTSpace website is taking shape, adopting the ‘look and feel’ of the parent Sword Group website, and with a new CTSpace logo incorporating the words “A Sword Group Company”. It’s a good-looking site – I like the animated photographs on the home page. CTSpace claims 135,000 users (though this …
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May 16 2008
CTSpace website to launch shortly?
Changes afoot regarding the long overdue CTSpace website (see previous posts here and here), though the work doesn’t yet appear to be complete (some pages appear just to be text-dumps from the old site; many don’t have a CTSpace URL – just an IP address). Expect the new Sword-style site to be relaunched shortly.
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May 15 2008
RIBA CPD events
I am presenting at two events next week. On Wednesday morning, 21 May 2008, I will be in Knutsford, Cheshire talking about construction collaboration technologies to architects from the northwest group of the Royal Institute of British Architects – part of a Continuous Professional Development (CPD) event organised in conjunction with Constructing Excellence‘s IT Construction Forum …
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May 12 2008
Future of the NCCTP
The future of the NCCTP, the UK construction collaboration technology providers association (now part of Constructing Excellence), is to be debated at a facilitated meeting of its steering group in London this week. The group was founded in late 2003 and set out to create some data exchange standards between the different vendors’ systems and to …
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May 12 2008
Projectcentre.net
Earlier this year, I started looking in a little more detail at the Australian construction collaboration technology market. Aconex, being active in the UK, obviously feature regularly in my thoughts (I believe their shareholder dispute may finally yield a judgement in the next month or so); I have written about Incite (here and here); and I linked to …
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May 08 2008
Cadweb tries to catch-up
The latest news release from UK construction collaboration technology vendor Cadweb – who describe themselves as “the longest and oldest, established project extranet provider in the UK” [just how long is Cadweb?] – shows that Cadweb has finally woken up to functional advances made by most of its UK competitors several years ago. Cadweb says it plans to add several …
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May 08 2008
Causeway: ECL to be rebranded
The Elstree Computing Ltd business, acquired by Causeway last July (see post), is to be rebranded and integrated into the Causeway Group – according to Causeway’s latest news release. ECL will become Causeway’s Design and Cost Management Solutions division. It’s not clear if ECL’s Information Manager will be realigned with Causeway’s ECM solutions, which include the group’s construction collaboration …
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May 07 2008
Breeding toxins from dead PCs
I am off later this afternoon to Think 08 sustainability event at the ExCel in east London (which I can just see through the haze across the River from where I live in south-east London) – where (time-permitting) I also hope to meet up with two or three fellow bloggers (see iSite post). While on …
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May 02 2008
SaaS market “to undergo very rapid revenue growth”
Recent market research conducted by UK-based Ovum suggests the SaaS (software as a service) market is set to undergo very rapid revenue growth. The company forecasts that the revenues generated by SaaS vendors will increase, in some regions, by at least 50% each year for the next four years (source: news from the Sofnet …
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