Category: Marketing

Oct 02 2007

Collaboration vendors on awards trail

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
2 October 2007

Last Friday, I was honoured to present the ‘Integration and Collaborative Working’ award – sponsored by BIW [my employer] – at the Constructing Excellence London and South-east England awards dinner, held in central London. The winner, by the way, was the Dartford Team (including the Highways Agency, Costain, Jacobs and Mouchel Parkman) for the A2/A282 junction improvement …

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Sep 27 2007

Asite stops the rot

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
27 September 2007

After three years of gradually dwindling turnover, UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor Asite looks like it has started to reverse the decline, mainly due to healthy revenues earned in the Middle East. Today’s Stock Exchange announcement of its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2007 show gross revenues up 19% to £0.854m (from …

4Projects, Aconex, AEC, Asite, BIW Technologies, Cadweb, collaboration, Construction, extranet, NCCTP, Sarcophagus, UAE, UK
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Sep 20 2007

NCCTP at Constructing Excellence members’ convention

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Marketing, Vendors
20 September 2007

The NCCTP was introduced as the latest membership forum within Constructing Excellence at yesterday’s Members’ Convention in London (see post), and half the NCCTP members were represented by staff at the event (4Projects, Aconex [no fewer than five of their people!], Asite and BIW). I also had a long chat with Karl Williams of the …

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Sep 14 2007

NCCTP now part of Constructing Excellence

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
14 September 2007

The UK-based ‘extranet’ vendors trade association, the Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP), is now a membership forum within Constructing Excellence, the only UK membership organisation bringing together businesses from every part of the AEC supply chain (see press release). The first major sign of the new arrangement has been the publication of a 20-page …

AEC, Building magazine, CIRIA, Constructing Excellence, NCCTP, UK
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Sep 14 2007

Aconex 2006 results

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
14 September 2007

Having looked at the financial results of most of the major UK construction collaboration (extranet) vendors over the past few months (for example, Business Collaborator yesterday, StoreData earlier in the month), I realised that I hadn’t really examined Aconex in any detail. Although active in the UK and a member of the NCCTP, Aconex is an …

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Sep 11 2007

CAD Awards 2007

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Marketing
11 September 2007

Just over a week after the Construction Computing awards (see post) are announced, I read that the CAD awards 2007 – predictably abbreviated to the Caddies – are to be presented on 29 November.

awards, CAD, Construction Computing

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Sep 07 2007

More SaaS stuff

By Paul Wilkinson in Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
7 September 2007

Further to yesterday’s posting (and also my 16 July note), ASPnews.com has published two further articles from Julie Craig in its series on software-as-a-service (SaaS): The SaaS Steamroller (14 August) underlines the challenges traditional software vendors face if looking to re-engineer their businesses to become SaaS providers, while Weighing the Pros and Cons of SaaS …

ASPnews.com, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service

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Aug 24 2007

Rows over Wikipedia edits

By Paul Wilkinson in Internet, Marketing, People issues
24 August 2007

The media is full of reports about abuse of Wikepedia by organisations wanting to promote their own cause or that of their clients. For instance, the BBC reports that the office of the Australian prime minister John Howard has been identified as the source of damaging or potentially misleading edits to Wikepedia (two days running I get to write about …

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Aug 23 2007

SaaS advice from the experts

By Paul Wilkinson in Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, SaaS
23 August 2007

Only yesterday I was discussing the pros and cons of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with a construction journalist. I referred her to some material I had written in the past, and a couple of recent articles on the topic. Today, I found another good generic piece on ASPnews.com. SaaS Advice from the Experts stresses that customers cannot …

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Aug 21 2007

ConstructHub

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
21 August 2007

From the European side of the Atlantic, the US market appears able to sustain numerous companies offering various different flavours of AEC-specific document management and online collaboration. Thanks to AECcafe.com, I have just added another Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider to my list: ConstructHub. Based in Tempe, Arizona and formed, it says, by a group of experienced …