Category: SaaS

May 04 2007

McKinsey says buy SaaS

By Paul Wilkinson in Internet, Marketing, SaaS
4 May 2007

In McKinsey says buy SaaS, Phil Wainewright summarises some research from McKinsey consultants (Time for the IT Industry to Take Notice) that presents some compelling economic arguments in favour of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): “they say that SaaS has less financial risk for buyers, is cheaper to use and yet just as profitable for vendors.” The last …

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Apr 24 2007

Seeing red

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, People issues, SaaS
24 April 2007

A recent Cadalyst article, Reviews Have Architects Seeing Red by Scott Mackenzie, talks about ‘CAD-less’ marking-up of drawings. He writes: “Over the past several years, I have not seen a whole lot of electronic redlining going on,” before explaining: “The older generation of architects and engineers can be indifferent, hesitant or intimidated by the whole …

Adobe, AEC, architect, Autodesk, AutoVue, Bluebeam, Brava!, CADwizz, Cimmetry, drawing, DWF, DWGSee, Freewheel, mark-up, PDF, red-lining, Scott Mackenzie, viewer, Vista
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Apr 11 2007

Cadweb misclaims ISO leadership

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, SaaS, Vendors
11 April 2007

UK extranet provider Cadweb says it “is the first Project Extranet to be certified to the new International Standard ISO/IEC 27001″. Its news release also says that it is “the only Project Extranet to be certified to this standard”. Wrong on both counts, Cadweb, and by over a year. ISO/IEC 27001 concerns information security management …

AEC, Attenda, BIW, BS7799, Cadweb, construction collaboration technology, extranet, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO17799, UK

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Apr 10 2007

From SaaS to ‘Webware’ (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
10 April 2007

Since my pre-Easter post regarding Phil Wainewright’s suggestion to rename Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ‘Webware’, he says there has been some further debate, and he has started a poll. At 4pm GMT today, 69 votes had been cast and the leader was ‘webware’, gathering as much votes as ‘SaaS’ and ‘On-demand’ combined. (PS: If you are a …

ASPnews.com, on-demand, Phil Wainewright, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Webware

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Apr 10 2007

Salesforce.com acquires Koral

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
10 April 2007

In November and December 2006, I was talking about Koral, a content collaboration business set up by Mark Suster (former CEO of UK construction collaboration technology vendor BuildOnline) and two BO colleagues. Today, the Koral blog says Koral has been acquired by Salesforce.com – adding: “Our entire [nine-strong] team has joined salesforce.com to lead the content management …

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Mar 30 2007

Asite BIM

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
30 March 2007

Software news in the latest issue of UK construction industry magazine, Building, talks about Asite BIM, suggesting that the UK project collaboration vendor is “about to shake up the world of online collaboration again with the launch of an online single building model”. “Users will be able to collaborate on the design of the …

AEC, Asite, BIM, building information modelling, Octaga AS, Octaga Modeller, UK, viewer
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Mar 29 2007

Brava! woes at 4Projects?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
29 March 2007

Industry sources tell me that UK construction collaboration vendor 4Projects has been having major problems with its third-party drawing viewer application (Brava! from Informative Graphics). I have been emailed several bulletins from 4Projects’ status ticker, spread over a three-day period up to and including this morning: Updated 29/03/2007 10:02:30 – We are still experiencing problems with …

4Projects, AEC, Brava!, collaboration, Construction, extranet, Informative Graphics, viewer
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Mar 29 2007

From SaaS to ‘Webware’

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
29 March 2007

Following on from my previous post (about defining BIM), my favourite Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) blogger, Phil Wainewright has identified a new alternative term for SaaS. In So long SaaS, welcome webware, Phil also links to a new Webware website, and, as “SaaS is a throwback to the past”, gives the older term “a couple years at most”. One slight complication is …

on-demand, Phil Wainewright, SaaS, Webware

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Mar 26 2007

Wikis and AEC collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, ROI/benefits, SaaS
26 March 2007

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the starting point of a contributed article to AECbytes.com. In Enterprise Wiki: An Emerging Technology to be Considered by the AEC Industry, Ondrej Kalny likens the information-sharing approach of BIM to the wider need for collaboration within a typical AEC project team, using a ‘hub and spokes’ diagram that will …

AEC, BIW, collaboration, Construction, extranet, Feilden Clegg Bradley, intranet, knowledge management, Ondrej Kalny, wiki
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Mar 14 2007

SaaS boom to continue

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
14 March 2007

“According to Gartner, the market for SaaS applications grew by 26 percent last year, from $5 billion in 2005 to $6.3 billion in 2006. The consulting firm expects demand for SaaS to continue growing at a 25 percent compound annual rate over the next five years, to $19.3 billion by 2011. Most of those …