Category: Marketing

Aug 10 2007

The Road to SaaS

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS
10 August 2007

ASPnews.com has an excellent article, The Road to SaaS: 10 tips for a successful transition, by Luis Rivera, which is aimed at the managers of software companies that might be contemplating a move to Software-as-a-Service. It highlights some of the pivotal differences between the on-premise and hosted models, and the changes – from technological through …

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Aug 02 2007

MBO at 4Projects (3)

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

So how much did the August-backed management team at 4Projects pay for the business (see previous post)? No figure was quoted in the release, and there are no hard and fast rules that we can apply. Business valuation is something of a mixture of art and science, with several ways to estimate a fair price. …

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Jul 30 2007

e-Builder makes its “major announcement”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Vendors
30 July 2007

I wrote last month about US construction collaboration vendor e-Builder and its impending major announcement. I waited well into July to see what this would be, but nothing appeared on the e-Builder website until just over a week ago when a release finally appeared, backdated to 29 June. e-Builder announced “the launch of e-Builder Enterprise 6.0, …

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Jul 30 2007

Emap Construct titles to move?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
30 July 2007

Like some of my counterparts at rival UK construction collaboration vendors, I have enjoyed working with one-time marketing director (now strategy and development director) Ross Sturley and his colleagues at Emap Construct, publisher of trade papers Construction News, New Civil Engineer and Architects’ Journal (among others) and past organiser of ‘project extranet’ conferences. I was …

AEC, AJ, Construction News, Emap, NCE, Project Extranet, UK

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Jul 20 2007

More on email (and Newforma)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
20 July 2007

I am a keen reader of Lachmi Khemlani’s AECbytes newsletter, particularly for the insights into what is going on in the USA, and the latest issue is a good example. Lachmi writes about attending ZweigWhite’s AEC Technologies Strategies conference, held in Las Vegas on 7-8 June. As well as some interesting case studies on building …

AEC, AECbytes, BIM, BIW, Buzzsaw, Documentum, email, Eppstein, Lachmi Khemlani, MessageSave, Microsoft, Newforma, Outlook, Primavera, SharePoint, Uhen, Union Square
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Jul 11 2007

Autodesk Buzzsaw adoption

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
11 July 2007

A news release from Autodesk gives some clues about the scale of adoption of its Buzzsaw construction collaboration application. The release reports “a powerful but steady growth in European sales”, with Autodesk’s Mark Ellis adding: “We had been experiencing an average of two new customers a week for the past nine months, but more recently …

AEC, Autodesk, Barking Riverside, BIW, Bristol City Council, Buzzsaw, collaboration, Construction, extranet, Gleeson Building, Mark Ellis, NCCTP, statistics

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Jul 05 2007

ShareWorkz: intranet and extranet collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
5 July 2007

I, and several of my colleagues, have received emails from Microsoft VAR ICS Solutions about ShareWorkz, described as “a functionally rich, best practice intranet and extranet collaboration platform, based on Microsoft SharePoint technology, that enables you to build a collaboration solution in less than one hour”. While it describes itself as “a world first”, I guess …

AEC, collaboration, extranet, ICS Solutions, Microsoft, on-demand, SaaS, SharePoint, ShareWorkz, UK
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Jul 02 2007

“Entry-level” collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
2 July 2007

Just over a week after the previous one (see post), a second news release has appeared on Asite‘s website telling how a further customer has opted for its low-cost Asite Workspace solution, launched late last year. Engineering and environmental consultancy Wardell Armstrong LLP has become the latest to select Asite Workspace, using the tool for …

AEC, Asite, collaboration, extranet, intranet, UK, Workspace
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Jun 28 2007

Construction Computing Show 2007

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Marketing
28 June 2007

The Construction Computing Show 2007 in November will be co-located at the Emirates Stadium, London with Building Computing 2007, an event targeted at “architects and building professionals planning and designing buildings, new and refurbished, with a view to [their] operating IT requirements”. This would seem a sensible step, opening up the event to a wider …

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Jun 15 2007

Email compliance

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Legal, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
15 June 2007

According to a news release on BuildingTalk.com, Union Square Software has launched a Seven Step Guide to email compliance for the construction industry. With email now, it says, “the de facto standard for communication within the construction supply chain”, management and retention of contractually important email is becoming a crucial IT issue. Union Square argues, with some …