Category: SaaS

Nov 11 2010

HP and Autodesk collaboration – ignores Autodesk’s collaboration products

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
11 November 2010

After last month’s Hewlett Packard event in Copenhagen which saw the launch of its ePrint & Share ‘cloud’ service (post), I have been watching out for further announcements. The latest concerns a new video about an Autodesk plug-in for HP ePrint & Share (the plug-in was demonstrated at HP’s event). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya3ZzgSEQJY It’s a polished presentation, …

Autodesk, Buzzsaw, construction collaboration, Constructware, Copenhagen, ePrint & Share, Hewlett Packard, HP, marketing, mobile, plug-in, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service

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Nov 06 2010

Incite innovates

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
6 November 2010

Australia-based construction collaboration technology vendor Incite is developing a lot of new and innovative functionality, and – having grown its business in south-east Asia – is, as I predicted last year, inching towards establishing a presence in Europe. My latest meeting (previous – post) with Michael Baker, Incite’s general manager (technology), included a first encounter …

Aconex, agile, Android, API, application programming interface, Asite, Australia, Bing Maps, Blackberry, buildings, CAD, civil works, cMob, Construction, construction collaboration technology, correspondence, drag-and-drop, drawing register, Drop Zone, email client, Europe, file sharing, Gartner, geo-location, Germany, Google Earth, high-resolution aerial images, highways, Hong Kong, hosting, Incite, Incite Keystone, India, Indonesia, infrastructure, integration, interfaces, iPad, iPhone, JSON, Kalexo Teamwork, Keystone Toolbox, Leighton Holdings, licensing, Malaysia, map data, metadata, Michael Baker, Microsoft, mining, mobile, Nearmap, Nielsen, open-source, OpenStreetMap, Outlook, photographs, PivotViewer, probity, quality, rail, rationalisation, Remix, reporting, RESTful, RIM, SaaS, Scott Crane, Sean Kaye, service level agreements, Silverlight, Site Clean-Up, SmartBuilder, social stream, south-east Asia, Spatial, support, Sword CTSpace, tablet devices, tendering, timeline, UK, users, water supply, Web 2.0, Windows Mobile 7, XML
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Nov 05 2010

A first look at EADOC

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
5 November 2010

I recently did a GoToMeeting session with Eric Law of EADOC to get a clearer understanding of this US-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration platform. The system is mainly aimed at construction project teams operating in north America, and has been around since early 2006 (I first wrote about the business in late 2007). It was developed, …

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Nov 01 2010

Business steady at Sword CTSpace?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
1 November 2010

Monitoring the construction collaboration technology businesses formerly known as Buildonline and Citadon since the combined CTSpace operation was acquired by France-based Sword Group SA in late 2007 (post) is not easy, particularly when companies get merged with other, unrelated operations. From a close reading of various annual reports and some company feedback, I believe the …

Achiever, AEC, Austria, BuildOnline, BuildOnline UK, Citadon, compliance, Construction, CTSpace, Energy, EPP, France, FusionEnterprise, FusionLive, George Britton, Germany, in-house, India, Infotechno, insurance, Intech, Ireland, John Pomeroy, on-demand, onstruction collaboration, profitability, recession, risk management, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Sword Group SA, Sword Soft Limited, Sword UK, UNIT4, USA, Utilities

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Oct 28 2010

Live from ICT4Construction conference, London

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
28 October 2010

The ICT4Construction conference (post), being held today in London, has attracted representatives from several companies regularly covered in this blog. 4Projects is a sponsor (and Clare Watson is due to speak); Sword CTSpace is the opening speaker, followed by MPS, and Union Square will also be talking; and I am sitting behind Yuval Attias and …

4Projects, Acecad, Aconex, Arup, BEM, building information modelling, BuildOnline, Cadweb, Cimage, Citadon, Clare Watson, Constructing Excellence, construction collaboration, EliteSuite, FIM, Fusion Enterprise, FusionLive, IBM, ICT4Construction, Jon de Souza, MPS, Nigel Woodridge, Paul Morrell, RedSkyIT, Richard Brotherton, Rob Phillpot, Robin Wilkin, Smarter Planet, Strucad, StruWalker, Stuart Bell, Stuart Farmer, Summit, Sword CTSpace, Union Square, Workspace, Yuval Attias
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Oct 22 2010

Personnel changes, and an iPhone app, at Sword CTSpace

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
22 October 2010

When I wrote about the forthcoming ICT4Construction conference (taking place in central London next Thursday, 28 November), I mentioned John Pomeroy was speaking on behalf of construction collaboration technology vendor Sword CTSpace. He isn’t any more, though, as he joined unstructured information software provider MarkLogic as vice president, Europe in August (see news release). John’s …

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Oct 14 2010

CAD in the cloud – needs selling on the ground

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
14 October 2010

Software-as-a-Service approaches to design in the AEC market can learn a lot from how SaaS has been deployed to provide construction collaborative platforms since the late 1990s, but the marketing challenges still tend to require more than just an online presence. CAD in the cloud Thanks, once again, to Roopinder Tara’s, CAD CAM CAE TenLinks …

4Projects, Aconex, AEC, Autodesk, Bernard Charlès, BIMaaS, BIW, CAD, CADaaS, Catia, cloud, construction collaboration, Dassault Systèmes, design, Develop3D.com, Enovia, hosting regime, marketing, Martyn Day, PLM, Roopinder Tara, SaaS, sales, self-service, Software-as-a-Service, SolidWorks, TenLinks Daily, Woobius

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Oct 05 2010

HP ePrint & Share – a follow-up

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
5 October 2010

Further to yesterday’s post about HP ePrint & Share, I have now received a response from product manager Iolanda Montserrat (right), so I can shed a little more light on this cloud service’s capabilities. Email notifications – As regular readers will know, I like services which can be managed online without (m)any emails – perhaps …

Archetype, drawing registers, email notifications, ePrint & Share, file formats, following the sun, Hewlett Packard, HP, Iolanda Montserrat, offshore outsourcing, practice management, SMEs, tagging, Union Square, version control, Workspace

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Oct 04 2010

Collaborate – via your printer

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
4 October 2010

Hewlett-Packard has rarely featured in ExtranetEvolution.com – which is hardly surprising as HP is mainly known in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) circles as a provider of print hardware solutions, not collaborative software applications. Indeed, I learned last week that there are now around 1.5 million HP DesignJet large format printers in use, and that …

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Sep 27 2010

Keep taking the tablets

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
27 September 2010

I recently talked to Building magazine’s Stephen Kennett about use of mobile devices such as Apple’s iPad in the construction industry and providing some pointers on who else he might talk to. The resulting article, Keep Taking the Tablets (paywall site: subscription normally required) was published last week (I get a couple of mentions – …