Category: SaaS

Aug 02 2007

MBO at 4Projects (3)

So how much did the August-backed management team at 4Projects pay for the business (see previous post)? No figure was quoted in the release, and there are no hard and fast rules that we can apply. Business valuation is something of a mixture of art and science, with several ways to estimate a fair price. …

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Jul 31 2007

MBO at 4Projects

There has been a momentous announcement from UK construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects today: 4Projects Holdings Ltd has been bought by its management team, led by MD Richard Vertigan and finance director Steve Nelson, with the support of a private equity firm, August Equity LLP. 4Projects was previously a subsidiary of the Leighton media group, …

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Jul 20 2007

More on email (and Newforma)

I am a keen reader of Lachmi Khemlani’s AECbytes newsletter, particularly for the insights into what is going on in the USA, and the latest issue is a good example. Lachmi writes about attending ZweigWhite’s AEC Technologies Strategies conference, held in Las Vegas on 7-8 June. As well as some interesting case studies on building …

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Jul 20 2007

From SaaS to PaaS

Courtesy of Computer Business Review Online (also ASPnews.com), I read that on-demand vendor Salesforce.com‘s latest release will see its business platform evolve from software-as-a-service to platform-as-a-service, a step that will apparently “antagonize and incentivize big league players Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle”. ASPnews.com also reports – see Software Plus Services Spurs Rapid Growth at Microsoft – that Microsoft is …

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Jul 16 2007

Some Saas background

I occasionally get asked: “where can I read up on Software-as-a-Service?” One place to start is ASPnews.com, which last week had a good background article SaaS: An Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come … Again.

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Jul 11 2007

Autodesk Buzzsaw adoption

A news release from Autodesk gives some clues about the scale of adoption of its Buzzsaw construction collaboration application. The release reports “a powerful but steady growth in European sales”, with Autodesk’s Mark Ellis adding: “We had been experiencing an average of two new customers a week for the past nine months, but more recently …

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Jul 05 2007

ShareWorkz: intranet and extranet collaboration

I, and several of my colleagues, have received emails from Microsoft VAR ICS Solutions about ShareWorkz, described as “a functionally rich, best practice intranet and extranet collaboration platform, based on Microsoft SharePoint technology, that enables you to build a collaboration solution in less than one hour”. While it describes itself as “a world first”, I guess …

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Jun 12 2007

Une étude intéressante… (deux)

Since last week’s post regarding the French market for construction collaboration technology, I have had some interesting background from Emmanuel Netter (of Prosys – one of France’s leading Software-as-a-Service vendors) regarding the country’s main vendors, including our friends at BuildOnline. Market beginnings Apparently, collaboration products for the construction market have a slightly different history in …

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May 17 2007

UK vendor trends

This blog has reported several times on the financial performance of the main UK vendors of construction collaboration technologies (aka ‘extranets’). In light of recent results, I thought I would provide a quick graphical update/overview of the performance of the main UK vendors (those for whom I have some financial information) over the past four years. …

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May 04 2007

Asite Secure Invoicing

UK collaboration vendor Asite has released another application to support online trading (see news release). Asite Secure Invoicing (ASI) is an e-invoicing solution that reduces the time and cost of processing invoices by at least 60%, Asite says. This adds a further product to its portfolio, which is now spread over three areas: collaboration, sourcing …

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