Category: Marketing

May 01 2008

Another provider blog

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
1 May 2008

A comment from US construction collaboration technology provider e-Builder‘s CEO Jon Antevy on my recent post, Getting Won Over, includes a link to his own blog – with the snappy (not) title “Construction Project Management and Collaboration” – begun late last year. By my reckoning that makes five blogs from construction collaboration technology vendors (in date order): …

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Apr 22 2008

Incite – update

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
22 April 2008

Two months ago (INCITE = ThinkProject!), I wrote about Australia-based construction collaboration provider Nexus Point and the Incite product. I have just received a helpful email from Sean Kaye, Nexus Point’s managing director, updating me on a few details. First of all, Nexus Point Solutions never had an agreement of any sort with Baulogis; the minority …

Aconex, AEC/Communications, Australia, Baulogis, collaboration, Construction, distributor, Germany, Incite, license, Nexus Point, Sean Kaye, Think Project!
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Apr 22 2008

CTSpace – minor update

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
22 April 2008

Further to my February post, the CTSpace website has still not been updated, although there is a good-looking link page from the parent group Sword site, listing CTSpace locations in the US, UK, France, Germany and Austria. In the meantime, I read here that former CTSpace (and before that Constructware) executive Gary Greenberger has left the business and joined …

Austria, Constructware, CTSpace, David Lapter, France, Gary Greenberger, Germany, Sword, UK, US, Vela Systems

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Apr 20 2008

Asia Pacific SaaS market

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
20 April 2008

Springboard Research has provided me with some useful background on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market in Asia and the Pacific Rim in the past (see here and here, for example). News of its latest research was published last week. It says: Local ISVs and smaller global vendors offering Software-as-a-Service solutions have captured an estimated 54% …

Asia, collaboration, CRM, ISVs, Pacific Rim, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Software-as-a-Service, Springboard Research, WebEx
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Apr 02 2008

Web-hosted software on the rise

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, SaaS
2 April 2008

Various IT publications and websites (eg: Infomatics) are covering market research commissioned by [my employer] BIW Technologies which suggests the global credit crunch could prove to be a boost to the software as a service (SaaS) sector, as businesses opt to spread software spending over a longer period, according to research. These are the headlines, …

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Mar 11 2008

Yet another AEC take on SharePoint

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
11 March 2008

Courtesy of AECcafe.com, I see another US firm has launched a document sharing system based on Microsoft SharePoint. Wennsoft is the latest to enter the fray. Related post: More SharePoint for AEC

Microsoft, SharePoint, Wennsoft

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Mar 07 2008

New CTSpace product “soon”

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
7 March 2008

The US version of CTSpace‘s website had brief details of a user group conference it was holding, 6-7 March 2008, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event was programmed to include a preview of a new CTSpace product, an opportunity to meet Sword executives, and the results of a US user survey. I understand from CTSpace that …

Citadon CW, CTSpace, Las Vegas, ProjectsOnline, SupplychainOnline, Sword, TenderOnline, US, website

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Feb 27 2008

Delivering my first webinars

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Sustainability, Telecoms
27 February 2008

The flow of posts to this blog slowed slightly this week as I spent time preparing for, and then delivering two webinars for BIW Technologies [my employer]. The first of these online seminars related to use of online collaboration platforms to manage construction contract processes – particularly those associated with the New Engineering Contract (NEC); …

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Feb 18 2008

CADaaS continued (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, SaaS
18 February 2008

My musings last week (here and here) on CAD-as-a-Service have stimulated some interest, including a SaaSblogs post, and a comment from Rami Hamodah, who, quite rightly, suggests that “offering CAD-as-a-Service is much harder to do than offering business software-as-a-service such as CRM” and wonders how demand might be stimulated. CADaaS: not if, when To respond to …

AEC, Alibre, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, bandwidth, BIM, CAD-as-a-Service, CADaaS, collaboration, Construction, interoperability, Pareto principle, SaaS blogs, Sinclair Schuller, SolidWorks, TCO
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Feb 12 2008

INCITE = ThinkProject!

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
12 February 2008

Just last week, I was discussing the state of the Australian AEC collaboration market. Following that conversation, I decided to have a look at what other domestic players in that market had to offer. Putting Aconex into context, I have already mentioned QA Software in the past (see 4 July 2006 post), so I examined what used to be …