Category: SaaS

Jan 24 2007

BT Workspace

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
24 January 2007

Almost unnoticed, UK telecoms provider BT has recently launched a web-based service, BT Workspace, aimed at helping people in small to medium-sized enterprises share information and collaborate with each other. It talks about getting rid of email clutter, and managing and controlling projects via extranet functionality, with intranet functionality also available for internal company dicussions …

AEC, BT, BT Workspace, collaboration, extranet, Microsoft, Office Live, on-demand, SaaS, SME, Software-as-a-Service, UK, Workspace
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Jan 22 2007

De Kieviet’s Gambit – more CTSpace ‘spin’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, SaaS, Vendors
22 January 2007

The latest spin on CTSpace comes in a one-page ‘Company focus’ feature in UK trade weekly Building (see PDF on CTSpace’s website). At first glance, the article, written by Mark Leftly, makes CTSpace seem a very credible venture, but I think there are some very debatable assertions. I was puzzled by the claim that the merger …

Aconex, acquisition, AEC, Autodesk, BIW, Building magazine, BuildOnline, Buzzsaw, Citadon, Constructware, CTSpace, Gert-Jan de Kieviet, merger, UK, US
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Jan 18 2007

On-demand/SaaS “set to take off in 2007”

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, SaaS
18 January 2007

Like several other analysts (see my Predictions post), Jeff Kaplan, of THINKStrategies, is also predicting a good year for on-demand services in 2007. In a recent Network World column, he draws on a recent survey of 550 IT professionals and business executives which “found that about 40% use one or more managed services, and nearly 95% …

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2007/01/ondemandsaas_se/

Jan 12 2007

Collaborative BIM – wow! or what?!

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
12 January 2007

After my ‘extranet’ predictions post earlier this week, I had a think about Asite‘s Collaborative BIM product, and whether the industry is yet ready for such a thing. Regular readers may recall (see my 10 October 2006 post) that Asite first announced its ‘forthcoming’ collaborative BIM product at a London conference on 4 October. Just over a fortnight …

AEC, Asite, BIM, BuildingSMART, Collaborative BIM, IAI, UK, US
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Jan 09 2007

‘Extranet Evolution’ 2007 predictions

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, SaaS
9 January 2007

New Year is traditionally a time for looking back at the significant developments of the year just gone and for looking forward at what may happen in the coming year. For example, there was a lot of activity in the latter respect regarding Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). SaaS analyst Phil Wainewright wrote a series of three SaaS in 2007 …

acquisition, AEC, BIM, business processes, construction collaboration, extranet, merger, mobile working, on-demand, polarisation, rationalisation, SaaS, UK
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Jan 08 2007

Outdated claims on document management

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
8 January 2007

Sometimes you read things that are just plain wrong. Take today, for instance. I spotted a potentially interesting headline at AECcafe.com: Managing Your AEC Content – Part I, so I click on the link and, scanning the opening paragraph, see the words ‘document management’. So far, so good, but then I read the piece…. The opening …

Adept, AEC, Autodesk Buzzsaw, Bentley, Carillion, construction collaboration, Constructware, Documentum, e-Builder, Project Extranet, ProjectTalk, ProjectWise, Schal, Synergis Software, UK
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Jan 02 2007

BuildOnline UK position worsened

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, SaaS, Vendors
2 January 2007

Prior to BuildOnline’s merger with Citadon to form CTSpace, its financial performance in the UK was getting even worse. As previously discussed (see BuildOnline and Koral on 14 November 2006 and BIW’s growth continues – but what about the others? on 8 November 2006), BO’s latest Companies House accounts show its UK business was already struggling in …

AEC, BuildOnline, Citadon, construction collaboration technology, CTSpace, extranet, Koral, turnover, UK
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Jan 02 2007

Open source v On-demand

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Internet, SaaS
2 January 2007

While Mark Suster is no longer involved in the day-to-day running of a construction collaboration business, he is still a strong believer in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Having taken up a non-executive role with CTSpace (see BuildOnline + Citadon = CTSpace) in order to devote his time to running Koral (which has apparently raised $4m funding), Mark’s …

BuildOnline, CTSpace, Koral, Mark Suster, on-demand, open-source, SaaS

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Dec 18 2006

CTSpace: initial redundancies

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
18 December 2006

According to a Growth Business article by Marc Barber, the merger of BuildOnline and Citadon to create CTSpace (see previous posts from here), will result in some redundancies. CEO Howard Koenig apparently “expects high-growth opportunities given the company now has a presence in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific”, and “acknowledges initial ‘redundant costs’ will hit as the company, …

AEC, BuildOnline, Citadon, CTSpace, redundancies, turnover, UK, US
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Dec 15 2006

CTSpace dissected further

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
15 December 2006

Following on from yesterday’s post (CTSpace dissected), the Citadon/BuildOnline merger to form CTSpace has continued to occupy my thoughts. In today’s post, I point out that the merger marks yet another consolidation of the extranet space since the start of the 21st century, have a quick look at what the combined business is offering post-merger, discuss …