Category: People issues

Dec 02 2009

Asite keeps its community updated

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
2 December 2009

As a web 2.0 enthusiast, it’s good to see UK construction technology vendor Asite using its community forum to talk to users about its plans, and Tweeting about them (see post). Through Twitter, I saw a link to an update posted by Nathan Doughty, Asite’s CTO, in which he updates Asite users about forthcoming developments …

Aconex, API, Appbuilder, Asite, community forum, Construction, CTO, iPhone, LinkedIn, Nathan Doughty, OJEU, portlets, Product Library, Rob Phillpot, RSS, tender opportunities, Twitter, Web 2.0, wikis

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Dec 01 2009

Sage North America embraces project life-cycle management with BIW

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
1 December 2009

Yesterday UK collaboration technology vendor BIW Technologies* announced that it had created a hosting infrastructure to support its clients in North America – a network that it expects to grow through a partnership with Sage Construction and Real Estate (Sage CRE). This BIW announcement has been forthcoming for a while, since it is exactly two …

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/12/sage-north-america-embraces-project-life-cycle-management-with-biw/

Nov 30 2009

An open letter to the new Chief Construction Adviser

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
30 November 2009

[This is a re-post of an article from my pwcom blog, published 27 November 2009. Update (04 December): I added a post-script to the original post – read the response received back from Paul Morrell.] First mooted in July 2008, the appointment of the UK government’s first Chief Construction Advisor was finally announced this week. …

Accelerating Change, Avanti protocol, BIM, blog, Building magazine, Business and Enterprise Committee, Cabinet Office, chief construction advisor, Chief Construction Officer, co-location, common logistics, Constructing Excellence, Constructing Matters, Construction Commitments, construction czar, Construction Innovation and Growth team, Davis Langdon, Future Generation of IT, Gershon Efficiency Programme, Greening Government ICT, ICT, ICT and Automation, innovation, inter-operability, low carbon policy, National Platform for the Built Environment, Operational Efficiency Programme, paperwork, Paul Morrell, project extranets, pwcom, quantity surveyor, ROI, SCRI, Sir John Egan, Strategic Research Agenda, Strategy for Sustainable Construction, tendering, Thin client, UK

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/11/an-open-letter-to-the-new-chief-construction-adviser/

Nov 30 2009

Rob Phillpot on Aconex, APIs and acquisitions

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
30 November 2009

Following my recent posts on Aconex‘s API announcement and its 2009 financial results, I spent 40 minutes quizzing Rob Phillpot, company co-founder and General Manager, Product, about planned developments of the Aconex construction collaboration system. It was a fascinating insight into the thinking behind the world’s most widely used SaaS collaboration platform. I was particularly …

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/11/rob-phillpot-on-aconex-apis-and-acquisitions/

Nov 26 2009

More on the former Bricsnet CEO embezzlement

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Legal, People issues
26 November 2009

Further to my post about the Jinian wire fraud indictment, I’ve just received an email from Cristina Niculescu, head of Bricsnet’s collaboration tool ProjectCenter in Europe, who “to avoid speculation and hear-say rumours” thought it would be useful to put Bricsnet’s position on the subject and the effects it has had on Bricsnet as a …

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Nov 24 2009

Former Bricsnet CEO indicted on embezzlement charges

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Legal, People issues
24 November 2009

Just over two years ago, I wrote about the latest $13 million fund-raising round by US-based AEC and property solutions vendor Bricsnet. Following a news item on AECcafe.com, I see that Ethan Farid Jinian, the CEO of Bricsnet at the time of that investment, has just been indicted on charges of embezzling $1 million. The …

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Nov 20 2009

The conject interview

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
20 November 2009

Having recently received a comment from Chris Brandt, CTO at conject, I thought it was high time that I took a more detailed look at this construction and real estate collaboration vendor. Based in Munich, Germany, but with operations across most of Europe, conject has gradually been expanding its international reach beyond Europe. It has …

4Projects, Aconex, acquisitions, Africa, application service provision, Asia, ASP, Bilfinger Berger, BIM, BIW, BMW, Boston, building information modelling, Business Collaborator, CAFM, cash-flow planning, Chris Brandt, Citadon, client/server, collaboration, Conject, conversion, Deutsche Bank, dot.com bubble, Dubai, Elke Tonscheidt, fat client, France, Germany, heating, Hochtief, Hugo Boss, IKEA, ILM, infrastructure lifecycle management, lifecycle, Lufthansa, Luxembourg, maintenance, multi-tenant, Munich, pre-tax profit margin, profit, real estate, SaaS, Siemens Real Estate, Singapore, South Africa, Sword CTSpace, T-Mobile, ThyssenKrupp, turnover, UK, USA
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Nov 17 2009

“A tough year for BIW”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Legal, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
17 November 2009

Duncan Mactear of 4Projects has forwarded me an article about [my former employer] BIW Technologies, published recently to subscribers to Megabuyte.com (an “invaluable source of market intelligence for IT companies, their advisers and investors providing in-depth coverage of the corporate and financial affairs of all of the UK’s leading listed and privately owned software & …

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Nov 09 2009

WorkCast tie-up with 4Projects?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Functionality, People issues, Vendors
9 November 2009

According to a report in local newspapers in north-east England, a Durham-based webcasting firm, WorkCast, has “received £850,000 of investment to develop software it believes will become the future of video conferencing”. What attracted me to this news story was that 10-strong Leighton Group subsidiary WorkCast is headed by Gerard Callaghan, ex-sales director at construction …

4Projects, construction collaboration technology, Durham, Gerard Callaghan, Leighton Group, webcasting, WorkCast

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/11/workcast-tie-up-with-4projects/

Nov 02 2009

Howdy, Howzee

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
2 November 2009

At Be2camp@WorkingBuildings last month, I met Tuomas Saarelainen who told me to have a look at his Helsinki, Finland-based company Mobimus and its service howzee.info – which I have just done. It is an intriguing concept, but currently only sketchily described (and with no website screenshots to give some idea of what the service looks …