London-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor Asite is starting up an operation in South Africa. A news release says it is launching the new business on 6 November at a capital projects seminar organised by hosting partner Dimension Data at its Bryanston office north of Johannesburg. Ian Saunders, previously at EasyBuild but now MD of Asite …
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Oct 09 2014
A BIM boom for SaaS collaboration vendors?
Will there be a BIM benefit for the SaaS collaboration vendors? Yes, but it will happen gradually both in the UK and internationally, and then grow bigger as more owners require ILM services. Within UK construction IT, building information modelling (BIM) is the hot topic. Even construction software businesses that previously thought it was irrelevant (I’ve …
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Sep 03 2014
New Aconex SVP EMEA
Melbourne, Australia-based international SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex has appointed a senior vice president with responsibility for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Global Accounts (see news release). Reporting to Aconex CEO Leigh Jasper, Henry Jones has 20 years of experience in management, sales, marketing, and business development, gained most recently at legal services provider Axiom Global. Prior …
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Aug 29 2014
Webforum enters UK AEC market
Webforum’s characteristic clean Swedish design interfaces to rich functionality that may interest larger SMEs managing staff across multiple projects. At a COMIT (Construction Opportunities for Mobile IT) community day earlier this summer, I met Colin Payne of Sweden’s Webforum and we subsequently met up so that he could show me the company’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. While it is not a construction-focused collaboration …
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Aug 27 2014
Five problems with SaaS construction collaboration?
London-based Quality in Construction blogger Paul Inglesis has written a post entitled “5 Problems With Online Collaboration and Document Management Tools in Construction Industry” (19 August) which is worth a read. The article (which mentions this blog) suggests some major obstacles that are “holding the market back”. Drawing on his contractor experiences working on projects in Greece, Qatar …
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Aug 22 2014
Asite adds US reseller
London, UK-based SaaS construction collaboration provider Asite has a new US reseller of its Adoddle platform: Microsol Resources, which has offices in New York, Boston and Philadelphia and is an Autodesk Platinum Partner. Emilio Krausz, president of Microsol Resources, says: “We are thrilled to be able to partner with Asite to provide our customers with …
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Aug 04 2014
Cadweb goes bust
A clutch of broken link alerts, a website now longer accessible, emails bouncing…. It seems that west London, UK-based construction collaboration technology provider, Cadweb, has ceased trading, weeks after UK rival Woobius did the same. Cadweb crash Formed in 1995, Cadweb launched its first commercial product in 1998 (I wrote an IT Best Practice Programme …
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Aug 01 2014
Avollio targets property asset managers
Elegantly designed to be easily intuitive to use, Avollio describes itself as an online property asset management and collaboration platform. It provides tools to: share, manage and improve properties to manage tenants, rentals and leased assets and coordinate building projects, and to collaborate with clients, colleagues, suppliers and contractors. In short, Avollio, created by a southwest …
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Jul 22 2014
New chairman at Aconex
Aconex, the Melbourne, Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration technology provider, has appointed a new chairman. Simon Yencken, who succeeded the then embattled Martin Hosking in June 2011, has stepped down (but will remain a director) and Adam Lewis (right), a non-executive director since November 2011, is the new chairman. Today’s boardroom reshuffle announcement has also seen Keith Geeslin, a …
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Jul 22 2014
Help Brok with some BIM quotes …
I have a BuildingSMART contact, Brok Howard (he’s @Brokhoward on Twitter), at HOK in the USA, who was looking for some designers’ views on how the UK AEC sector is moving from paper to full digital model delivery. He asked me about views expressed by speakers at recent conferences (for example, I attended ThinkBIM in …
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