Category: SaaS

Jan 02 2008

Reviewing 2007

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
2 January 2008

Last year, I made five ‘Extranet Evolution’ 2007 predictions. Were they correct? 1. Growing acceptance and use of web-based collaboration tools within the UK construction industry It was something of a no-brainer. The continued revenue growth trends of the leading UK-based vendors shows there is a strong appetite for the applications. I was also encouraged by the …

4Projects, BIM, BIW, collaboration, Constructing Excellence, Construction, CTSpace, mobile, MPS, NCCTP, Predictions, SaaS
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Jan 02 2008

More on Sword

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
2 January 2008

After a blogging break over Christmas and New Year, I have started 2008 with another quick look at the Sword Group – which announced it had acquired construction collaboration technology vendor CTSpace on 21 December (see previous post). Reviewing the Sword Group’s offerings, it seems CTSpace will augment the parent’s existing enterprise content management (ECM) or document …

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Dec 23 2007

CTSpace put to the Sword

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
23 December 2007

Just 53 weeks after its last major ownership change, SaaS construction collabaration technology vendor CTSpace (the result of a merger between UK-based BuildOnline and US-based Citadon) has been acquired by the international Sword group of IT companies (as far as I can tell, no value for the transaction has been given). The news came in a …

4Projects, BIW, BuildOnline, Carillion, Cimage, Citadon, construction collabaration technology, CTSpace, ECM, Heath Davies, Howard Koenig, Jacques Mottard, MASS Systems, PIMS, Royal Opera House, SaaS, Schal, Sword group, Tarmac Professional Services, TPS
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Dec 13 2007

Collaboration: standards, viewing, plus industry education

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Legal, People issues, SaaS
13 December 2007

Lachmi Khemlani, founder and editor of AECbytes, recently attended an AIA conference in the US, and her latest AECbytes newsletter describes some interesting sessions, including ones on business processes, automated code checking, digital project workflows and cooperative design. To give you a flavour, I’ve picked out a couple of items. Business processes The business process …

AECbytes, AIA, ASP, Cannon Design, Constructware, Crate & Barrel, eBuilder, Integrated Project Delivery, interoperability, Lachmi Khemlani, Meridian, NCCTP, Primavera, SaaS
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Dec 12 2007

Aconex results hit by legal row

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Legal, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
12 December 2007

Some three months ago, I had a look at the 2006 financial results for Australia-based construction collaboration vendor Aconex, noting that its 2007 results would be available in November (as per Aconex marketing chief Frank Carron’s comment). After a slight delay (auditors requested an extension of time as some areas required additional testing), the latest …

Aconex, ASIC, Australia, collaboration, Construction, court case, Hawthorn Glen, legal dispute, UK
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Dec 07 2007

SaaS growth in Asia

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
7 December 2007

Three months ago, I wrote about Springboard Research findings regarding the state of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market in Australia and New Zealand. Today, I received an email from Springboard’s Bhoorender Panwar attaching a press release headed: SaaS CRM Market in Asia Estimated to Grow 68% in 2007. Springboard estimates that the SaaS CRM market will grow …

Asia, collaboration, CRM, SaaS, Springboard Research

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Dec 06 2007

EADOC

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
6 December 2007

My 30 July 2007 post on e-Builder has prompted a comment regarding a relative newcomer to the US construction collaboration market: Oakland, California-based EADOC. The website is a bit sparse on detail about the company and its founders (a press release – in fact, the only press release – says entrepreneurs Eric Law and Arnout van …

Autodesk, Baan, construction collaboration, Cordys, e-Builder, EADOC, Prolog, US
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Dec 05 2007

Share and share alike

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
5 December 2007

Jerry Laiserin ‘s latest AEC Insight column at Cadalyst usefully segments the US market for online plan rooms and what he calls project collaboration networks (PCNs) – ie: construction collaboration technologies as they are described in the UK – as in NCCTP, for example. In Share and share alike (which, in passing, rightly describes the …

4Projects, Adobe, Asite, Attolist, BIM, BIW Technologies, Buzzsaw, Cadalyst, Causeway Technologies, Constructing Excellence, construction collaboration technologies, Constructware, CTSpace, e-Builder, Expesite, extranet, FTP, Jerry Laiserin, NCCTP, Newforma, online plan room, PCN, ProjectWise, SharePoint, US, WebArchives

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Dec 03 2007

Google to target collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
3 December 2007

Over two years ago, I first wrote about the JotSpot collaboration tool; 13 months ago, I noted that JotSpot had been acquired by Google. Today, via TechCrunch‘s Michael Arrington, I have been reading about Google’s 2008 plans for Google apps, and it appears Google is planning to deliver collaboration tools based on the JotSpot technologies that “will …

Google, Google Sites, JotSpot, TechCrunch, wiki
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Nov 12 2007

4projects boosts profits

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, SaaS, Vendors
12 November 2007

UK construction collaboration vendor 4Projects has lodged its annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2007 with Companies House (the figures were also reported by UK trade newspaper Contract Journal). The results relate to the last full financial year before the management buyout of 4Projects Holdings Ltd (see MBO at 4Projects) in July. …