Having looked at the financial results of most of the major UK construction collaboration (extranet) vendors over the past few months (for example, Business Collaborator yesterday, StoreData earlier in the month), I realised that I hadn’t really examined Aconex in any detail. Although active in the UK and a member of the NCCTP, Aconex is an …
Category: SaaS
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Sep 07 2007
More SaaS stuff
Further to yesterday’s posting (and also my 16 July note), ASPnews.com has published two further articles from Julie Craig in its series on software-as-a-service (SaaS): The SaaS Steamroller (14 August) underlines the challenges traditional software vendors face if looking to re-engineer their businesses to become SaaS providers, while Weighing the Pros and Cons of SaaS …
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Sep 06 2007
SaaS: the business solution
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 23 2007
SaaS advice from the experts
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 22 2007
Aconex in Australia shares court row
The tranquil world of online construction collaboration is not normally rocked by claims of political or financial feuds, but Aconex has unfortunately got caught up in an Australian court wrangle which features two well-known state politicians. Background Aconex was founded by Leigh Jasper (son of National Party MP Ken Jasper) and Rob Phillpot, with initial financial backing …
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Aug 21 2007
ConstructHub
From the European side of the Atlantic, the US market appears able to sustain numerous companies offering various different flavours of AEC-specific document management and online collaboration. Thanks to AECcafe.com, I have just added another Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider to my list: ConstructHub. Based in Tempe, Arizona and formed, it says, by a group of experienced …
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Aug 16 2007
Data Builder
On holiday last month, I read the excellent Bill Bryson book, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, about Bryson’s boyhood years growing up in Des Moines, Iowa. Today, thanks to a comment from American Reader on a recent EE post, I had a look at the website of US document management software vendor …
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Aug 10 2007
The Road to SaaS
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 …
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Aug 06 2007
Valuing a SaaS business
Last week, I briefly speculated on how you value an IT business, skimming across several alternative approaches before focusing on the ‘precedent’ approach in the context of UK construction collaboration software vendor 4Projects’ MBO. I did suggest being a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business might improve its valuation, but I didn’t know by how much. Over the weekend, however, …
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Aug 03 2007
More on the 4Ps MBO
This week’s management buy-out of 4Projects was reported in north-east England newspaper The Journal this week. The 1 August report, Wear IT specialist out to double its revenue, adds little to the news releases on 4Projects‘ and August Equity‘s websites, though it does revise last year’s turnover figure downwards by £200k to £3.2m from that previously reported in …
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