Category: People issues

Oct 18 2007

Synchro secures funding

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, People issues
18 October 2007

Following on from my Bricsnet post about fundraising, I see that former Asite CEO Tom Dengenis is in the news again, as CEO of Synchro Ltd, which has just raised £1.2m in a fundraising round led by Catapult Venture Managers.

AEC, Synchro, Tom Dengenis, UK

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Oct 12 2007

Email or extranet?

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
12 October 2007

Despite the protestations of some Crackberry addicts who can’t leave their email alone, extranets are a far better way for people to collaborate on documents online. Rick Mosenkis of Trichys Workzone clearly shares the same view: read his The Email Alternative: Using An Extranet For Online Document Sharing. (I especially liked his point: “With an …

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Oct 04 2007

IT and sustainable construction – 2

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, Internet, People issues, Sustainability
4 October 2007

While I was writing yesterday’s post, an email discussion about the Draft Strategy had begun among Constructing Excellence ‘s Collaborative Working Champions (of which I am one of the latest tranche). I volunteered to start work on a paper to form part of a collective response to the consultation document (we have until 30 November …

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2007/10/it-and-sustai-2/

Sep 24 2007

NEC case study in “Building”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Legal, People issues, Vendors
24 September 2007

Last week I mentioned the NCCTP supplement to Building magazine (published Friday 14 September). After a slight delay due to technical problems, the whole supplement is now viewable online. I noticed a small coincidence between the supplement and the main magazine. The latter included a lengthy piece by Davis Langdon‘s Simon Rawlinson: “Procurement – Target …

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Sep 17 2007

Novedge interview

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Books, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, People issues
17 September 2007

I was flattered last week to be interviewed by Franco Folini of the Novedge blog, keen to know my thoughts about how construction collaboration technologies might be employed on AEC projects in the future and examine some of the issues affecting adoption. The finished interview is now online here.

collaboration, Construction, extranets, Franco Folini, Novedge

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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 06 2007

SaaS: the business solution

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS
6 September 2007

I have been reviewing quite a lot of material recently regarding Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): First, the pros and cons of SaaS as it applies in the construction collaboration market have been debated by NCCTP members for an article to be published in a supplement to UK trade magazine “Building” next week. Second, I received an email …

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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 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 …