Feb 15 2013
Kykloud is making inroads to the mobile surveying market thanks to its scalable enterprise-strength cloud-based software architecture and a highly useable mobile interface. I met up with Ed Bartlett, co-founder of integrated surveying and asset management software vendor Kykloud, in London earlier this week, just over a year after he and Nick Graham first demonstrated the …
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Feb 07 2013
Having had a couple of days to research and reflect on yesterdays’s announcement of Viewpoint’s acquisition of 4Projects (post) and to discuss it with industry friends, I thought I’d try to sum up a few strands. Deal background While Viewpoint CEO Jay Haladay was somewhat coy about the the funding and terms of the deal …
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Feb 06 2013
Sunderland, UK-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects has been acquired (for an undisclosed amount) by Portland, Oregon-based financial systems vendor Viewpoint Construction Software. Almost exactly a year after I talked to Viewpoint executives about their aspirations for the US enterprise resource planning software company (see ERP vendor Viewpoint viewing collaboration space), the 4Projects acquisition was announced to …
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Jan 31 2013
Earlier this week, I spent some time talking to Gerry Gerber, CEO of Dallas, Texas-based GerberSoftwareProducts LLC, about his Software-as-a-Service MOBILT application. Gerry spent almost 40 years in the home improvement market (or as my US friends say: “remodeling”), and has applied that experience in recent years to creating a low-cost, simple-to-use, web-based service to support …
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Jan 30 2013
On my PR and marketing blog in November, I wrote about Specified.by, a forthcoming web-based service for individuals and companies involved in the specification of materials and products used in the construction of buildings. SpecifiedBy is a venture by Edinburgh-based theCADcube and I asked director and founder Darren Lester (below right) about the service ahead of its UK launch, expected …
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Jan 23 2013
Conject did lose ground to 4Projects in the UK in a “flat” 2011, Conject group CEO Colin Smith admitted to me on Friday, but the firm is now more competitive, he said, having just enjoyed a “monster December” to round off 2012. This admission followed my blog posts about its UK performance and that of …
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Jan 22 2013
The latest annual report from the London-based SaaS construction collaboration vendor Asite shows revenues grew almost 10% in the year to 30 June 2012, while the company remained profitable for a third consecutive year. Its latest report and accounts (PDF), plus a blog post from CEO Tony Ryan, say revenue increased by 9.6% to £3.193m (2011: …
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Jan 12 2013
According to its 2011 annual report and accounts, Conject Ltd (the UK-based SaaS collaboration and project control vendor formerly known as BIW Technologies) found 2011 “challenging.” Its report, filed at Companies House in October 2012, echoes almost word for word what it said in 2010, saying: “The continuing global economic malaise severely impacted funding for …
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Jan 10 2013
A research project to coordinate construction in the cloud using building information modelling (BIM) includes Sunderland-based SaaS collaboration vendor 4Projects. The project is among 13 winners sharing in £5 million of grant funding from the Technology Strategy Board, reports Building4Change. The Clouds4Coordination (C4C) project, which is led by BRE, will demonstrate how a multi-vendor cloud computing system …
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Nov 30 2012
Aconex reports growing revenues and reduced losses for year to June 2012. The annual report and accounts (for the year ending 30 June 2012) from Melbourne, Australia-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex have been published – albeit with what I have begun to regard as the quadruple-A: the “Annual Aconex Accounts Adjustment.” The headline figures show …
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