Nov 06 2013
Autodesk enables web browser access to its main design tools on a pay-as-you-go basis OK, Autodesk don’t call it BIMaaS, but its announcement that its main design tools including Autodesk Revit are now accessible via a web browser amounts to the same: “For the first time ever, customers can access full-fledged 3D design … work in a browser …
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Nov 06 2013
Could AEC SaaS collaboration vendors deliver zero-wait web experiences to their end customers on any device and over any type of network? Last week at Bentley Systems‘ Year in Infrastructure conference in London (see previous posts), I listened to a couple of case studies about the use of its collaboration suite ProjectWise – for example, …
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Nov 05 2013
HP is to extend the reach of its ePrint & Share cloud storage service. The company, best known for its printers (it also does workstations), will be working with the major providers of Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration platforms so that design information can be shared with non-HP platforms. ePrint & Share was launched just over three …
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Nov 04 2013
The apparent transition of Australian-founded Aconex into an American corporation took another step last week with the announcement that experienced US SaaS executive Blaine Mathieu had been appointed as chief marketing officer of the SaaS project collaboration vendor. According to the news release, Mathieu brings more than 25 years of management experience in marketing, product management, …
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Nov 04 2013
BIW founder and CEO Colin Smith steps down from AEC SaaS pioneer Conject Holdings Last month, I was writing about the departure of founder and CEO Richard Vertigan from UK-based SaaS construction collaboration technology provider 4Projects; now I find myself writing a similar story in respect of Colin Smith, who has decided to step down …
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Oct 30 2013
A US survey suggests growing benefits of mobile information, but its respondents weren’t enthusing about mobile access to digital models. At the Bentley Systems Year in Infrastructure conference in London this week, information mobility has been a recurring theme (indeed, BIM has even been verbally re-engineered to become ‘better information mobility’), and its not just about …
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Oct 28 2013
I’m attending the Year in Infrastructure 2013 Conference, Bentley Systems‘ annual showcase for all they do in relation to software for the infrastructure sector. Highlight (for me) of this afternoon’s press briefing in London was the announcement that Bentley CONNECT Services, “to be successively extended to all of Bentley’s software subscribers to complete the reach of project and …
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Oct 21 2013
Two months after its previous release, provider of construction project collaboration and computer-aided facilities management solutions, McLaren Software has announced the latest version of its Software-as-a-Service FusionLive platform, describing it as “arguably the most significant release in recent years”. In the face of growing building information modelling (BIM) capability in rival SaaS collaboration systems (4Projects, Asite, etc) …
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Oct 21 2013
Conject Ltd’s UK operation slid further backwards in 2012, revenues dropping 5% and exceptional costs deepening its operating losses. Having just written about Asite’s recent financial performance, I did a quick check regarding some of the other UK Software-as-a-Service collaboration technology vendors. I discovered that Conject Ltd, the UK company previously known as BIW Technologies, …
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Oct 19 2013
Some months ago, a structural engineer friend James Burt alerted me to FieldLens, and we had a long chat about this and related applications before the London launch of BIM4SMEs in April. FieldLens is the work of a New York based development team led by CEO Doug Chambers. It aims to put construction collaboration on …
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