Category: SaaS

Aug 17 2009

Newforma targets the UK

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
17 August 2009

On the same day last week that I swapped emails with Knowledge Architecture’s Chris Parsons (see post), I read in AECcafe.com that New Hampshire, USA-based AEC software vendor Newforma was forming a user community in the UK (see Newforma Users Form Community in United Kingdom). Newforma hired former Excitech executive Tim Bates as a new …

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Aug 05 2009

From PLM and social media, to AEC design

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
5 August 2009

I have been monitoring conversations about social media among some manufacturing and product lifecycle management (PLM) commentators, and a post by Desktop Engineering‘s Kenneth Wong – What PLM Can Learn from Social Media – has lingered in a browser tab for most of the past two days as I’ve re-read it and pondered it. Kenneth …

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Aug 04 2009

Contract Communicator

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Legal, SaaS, Vendors
4 August 2009

Today I discovered Johannesburg, South Africa-based Contract Communicator, a technology company providing web-based solutions aimed at managing contract issues involving any of five forms of the FIDIC contract or the NEC3 Engineering and Construction contract. Founded by technologist Leon Cilliers and lawyer Mark Ilbury in 2008, the company‘s core product (see PDF too) is a …

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Jul 27 2009

How boom went bust at the click of a mouse

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, SaaS, Vendors
27 July 2009

I’ve chronicled the slide of BuildOnline in a number of blog posts over the past four years (notably Investing in a dot.com/SaaS business: a history), and the losses suffered by the early BO investors have clearly been shared by numerous other Ireland-based start-ups, as this Irish Independent article makes clear. Writer Roisin Burke suggests BO’s …

Brian Moran, BuildOnline, Citadon, Delta Partners, dot.com, Goldman Sachs, Irish Independent, Roisin Burke, SaaS

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Jul 21 2009

Drop into drop.io

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
21 July 2009

I had a transatlantic meeting via Skype this afternoon with three of the people at Brooklyn, New York-based drop.io, providers of “simple real-time sharing, collaboration, and presentation”. Their Software-as-a-Service solution has already achieved some media attention in the US – though the focus to date has been on generic file-sharing rather than on enabling industry-specific …

architecture, audio, chat, collaboration, commenting, conference calling, Construction, data-sheet, documents, drawing-sharing, drop.io, drop.io Manager, drops, e-Grou, e-mail, Facebook, fax, file sharing, Firefox extension, free, FTP, images, iPaper, Kalexo, mail, mark-up, MMS, New York, online collaboration, password-protected, phone, photography, presentation, SaaS, Scribd, Skype, US, video, web, Web 2.0, white paper, Woobius
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Jul 20 2009

Enter e-grou – an update

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, SaaS, Vendors
20 July 2009

Further to my post on e-grou, I received an email from e-grou’ s José Santos, clarifying a couple of points: “E-grou is not “just” a collaboration solution for file exchange and project management. E-grou has most of the functionalities available in any medium to high-hand document management solution, namely: document versioning, document access control, workflow, …

API, collaboration, CRM, document management, e-Grou, ERP, José Santos
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Jul 15 2009

Enter e-grou

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, SaaS, Vendors
15 July 2009

A new name in the online document management space is Portugal-based e-grou, which is about to launch a free edition of its web-based solution. Available “soon”, e-grou Free Edition is claimed to be “the first document management software solution made available on the web as a service, completely for free” and is aimed at “small …

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Jul 10 2009

Google Wave and project collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, SaaS, Web 2.0
10 July 2009

I wrote on 29 May 2009 about Google Wave, and have just got round to reading a great post by my friend and fellow Be2camp co-founder Jodie Miners where she talks about Google Wave and its potential for project collaboration in the construction sector. Read her post here. Like me, she reckons that Wave is …

AEC, Be2camp, Construction, Document management systems, facilities management, Google Wave, Incite, Jodie Miners, Keystone, project collaboration, Social Media, Web 2.0

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Jul 10 2009

Collaboration vendors unveil (old) plans for deeper interoperability

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
10 July 2009

Last month, members of the UK-based Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP) announced plans to provide greater integration between their different applications (see news release). At the time, I was too busy to write about it, but the topic cropped up briefly in conversation with the Incite guys (post) recently, so I’ve had another …

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Jul 09 2009

Clouds UK: a new name and a competitive offering

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
9 July 2009

Earlier this week, I had afternoon coffee in London with Andy Newsham and Alison Day, joint chief executives of York-based Clouds UK. This is the new name of what used to be a construction-oriented software-as-a-service business that I previously knew as e-constructionmanager.co.uk. The rebranding reflects the wider range of services now offered by the company, …